Vergangene Veranstaltungen /
1. Dezember 2024, 17:30 Uhr
Yan Jun Mini Fest
Performances by
Carina Khorkhordina + Lorena Izquierdo
Yan Yan+ Seiji Morimoto + Makoto Oshiro
Mario de Vega
Yan Jun + Eric Wong + Takako Suzuki
Door – 17:30 | Music – 18:00
Tickets: at the door, 10€-20€
In collaboration with Liebig12.net
30. November 2024, 19:00 Uhr
MONA MUR IN CONVERSATION
(Berlin Film premiere + concert)
A Film by Dietmar Post: MONA MUR IN CONVERSATION (Berlin Film premiere)
Mona Mur was a protagonist of the German underground of the early 1980s, but always flirted with big Pop. During her career, she has travelled through a wide variety of musical genres, from Post-Punk-Industrial to Electronic Music, experimental Guitar Music and orchestral Walls of Sound. – Mona Mur’s early albums have now been re-released and this unique film by Dietmar Post provides a great opportunity to give Mona Mur the chance to talk and comment in depth about her musical career as a musician, composer and producer from a very personal perspective. The documentary approach of the film focuses on inspiration and situation, it is a kind of „committed remembrance“.
+ Concert: MONA MUR – Les Chansons Brutales
with Johannes Roloff, piano, and Gary Schmalzl, electric guitar (Geschwister Pfister, Bela B., Thurston Moore)
For the first time live in her new Trio line-up, Mona Mur presents LES CHANSONS BRUTALES – a dark blue sparkling live program consisting of unreleased special versions of songs mainly off her notorious orchestral opus magnum WARSAW as well as her solo albums DELINQUENT and LES CHANSONS BRUTALES with exclusive lyrics by “Radical Eye” poet Miron Zownir. Together with her exquisite musicians, Johannes Roloff and his virtuoso piano play and guitar master Gary Schmalzl, they forge a darkly romantic sound, a surreal, elegic, cinematic. Painting – as cruel as life, as tender as the night.
MONA MUR IN CONVERSATION is presented by play loud! productions and Soundwatch Music Film Festival Berlin as the closing film of their 2024 edition.
Door: 19:00 (no presale)
Film: 19:30
Concert: 21.15
21. und 24. November 2024
Silvio Meier
Gedenkveranstaltungen
Donnerstag, 21.11. 2024, 19:00 Uhr
Gedenkveranstaltung am U-Bahnhof Samariterstraße/Ecke Silvio-Meier-Straße
Sonntag, 24.11. ab 14:00 Uhr
Informations-und Gesprächsveranstaltung „Antifa in den 90er- und 00er-Jahren“
Organisiert von der AG Silvio-Meier-Gedenken im Jugendwiderstandsmuseum/Galiläakirche
Silvio Meier war in den späten 1980ern und frühen 90er Jahren in der linken, selbstorganisierten Bewegungen Ostberlins aktiv. Er war Mitbegründer der Umweltbibliothek, Teil der DDR-Opposition und hat 1987 auch das »Element of Crime«-Konzert 1987 in der Zionskirche mitorganisiert, welches an diesem Abend Ziel eines Naziangriffes wurde. Ende Dezember 1989 besetzte er mit FreundInnen die damals leerstehende Schreinerstraße 47 in Berlin-Friedrichshain. Die besetzten Häuser aber auch linke Menschen generell waren in dieser Zeit häufigen Angriffen von Neonazis ausgesetzt. Gegen den stärker werdenden Rassismus und Faschismus setzten sich Silvio und seine FreundInnen zur Wehr. Dies kostetet ihm am 21. November 1992 bei einem Streit am U-Bahnhof Samariterstraße mit einer Gruppe junger Neonazis das Leben. Im U-Bahnhof erinnert eine Gedenktafel an ihn, seit mehr als zehn Jahren ist eine Straße nach Silvio Meier benannt, ebenso wie ein Preis für Zivilcourage.
