D/B Recommended: Islaja & Golden Diskó Ship @ Kater Holzig Berlin | Thursday, 01.12.2011
This is a night of idiosyncratic forms and feelings, with two of the finest musicians in contemporary borderline songwriting. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Finland’s ISLAJA delivers her poetry and music from a private shadow theatre with looping skills and high drama, while berlin’s own GOLDEN DISKÓ SHIP scans the horizon for melodies and [...]
D/B Recommended: Kid Congo & the Pink Monkeybirds @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Thursday, 01.12.2011
The gigantic tone of Kid Congo Powers’ open-tuned guitar is one of the more readily identifiable sounds in the history of underground rock. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Best known for his contribution to the development of the contemporary noise guitar with The Gun Club, The Cramps, and Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds [...]
D/B Recommended: Leisure System 14 w/ Dj Funk, Nathan Fake, Actress & Ikonika @ Berghain Berlin | Friday, 02.12.2011
Dj Funk, critically acclaimed as being one of the most influential men in house music, now the biggest getto house icon of all time is set to make his debut performance at the Berghain. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The pioneer of 90s house has been pushing out releases for over 15 years on [...]
D/B Recommended: High Places @ HAU 2 Berlin | Saturday, 03.12.2011
Six weeks after the double concert with Lucky Dragons and Skeletons HAU hosts a further US underground band which pursues the project of a new kind of world music under the conditions of the digital diaspora: HIGH PLACES. The duo consists of singer Mary Pearson and multi-instrumentalist Rob Barber, and in October they have released [...]
D/B Recommended: John Maus & Gary War @ Berghain Berlin | Saturday, 03.12.2011
After playing two packed shows at Berlin’s West Germany venue and a sold out concert at HAU 2 theatre, John Maus finally does Berghain – him being one of the most stunning, daftest, berserk and intense performers of our time. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]When John Maus wasn’t playing keyboards for Animal Collective, [...]
D/B Recommended: R. Stevie Moore @ Marie Antoinette Berlin | Sunday, 04.12.2011
R. Stevie Moore is a true original. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Improviser, composer, arranger, producer, comedy writer, vocal stylist, sketchpad artist, self-taught instrumentalist and bon vivant.
D/B Recommended: Thurston Moore & Carla Bozulich @ Volksbühne Berlin | Monday, 05.12.2011
A biography of Sonic Youth, published three years ago, is entitled “Goodbye 20th Century”. The title of this book couldn’t be more suitable: Sonic Youth brought pop music into the 21st Century. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]The principle of Sonic Youth is everywhere. Its original habitat is the New York city of the [...]
D/B Recommended: Battles & The Field & Walls @ Postbahnhof Berlin | Wednesday, 07.12.2011
Battles is an American experimental rock group, founded in 2002 in New York City. The band’s current line-up comprises guitarists Ian Williams, Dave Konopka, and drummer John Stanier. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]Following a string of EPs, the band released their debut album on the Warp Records label in February 2006, which was [...]
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 [...]
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