D/B Recommended: Matthew Herbert presents “One Pig” @ HAU 1 Berlin | Tuesday, 07.02.2012

The last volume in Matthew Herbert’s “One” trilogy contains the same sonic ruminations on consumerism and mechanization as the previous installments, as well as their mood and tenor. Like One One, a heady singer-songwriter record, there’s a hushed creeping intimacy to the thing, and a Zen-like acceptance of overbearing forces, even if it intends to [...]

D/B Recommended: Kometenmelodien 11: Nat Baldwin @ Berghain Berlin | Thursday, 09.02.2012

Nat Baldwin has an impressive résumé. He’s studied under free jazz guru Anthony Braxton, contributed to Department of Eagles’ In Ear Park as well as Vampire Weekend’s Contra. He also has been the bassist in Dirty Projectors. Over the course of nine years, he’s additionaly recorded several solo full-lengths that are equally varied. People Changes, [...]

D/B Recommended: Christy & Emily @ Roter Salon Berlin | Sunday, 12.02.2011

Brooklyn based duo Christy & Emily release their third record, produced by Hans Joachim Irmler of Faust at Klangbad Studios in Scheer, Germany. With “Tic Tac Toe” Christy & Emily extend the line of play to win the hearts of the West, with elegance and charm.

D/B Recommended: Soap&Skin @ Volksbühne Berlin | Sunday, 12.02.2012

Austrian alternative singer/songwriter Anja Plaschg made her critically acclaimed album debut as Soap & Skin in 2009 as a teenager and is releasing her second album on March 19th 2012. Entitled Narrow, it’s the follow up to 2008′s rather lovely Lovetune For Vacuum, a set of very gothic torch songs composed largely of spidery piano, [...]

D/B Recommended: Aidan Baker & A-Sun Amissa @ West Germany Berlin | Wednesday, 15.02.2011

Hot on the heels of the release of his encompassing “The Spectrum of Distraction” release on Robotic Empire, Berlin-via-Montreal’s AIDAN BAKER will further fill the pages in his passport! Baker is a classically trained multi-instrumentalist. His primary instrument is the electric guitar with which he creates music ranging from experimental and drone to ambient and [...]

D/B Recommended: Francois & the Atlas Mountains @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Thursday, 16.02.2012

Dividing a vinyl record between a Sea Side and River Side betrays an obvious feeling for all things liquid. On his last album, Plaine inondable (2009), Fránçois sung “Be Water”, a delicious and watery song backed up by a secret Basque choir.

D/B Recommended: Dirty Beaches @ Kater Holzig Berlin | Saturday, 25.02.2012

Dirty Beaches is the sound of waves against a picturesque and putrid shore, the silent rumble of a Chevy as it speeds by in slow motion. Sparse but condensed, relentlessly edging forward: this is music for locomotive travel, for racing your weary motorcycle through neon archways and into dusky tunnels.

D/B Recommended: Gauntlet Hair & Skiing @ Marie Antoinette Berlin | Saturday, 25.02.2012

Hailing from Lafayette, Colorado, Gauntlet Hair is the project of Andy R. and Craig Nice, who began making music together when they were 15. The pair’s shifting, epic avant pop caused a stir in 2010 even before they released their first single, drawing favorable comparisons to Yeasayer, Animal Collective, Surfer Blood, and Passion Pit.

D/B Recommended: Monolake @ Berghain Berlin | Wednesday, 29.02.2012

Robert Henke, born 1969 in Munich, Germany, is a multidisciplinary thinker, composer, sound designer, software developer, installation artist and audiovisual performer. His art is focused on carefully shaped details behind the surface and gradual changes of repeating structures in different time scales.

D/B Recommended: Drawing in the age of electronic expression – Opening @ LEAP Berlin | Saturday, 28.01.2012

How has the role of the artist been transformed by the impact of digital technology? Can the producer leave the surface and program equipment, with data controlled by insects and machines, which in themselves turn into the actual producers or synthesize sounds into images?

D/B Recommended: Jochen Arbeit, Schneider TM, Mueran Humanos, Kulku & Pharoah Chromium @ .HBC Berlin | Saturday, 28.01.2012

After the success of the Krautrock night in October 2011, Future Days Booking, amSTARt and deli.kolder will team up again to present another collective event. Headliners of the evening are Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Haut) and Schneider TM, who will play a guitar drone-noise-improv set.

D/B Recommended: Lionel Williams – Exhibition & Concerts @ Mindpirates Berlin | Sunday, 22.01. – Saturday, 28.01.2012

Berlin, January. Cold … wet … dark … isolation. One either grins and bears the temporary depression or packs up a melancholic soul and escapes. The long-looming year 2012 has already become our current calendar. The countdown is on.

D/B Presents: REGGIE WATTS LIVE @ Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin | Sunday, 29.01.2012

Imagine you come to a show and realize midway through that you’re having a really strong trip. Reggie Watts’ intellectually stimulating hilariously clever improvised comedy beatbox performance does exactly this to the audiences. In his stream-of-consciousness monologues combined with beautifully mastered beatbox interludes, Reggie shifts seamlessly between different personas, musical styles, accents, voices, and even [...]

D/B Recommended: The Immanent Lie w/ John Duncan, John Wiese and others @ NK Berlin | Sunday, 29.01.2012

John Duncan portrays his work as a catalyst, inciting a transmission of energy through which he seeks to compel the audience to actively participate in the process of investigation and self-discovery. [Audio clip: view full post to listen]His lengthy career of electroacoustic intensity and confrontational performance art events is the result of rigorous investigations into [...]

D/B Recommended: CTM.12 Festival @ Different Venues in Berlin | from Monday, 30.01.2012 to Sunday, 05.01.2012

With an extensive program of concerts, discourses and an exhibition space, CTM.12 – Festival for Adventurous Music and Related Arts is appropriating the festival theme SPECTRAL to explore the current reemergence of all things ghostly and dark in experimental music, avant-pop, and art. The thirteenth edition of the Festival will be held from 30 January [...]

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