Filtre4Pole schrieb:
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A 'new' album is announced since...mmmh, 1992 or so ;-) I remember Fritz Hilpert telling us after the Linz conzert 1997 the new album will come 'soon'...I just think our guys want to have a nice laugh in the backroom of KlingKlang...
Are you sure? afair: not any Kraftwerk album was announced between 1992 and 1997...??? The 1997 album was REALLY planned, then postponed, and finally CANCELLED!
Well, I remember an interview from 1991 with the 'Schweizer Fernsehen' at their concert in Zuerich, in which Ralf Huetter told that their ( = Kraftwerk) were working on a new album, which will be released the next year ( = would have been in 1992).
As you know, - long time ago! - the very first KW album to be cancelled ( 1983 'Technopop' project ) was followed 3 years later by the true "Electric Café" release... So after the "1997/98 cancellation", we can choose between 2 hypothesis:
- Another cancellation :-(
- A new album ( why not? ) :-)
Let's evaluate now the probabilities:
You can give 99 percent ( and even 100 if that makes you *lol* so much! ;-)) ) to the cancellation (or rumour) hypothesis... ( if this is what you want... ;-)
...maybe, perhaps,
Well, they released "Expo 2000" after 'some years', however: I think they know exactly what they do - and what they don't want to do. Ralf & Florian are pretty clever - not only in things concerning business and money ;-). If they have nothing more to say in the langue of music - they told so much in the past, we - of course - have to respect this. Hey, we're talking about Kraftwerk ;-). I really did belive there will be a new album in 1997, as three (five) new songs were played in Linz / Karlsruhe - songs I really did like - but now I don't belive any more in a new album. They canceled the two new songs from 1997, only "Tango" ("Airwaves"-extension) was left. I mean, their playing 90% the same songs of the 1981 tour - and still all their concerts are sold out. People who go to a Kraftwerk-concert know what they will see - no new songs, but 'new designed' old songs - plus a new stage since 2002 - and still people go crazy. The 1997 Linze concert was the best concert I ever visited. It was simply magic. It's like a favourite film you have - you watch it again and again, know every scene, every sentence. That's what Kraftwerk makes so different, so timeless, so unique. (And, of course, I hope they'll come to austria one day again ;-) ) Gruesse aus Wien, Georgie