Neu!
Neu! '72 Live! In Düsseldorf

THE REVIEW

What Neu should have done after their third work.

But they didn't want to. And they were right not to. We deserve it, little brats who want to summarize the '70s in YouTube bootlegs. On May 6th, 1972, in Dusseldorf, the very first and very young Germans started making contact with the primordial alternative scene.

An almost hour-long live show, where the first avant-garde experiments of these genius minds are introduced. The sound quality is not optimal; it's rustic if we must define it, but it does not completely destroy the preciousness of the only live/bootleg album by Rother and Dinger.

There are three tracks: a suite divided into two parts, named after the date of the day, and an interlude titled "Silence."

The guitar unleashes the triviality of a harsh feedback looped for over twenty minutes. Basically, the future structure of a "Lila Engel" or "Super" slowly conceived. We are not faced with a perfect execution of what's in the mind, but we notice the magical touch inevitably possessed by an enlightened madman.

The recipe is to repeat a mood, provoking, distorting, and nauseating the mind, and from there seasoning the structure with minimalism and noisy restarts. There is the duty to bring to the ears of a nation echoes and sounds shaped by the English and American dish.

But in Germany, they exceed. They begin to torment the VCS3s and synths in such an efficient way as to inaugurate robotics.

Here, they innocently converse with strings and snares.