La Düsseldorf- Viva

Label: Klimt

Released 1978, reissued 2026

KRAUTROCK - Viva is the second album by the German band La Düsseldorf, realized in 1978 and it is considered its most successful release. Indeed, the album contains both the singles "Rheinita", which was their most successful single, and "Cha Cha 2000"; an expansive and utopian piece that mixes repetition, piano passages, chants, and electronic textures into a kind of dreamlike manifesto for a more ideal society. Probably the band’s most famous song. The album represents a combination of modern electronic textures, pop clarity, and krautrock experimentation which has secured Viva a lasting place in the history of German experimental rock. This vinyl reissue is the first after fifteen years.

Track Listing:

1. Viva    
   
2. White Overalls    
   
3. Rheinita    
   
4. Vögel    
   
5. Geld    
   
6. Cha Cha 2000