hackedepicciotto announce new album ‘Lichtung’ out July 10, 2026 on Mute, share video for ‘Zeitenwende’
hackedepicciotto release the album “Lichtung” on July 10, 2026, on Mute, on CD and limited vinyl. New video for “Zeitenwende”. First album with German lyrics.
hackedepicciotto (Photo by Mara von Kummer)
hackedepicciotto – the duo of Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto – release the album “Lichtung” on July 10, 2026, via Mute Records, on CD and limited candy-colour vinyl. The hackedepicciotto “Lichtung” album is the duo’s first collection to be sung entirely in German, and follows “The Silver Threshold” (2021). A new track and video for “Zeitenwende,” the fifth track on the record, is now available.
“Lichtung” – German for “clearing” – takes its name from the home the duo established on the outskirts of Berlin after fourteen years of nomadic life. Hacke and de Picciotto have described the album as marking a departure from repetitive drone-based approaches in favour of more complex sound structures and electronic terrain. The album is the duo’s most extensive use of the German language to date.
The full tracklist is: 1. “Lichtung” 2. “Vogelfrei” 3. “Wiederbelebung” 4. “Erntedank” 5. “Zeitenwende” 6. “Draussen” 7. “Einig” 8. “Der Marschall.”
A video for “Wiederbelebung” was released in March 2026 ahead of the album announcement.
hackedepicciotto tour dates 2026-2027
hackedepicciotto have announced a number of live dates to accompany the release, including June 27, 2026, at silent green Kulturquartier in Berlin (with Sonic Morgue), and July 10 and 11 in Portugal РPorto at KISMIF Museum of Science and Lisbon at Galeria Z̩ dos Bois. Below are all of the dates.
- 6 June – Frankfurt (DE), Ono
- 10 June – Regensburg (DE), Ostentor Kino
- 13 June – Düsseldorf (DE), Art:Walk Festival, Weltkunstzimmer
- 27 June – Berlin (DE), Silent Green – a celebration of LICHTUNG
- 10 July – Porto (PT), KISMIF Museum Of Science Of Porto
- 27 Aug – Poznan (PL), Estrada w Centrum
- 1 Sep РGeneva (CH), Cave 12 Festival la B̢tie РNEW DATE
- 12 Sep – Den Bosch (NL), William Twee – NEW DATE
- 15 Sep – Prague (CZ), Archa – NEW DATE
- 16 Sep – Brno (CZ), Kabinet Mu – NEW DATE
- 20 Nov – Amsterdam (NL), OCCI – NEW DATE
- 27 Nov – Sofia (BG), Club Pave – NEW DATE
- 30 Jan 2027 – Lübeck (DE), Treibsand
About hackedepicciotto
hackedepicciotto is the project of Alexander Hacke and Danielle de Picciotto, partners in life and work. Hacke is a founding member of Berlin industrial act Einstürzende Neubauten and a contributor to numerous projects over four decades, including Crime and the City Solution.
De Picciotto co-founded Berlin’s Love Parade in 1989 and has released extensive solo work as a musician, visual artist and author; she also performed with Space Cowboys and the later incarnation of Crime and the City Solution.
The duo began presenting work as hackedepicciotto in the 2010s and released “Menetekel” as a 2LP in 2017. Side-Line covered the announcement of “The Silver Threshold” in August 2021 and the accompanying video for “Kirchhain” in November 2021; “The Silver Threshold” was released November 12, 2021, on Mute, and stands as the duo’s most orchestrally arranged record to date. Side-Line also covered the announcement of three reissues on Mute in 2023 and the release of their first live album in 2024.
“Lichtung,” out July 10, 2026, is their first studio album since “The Silver Threshold.”
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