On February 15th, Sicker Man’s 15th album Spökenkieker will be celebrate at Neue Zukunft Berlin with a special line-up. Apart from his constant collaborator Kiki Bohemia on electronics and bass, there will be a little ensemble of four extra musicians featuring violin, cello, saxophone and trumpet.
Together they will perform the unique music of “Spökenkieker“. It contains elements of Spiritual and Free Jazz, Orchestral Swing and Impressionism perfectly align with Dubstep Beats, Ambient Soundscapes and Electric Cello Noise, creating a temporal confusion that blurs the lines between memory and reality.
With his 15th album Sicker Man is coming full circle by spiritually returning to Eastern Westphalia, the area, shrouded in legend, where he was born and spent his formative years. The local mythological figure of the SPÖKENKIEKER is situated in the mystical depths of the Teutoburg Forest and serves both as name giver and patron saint for this journey to the initial starting point.
Following Derrida’s concept of Hauntology, which describes a pervasive sense in which contemporary culture is haunted by the “lost futures” of modernity, Sicker Man is renewing his focus on advancing the development of his musical ideas by confronting the original source of his creative expressiveness. An attempt to carve out the textures that establish the presence of the past in the present, leaving behind a haunting echo.
By integrating historical spoken word samples and a wider variety of instruments like Flutes and Saxophones, Sicker Man expands his sonic range and develops a unique and distinctive language of sound. A reappropriation of sound drawn from a collective unconsciousness, approximating the imprecise nature of memory itself. SPÖKENKIEKER’s 12 instrumental tracks unfold into an abundance of sound and electronic architectures always circling back to the singular tone of Sicker Man’s Cello.
