D/B presents: Ryuichi Sakamoto & Alva Noto @ Admiralspalast Berlin | Wednesday, 01.06.2011
Ryuichi Sakamoto on piano and Alva Noto on electronics will present their fifth collaborative release with a unique style visualisation and an state-of-the-art technical setting and stage design. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The new album summvs will host its world live premiere on may 12th, 2011 at the roundhouse in london, uk and [...]
D/B Recommended: Tied & Tickled Trio & Billy Hart @ HAU Berlin | 02.06.2011
As ever, it is turning out to be an extremely busy year for the many sideprojects surrounding The Notwist with new albums by Console as well as 13&God on their own Alien Transistor label. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Now following the release of their new record La Place Demon, on Morr the Tied [...]
D/B presents: Damo Suzuki LIVE @ Friedenskirche Charlottenburg Berlin | Saturday, 04.06.2011
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 Günter Schickert (“Samtvogel”) and his band Ziguri with Dieter Kölsch und Udo Erdenreich. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The tour schedule of this 60 year [...]
D/B Presents: BJ Nilsen (SE) & Stephan Mathieu (DE) LIVE | Decks: Hanno Leichtmann @ The KissKiss Ballroom Berlin | Saturday, 04.06.2011
BJNilsen is a sound and recording artist. Primarily focused on the sound of nature and its effect on humans, field recordings and the perception of time and space as experienced through sound, often electronically treated. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]He has worked for documentary film, television, theatre and sound designer. For this performance [...]
D/B presents: Shigeto LIVE @ Monarch Berlin | Monday, 06.06.2011
Artists take on pseudonyms for a multitude of reasons, but in Zach Saginaw’s case, those reasons run deeper than most. Zach records under the name Shigeto. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] It’s his middle name; it’s also his grandfather’s name, a tribute to the Japanese branch of Zach’s family tree. Shigeto also means [...]
D/B Recommended: Mountains LIVE @ Friedenskirche Charlottenburg Berlin | 19.05.2011
Mountains is Brendon Anderegg and Koen Holtkamp, two sonic explorers whose long history, shared philosophies, and love of sculpting sound, has resulted in some of the most densely layered and blissful music crafted in recent memory. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The duo is known for obscuring the boundaries between acoustic instrumentation and electronics. [...]
D/B Recommended: Nadja & Thisquietarmy @ Bei Roy Berlin | Saturday, 11.06.2011
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 presents: Laurie Anderson “Delusion” LIVE @ Volksbühne Berlin | 17&18.05.2011
Laurie Anderson is an American experimental performance artist and musician who plays violin and keyboards and sings in a variety of experimental music and art rock styles. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Initially trained as a sculptor, Anderson did her first performance-art piece in the late 1960s. Throughout the 1970s, Anderson did a variety [...]
D/B Recommended: Shorts Attack – Helden der Arbeit @ Babylon Kino Berlin | Wednesday, 11.05.2011
What is life without work, or work without heroes?! Shorts Attack in May presents 8 exceptional short films dedicated to unusual, anarchic and everyday aspects of working life. Between welfare benefits, the global economy, and conveyer belts – success, it seems, is all just a question of strategy. Cheer on office hamsters, careerists, megalomaniacs and [...]
D/B Recommended: The Fall @ Maria Berlin | Thursday, 12.05.2011
As part of Maria’s grand finale in the current location, undisputable Peel favourites and Manchester’s legends of punk, The Fall make one last appearance. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]A fitting fairwell to one of the best and longest running club locations in Berlin. Caution: a Fall concert can be a life changing experience: [...]
D/B Recommended: Times New Viking @ Marie Antoinette Berlin | Thursday, 12.05.2011
Few bands take Guided By Voices as their point of reference, but certainly in the case of Times New Viking that cant be a bad thing as their recently released album Dancer Equired goes to show. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]With support from Jemek Jemowit and the D/B Sound System, count on another [...]
D/B Recommended: Fulgeance @ Panke Berlin, Saturday, 14.05.2011
This one is not to be missed as it’s a very worthwhile concept for a club night: vast is a project introducing diversity to Germany’s clubbing fraternity with a superb mix of Glitch, Hip-Hop, Wonky, Dubstep and lots of other goodies… [Audio clip: view full post to listen]vast opens the next heavyweight Beatmaker-round and presents [...]
D/B Recommended: The Burning Hell LIVE @ Ballhaus Ost Berlin | Wednesday, 11.05.2011
‘Flux Capacitor’ is the fifth Burning Hell record, and it will have its official European release on May 11 at Ballhaus Ost. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Following the advice of a high school writing teacher who told the class ‘write what you know’, the Burning Hell’s Mathias Kom has written a whole collection [...]
D/B Recommended: Bill Callahan @ Astra Berlin | Sunday, 15.05.2011
Touring his new album Apocalypse, Bill Callahan, formerly known as Smog will be performing at Astra. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Also known as Smog, Callahan began working in the lofi genre of underground rock, with home-made tape-albums recorded on four track tape recorders. Later he began releasing albums with the label Drag City, [...]
D/B Recommended: Ty Segall @ Westgermany Berlin | Thursday, 19.05.2011
Apart from drumming, singing and playing guitar in four different bay area garage bands, Ty Segall still has the time for his own thing. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Burying ’60s sing-alongs and dance crazes beneath waves of reverb and giddy thud, he’s carved out his own shelf in the neo-psych garage alongside SF [...]
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