D/B Recommended: Nadja @ Schokoladen Berlin | Thursday, 07.04.2011
Nadja is a duo of Aidan Baker & Leah Buckareff alternately based in Toronto, Canada & Berlin, Germany. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The duo makes music that encompasses experimental/drone, ambient, shoegazer, & doom metal. They have since released numerous albums with such labels as Alien8 Recordings, Conspiracy Records, Hydrahead Records, and Robotic Empire.
D/B Recommended: Symphony X by Ari Benjamin Meyers performed by Redux Orchestra @ HAU2 | Saturday, 02.04.2011
Born in New York and now firmly based in Berlin the composer ARI BENJAMIN MEYERS shifts flexibly between the contexts of cultural production. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]He works together with leading representatives of the arts scene like Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster or Anri Sala, and also collaborates with diverse representatives of the music world [...]
D/B Tech Feature: Razor by Errorsmith
Razor is the latest powered by Reaktor instrument that was released recently by Native Intruments. Designed and built by Berlin musician Errorsmith, the ensemble offers truly cutting edge synth sounds and amazing visualisation.
D/B presents: Mira Mode Orchestra feat. Clara Hill @ .HBC Berlin | Friday 25.03.2011 | First time live on Stage!
While she is busy working on her fourth solo album, Berlin musician Clara Hill still has time for an exciting orchestra project. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]After three albums on Sonar Kollektiv and countless tours all over the world, she has constantly developed her own musical language with the focus firmly on genre-spanning, [...]
D/B Recommended: Wrong by Augustin Maurs @ LEAP (Lab for Electronic Arts and Performance) | Saturday, 26.03.2011
Augustin Maurs, graduated from the Paris Conservatoire (CNR) and from the conservatory of Music “Hanns Eisler”, Berlin. Concerts as a cellist in Europe, USA and Japan, performances in interdisciplinary contexts / cooperation with Mauricio Kagel, George Aphergis, Helmut Lachenmann, Adolf Muschg, Ami Garmon, Jenny Walshe, Fabien Lévy, Michael Wilhelmi.
D/B Recommended: Sun Burned Hand Of The Man & Cam Deas @ Marie Antoinette Berlin | Monday, 28.03.2011
Madame Claude’s sister venue Marie Antoinette is back in Spring with a strong programme of quality events. Late March bears witness to Californian psychedelic legends Sun Burned Hand of The Man. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Support comes from the very excellent Cam Deas who plays a spellbinding brand of instrumental acoustic neo-folk on [...]
D/B Album Feature: Forgetfulness by Natalie Beridze / TBA
One of the most exciting releases of the year so far is the fantastic new album by Natalie Beridze aka TBA on Berlin’s monika enterprise label. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]This mezmerizing and haunting album contains the finest ambient electronica production combined with a pop sensibility and the beautiful voice of TBA.
D/B Album Review: Wo ist Behle? by Fabio Orsi
The winter in Berlin is long. And white. And cold. One feel the heavy, and soft at the same time, presence of the snow as if it was a cloack of oppressive and liberating silence slowly coming down from somewhere undefined. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Wo ist Behle is the path in the [...]
D/B presents: The Books @ Volksbühne Berlin | Tuesday, 26.04.2011
The Books are an American experimental music duo founded in New York City in 1999, consisting of guitarist and vocalist Nick Zammuto and cellist Paul de Jong. Their music is a mix of electronica, folk, and acoustic music, incorporating samples of sounds, speech and music. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]They have released three [...]
D/B Recommended: Alarm Will Sound @ Philharmonie Berlin | Monday, 21.03.2011 | Berlin Premiere!
Alarm Will Sound is a 20-member band of intelligent classical crossover. Fresh virtuoso spirit, critically acclaimed as “a triumph of ensemble playing”. Tonight they play at Berlin’s MaerzMusik. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Similar to the german Ensemble Modern or the London Sinfonietta this young american musicians stir up the classical music scene by [...]
D/B Presents: Rudi Zygadlo LIVE @ The Kiss Kiss Ballroom Berlin | Tuesday, 22.03.2011
Rudi Zygadlo is a musician like no other, taking the fundamentals of Dubstep in a direction that is as unexpected as it is unique. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]He is created an amalgamation of pop song writing with Dubstep, rewired using influences as wide as Frank Zappa, Eastern European Classical music and contemporary [...]
Japan
There are times when everything else, including art and music, become totally unimportant. The Digital in Berlin Team is shocked and deeply moved by the current, uncomprehensible catastrophy in Japan. We are with you in thoughts.
D/B presents: Current 93 @ Volksbühne Berlin | Monday, 28.03.2011
Current 93 is an eclectic British experimental music group, working since the early 1980s in folk-based musical forms. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] The band was founded in 1982 by David Tibet (né David Michael Bunting, renamed ‘Tibet’ by Genesis P-Orridge sometime prior to forming the group). Tibet has been the only constant [...]
D/B presents: MUSIK FILM MARATHON in Berlin | 28.03. – 10.04. 2011
During this festival, we will be showing around 40 artistically outstanding music-films from across 60 years (1950-2010/11). Produced in Europe, Africa, India, Japan and the USA these films reflect not only the developments in contemporary cinematic language and the progressions of each musical genre, but also the context and historical impact of each production.
D/B Recommended: Damo Suzuki & Groupshow @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Wednesday, 16.03.2011
True to his relentless tour-schedule, former Can frontman Damo Suzuki is back less than a year after his last Berlin show. This time for a very special collaboration with Kraut-influenced local supergroup Groupshow. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]If you didnt manage to get into his very crowded last performance at Ausland, dont miss [...]
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