Sprung Aus Der Wolken

1981 - West Berlin

Label: Bureau B

Genre: 80s Wave / Rock / Pop / Punk

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The Berlin project Sprung Aus Den Wolken was part of the "Geniale Dilletanten" movement in the early 1980s, along with Einstürzende Neubauten and Mechanik Destrüktiw Komandöh. The band first released an EP on ZickZack in 1981, followed by further releases on the band's own record label Faux Pas in 1982 and 1983, then on the French outlet Les Disques Du Soleil Et De L'Acier until 1991. The track Pas Attendre was part of the soundtrack of Wim Wender's movie Der Himmel Über Berlin and thus became an underground hit. Bureau B is thrilled to now re-release the debut EP under the title "1981 West Berlin" including additional songs from the band's early days, which have been carefully remastered from the original cassettes.

«The significance of those early Sprung aus den Wolken recordings is that they were created in a state of grace; consisting of a well balanced mixture of innocence, curiosity, humor, creativity and utter fearlessness. We were not trying to sound like anyone else. In fact we would not have been able to copy most of our already existing material due to our, at best, budding technical know-how.

Experimentation and exploration without restraint was the order of the day. Nothing was too unsophisticated or silly. Quite the contrary: we deliberately pushed things in that direction, thereby discovering puns and punch-lines which could be utilized to oppose the lack of irony in the stern and rather conservative approaches of most our contemporaries. We were young and and we were free and in many respects Sprung aus den Wolken could be compared to the mindset of a puppy: forever improvising, joyous and playful, inexhaustibly energetic and untameably adventurous.» — Alexander Hacke, March 2024

«The Cassetten Combinat Studio was a playground - with all facets of possibilities - we played.» — Kiddy Citny, March 2024