Berlin

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LP reissue of an essential album by the pioneers of French electro-dub! With its history full of antagonisms, its ability to eternally rise from its darkness, its vital breath, Berlin has captivated more cutting-edge musicians than most other cities, whether they came from elsewhere (Lou Reed, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Brian Eno, U2...) or grew up there (Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, Rhythm & Sound...). The city has also magnetized many filmmakers of all stripes (Murnau, Lang, Rossellini, Hitchcock, Wenders...) who all one day felt the need to rely on its architecture, its atmosphere, its soul. Walther Ruttmann was one of the very first to take a full interest in the German capital. In 1927, "Berlin: Symphony of a Great City" was released, a quasi-documentary with resolutely avant-garde editing that took the pulse of a city intoxicated by its own vitality. Zenzile thus immersed themselves in the exercise of the cine-concert, offering a new soundtrack to Ruttmann's film. But this time, freed from the dictatorship of narration, the Angers-based group felt comfortable enough with this new material to create an album that could emancipate itself from the images that gave birth to it.