D/B Recommended: Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat + RM Hubbert @ HBC. Berlin | Monday, 31.10.2011
Their recent album on Glasgow’s Chemikal Underground records “Everythings Getting Older” represents a career high for the former Arab Strap front man and pianist Bill Wells. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Bill Wells has also collaborated with Future Pilot AKA, Maher Shalal Hash Baz, The Pastels, and most recently Stefan Schneider aka Mapstation with [...]
D/B recommended: The Pyramids – A Journey into Psychedelic Afro Jazz @ Kater Holzig Berlin | Saturday, 29.10.2011
The Pyramids, founded 1971 at ohio’s ANTIOCH college, THE PYRAMIDS soon embarked on an amazing cultural odyssey which lead them, via europe to africa. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]There they not only visited the legendary rock churches in LALIBELA (ethopia), which lend one of their albums the name, but also lived in ghana [...]
D/B Presents: Nite Jewel @ Monarch Berlin | Sunday, 30.10.2011
Nite Jewel, for everyone who doesnt know yet, is a … lets call it “stoner disco loop” group from LA lead by Ramona Gonzalez. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]She and a newly assembled 3 piece band including Cole (of “Ariel Pink’s Haunted Graffiti” and “Samps”) are finally returning to Berlin!
D/B Presents: Land of the Songhai – Screening @ Monarch Berlin | Monday, 21.11.2011
We are happy to present: LAND OF THE SONGHAI, a film By Hisham Mayet (45 minutes, 2011). The screening is part of the ongoing Folk music series “When the Devil is Gone I Mostly Feel Lonely”. Sublime Frequencies co-founder Hisham Mayet’s latest film explores the music and landscape of Songhai country in Western Niger.
D/B Presents: Wermonster LIVE & Finissage JINN / PHOTO EXHIBITION @ The Kiss Kiss Ballroom Berlin | Tuesday, 25.10.2011
Wermonster is a Berlin based electronic musician and producer. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]After participating in numerous rock and jazz projects as a guitar and bass player, he started to create his own music in the mid-90s, experimenting with computers, loops, synths and samplers.
D/B Presents: Asian Film Festival Berlin @ Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin | Wednesday, 26.10. – Sunday, 30.10. 2011
Digital In Berlin is pleased to present the Asian Film Festival Berlin (AFFB), which takes place from October 26–30, and will present 30 contemporary Asian feature, documentary, and short films that take “Imagine(d) Kinships” and “Food” as their themes. The Festival will show new works from Vietnam, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Thailand, and the U.S. [...]
D/B recommended: Rachel Grimes live @ .HBC Berlin | Thursday, 20.10.2011
Composer and pianist Rachel Grimes released her solo piano album Book of Leaves in 2009 and is widely known for her work with the pioneering indie chamber group RacheI’s, who released six albums on Ouarterstick/Touch 8. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] She has finished a new record with King’s Daughters 8. Sons and [...]
D/B Recommended: Krautrock Nacht w/ Damo Suzuki & The Holy Soul, Camera with Dieter Moebius & Squadra Omega @ .HBC Berlin | Saturday, 22.10.2011
Damo Suzuki is best known as the singer of German group Can on their LPs ‘Soundtracks’, ‘Tago Mago’, ‘Ege Bamyasi’ and ‘Future Days’. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]This period exerted a considerable influence on artists such as P.I.L, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Sonic Youth, The Jesus and Mary Chain and The Fall, who [...]
D/B Recommended: Konichiwa Bitches w/ Mr. Thing, Illum Sphere and more @ Cassiopeia Berlin | Saturday, 22.10.2011
Berlins own classic party Konichiwa Bitches is back with another episode. Special guest for the night is the infamous cake fetishist and hip hop pioneer from london, Mr. Thing of the BBE family. He will celebrate the history of hip hop music with the berlin based Dj duo The Smells in the hip hop area.
D/B Presents: Conquering Animal Sound @ Monarch Berlin | Sunday, 16.10.2011
Conquering Animal Sound hail from Glasgow, Scotland (having recently departed their home in Edinburgh) and comprise of Anneke Kampman and James Scott. [Audio clip: view full post to listen] Live the duo perform the majority of what you hear on record, it is something of awe-inspiring greatness, creating loops, beats and samples out of anything [...]
D/B Recommended: Soundfair presents SYMPHONY @ Berlin Weekly Berlin | Thursday, 13.10.2011
SOUNDFAIR is pleased to announce an exhibition with editions from the performance series SYMPHONY. Augustin Maurs’ s “Sinfonietta Concertante For Two Ambidextrian Cellists, Umbrellas And Sake Drinkers” will be performed at the opening.
D/B Recommended: KOMETENMELODIEN # 2: Sun Araw & High Wolf @ Berghain Kantine Berlin | Saturday, 15.10.2011
Cameron Stallones alias Sun Araw began his musical career as a founding member of the experimental psychedelic rock collective Magic Lantern. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Soon after, demos originally intended to light the Lantern became the first Sun Araw LP: The Phynx. Sun Araw blossomed as a solo project in attempted geosynchronous orbit [...]
D/B Recommended: Sense Dense – die große Abschiedsgala @ Chez Jacki Berlin | Saturday, 15.10.2011
After 9 years of existence, the dense record shop will close it´s doors at the end of october! But instead of crying we’ll just have one hell of a party with as many djs, producers and most of all friends who accompanied Dense Records over the past years.
D/B Recommended: Lucky Dragons & Skeletons @ HAU 2 Berlin | Sunday, 16.10.2011
You often hear Lucky Dragons, the Los Angeles-based duo of Luke Fischbeck and Sara Rara, discussed in the context of Animal Collective. There are some connections: Both groups are fond of looped hand percussion, day-glo melodies, and spirited improvisation. The difference is, Animal Collective’s project is fundamentally musical – Lucky Dragons’ project is fundamentally conceptual, [...]
D/B Recommended: AUN & others @ Chez Jacki Berlin | Sunday, 16.10.2011
Erecting vast sound walls streaked in heavenly celestial electronic whiteout, AUN create a distinctive strain of kosmiche rooted shoegazing grind. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Exploratory entity for veteran Montreal experimental, electronic musician Martin Dumais (guitar,bass, violin, synths, programming), AUN blossomed into its current duo form with Julie Leblanc (voice, guitar, programming, video) during [...]
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