Samstag, 23. November 2024, 15:00 Uhr
NUCLEAR POETRY: HEIMAT & VERBRECHEN
Uwe Moellhusen/poesi.fysik.- total artist
Alexandra Maciá
Dora Bleu & Cedrik Fermont
Dr. Nexus
MAXEL(L) KAROLY
Stories In Colour & Takumi Motokawa
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
Doors – 15:00
Performances: from 19:00
Curfew – 22:00 (strict, early shows!)
★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★
Verkaufständer:
https://anagramspace.com/
https://czentrifuga.poetaster.de/
http://www.feuer-zeug-keramik.de/
Samstag, 16. November 2024, 19:30 Uhr
Christof Thewes Quartet plays the SurRealbook
Christof Thewes (trombone)
Hartmut Oßwald (bariton & tenor saxophone)
Benjamin Lehmann (bass)
Martial Frenzel (drums)
The band acts acoustically, but musically uses everything that (popular) music has to offer, there is swing next to rock, New Orleans next to free jazz, collective next to solo, strenuous next to light, musical anarchy next to formal strictness … but above all, the band serves a crucial musical tradition, that of humor.
The SurRealbook consists exclusively of Thewe’s own compositions, an original, exciting, spontaneous, improvised experience.
Tickets @Abendkasse
Freitag, 15. November 2024, 19:00 Uhr
Dauw label night w/ Midori Hirano, Stijn Hüwels & Tomoyoshi Date
Tomoyoshi Date and Stijn Hüwels will reunite in Berlin for a two-day residency. After meeting in Tokyo in 2015 and collaborating on the albums Hochu-Ekki-Tou (2019) and Tōki hi, Tōki kumo (2021), they will meet again for the first time in nine years. The residency includes a studio session on November 14th and a concert on November 15th. Date is known for his acoustic and organic sounds with digital processing, while Hüwels focuses on minimalist music using processed guitar and field recordings. They will be joined by Midori Hirano, a Berlin-based pianist and composer who combines acoustic instrumentation with electronic sounds. Her new collaborative album with the German brothers duo Brueder Selke is due for release on Thrill Jockey in January 2025.
Dienstag, 5. November 2024, 19:30 Uhr
BELLS – The John Carter Project
Uli Kempendorff | tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, flute
Edith Steyer | altso saxophone, clarinet, composition
Rieko Okuda | piano
Joe Hertenstein | drums
Freitag, 1. November 2024, 19:00 – 22:00 Uhr
ANIMA MUNDI #5 – Performance/ Konzert (Lichota/ O’Grady)
Sound Performance by Patryk Lichota and Concert by Larissa O’Grady
Patryk Lichota präsentiert BEELOCATION, eine Performance, bei der Klang und Licht durch Theremins und Bewegungssensoren gesteuert werden. Larissa O’Grady interpretiert Werke irischer Komponisten, darunter Judith Rings Swept Through the Floods, ein Stück für Violine und Elektronik, das Umweltkatastrophen thematisiert. Karen Powers sonic cradle basiert auf arktischen Feldaufnahmen und verbindet die äußere Stille mit einer reichen Klangwelt. David Bremners Salient Memories behandelt Statistik und Erinnerung durch eine sich ständig entwickelnde Ausdrucksstruktur. Amanda Feerys Thighs in Bark erzählt die Verwandlung der Daphne in einen Lorbeerbaum aus der griechischen Mythologie. Anselm McDonnells Rusted Sugar erforscht die komplexe Beziehung zu Zucker durch musikalische Strukturen, die chemische Prozesse widerspiegeln.
