Blixa Bargeld, Boss of Einstürzende Neubauten: "Somewhere We Are a Musical Genre"

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The unclassifiable Berlin group will be performing at the Athénéennes in Geneva on June 13th. Interview with the guiding figure of a noise odyssey that is now in its fifth decade. “Sei schlau, klau beim Bau!” In English: “Be clever, steal things from construction sites!” We don’t know if the injunction is morally defensible, but as a motto, it allowed the emergence, in West Berlin at the very beginning of the 1980s, of what would become a legend…