The Einstürzende Neubauten are back in Italy. The historic Berlin outfit led by Blixa Bargeld will take the stage tonight, Saturday 12 September, at the Teatro Municipale Valli in Reggio Emilia, as part of the Barezzi Festival.
Active since 1980, Einstürzende Neubauten represent one of the most radical and influential experiences in European music over the past forty years. From the very start they have turned metal, industrial objects, unconventional percussion, noise, electronics and spoken word into a personal language, one capable of going well beyond the boundaries of industrial music and exerting a profound influence on generations of musicians.
At the heart of the band's current phase is "Rampen – apm: alien pop music", an album developed out of the improvisations that emerged during the 2022 tour. A work in which Einstürzende Neubauten continue to explore the boundary between structure and disintegration, melody and noise, building what they themselves describe as a kind of "alien pop music": music that seems familiar on the surface, yet is continually pulled away from pop conventions.
The evening will be preceded at 6pm by a free screening of "B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979–1989", a documentary directed by Jörg A. Hoppe, Klaus Maeck and Heiko Lange devoted to the underground scene of West Berlin in the 1980s.
The likely setlist for the Einstürzende Neubauten concert in Reggio Emilia can be pieced together based on the show the band played on 7 September 2026 in Berlin.
Ten Grand Goldie
Pestalozzi
Ist ist
Wedding
Möbliertes Lied
Grazer Damm
Die Befindlichkeit des Landes
Sonnenbarke
Sabrina
Seven Screws
Trilobiten
Gesundbrunnen
How Did I Die?
Ein leichtes leises Säuseln
Encore
Nagorny Karabach
Rampe
Susej
Encore 2
Let’s Do It a Dada
Alles in Allem
Stella Maris
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This article is an English translation of the original Italian text by Claudio Fabretti, published on OndaRock.it. It was translated with the help of artificial intelligence, under the editorial responsibility of OndaRock's editor-in-chief, Claudio Fabretti.