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The full-length 28-minute "Sleep Easy Mr Parker" single is included in Brumcast 102 "Neutron World" . Thanks to Little Chris.
Einstellung will be playing this year's Supersonic festival at The Custard Factory in Birmingham. Louis Pattison of Plan B Magazine - "Of this welter of well organised, wisely curated festivals (ATP, Faster Than Sound, Sonar, Greenman) perhaps the best organised and most wisely curated was Supersonic. Plotted by Birmingham promoters Capsule, 2007's Supersonic inhabited the nexus where metal, folk and noise met." Click on the above flyer to find out more.
UK release for Wings Of Desire album.
Einstellung's debut album "Wings Of Desire" will be released in the UK in time for the summer. Previously only available in Australia or via online stores the album will be repackaged for release by Capsule Records , home of Beestung Lips.
DISCOGRAPHY:
"Wings Of Desire" CD album:
Einstellung debut album "Wings Of Desire" now available on Chatterbox Records (CB050)
Available to download via itunes Australia and purchase @ Waterfront Records.com
Listen to 60-second audio samples below: You will need to install Real Player to listen to these samples;
1. Tot 2. Ich Auch 3. Schwester 4. Konstant 5. Ungeeignet 6. Liedy Kann Meinen Hintern Kussen
Alternatively there are 4-minute Radio edits of "Tot", "Ich Auch" and "Konstant" in the 'Standalone Player' above.
"Sleep Easy Mr Parker" CD single:
Einstellung debut single "Sleep Easy Mr Parker" still available on Bearos Records (Bearos 063). Last few copies left.
Available on Ltd Edition Special Package CD Single. The sleeve folds out into a 360 degree panoramic landscape depicting the spot on the Isle of Jura where Mr Parker now sleeps easy. Click on the sleeve image below to view
Available via .. or contact Alan Farmer at Bearos Records or send a cheque for £3.50 to: Rob Horrocks, 177 Crompton Road, Handsworth, Birmingham, B20 3QX. There is an edited version of "Sleep Easy Mr Parker" in the 'Standalone Player' above.
Einstellung feature on BBC website. (click on image)

Other Releases:
Tot (edit)
A 4-minute edit of "Tot" from the album "Wings Of Desire" was released as a download-only single on Shifty Disco Records in November 07. The single can be purchased from Shifty Disco. Previous 4-minute edits "Konstant" and "Ich Auch" will join "Tot" as a 3-single package soon.
Tot
A 4-minute edit of "Tot" from the album "Wings Of Desire" was included on the "British Music at Popkomm" CD compilation used to promote British talent at the Popkomm music exhibition in September 07. The track, also recently released as a single can be purchased from Shifty Disco. Previous 4-minute edits "Konstant" and "Ich Auch" will join "Tot" as a 3-single package soon.
Ich Auch (edit)
A 4-minute edit of "Ich Auch" from the album "Wings Of Desire" was released as a download-only single on Shifty Disco Records in May 07. The single can be purchased from Shifty Disco.
Konstant (edit)
A 4-minute edit of "Konstant" from the album "Wings Of Desire" was released as a download-only single on Shifty Disco Records in December 06. The single can be purchased from Shifty Disco.
Sleep Easy Mr Parker (edit)
A 3-minute edit of the 28-minute "Sleep Easy Mr Parker" CD single was included on the "Greetings From" free CD compilation given away at the 2006 All Tomorrows Parties festival. The compilation includes various taster tracks from bands on the Bearos Records, WIAIWYA, Static Caravan, Fortuna Pop and Picked Egg label rosters. Go to the Bearos Records site and contact Alan to see if he has any left over
Tot (demo)
A demo version of "Tot", recorded live at Powerkraut was included on a free downloadable split single along with Shocked Elevator Family's "Euro Court" (Baby Bearos 001). The single was part of the now defunct Baby Bearos download singles club. All of the downloadable singles from the club have been compiled onto Bearos 064, a downloadable compilation. For details click on the images above and below or go to the Bearos Download Shop , click on the "Artist" drop-down menu and choose "Singles Club (128)", then choose "Einstellung - Tot" or "Singles Club (128) - All tracks" from the "Track" drop-down menu
The sleeve for the Baby Bearos split single ( Baby Bearos 001 )
REVIEWS:
"Wings Of Desire"
Einstellung take the Krautrock simplicity of early Neu!, add the noise and dynamics of My Bloody Valentine and create something enormous that envelopes your soul.
FBI Radio in Australia had "Tot", from "Wings Of Desire" on B-List rotation for a while!
