Ende Neu

Infobox Album
Name = Ende Neu
Type = studio
Artist = Einstürzende Neubauten


Released = 1996
Recorded = 1994-96
Genre = Experimental music
Length = 41:38
Label = EMI
Producer =
Reviews = * Allmusic Rating|3|5 [http://wc07.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jcfrxqlhldke link]
Last album = Tabula Rasa(1993)
This album = "Ende Neu"(1996)
Next album = Silence is Sexy(2000)

"Ende Neu" is an album released by Einstürzende Neubauten in 1996. In English, Ende Neu translates to the equivalent of “ending new”. The title is a wordplay involving the band's name: "Einstürzende Neubauten.

Track listing

# “Was Ist Ist” – 3:29
# “Stella Maris” (featuring Meret Becker) – 5:18
# “Die Explosion im Festspielhaus” – 4:30
# “Installation No. 1” – 4:29
# “NNNAAAMMM” – 10:29
# “Ende Neu” – 4:57
# “The Garden” – 5:24
# “Der Schacht von Babel” – 2:46
# “Bili Rubin” – 3:00

Themes

Ende Neu contains references to the given creation myth of an ejaculatory universe that appears in most earth cultures, as well as topics like dreaming, and Babel. An ejaculatory beginning of the universe is often found among water based cultures, as they could identify with the life-giving properties of rivers and lakes early on in the course of human development. Stella Maris is Latin for “star of the sea”. Maris alone is an Etruscan agricultural god. Instead of building the Tower of Babel skywards in "Den Schacht von Babel", it is dug deep into the earth as a shaft or tunnel. The Babel story can also serve as a creationary myth of a sort, related to genetics and evolutionary theory.

Notes

"Bili Rubin" appears on the 1998 (CD) and 1996 (LP) re-releases.