Still Smiling

This collaboration between Einstürzende Neubauten’s Blixa Bargeld and Italian composer Teho Teardo reveals a strikingly symbiotic relationship between the pair, who worked together on theatre and film soundtracks before Still Smiling was conceived. The instrumentation sets violin, cello, piano and guitar against metallic percussion, while Bargeld ponderously intones vocal contributions in English, German and Italian; the musical palette brings out a tenderness in Bargeld’s vocals that is less evident in his other projects.