D/B Recommended: Ghostpoet @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Monday, 28.11.2011
A childhood spent rebounding around London, Coventry, Nigeria and Dominica has certainly provided Ghostpoet (real name Obaro Ejimiwe) with a diverse pallet from which to draw. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]His vocal style – so comfortable in its own skin – has already made fans out of the likes of Mike Skinner, and [...]
D/B Recommended: Splitter Orchester @ WABE Berlin | Saturday, 26.11.2011
Free Improvisation, the most personal and individual of musical expression possible has always been a huge challenge for large groups. In Europe, since the outbreak of free music in the 60′s, there have been several attempts to find the definitive amalgam, that which can make personal freedom and composition i.e. using limitations – work together.
D/B Recommended: Gang Gang Dance @ Berghain Berlin | Friday, 25.11.2011
Ten years since its initiation and a more than touching band history, New York City’s Gang Gang Dance are one of the greatest and maddest live bands of the present day. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Their music consists of exotic scales, influences from dub, grime and noise music, and the maverick vocals and [...]
D/B Recommended: Spectrum XXI Festival @ NK Projekt Berlin | 23. – 24.11.2011
As part of the sixth SPECTRUM XXI Festival, Ana-Maria Avram and Iancu Dumitrescu present a unique programme of spectral music featuring the most exciting and experimental trends interpreted by the Hyperion Ensemble and guest soloists from France, Israel, America and the UK. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Iancu DUMITRESCU and Ana-Maria AVRAM have become [...]
D/B Recommended: Kometenmelodien 9: Barn Owl @ Berghain Kantine Berlin | Tuesday, 22.11.2011
San Francisco-based drone duo Barn Owl follow in the footsteps of provocative avant-gardists Alice Coltrane and Keiji Haino, while building on the doom metal foundation planted by Black Sabbath. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Guitarists Jon Porras and Evan Caminiti started playing music together soon after meeting in an American Indian science class at [...]
D/B Presents: Group Inerane & Steffen Basho-Junghans @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Monday, 21.11.2011
The latest band to make the transition from the rich catalogue of Sublime Frequencies recordings to the live stages of Europe is perhaps the most anticipated of them all: Group Inerane Simmering up from the rebel heart of the Tuareg guitar scene, Group Inerane are a rough-hewn, tranced-out psychedelic juggernaut careering off the path beaten [...]
D/B Recommended: Nils Frahm & A Winged Victory For The Sullen @ Radialsystem V Berlin | Monday, 21.11.2011
Nils Frahm has already become a firebrand in the modern classical world, collaborating with contemporaries such as Peter Broderick, Ólafur Arnalds and Anne Müller. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]His unconventional approach to an age old instrument, played contemplatively and intimately has won him many fans around the world. Approaching two years since his [...]
D/B Tech Feature: Monome Interfaces
Monome aim to refine the way people consider control interfaces. And with their high-end controllers they do just that by combining minimal elegant design with practical functionality. With a sleek product palatte of just 3 LED-matrix USB devices on offer, their repertoire is small but very very beautiful.
D/B Presents: Rachid Haroun @ Monarch Berlin | Wednesday, 16.11.2011
Rachid Haroun was born in Algiers in 1965. He grew up in a neighborhood of musicians “Djenane El Mabrouk “. We are extremely happy to present Rachid Haroun at the Monarch as the opening show for our upcoming Folk musc series “When the Devil is Gone I Mostly Feel Lonely ” since he will be [...]
D/B Recommended: Pure X & Sleep∞Over @ Berghain Kantine Berlin | Tuesday, 15.11.2011
Narcotic-hypnotic music for somnambulists: with Pure X and Sleep ∞ Over, the concert series »Kometenmelodien« showcases two of the most interesting representatives of contemporary and timeless american pop music. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Both rank first in terms of ambiguity in musical expression such as the use of echo, reverb, distortion and opaque [...]
D/B Presents: Ryan Francesconi @ Monarch Berlin | Saturday, 19.11.2011
In 2011, Portland’s Ryan Francesconi (until recently best known for his work as the musical director on Joanna Newsom’s stunning triple album “Have One On Me”) has established himself as a leading figure in acoustic composition and performance. Now he prepares to comes back to Europe to prove it again. [Audio clip: view full post [...]
D/B Recommended: Cäcilie Awestruck feat. Schneider TM @ Maxim Gorki Theater Studio Berlin | Sunday, 20.11.2011
“Cäcilie Awestruck” is a 24-hour electro-acoustic concert based on Heinrich von Kleist’s ‘Cäcilie oder Die Gewalt der Musik’ (Cecilia or the Power of Music) and the final 24 hours of Kleist and Henriette Vogel’s lives. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]“Cäcilie Awestruck” is composed and played by Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM, Angel), Ilpo Väisänen [...]
D/B Recommended: Feedbackorchester & Kulku @ Theaterkapelle Berlin | Sunday, 20.11.2011
The feedback orchestra is an exprimental guitar orchestra from Berlin, and is a collective of eight electronic guitar players who exclusively use feedback noises to play their instruments. The concerts are long improvisations based upon the athmosphere, mood, and acoustics of the particular location. What the band has in mind is a cathartic, cleansing effect [...]
D/B Recommended: Nadja & [sic] @ Marie Antoinette Berlin | Wednesday, 23.11.2011
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: Pink Mountaintops & Sarsaparilla @ Schokoladen Berlin | Thursday, 24.11.2011
“Outside Love” is the third album by Pink Mountaintops, AKA Stephen McBean, who has slowly emerged as a distinctive voice and a very special contributor to the North American songbook. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]A veteran of the Vancouver/Victoria punk rock scene, McBean is best known for his contributions to acclaimed rock band [...]
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