HACKEDEPICIOTTO (DE) + GLICE
Welcome back! HACKEDEPICIOTTO (Alexander Hacke & Danielle de Picciotto) + GLICE (Melle Kromhout & Ruben Braeken)
HACKEDEPICCIOTTO (DE)
Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten) & Danielle De Picciotto (Love Parade, Crime & The City Solution)
Both are legends within the underground of the music world. This will be the couple’s first visit to Amsterdam since the last one in 2022.
HACKEDEPICIOTTO are Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto. Both are legends of their own making: Danielle de Picciotto moved to Berlin in 1987, to become the lead singer of the band „Space Cowboys“, the co-initiator of the Love Parade, a collaborator of the Ocean Club with Gudrun Gut, and Alexander’s partner in crime. Alexander Hacke is founding member and bass player of Einstürzende Neubauten. The artist couple, romantically married in 2006, has creatively interacted with countless international projects for almost 2 decades now besides regularly releasing their own compositions.
Their live shows are, to put it mildly, intense. Danielle specializes in unusual instruments such as the Hurdy Gurdy, the auto harp and the cemence besides playing the violin and piano; Alexander is master of the bass, guitar and drums. Together they create beautiful, existentialistic, acoustic soundscapes, which roar and vibrate simultaneously leaving their audiences shaken but overjoyed.
Danielle, author of two books, writes most of their lyrics, be it the poetic spoken word moments or the momentous choirs they compose together. Alexander Hacke, an excellent throat singer and vocalist, growls his grnarly, rumbling cries that float eerily over their nomadic desert drones, with screeching birds, bees or wild wind accompanying slow, heavy riffs that start as a whisper and end in a volcanic, rolling wave of apocalyptic frenzy. The collage of this mixed with melancholic, translucent harmonies, very heavy & low bass chords, and electronics are a mesmerizing universe of sound and emotion which has generated an ever growing group of enthusiastic listeners.
https://hackedepicciotto.bandcamp.com/
Glice is an Amsterdam-based noise duo that has been producing uncompromising, layered electronics since 2015. Using analog equipment and a keen ear for detail, Ruben Braeken and Melle Kromhout craft a sound that moves between hushed musique concrète and industrial noise, between abstract sonic experiments and moments of fragile melody—sometimes dark and ominous, at other times deceptively meditative.
Following their critically acclaimed debut LIX (2015), Glice performed at festivals such as Rewire, Incubate and Unsound and released several cassette tapes. Braeken and Kromhout then travelled to Berlin to record the album CIELO (2017) with Alexander Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten)—a next step in their sonic evolution, where post-industrial textures meet melodic development. This direction continued on the monumental double album PYRE (2021), co-produced by Lasse Marhaug.
Exactly ten years after their debut, Glice returns in 2025 with ENVOI. Recorded during a series of concerts with Hackedepicciotto in 2022, this is the purest representation yet of their intense, disorienting live shows: four pieces that build tension layer by layer with distorted voices, piercing noise, rattling synths, fragments of melody, and deep drones.
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