26.10.2024, 19:30 Uhr
Marina Džukljev Quartet
Marina Džukljev (piano)
Ute Wassermann (vocals)
Michael Thieke (clarinet)
Raed Yassin (electronics)
Prepare for an evening of captivating musical exploration with the Quartet of the accomplished Serbian pianist Marina Džukljev, known for her versatility in free improvisation, classical, and contemporary music, this ensemble promises a unique blend of sounds and styles. Džukljev’s innovative approach to the piano, combined with her quartet’s dynamic interplay, creates an immersive experience that pushes the boundaries of Jazz and improvised music.
24. & 25.10.2024, 17:45 Uhr
A Tribute to Coum Transmissions & Throbbing Gristle
55 years ago, a music and performance collective called COUM Transmissions made its first public appearance in Hull, England. They challenged British society with a confrontational approach, but also marked the beginning of a musical subculture that created new musical territory in the interplay of Videos, Sounds and Performance Art with the genre Industrial Music that was unique in its uncompromising nature. From the beginnings as COUM Transmissions, from which THROBBING GRISTLE emerged in 1976, to the later individual projects of its members, a total art is embodied here that celebrates permanent mutation as a rebellion against all norms and systems.
Over two days (24. & 25.10. 2024), we pay tribute to the unbroken fascination of this radical art and its protagonists with a comprehensive Tribute Programme that includes Live Concerts, Film screenings and Video presentations.
Program Day 1, The Cosey Day, 17:45 Uhr
Films
Throbbing Gristle’s Psychic Rally in Heaven
Cosey Fanni Tutti: A Study In Scarlet
Delia Derbyshire – The Myths And The Legendary Tapes
Live Concert
Jasmine Guffond
https://media-loca.com/jasmine-guffond/
Program Day 2, The Genesis Day, 17:45 Uhr
Films
Other, Like Me
S/He Is Still Her/e – The Official Genesis P. Orridge Documentary (German Film Premiere)
https://www.facebook.com/SoundWatchBerlin/?locale=de_DE
Live Concert
Contagious
https://media-loca.com/contagious/
Dienstag, 22.10.2024, ab 19:00 Uhr
Tanz den Kommunismus vs. Wir sind die Türken von morgen
Lesung
Punk Ost vs. Punk West der 1980er. Zwei der besten Punk-Bücher der letzten Jahre, „Tanz den Kommunismus“ von Henryk Gericke und „Wir sind die Türken von morgen“ von Ulrich Gutmair werden – miteinander, gegeneinander, durcheinander – in einer besonderen Doppel-Lesung von den beiden Autoren präsentiert.
Samstag, 19. Oktober 2024, 19:30 Uhr
Pardez (Contemporary Mediterranean Music)
Iordanis Foutsitzoglou (oud, buzuq, voice)
Yiannis Koutsamanis (violin)
Mimis Sandalis (bass)
Pardez is a trio based in Berlin. Coming from different musical backgrounds but with a lot of overlapping influences, the three musicians interpret contemporary and traditional music from the Mediterranean, enriched with jazz elements and improvisation.
Donnerstag, 17.10.2024, 19:30 Uhr
Die modulare Nacht: Palais d’Amour / Toller Urlaub
Tangorett Release Concert
Mit unzähligen modularen und analogen Synthesizern, verstimmter Wandergitarre, Glockenspielen, Field Recordings und Heimorgelbeats lassen Uwe Haas (Field, feldneun) und Jörg Hochapfel (Bruchgold & Koralle, Hunger) Musik entstehen zwischen von Kindern gemachtem Stolper-Ambient und schamanistischem Slow-Motion-R’n’B: verstörend und gleichzeitig manchmal ziemlich sexy.
An diesem Abend präsentieren Palais d’Amour ihre dritte Veröffentlichung „Tangorett“, erschienen auf dem kleinen aber feinen Label Bello Neon. Erhältlich auch in Form einer wunderschön von Marko Krojac gesiebdruckten Baumwolltasche.
