Weingeister (English: Wine Spirits) is the eighth and final release of Einstürzende Neubauten's Musterhaus project, a series of highly experimental CD releases that were only available via an annual subscription through their website or from shows during their 25th Anniversary Tour.
The central theme of this last Musterhaus release is recordings of the band members drinking and enjoying different kinds of wine.
As quoted from the back of the album: "It started out as just an idea, perhaps out of a simple wish to drink some wine with friends as a performance, not talking, just ritualised behavior (symposium in the original sense?
Everything was miked, the table, the glasses, the throats - and we really didn't know where this was taking us.
Included on the disc is a 40-minute-long QuickTime movie documenting the event Weingeister was conceived by Blixa Bargeld, performed and composed by Einstürzende Neubauten on May, 21st 2006 in "The Bunker" in Berlin Live recordings by Boris Wilsdorf Additional recordings, mixing and editing by Marco Paschke Video editing by Ian Williamson