Drum Media, Sydney:
"If Klaus Dinger and Michael Rother had undergone their musical educations in 1990s Birmingham instead of 1960s Berlin, the music they would have made together under the Neu! banner probably would have sounded a lot like Einstellung's debut, Wings Of Desire. Featuring ex-members of sludge merchants Sally and Grover, this quartet combines the motorik rythms of Krautrock with massive locked-groove riffs, creating something akin to a Taking Drugs To Make Music To Take Drugs To for doom metal fans.
Throughout the six lengthy tracks that comprise Wings Of Desire, Einstellung display a deft understanding of the fact that while volume itself wields immense power, its absence can often be as potent. Thus while Ungeeignet spends most if its fifteen minutes pummeling the listener with the fuzz bass and a low-slung riff most post-Kyuss stoner groups would kill for, Tot favours a slower, more blissed out approach.
Einstellung's greatest strength, however, the thing that sets them apart from all the other fucked up children of the world chasing the endless riff - is their inspired combination of repetition and variation. With perhaps a nod to minimal composers such as Steve Reich, the band work subtle changes (and sometimes not so subtle ones) into the music that keeps its natural velocity from turning into mere inertia.
While they do wear their influences on their sleeve, Einstellung still manage to bring something fresh to the world of instrumental rock and for that they deserve praise"
"The 6 tracks on Wings of Desire (which clock in at between 7 and 18 minutes) capture this enormous soul enveloping sound to perfection. This record introduces a band who are expert in the sonic architecture of monster fuzz pop gems aka Power-Kraut. The album holds its own with "Psycho Candy" & "Loveless", records that have stood the acid test of time and influenced those who seek to push the boundaries in pursuit of a perfect fusion of overdrive and melody.
Wings of Desire is the finest rush of fuzz drenched adrenaline fuelled noise pop to come out of the UK underground in at least a decade."
"Wings Of Desire blends hypnotic Krautrock tones with industrial slabs of riffage. Audiences at Birmingham gigs over the past year or so have been treated to sets of trance-like beauty, power, noise and glorious melodic simplicity. The songs lull listeners with mesmerising repetition and an addictive pop sensibility before taking off and climbing towards the highest of sonic highs. This band and their Power-Kraut sound will take you higher!"
The Sunday Experience:
"...think of an almighty Hawkwind at their peak bitten by the groove bug - ruddy awesome."
Yellow Plastic:
"Einstellung's records will soon rightfully reside amongst the scuffed spines of the sonic pop experimentation cannon"
Noise Assassin:
"...the pounding bass and deafening, hypnotic guitars make Einstellung a truly explosive and uncompromising act. Ones to watch, no question"
Blunt Magazine:
"The intricate guitars bring to mind the best of the Smashing Pumpkins. Throw in some Mogwai inspired build ups and the occasional ball-crushing Sabbath riff, and the result is a varied, atmospheric journey."
Rave (Street Press, Brisbane):
"If the members of Mogwai took more amphetamines than barbituates they would sound like Einstellung. Big, big guitars, with a complete disregard for trendiness or superfluous innovation. The swirling guitar freak-out during Schwester is reminiscent of Ride's Nowhere and really impresses. The 17-minute punishing krautrock-on-steroids of Ungeeignet is worth the trip"
Metal4Life:
"Minimalist metal? Psychokraut? Industrial fuzz? You could have a whale of a time coming up with a new genre for the pummeling beat that is Brummie band Einstellung. Yes, despite a tracklisting that goes Tot / Ich Auch / Schwester / Konstant / Ungeeignet / Liedy Kann Meinen Hintern Kussen, the Birmingham four piece (featuring former members of Godflesh and Kat Bjelland's Katastrophy Wife) have taken their native metal, mixed it up with some prime time Krautrock, added in some classical minimalism, and come up with a cracker of a CD. Which somehow ended up being released by an Australian record label. That's global kultur for you.
It's a pounding beast of a record, the type of thing My Bloody Valentine might have come up with if they hadn't been such a bunch of indie no-marks, with nary a Black Sabbath record to their name. Although I'm not sure I can forgive them for 'Ich Auch' which had me scatting 'Japanese Boy' by Anneka all the way through. But apart from that, it's utter bliss all the way through, although sadly there is no room for their debut, 28 minute single, 'Sleep Easy Mr Parker'.
Sonic abuse done in a righteous style, this is the kind of thing that should be encouraged, to avert the dullness of modern music.
Twisted, twisted, twisted, twisted / 4 out of 5.