Toller Urlaub ist das Modular Synthesizer-Duo von Oliver Roth und Johannes Schleiermacher. Die beiden interagieren mit einem selbst konzipierten Algorithmus, der je nach Bedarf stoisch vor sich hin blubbert oder wie ein Schwarm seltsamer Vögel durch den Raum fliegt. Beide spielten u.a. im Woima Collective und im Andromeda Mega Express Orchestra als Bläser zusammen. Hier nun im Rausch der synthetischen Klänge.
Dienstag, 15.10.2024, 19:00 Uhr
CIRCUIT TRAINING XVIII
Circuit Training is a large workshop ensemble founded in 2013 that started out with 5 musicians and meanwhile performs with 12-15 players. Each player can be also composing music for the ensemble which is an experimental tool for all members. In edition XVIII the ensemble comes together without rehearsal and Ignaz Schick will bring in some graphic score cards and will conduct the group with his unique hand sign language.
Florian Bergmann (clarinet, bass clarinet)
Nikolaus Neuser (trumpet)
Max Arsava (live-electronics)
Stefan Roigk (laptop, electronics)
Eliad Wagner (analog modular synth)
Quentin Tolimieri (piano)
Taiko Saito (vibraphone)
Ulrike Brand (violoncello)
Adam Goodwin (double bass)
Meinrad Kneer (double bass)
Klaus Kürvers (double bass)
Alexandre Babel (drums, percussion)
Sofia Borges (drums, percussion)
Rudi Fischerlehner (drums, percussion)
Ignaz Schick (composition, conduction)
Samstag, 12.10.2022
fastmusic „I want to love, and I love“ – Release-Show
Opening act: Héloïse
Main act: fastmusic
Doors open: 19:00h
Show: 20:00h
You can buy tickets in advance. Either online at rausgegangen or as a conventional ticket at KoKa36. You can also purchase tickets at the door in the evening.
More information on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/8364933280223363/
fastmusic „I want to love, and I love“
„I want to love, and I love“ is the debut album by Leipzig artist fastmusic. The opening track describes the world as a carousel, but at a slow pace. The album’s aesthetic and philosophy contrast with today’s hectic world, offering a sound of deceleration and shoegaze romance, with influences from Mali blues and minimalism. It touches on themes like consumerism, first-world problems, and self-expression, promoting a „live and let live“ attitude. In our turbulent era, this album provides a soundtrack for a more relaxed lifestyle, including digital detox.
Héloïse „One Click One Scroll“
Back then: those colors! The small plastic organ with surprising No Wave scratches and Post-Gaffa residues. Héloïse represents this punk derivative without worn-out guitars, sounding like 1983 but not as if nothing happened in 40 years. Zurich musician Sabina Leone is behind this trick. She sits at her drums, stitching percussive patterns with fabric scraps from offstage. Active since 1993, Leone has made music in Italian with Sorelle Leone and crossover with Wemean. Now fully embodying Héloïse.
Freitag, 11.10.2024, 19:00 Uhr
Schneider TM + Marc Weiser & Lillevan (Rechenzentrum)
audiovisual performance
Dienstag, 8.10.2024, 19:00 Uhr
Nasim-e Shargh
Classical Persian Music
Santur, kamancheh, gheychak, tombak, and ney are instruments that can be traced back to Persian antiquity and because of this, transport the listener with their unique sonic qualities as well as their stark yet intricate performance practices. Dastgah-e Chahargah, one of the less commonly performed of the twelve modal systems in classical Persian music today, invokes vitality, courage, and spiritual optimism – qualities that we desperately need in today’s world!
