{"title":"Deine Lakaien @sw@if@band-music-556@","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"deine-lakaien-dual-2cd-digibook","title":"Deine Lakaien - Dual - 2CD DIGIBOOK","description":"\u003cp\u003eDEINE LAKAIEN are a German cultural icon. With their 10th studio full-length, \"Dual\", classically-educated composer and pianist Ernst Horn and vocalist extraordinaire Alexander Veljanov present a conceptual double album, which connects both full-lengths by a double reference.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHalf of the double album consists of 10 new songs that DEINE LAKAIEN have crafted with particular artists or songs in mind that have been important for the duo's musical evolution. These sources of inspiration are made clear on the second album of \"Dual\", which features 10 amazing cover tracks that range from Cat Stevens' classic 'Lady D’Arbanville' via Jacques Brels melancholic 'La chanson des vieux amants' to Kate Bush's 'Suspended in Gaffa' and the surprising choice of the Linkin Park song 'My December'. Each of these renditions has been lovingly translated into the Germans' unmistakable soundscape. In this artistic juxtaposition of a cover version and related new song, the Patti Smith\/Bruce Springsteen collaboration 'Because the Night' corresponds with the Horn\/Veljanov composition 'Because of Because'. DEINE LAKAIEN lay bare some of the sources of their inspiration and artists that have touched, inspired, thrilled, and shaped them in a most respectful way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDEINE LAKAIEN are once again breaking new ground, which they have achieved multiple times in their now 35-year history. Founded in 1985, the duo started as a purely electronic avant-garde dark wave project. Taking their name from a reference in the song 'Die genaue Zeit' by German experimentalists Einstürzende Neubauten, the band self-released \"Deine Lakaien\" in 1986, which spread by word of mouth and created an underground buzz. The debut set the duo clearly apart from electronic contemporaries such as YAZOO, SOFT CELL, EURYTHMICS, and OMD by virtue of their singular dark sound. The albums \"Dark Star\" (1991) and \"Forest Enter Exit\" (1993) considerably widened the Germans' audience and gained the attention of influential critics. Simultaneous with their growing success, DEINE LAKAIEN broadened their musical scope by playing a fully acoustic tour in 1992, an ambitious exercise that would influence later albums such as \"Kasmodiah\" (1999). Their impressive and highly diverse catalogue has been summarised in the anniversary releases “XXX. The 30 Years Retrospective\" (2016) and \"The 30 Years Retrospective: Live\" (2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDEINE LAKAIEN will release the eagerly awaited \"Dual\" on April 16, 2021, to the delight of a massive following that has been clamouring to finally receive the promised album. It is high time these visionaries bring forth their fascinating voice and unique music to the world once more.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist - International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53418445668695,"sku":"P-103403-","price":15.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/6500\/8471\/files\/Deine-Lakaien-Dual-2CD-DIGIBOOK-103403-1-1605335614.jpg?v=1778078546"},{"product_id":"deine-lakaien-dual-cd-digibook","title":"Deine Lakaien - Dual + - CD DIGIBOOK","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith their new full-length \"Dual +\", DEINE LAKAIEN continue to ride the impressive creative wave that their compelling concept for the previous double-album \"Dual\" has caused. Yet while \"Dual\" was strictly following a principle of cause and effect that juxtaposed one cover version on the first album with a new song that was inspired by it on the second record. \"Dual +\" keeps the basic formula, but comes across as more compact, multi-layered, and experimental, while also leaving more space for relaxed divergence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDEINE LAKAIEN are an iconic German dark music act. The legendary electronic avant-garde duo has managed the rare feat of being accepted as serious artists as well as proving to be immensely popular over more than three and a half decades.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith their 11th studio album, \"Dual +\", classically-educated composer and pianist Ernst Horn and vocalist extraordinaire Alexander Veljanov are further exploring the musical vector that the duo has taken on \"Dual\" by playfully adapting some of their musical influences and making them their own, but always serious about the composition and respectful towards the original. By ostensibly showing the connection to their own creations and making a part of their artistic process transparent, DEINE LAKAIEN also state that music does not grow out of thin air – as clearly as Beethoven could not have created his symphonies without the works of Bach before him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDEINE LAKAIEN keep breaking new musical ground as they have already achieved multiple times in their long career. Founded in 1985, the German duo started as a purely electronic avant-garde dark wave project. Taking their name from a reference in the song 'Die genaue Zeit' by German experimentalists Einstürzende Neubauten, the band self-released \"Deine Lakaien\" in 1986, which spread by word of mouth and created an underground buzz. The debut set the duo clearly apart from electronic contemporaries such as YAZOO, SOFT CELL, EURYTHMICS, and OMD by virtue of their singular dark sound.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWith official label backing, the albums \"Dark Star\" (1991) and \"Forest Enter Exit\" (1993) considerably widened the Germans' audience and gained the attention of influential critics. Simultaneous with their growing success, DEINE LAKAIEN broadened their musical scope by playing a fully acoustic tour in 1992, an ambitious exercise that would influence later albums such as \"Kasmodiah\" (1999). Their impressive and highly diverse catalogue has been summarised in the anniversary releases “XXX. The 30 Years Retrospective\" (2016) and \"The 30 Years Retrospective: Live\" (2018).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDEINE LAKAIEN have created yet another marvellous piece of music with \"Dual +\". Their art comes with multiple layers and can be read in many different ways or simply be enjoyed as one amazing song after the other unfolds and the dividing lines between cover versions and original songs begin to blur until they are without meaning to the true beauty revealed.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist - International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53421434208599,"sku":"P-114465-","price":12.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/6500\/8471\/files\/Deine-Lakaien-Dual-CD-DIGIBOOK-114465-1-1631510822.jpg?v=1778095439"},{"product_id":"deine-lakaien-forest-enter-exit-mindmachine-2cd-digisleeve","title":"Deine Lakaien - Forest Enter Exit \u0026 Mindmachine - 2CD DIGISLEEVE","description":"\u003cp\u003eTo celebrate the 30th anniversary of \"Forest Enter Exit\" Deine Lakaien are releasing a new edition of their classic album, including the EP \"Mindmachine\".\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe theme of the album has lost none of its topicality. \"Forest Enter Exit\" is about dreams and reality.\u003cbr\u003eDream and reality are images that arise in the mind and are shaped by the character of the individual.\u003cbr\u003eEscape attempts such as drugs, mind machines and cyber worlds will not change anything, on the contrary, they will only accelerate loneliness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe nine songs on \"Forest Enter Exit\" lead through the most diverse corners of sublime dreams and human imagination.\u003cbr\u003eExcursions into virtual realities end in the sober gray of everyday life, only to be carried off from there straight away into the dazzling worlds of bygone times.\u003cbr\u003eA very personal audio trip between illusion and reality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn accordance with the thematic variety, \"Forest Enter Exit\" combines a wide variety of music genres in typical Lakaien style.\u003cbr\u003e\"Forest Enter Exit\" is further proof of the band's musical individuality.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Season of Mist - International","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53435728265559,"sku":"P-138189-","price":18.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/6500\/8471\/files\/Deine-Lakaien-Forest-Enter-Exit-Mindmachine-2CD-DIGISLEEVE-138189-1-1695644188.jpg?v=1778217040"}],"url":"https:\/\/shop.season-of-mist.com\/collections\/band-music-deine-lakaien.oembed","provider":"Season of Mist - International","version":"1.0","type":"link"}