Track Listing

1. Moritat
2. Atemlos
3. Macht
4. Paradigma
5. Fluch
6. Opferzeit
7. Schwarzes Gift
8. Nahe
9. Zuckerbrot Und Peitsche
10. Cabaret

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #131817 in Music
• Released on: 2006-04-25
• Number of discs: 1
• Format: Enhanced
• Dimensions: .22 pounds

Album Description
"Cabaret" delivers naughty sound escapades in multiple cynical interpretations of a basic theme centered around the costumes for marionette theater. The usual electronic chamber orchestra is accompanied by a large variety of vital sounding acoustic collages. Vocals range between incantations and distorted madness to draw the listener through their visit to the nightmare theater, giving them a joyride through their darkest emotions.

Customer Reviews

The Return of the Dark-Electro Legend!
The godfathers of dark electronic music have done it again. Just two years following Das Ich's successful album Lava, the duo of Stefan Ackermann and Bruno Kramm present their follow-up which has no comparisons. The remarkable dark Cabaret delivers naughty sound escapades in multiple cynical interpretations of a basic theme centered around the costumes for marionette theatre. For the album, Kramm's usual electronic chamber orchestra was accompanied by a large variety of vital sounding acoustic collages. This deviates from the usual electronic blend of Das Ich by producing songs which allude to a twilight somewhere between claustrophobic reality and unchained phantasmic atmosphere. Ackermann's vocals range between incantations and distorted madness to draw the listener through their visit to the nightmare theatre, giving them a joyride through their darkest emotions. Next to hymnic song jewels like "Atemlos," "Paradigma" and the radical minimalistic dance floorer crusher "Opferzeit" the album also ventures into experimental sound collages with songs like "Fluch," lead by guest vocalist Marianne Iser's erotic opera-like vocals. It excites and terrifies as the album reaches its climax with the title track "Cabaret." Point blank Das Ich pose the questions "What is imagination and what's destiny? Where does reality end and where does madness begin?"

another impressive production
The new opus of the living legends of gothic is an interesting album, which combines the early dark influences of the band together with the more progressive approach they featured on the previous "Lava/Glut"-cd. After the some more folk influenced debut song DI renew with their dark bombastic musical content perfumed with a real dramatic character. The complexity of the writing remains once more an essential item of their work while the global production features some outstanding effects and electronic wealth. Bruno Kramm already shows off an amazing range of ideas and influences. The some more electro-minded "Opferzeit" might sound in contract with the neo-classical influences of the "Cabaret"-song or the gothic soundtrack like "Zuckerbrot und Peitsche", but it simply features the open-minded aspiration of this album. In a more traditional style "Cabaret" delivers some more great songs like "Paradigma" and "Macht". The "Nahe"-track features an interesting duo in the vocals. The female guest vocalist adds a captivating and classically trained touch although this isn't my favorite song! This is another impressive production coming from the hands of the German gothic pioneers!

Take a dark journey today!
I was a bit sceptical about this album at first, seeing as i didn't like Lava all that much. But Cabaret is buildt around a theme Das ich seems right at home with. Definatly one of Das ich's great ones. I don't see any fans of Kramm and Ackerman getting dissapointed at this.