Hossein Taghinejad (santur)
James Wylie (kamancheh, gheychak)
Roshanak Rafani (tombak)
Bastian Duncker (ney)
Samstag, 5.10.2024
LIZ ALLBEE, BILLY ROYSZ, JD ZAZIE, Roberta Wjm Andreucci
impro experimental concert
JD Zazie (turntable, cdj, mixer)
Liz Allbee (trumpet, electronics, voice)
Billy Roisz (turntable,electronics, e_bass)
Roberta Wjm Andreucci (CDJs, electronics)
Concert: 19 – 22h
In collaboration with Liebig12.net
Freitag, 4.10.2024, 19:00 Uhr
Kristof Hahn
Support: Nick Adams/ A Sea Of Trees
Kristof Hahn’s music ranges from abstract cinematic soundscapes to elegant rock’n’roll noir songs. Hahn is best known for his lap-steel guitar playing in the New York experimental rock band Swans. His approach to the lap-steel guitar is less rooted in traditions but more drone-oriented, creating vast soundscapes that at times erupt into sonic thunderstorms and at other times resolve into ethereal melodies.
Support: Nick Adams/A Sea of Trees is the loop and steel guitar based solo project of Niklas Fischer.
Samstag, 7. – 29.9.2024
Dystopia Sound Art Biennale
(Sound Art Exhibition)
The Dystopia Sound Art Biennial, organised by Errant Sound and this year under the artistic direction of Nida Ghouse and Georg Klein, will take place from 7 to 29 September in HAUNT/frontviews in Schöneberg and in the Galiläa Church in Friedrichshain. Featuring sound installations, performances, and site-specific projects by over thirty participating artists from fifteen countries, the exhibition will be accompanied by an event program that runs on all four weekends.
After Turkey and Brazil, Dystopia Biennial 2024 presents sound art from Europe and the Indian subcontinent. The exhibition Often enough I tried language, often enough I tried song, but they didn’t hear you raises questions about canonized European sound epistemologies through a range of positions. “If the German concept of Klangkunst has no equivalent in the South Asian context, sound itself has cosmic significance and the culturally-coded labor of listening draws on long and diverse lineages,” says Nida Ghouse in her curatorial statement. Dystopia, a politically, socially and ecologically charged term, serves here as a provocation or an invitation to imagine another world.
In resonance with the artworks, the symposium Sonic Futurisms, curated by Budhaditya Chattopadhay, offers insight into the concept of futurism in relation to sound practices and thoughts from South Asia that influenced the Western art music of John Cage, La Monte Young, Pauline Oliveros, and others in the 1950s and 1960s, without recognition having been demanded until now. Among other topics, the symposium explores the under-discussed conceptualization of a future that goes beyond a dystopian vision.
Samstag, 31. August 2024
Entre les Lignes – Zwischen den Zeilen: Part II (Klangkunst-Festival)
Day 2: Concert
Doors: 19.00
with: Nathalie Forget (Onde Martenot), Lila Fraysse(voice), Bérangère Maximin(LapTop)
Caroline Cecilia Tallone(hurdy-gurdy) , Gilles Aubry(Mod Synth, FieldRecording, LapTop) Julius Holtz (Mod.Synth)
„Entre les Lignes – Zwischen den Zeilen“ is an exchange project happening in two-part, covering two territories and involving six musicians and sound artists who never played together before.
The first part focused on the Occitanie region in south-west France.
The artists took part in a Residency format, researched and created in the landscapes between the town of Toulouse & Rabastens, exploring the cultural influences of the Occitan region.
In this second phase, the creations made in Occitanie will be reworked and contextualized in the metropolitan territory of Berlin and the desecrated Galiläakirche by the end of August.
Curated by Emilie Beffara founder of Blind Signal in collaboration with Allegra Solitude, founder of Liebig12, sound artist Julius Holtz and Isabelle Picard.
In cooperation with le Ring Scène Périphérique, le COMDT à Toulouse, BlindSignal, Liebig12 à Berlin, jugend widerstandsmuseum-galilaakirche à Berlin and the town of Rabastens.
