Berlin 61 – 89 / Wall Of Sound is not an ordinary compilation. It is
closer to a concept album, referring both to a chapter in History and a
musical assemblage which resounds like a continental echo to Phil
Spector’ s American pop Wall of Sound.
In this make-belief soundtrack, avant-garde rock and futuristic pop
express themselves, sometimes spangled with cabaret reminiscences and
veiled with the ghost of Kurt Weill. Extreme and intense music,
concocted during those three decades « at the foot of the Wall » and in
front of it by creators who love danger and risk taking. Alongside
pasionarias such as Nico and Nina Hagen, we can find German bands.
Faust, Agitation Free, Harmonia, Can, Die Krupps, Neu !, Einstürzende
Neubauten, their Swiss cousins the Young Gods and all the others are
aesthetes, pioneers of underground culture which tamed electronics with
an acute sense of efficiency ...
