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Einstürzende Neubauten
Yu-Gung

Adrian Sherwood, who also worked with among others Lee Perry, Sinead O’Conner and Skinny Puppy, did the re-mix for Yu-Gung on this 1985 EP. But the highlight here is the Lee Hazlewood cover “Sand” originally performed by Lee and Nancy Sinatra.

Young woman share your fire with me
My heart is cold, my soul is free
I am a stranger in your land
A wandering man, call me sand

I’ll admit I’m a sucker for ‘merican songs, and the odder the better, sung in broken English. Preferably by a woman (Marlene Dietrich, Hermine, Astrud Gilberto, Nico…) but the Neubauten boys and their noisy toys tear this one up. Blixa whispers and screams while F.M. Einheit, Marc Chung, Alexander Hacke and N.U. Unruh unleash the sorta controlled storm that is Neubauten.