Supported by Musikfonds E.V., le GMEA à Albi, Impulse Neue Musik, le Goethe Institut de Toulouse.
within the Frame of Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik
Freitag, 30. August 2024
Entre les Lignes – Zwischen den Zeilen: Part II (Klangkunst-Festival)
Day 1: Project / Artists / Instruments Presentations & Open Rehearsal
Doors: 18.00
with: Nathalie Forget (Onde Martenot), Lila Fraysse(voice), Bérangère Maximin(LapTop)
Caroline Cecilia Tallone(hurdy-gurdy) , Gilles Aubry(Mod Synth, FieldRecording, LapTop) Julius Holtz (Mod.Synth)
„Entre les Lignes – Zwischen den Zeilen“ is an exchange project happening in two-part, covering two territories and involving six musicians and sound artists who never played together before.
The first part focused on the Occitanie region in south-west France.
The artists took part in a Residency format, researched and created in the landscapes between the town of Toulouse & Rabastens, exploring the cultural influences of the Occitan region.
In this second phase, the creations made in Occitanie will be reworked and contextualized in the metropolitan territory of Berlin and the desecrated Galiläakirche by the end of August.
Curated by Emilie Beffara founder of Blind Signal in collaboration with Allegra Solitude, founder of Liebig12, sound artist Julius Holtz and Isabelle Picard.
In cooperation with le Ring Scène Périphérique, le COMDT à Toulouse, BlindSignal, Liebig12 à Berlin, jugend widerstandsmuseum-galilaakirche à Berlin and the town of Rabastens.
Supported by Musikfonds E.V., le GMEA à Albi, Impulse Neue Musik, le Goethe Institut de Toulouse.
within the Frame of Monat der zeitgenössischen Musik
Freitag, 23. August 2024
Borage
Megan Jowett (viola, voice)
James Banner (double bass)
Borage is Megan Jowett and James Banner. They play brittle, strange, dark, weird and vibrant improvised music inspired by animals, plants and politics on strings and voices. Borage self-released their first album transitory in 2023.
Freitag, 09. August 2024
SPIRO + ALLAN PRASKIN
ALLAN PRASKIN – altosax
HENRIK WALSDORFF – altosax
BEN LEHMANN – doublebass
JAN LEIPNITZ – drums
ALLAN PRASKIN played with stars of modern jazz such as Bobby Hutcherson and Harold Land. He was an important part of the New York loft scene and made his first recording for the legendary ESP label. As a member of Gunter Hampel’s Galaxie Dream Band, he came to Europe, where he soon became one of the busiest jazz musicians. He is now highly active in the Berlin jazz scene in particular. Praskin’s characteristic phrasing on the alto saxophone is his trademark, as are his great compositions. A top program of modern jazz awaits us.
Sonntag, 04. August 2024
OBSiDiAN / Rupp–Rößler–Hall
Vojta Drnek (prepared accordeon)
Isabel Rößler (bass)
Jan Leipnitz (drums)
There is no long-standing tradition of a free jazz trio featuring accordion, bass, and drums. OBSiDiAN however makes you feel as if like there was, and that they are building on it with great respect and also an infectious joy and love for collective music-making. Energetic and groovy passages are interwoven with deep and meditative soundscapes, constructed with unique and weird sounds of prepared accordion of Vojta Drnek, gentle, yet explosive drums of Jan Leipnitz and the vast range of expression of Isabel Rößler’s bass.
Rupp–Rößler–Hall
Olaf Rupp (guitar)
Isabel Rößler (bass)
Samuel Hall (drums)
Rupp–Rößler–Hall is an all-acoustic band of equal voices, where it’s more about layering textures and structures than supporting a soloist.
Freitag, 02. August 2024
Jessica Monk & Band
Jessie Monk has come back to Berlin from Australia for a few days and they will be on stage together again.
