D/B Recommended: Timber Timbre @ Heimathafen Neukölln Berlin | Tuesday, 27.03.2012

Timber Timbre is Taylor Kirk, Simon Trottier and Mika Posen. The Canadian trio’s fourth release, Creep On Creepin’ On, is a striking, transcendent record filled with heartrending compositions that engage, transport and challenge. Creep On Creepin’ On represents the full realization of Timber Timbre’s ability to simultaneously invoke and disguise the most essential elements of [...]

D/B Recommended: Daniel Menche & Sudden Infant @ West Germany Berlin | Wednesday, 28.03.2012

Working within sound since 1989, Daniel Menche spills musical blood in a manner invested with a deeply personal sense of wonder and humanity that pours from the speaker channels, casting him as a totally singular figure in the world of audio limit-pushing. Gushing waterfalls, storms, throat, skin, heart, massive drums, kids choirs, acoustic instruments, pianos [...]

D/B Recommended: Kometenmelodien w/ The Chap @ Berghain Berlin | Wednesday, 28.03.2012

The Chap: a modern pop group based in north London. The Chap: have never been influenced by anyone or anything at any time, ever. Starting out with very limited equipment (one microphone, etc.) they came up with their first album “The Horse”, a surreal classic of lo-fi pomposity.

D/B Recommended: Konono No.1 & Awesome Tapes From Africa @ Gretchen Berlin | Thursday, 29.03.2012

Konono No. 1 combine the spirit of traditional African music with the junk instrument concept and the progressive electronic aspect of modern times. The group’s full name is L’Orchestre Folklorique T.P. Konono No. 1 de Mingiedi, T.P. being translated as “all powerful.”

D/B Recommended: It’s a Musical & Guests @ Ballhaus Ost Berlin | Thursday, 29.03.2012

Question: What is it that all those “mixed duos” of recent musical history, acts like Eurythmics, Everything But The Girl, The White Stripes or The Dresden Dolls have in common? Answer: They all have clear roles within the band. In the case of Berlin-based duo It’s A Musical, things are a little different though: Ella [...]

D/B Recommended: MaerzMusik / Sonic Arts Lounge: Column One, Elliott Sharp & zeitkratzer @ Berghain Berlin | Thursday, 22.03.2012

For over 30 years now, multi-instrumentalist, composer and performer Elliott Sharp has been one of the central figures in New York’s avant-garde and experimental music scene. The breadth of his music projects and collaborations stretches from orchestral music, blues and jazz to noise, no wave rock and techno. In many of his compositions, the application [...]

D/B Recommended: Lee Fields & The Expressions @ Lido Berlin | Thursday, 22.03.2012

There aren’t too many artists making soul music today who had a release in 1969, back when R&B was first beginning to give the drummer some. Lee Fields, however, is one such artist—or maybe he’s better labeled a phenomenon. Since the late sixties, the North Carolina native has amassed a prolific catalog of albums.

D/B Recommended: MaerzMusik Festival 2012 @ Different Venues, Berlin | Saturday, 17.03. – Sunday, 25.03.2012

They couldn’t be more different: the two composers celebrating anniversaries, John Cage and Wolfgang Rihm, who provide the thematic arc of this year’s contemporary music festival. As in a scientific investigation, MaerzMusik 2012 contrasts two poles of a contemporary musical cosmos: the great grandfather of experimental music Cage, whose 100th birthday will take place in [...]

D/B Recommended: Volcano The Bear @ Kater Holzig Berlin | Friday, 23.03.2012

Volcano The Bear have, in the words of The Wire magazine, “produced some of the finest, wildest British music of the last 10 years on record and on stage…”. Or, as Losing Today puts it, “No one sounds, has sounded, or will ever sound quite like Volcano the Bear.” They are one of experimental music’s [...]

D/B Recommended: Bill Youngman @ Suicide Circus Berlin | Friday, 23.03.2012

As a release party for his brand new 12″ on Killekill, Berlin based electrostepper Bill Youngman poises to drop another of his killer live sets this Friday. With live visuals by 29Nov films and support by Jerome Hill and DJ Flush, this promises to be a full on night with the KilleKill crew.

D/B Recommended: Lonski & Classen + Guests @ West Germany Berlin | Saturday, 24.03.2012

Contemporary, guitar and drum based pop doesnt get any better than from these home-grown talents. If you’ve never seen L&C yet, you should probably chcek them out. Felix Classen and Lukas Lonski have been playing unique music since their childhood, however their recent compositions as well as their live shows take up position at Skeletons’, [...]

D/B Recommended: “DB” by Ryoji Ikeda @ Hamburger Bahnhof Berlin | Saturday, 28.01.2012 – Monday, 09.04.2012

Japanese composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda has conceived an exhibition for the Hamburger Bahnhof that, for the first time, compositionally unites the two symmetrical halls on the upper level of the museum’s east and west wings. The exhibition’s title “db” (abbr. for decibel) refers to this symmetry while simultaneously indicating the complementary relationship between [...]

D/B Recommended: MaerzMusik / Sonic Arts Lounge: Annie Gosfield @ Berghain Berlin | Wednesday, 21.03.2012

Philadelphia-born and New York-based composer, performer and improviser Annie Gosfield is one of the most interesting figures on New York’s Downtown music scene. A grant recipient at the American Academy in Berlin this year, MaerzMusik is dedicating a portrait concert to her.

D/B Recommended: Ballaké Sissoko & Vincent Ségal @ .HBC Berlin | Sunday, 18.03.2012

Sometimes the most beautiful art comes from accidental meetings and unexpected inspirations. Ballaké Sissoko and Vincent Seéal met by chance. Sissoko plays the traditional West African harp-like instrument called the kora. Ségal was once a member of the French National Orchestra cello section.

D/B Recommended: Maerz Musik / Sonic Arts Lounge: Williams Mix+ @ Berghain Berlin | Tuesday, 20.03.2012

In addition to Cinq etudes de bruit (1948) by Pierre Schaeffer and Karlheinz Stockhausen’s Studie II (1954), John Cage’s Williams Mix (1952/53) is considered to be one of the key works in early tape music. It was Cage’s first composition for tape and, at the same time, the one that pushed the medium to its [...]

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