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The madness of king Klaus...
Jul 23, 2004, 17:53
La! Neu? are a Klaus Dinger project that's been running about 8 years now. Since the ol' egomaniac always calls himself the 'inventor of Neu! and La Dusseldorf', (see http://www.gawl.de/dingerland/Talks/pop_int.htmlic ) and piss off Michael Rother even more in the process, of course (http://www.furious.com/perfect/michaelrother.html).

For Dinger's latest project, Viva 2004, he's resorted back to the La Dusseldorf name for a remake of the 1978 La D. album 'Viva' - I mean, come on, I've heard of writer's block, but that's just absolutely ridiculous. The new version is apparently out in September.

Any La! Neu? CDs should be approached with caution, given Dinger's absolutely to-a-fault belief in musical democracy between himself and the other members, which of course is an odd decision anyway for such a legendary control freak and comes out on record as just a pure lack of quality control. However, there's a few gems among their handful of albums. I've not yet heard the live album 'Cha Cha 2000 Live In Tokyo' but there's an Unsung record review of it you can check out.

The La! Neu? album that I do have is called Zeeland, which splits between meandering electronica that occasionally has its moments, and three 3rd-album Velvets-meets-Galaxie 500 guitar pieces that sparkle in a nice understated way; To Get You Real in particular turns a ten-word minimalist mantra into a gorgeous ballad of lovesick longing. Investigate by all means, but don't expect genius moments on the level of Dinger's golden period of '75-'78.
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