New Albums
FM EINHEIT
Exhibition Of A Dream
Nocturnal narratives from former industrial noisenik
COLD SPRING
7/10
In the 1980s you might have seen FM Einheit wielding a hammer drill as “chief machinery operator” of Einstürzende Neubauten. By its nature, Exhibition Of A Dream is a somewhat softer affair: a series of dream narratives set to music, debuted at Lisbon’s Fondation Calouste Gulbenkian in 2017. Musically, it explores a sort of nocturnal jazz, augmented by subtle brass, flute and occasional chorusing from the Gulbenkian Choir. It’s the monologues that make it, though: see Lee Ranaldo’s beatnik-tinged “Alpine Traum”, or the closing “Creation re/Created”, which finds the late Genesis P-Orridge in communion with extraterrestrial intelligence.