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Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Music Matter speaks with Alexander Hacke and Danielle De Piccciotto from the unique music group HackedePicciotto about their new album The Best of hackedepicciotto (Live in Napoli)

Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris

Darrell Craig Harris

Music, Music Commentary, Music Interviews

3.4 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

The Best of HackedePicciotto (Live in Napoli) is Alexander Hacke and Danielle De Pictiotto's newest release showcasing live interpretations of music from across their career. The album includes reinterpretations of tracks from all of their studio albums: Keepsakes (2023), a tender exploration of friendship and loss, The Silver Threshold (2021), their defiant reaction to the pandemic, Perseverantia (2016), which dealt with the artists nomadic lifestyle, Menetekel (2017), which embodies their collective despair at the state of the world, and powerful energy of The Current (2020), recorded by the Irish Sea. For over 20 years Alexander Hacke (EinstĂĽrzende Neubauten) and artist, musician and filmmaker Danielle de Picciotto (co-founder of Love Parade) have been developing and evolving a symbiotic working practise together, with a deep intuition of the kind that has distinguished a rare number of creative and romantic partnerships – think of the writers Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne, the artists Lee Miller and Man Ray or heroes of independent filmmaking, Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes – each partnership underlined by a creative equality that allowed both artists freedom to explore and expand.    https://www.Instagrm.com/hackedepicciotto https://www.Facebook.com/hackepicciotto  https://www.hackedepicciotto.bandcamp.com  Website: https://www.hackedepicciotto.de   Music Matters with Darrell Craig Harris is sponsored by Shure Microphones. Voice overs provided by Nigel John Farmer from his studio VoiceWrapStudio.com in France. Our thanks to Rodney Hall FAME Recording Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama for our intro and outro backing music clip. A Big Shout and thanks to our friends at  @Shure for their support! Contact us at [email protected]  Social: www.Instagram.com/musicmatterspodcastofficial  www.MusicMattersPodcast.com

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0:00.0

Welcome to Music Matters podcast with Daryl Craig Harris, talking about all things music, with celebrities, artists, music business insiders, and more.

0:20.7

Hello, Alexander and Danielle. How are you doing today? Very well. Thank you. Fine. Thank you.

0:26.7

So you have a very interesting duo with a long history, over two decades, recording, touring, releasing albums.

0:33.8

Hacked epiciado. Hopefully I'm saying that correctly, if not correct me.

0:38.7

And you've been recording.

0:40.1

I think it was five albums, but I could be wrong.

0:43.2

But I know we have a new album coming out on November 1st.

0:46.1

And it's very interesting music.

0:49.2

How did you guys first meet and how did this duo kind of get created?

0:56.9

Well, we met in 1987 long time ago long time ago um and we became friends and we really started you know dating going

1:09.8

out working together in 2001.

1:13.6

So we have a long history of friendship and a 20 year, over 20 year old history of working together and being a couple.

1:20.6

Awesome. And Danielle, where are you from originally?

1:23.6

I was born to Coma.

1:25.6

I grew up in New York City and I moved to Berlin in 1987.

1:30.3

Awesome.

1:31.3

And then Alexander, you were born in, I guess, German born in Berlin.

1:35.3

Is that kind of true?

1:36.3

Yeah, I was born in West Berlin, a city that doesn't exist anymore.

1:41.3

True, yeah, you were born into a whole different era. Yeah. So that must

1:46.6

have been actually, I would think back then when things were sort of beginning to change a little

1:51.0

bit. It must have been very exciting musically, a lot, a lot happening. Changing, what do you mean

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