The Caretaker, Kode9 and many more @ HAU Berlin | Thursday, 03.05. – Saturday, 05.05.2012

In the current catastrophies and global events the far-reaching overall changes of the past 25 years become more and more acute. Depending on the perspective they are being interpreted as a crisis or a chance for a new beginning. We experience a boom in apocalyptic discourse on almost all levels of political, philosophical and artistic [...]

D/B Recommended: golden diskó ship & Touchy Mob @ Kater Holzig Berlin | Saturday, 28.04.2012

Prehistoric Ghost Party » is the debut solo album of the young and brilliant multi-instrumentalist and video artist golden diskó ship. After Hans-Joachim Irmler acknowledged her talent, the album was produced at the legendary Faust studio, home of the Klangbad label. Gudrun Gut is also a golden diskó ship fan, having released a split LP/CD [...]

D/B Recommended: Oval & Naoko Tanaka @ Sophiensäle Berlin | Saturday, 28.04.2012

Ever since his first groundbreaking album releases, Markus Popp aka “oval” continues to be one of the most prolific and influential forces in contemporary electronic music – a laptop legend and true visionary of digital audio. Popp’s now legendary early album releases sent shockwaves though the electronic music landscape and laid the foundations for an [...]

D/B Recommended: Apparat Band @ Berghain Berlin | Monday, 30.04.2012

If you’ve placed a finger on the pulse of electronic music at any point over the last five years, it’s safe to say you’ll have encountered Apparat in one form or another. Sascha Ring, the Berlin artist who records under that name, has been a restless force in contemporary electronic music for a decade. In [...]

D/B Recommended: Chelsea Wolfe & Odonis Odonis @ Kantine am Berghain Berlin | Wednesday, 25.04.2012

California native Chelsea Wolfe has always embodied both light and dark. Yet though her music is a raw strain of electric folk tinted by black metal and deep blues, it never wallows in despair. Instead, it wraps itself like a thick blanket around the human experience, encouraging uplift, seeking triumph. Her voice is a haunting [...]

D/B Recommended: Jandek @ HAU 1 Berlin | Wednesday, 18.04.2012

Apart from the familiar Residents the musical world knows about yet another analogy to Jerome David Salinger and Thomas Pynchon. Since the end of the Seventies a mysterious songwriter, probably based in Houston, Texas, has been, in regular intervals, releasing highly interesting albums with idiosyncratic music.

D/B Presents: Message To Bears @ Monarch Berlin | Thursday, 19.04.2012

Jerome Alexander, the multi-instrumentalist behind MTB, combines layers of rustic strings, crisp acoustic guitar and a warm, almost wordless vocal melody – a sound which builds throughout each song and across the whole album. The resolution of each crescendo – after the communal, folksy accumulation of voices, strings and other instruments – is either triumphant, [...]

D/B Presents: Soul In The Hole w/ Sadar Bahar, Lee Collins & Hunee @ Horst Krzbrg Berlin | Thursday, 19.04.2012

J.A.W & Chez Jacki join forces for this SOUL IN THE HOLE Special with Sadar BAHAR, Lee COLLINS and HUNEE at HORST Kreuzberg – get yourself ready! The Soul In The Hole crew is responsible for Chicago’s legendary underground parties for rare and underplayed funk, jazz, soul infused disco & house music.

D/B Recommended: C3R3MØNY II w/ Ensemble Economique, Effekthasch and others @ Mindpirates Berlin | Saturday, 21.04.2012

It’s an exquisite feeling, to taste the truth, to let it wrap you completely, to feel it’s ecstatic warmth, to let it ripple through you, to let you feel life with every breath, as if day and night are colliding, and sparks exploding, and the sky turning deep red, and night falls like a blanket, [...]

D/B Recommended: Lowvibe Forest w/ Al Haca, Mamiko Motto and many more @ Naherholung Sternchen Berlin | Saturday, 21.04.2012

Lowvibe present their new event called LOWVIBE FOREST. Every forest is beautiful, diverse and full of life. Lowvibe shares this nature gift and incorporates it within the soul of the night. Lowvibe forest plays bass music, without stamping their sound with genres. No matter where it comes from: Chicago with a European flip, or London [...]

D/B Recommended: Musikfilmmarathon: John Cage’s “One 11 and 103″ @ Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin | Saturday, 21.04.2012

“One11 and 103′ is very strong, very daring, and finally completely mesmerizing.” (Louis Malle, Los Angeles, 21 October 1992) John Cage created his only feature-length film in the year he died. A sublime performance for camera person and light, One11 is a film without subject, in black and white.

D/B Recommended: Willy Moon @ Berghain Berlin | Monday, 23.04.2012

A truly great debut single should make the listener ask: Who is this person? And where did they come from? That’s what happens when you first watch the video to Willy Moon’s I Wanna Be Your Man, in which a lean and long-faced young man struts and jerks and testifies in a spotlight, over a [...]

D/B Recommended: Kim Doo Soo & Carla Bozulich & Okkyung Lee @ Ausland Berlin | Friday, 13.04.2012

Kim Doo Soo is the deepest and most introspective of Korea’s acid folk singers. Many are the legends that cling to his songs – political oppression, alcoholism, suicide, a ten-year period of mountain seclusion. Despite having been active since the mid-’80s and having released four acclaimed albums in Korea, most Western listeners only became aware [...]

D/B Recommended: Michael Hurley & Josephine Foster @ Ausland Berlin | Saturday, 14.04.2012

It is no surprise to find out that the unique voice of Michael Hurley was first recorded for release by Folkways Records on the same reel to reel as recorded Leadbelly’s last sessions. Hurley’s career has spanned almost fifty years of craft and his newest LP Blue Hills is a testimony to his continued relevance.

D/B Recommended: Decoy & Joe McPhee @ Ausland Berlin | Sunday, 15.04.2012

Ausland and OTO bring Counterflows to a close with two explosive sets from Decoy with special guest Joe McPhee. Coming together for the first time at OTO in December 2009 where they instantly hit it off we brought them back together last October for two nights that provided one of the highlight’s of what was [...]

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