hypersongs

Viva

Six tracks, the last, "Cha Cha 2000", filling nearly twenty minutes.
La Düsseldorf, 1978

All tracks are credited to Klaus Dinger. Thomas Dinger sings and plays percussion, Hans Lampe plays drums, Andreas Schell plays piano on "Cha Cha 2000", and Harald Konietzko plays bass on "Geld" and "Cha Cha 2000"; Klaus plays guitars and keyboards under the pseudonym Nikolas van Rhijn. The title track opens with a German radio commentator celebrating a Fortuna Düsseldorf goal, "Vögel" is bird noises, and Dinger later recorded seven versions of "Cha Cha 2000". The UK pressing came out on Radar (RAD 10) with slightly different timings.

AllMusic gave 4.5 of 5, and the Monolith Cocktail called it a forgotten treasure due a renaissance and reappraisal; Head Heritage wrote that this unbounded joy is what makes Viva great.

Track listing

  1. Viva2:36
  2. White Overalls2:07
  3. Rheinita7:41
  4. Vögel1:27
  5. Geld6:35
  6. Cha Cha 200019:53

More from La Düsseldorf

La Düsseldorf (1976), Individuellos (1980)

Sources

  1. Viva (La Düsseldorf album), Wikipedia
  2. Klaus Dinger, Wikipedia
  3. La Düsseldorf: Viva, Head Heritage (2010)