"Sleep Easy Mr Parker"
Single Of The Week (OrganArt):
Ah now this is soothing, one track single but hey, twenty-eight minutes, almost twenty-nine and not a moment too long (fine artwork as well). Simple, soothing, slow building, washing kraut/prog that starts off in a slow, delicate, minimal way. Slow driving, takes a few minutes to reach the first soothing key change (and when we do get there it's hardly noticed). Just sit back and relax like you do with your very best Neu! tunes. I don't know why this is so good, there's nothing that revolutionary going on and it shouldn't really be so brilliant, we hear lots of things like this, but hey, for some wonderful reason this just hits the spot and reaches the places the others don't. It's just beautifully dynamic and pretty much perfect. Einstellung pick you up and wash you away with their soothing, warm, slow-building sound - this is brilliant and beautiful.
Somewhere around 13 minutes and 43 seconds there's a subtly dramatic gear shift that lifts you up even further, ah yes this is right in every way. Einstellung are from Birmingham, they're Steve Hough (ex Godflesh/Cable Regime), Simon Rider (ex Grover), Andy Parker (ex Sally/Katastrophy Wife) and Andy Smart (who doesn't own up here to any previous form). Incidentally, examination of the small prints reveals some kind of involvement from Vanessa White from the much loved and much missed Twist. Just go get it and let it take you where it wants you to go - highly, highly recommended, one of the singles of the year.
The Sunday Experience:
Of Einstellung we have absolutely no information about other than they have a debut full length entitled Wings of Desire out soon on Chatterbox. Sleep easy Mr Parker featured here is in its edited form - the full version due out on Bearos any day now is a bruising 28 minute affair. Even in its shortened form this brute cuts a neat line in no nonsense krautrock boogie the type of which that Mugstar aficionados will swoon in the company of - think of an almighty Hawkwind at their peak bitten by the groove bug - ruddy awesome.
Blogspot.com:
As a general rule we don't memorialize here every single move of the bigger names in music, as there are enough more widely read publications -- and enough wannabes that will recycle their coverage -- around the blogosphere doing that sort of thing. So instead we endeavor to offer a different perspective, focusing on either acts to which we have pledged our undying love or to up-and-comers who distinguish themselves in a way meaningful to us. Two of the better ways for a band to gain our attention is to share a unique vision (a certain Ted Minsky record jumps to mind) or to offer something really outside the proverbial box. And so it was that we read with great interest about a band from the UK that released a 28-minute, limited edition single as their debut, performed it once live and then vowed to perform it never again. It's a move that takes the fetishism of limited edition singles and extends it into the live forum. Not a completely new idea, as every farewell tour from The Who and The Stones has at least partially built its success on a possibility of finality.
Anyway, we received email earlier this month from a chap representing the interests of Birmingham, England's -- yes, Birmingham *again* -- quasi-kraut-psych act Einstellung. It's true, the act had recently issued a 28-minute single, "Sleep Easy Mr. Parker." The track melds NEU!'s organic drone with some early Gilmour-era Pink Floyd, specifically the pastoral psych sounds evoked by that guitar legend's slide guitar work. When Einstellung's "Sleep Easy Mr. Parker" builds to its most tumultuous sections it reminds us of Dead Meadow. We've been given permission to post an edit of the track below (incidentally, you won't hear the slide guitar work in the edit, as it occurs in different sections of the track), and atop this item is a photo from the recent live debut and final live performance of the track. In addition to the edit of "...Mr. Parker," we're also offering the first track from Einstellung's full-length Wings Of Desire, which was released in September on Australia's Chatterbox Records. Dig it.
Lost Music:
Einstellung come from the Midlands. Birmingham, to be precise. But you'd never know it. Unless this Birmingham is located in industrial Germany. See, Einstellung have more than a penchant for the 70s krautrock sound. 'Sleep Easy Mr Parker' is a one track single. It's also a deeply hypnotic piece of Krautrock. You don't feel short changed by the one track though as it weaves it's way into your brain over the course of 28 minutes. It's a beautiful piece of music, calling heavily on Neu! and to a lesser extent Kraftwerk for it's influences.
The title of this piece of music, song just doesn't seem like the right word, is dedicated to one of the band's guitarist's father who passed away shortly before the recording. The CD comes packaged in a lavish fold out sleeve that depicts the remote Scottish isle of Jura, where Mr Parker's ashes were scattered. Back to the music, and let's be honest, it's the music that has got me here; the ebb and flow and swells of sound that earmark this as a rather grand piece of music. Like I said, it's a rather wonderful slab of music. As you pass the 14 minute mark the sonic assault of the guitars crashes in at full tilt. I'd imagine this would be powerful in a live environment. It's not often a song can hold my attention for 28 minutes. Einstellung manage this with ease. I am no aficionado on German Krautrock of the 1970s but from what I know 'Sleep Easy Mr Parker' would slot in with some of the best moments.