Alexander Hacke started experimenting with cassette loops at 14 in the
early 80s, obsessed with music from an early age and dropping out of
school to hang out in the West Berlin underground scene among punks,
squatters, and bohemians. After initial musical projects under the
pseudonym Alexander von Borsig, Hacke became a member of the band
Einstürzende Neubauten in 1980. Einstürzende Neubauten went on to
become a groundbreaking and internationally re-known band together
with him first as their guitarist and then legendary bassist. In spite
of their many concerts he also found time to develop solo projects:
together with his then-partner and first girl-friend Christiane F.; as
guitarist on Gianna Nannini's album Dispetto, as a film composer for
Fatih Akin, or together with his later wife, the US artist Danielle de
Picciotto, with whom he has been traveling the world since 2010 as
hackedepicciotto. "Blast" is a dazzling historical document of the
wild West Berlin before the fall of the Wall, the rise of
Einstürzende Neubauten, and the captivating life story of a true
polymath that has been breaking boundaries in music for over four
decades. During the readings Alexander Hacke also entertains the
audience with stories and anecdotes about his many adventures, mishaps
and creative outings with international colleagues such as Mike Patten
and Billy Gould of Faith No More, Nick Cave, Unsane, Al Jourgensen of
Ministry, Lydia Lunch, Foetus...
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