De Fabriek Teams up with Ausland (Roberto Auser) for this wonderful journey.
It’s an album that travels the globe in search for a common language, only to find a Babylonian Confusion of Tongues..  De Fabriek is joined by Harold Schellinx, Haraldur Ingi Haraldsson (who also did the voice on ‘Noordkant’ from ‘Neveleiland’) and the usual suspects Richard van Dellen, Martijn Hohmann and Peter Ehrmann.
Roberto Auser composed the initial music, Haraldur Ingi Haraldsson recited islandic poems and prose. De Fabriek members reworked all material into the story of Emigré..
Mixed by Martijn Hohmann and Richard van Dellen, Design by Martijn Hohmann.

review Vital Weekly 1451

The other project is a recent one, in which Roberto Auser, also known as Derk Reneman, also known as Ausland and Martijn Hohmann of De Fabriek talked about doing an update of the legendary ‘Neveleiland’ LP by De
Fabriek (their second LP from 1984), in which there is music and narrative, about Indonesia and Iceland, based around invisible cities by Italo Calvino and Hakim Bey. De Fabriek’s boss, Richard van Dellen, also had something going with Harold Schellinx, a Young Lion a long time, and these days, an author and conceptual musician with cassettes at his heart. Everybody has different expectations about this project, becoming a tower of babel. On ‘Neveleiland’, the Icelandic narrative is by Haraldur Ingi Haraldsson, who also narrates four pieces here. The starting point was thirteen instrumental pieces by Ausland, all of which were processed by Schellinx, and later on, Van Dellen, Hohmann, and Peter Ehrmann did other processes and the final mix. Like many other works by De Fabriek, as a miasma of people delivering ideas, sounds and mixes. Different from ‘Neveleiland’, there aren’t two long stories here in languages you don’t understand (well, most anyway), but fifteen short stories, with
languages from more countries and, again, not always to be understood. I believe to hear a bit of Schwitter’s ‘Ursonate’ in there somewhere. It is all about the atmosphere music and words create here, vistas of terra incognita. The music relies heavily on the synth-based sounds by Ausland, complete with a bit of rhythm, but maybe a little less than otherwise. Whereas the old ‘Neveleiland’ LP consists of two coherent stories and everything sounds quite together, here the nets are cast wider, and there is a story within a story, with music also across many fields, remaining a mystery quality. Excellent (also two great packages here) (FdW)

review Gonzo Circus 184
De toren van Babel aan de binnenkant van de verpakking van deze gelimiteerde cd staat er niet zomaar. Tussen 61 de elektronische ambient van De Fabriek en Ausland (Roberto Auser) werden tal van, al dan niet bewerkte, stemmen gemixt. De laatste tijd neemt De Fabriek ons vaak mee op wereldreis, en dat is dit keer niet anders. We horen veldopnames van Harold Schellinx in de Parijse metro, maar evengoed Yukio Mishima over seppuku, stemsamples uit ‘The Third Man’, klikgeluiden van een Afrikaanse stam, en uit Nederland zijn er medische getuigenissen van mensen die met een kunstmatige stem door het leven moeten. Een belangrijk aandeel (vier tracks) in deze taalvariatie komt van Harald Ingi Haraldsson, die we nog kennen van zijn IJslands volksverhaal op de lp ‘Neveleiland’ (De Fabriek, 1983). Verder zijn er nog samples van minder voor de hand liggende locaties als de Efteling en het magnetisch veld van de Aarde. Een ware ontdekkingstocht dus.