Ende Neu

Encoded within their own name as the end of the first and beginning of the last, the album Ende Neu was released by Einstürzende Neubauten in 1996. In English, Ende Neu translates to the equivalent of “ending new”. The title is probably a wordplay, because of the Name of the band: "Einstürzende Neubauten. You can see the "wordplay" on the cover of the CD.

[edit] Track listing

“Was Ist Ist” – 3:29
“Stella Maris” (featuring Meret Becker) – 5:18
“Die Explosion im Festspielhaus” – 4:30
“Installation No. 1” – 4:29
“NNNAAAMMM” – 10:29
“Ende Neu” – 4:57
“The Garden” – 5:24
“Der Schacht von Babel” – 2:46
“Bili Rubin” – 3:00

[edit] Themes

Ende Neu contains references to the given creation myth of an ejaculatory universe that appears in most earth cultures, as well as topics like dreaming, and Babel. An ejaculatory beginning of the universe is often found among water based cultures, as they could identify with the life-giving properties of rivers and lakes early on in the course of human development. Stella Maris is Latin for “star of the sea”. Maris alone is an Etruscan agricultural god. Instead of building the Tower of Babel skywards in Den Schacht von Babel, it is dug deep into the earth as a shaft or tunnel. The Babel story can also serve as a creationary myth of a sort, related to genetics and evolutionary theory.