Jessie Monk – vocals, guitar
Conor Cunningham – winds, vocals
Paul Santner – bass, guitar, vocals
Fabiana Striffler – violin, vocals
Samstag, 20. Juli 2024
Orientación (TangoTaqsimJazz)
Luis Borda (guitar)
Ehab Abou Fakhr (viola)
Niko Schabel (clarinet, saxophone)
The music of the Trio Orientación is a rare sound result, stylistically shaped by the musical poles of Argentine Tango and Arabic Taqsim, the sound constructions of new music and the love of rhythm and improvisation
Doors: 19:30
Freitag, 19. Juli 2024
Invocation: Hub Hildenbrand (guitar, voice) & Canberk Ulas (duduk)
Doors: 19:30
Hildenbrand’s music is defined by the restless nature of a seeker. Over the years his explorations have taken him to a variety of places and spaces, nonetheless, his destination continues to be the ever elusive vanishing point: the realm of the mystical. Ultimate truth and pure beauty remain forever on the horizon. His is a journey into the core of music.
By merging elements from ethno and world music, European contemporary Jazz, neoclassical, cinematic sounds, and the singer-songwriter tradition, he unfolds a multifaceted sonic world.
On this special occasion Hub will be joined by Turkish duduk player Ustad Canberk Ulas.
Dienstag, 2. Juli 2024
Silvio-Meier-Preisverleihung
Bezirksamt und Bezirksverordnetenversammlung von Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg vergeben seit 2016 den Silvio-Meier-Preis. Dieser soll Menschen, Vereine, Initiativen und Projekte ehren und unterstützen, die sich in herausragender Weise gegen Rechtsextremismus, Rassismus, Ausgrenzung und Diskriminierung einsetzen. Bewerbungsfrist ist der 2.6.2024. Mehr Infos im Link unten.
Beginn: 18:00
Samstag, 29. Juni 2024
Ilpo Väisänen (Pan Sonic) / MimiCof (Ambient/Noise)
25 Years Media Loca:
ILPO VÄISÄNEN was one indivisible, inseparable half of Panasonic / Pan Sonic, a crucial and visionary duo in electronic music that was started in the beginning of the 1990s.
Mimicof / Midori Hirano
Under the moniker MimiCof, Midori Hirano explores the realm of more experimental music and detailed rhythmic patterns, combined with an idea of drawing melodic shapes and harmonies. As MimiCof she performed at prestigious festivals and events such as CTM, Heroines of Sound Festival, Boiler Room Berlin and L.E.V.Festival, and was selected by Frank Bretschneider for the first volume of the “Sichten” compilation series on raster label.
Einlass: 19:00, Beginn: 20:00, Ende: 22:00
Sonntag, 16. Juni 2024
Rəhman Məmmədli & Band
Master of Azerbaijani Gitara Music
Rəhman Məmmədli’s blazing, psychedelic guitar music sprang from one of the most tumultuous and transformative periods in Azerbaijan’s history, capturing both the spirit and the contradictions of its time. In the years since, he has become the emblem of Azerbaijan’s gitara music – a unique subculture that developed around the electric guitar. Next to the late Rüstəm Quliyev, whose „Azerbaijani Gitara“ (Bongo Joe Records, 2020) introduced the West to this unique genre, which often sounds like Surf Music to untrained ears, Rəhman is the absolute don of this style – often going live on social media for hours on end, shredding.
Einlass: 19:30, Beginn: 20:00, Ende: 22:00
Donnerstag, 13. Juni 2024
LES FLÂNEUSES: JOURNEY (Alexandra Cárdenas, Caroline Siegers)
Doors: 19.00
LES FLÂNEUSES: JOURNEY
Flânerie was long considered a male activity (while street women were either beggars or prostitutes), but a lot of female art and thought is inspired by the experience of a walk in the city. Nevertheless, flâneuses seem to have an element of transgression: they go where they‘re not supposed to. Alexandra Cárdenas and Caroline Siegers take us on their very own musical journey, weaving their street adventures into their performance. Alexandra Cárdenas is producing her own independent code on stage, Caroline Siegers performs with her custom built MIDI controllers, both very inclined to leave the paved roads at any time. 3 Sets à 20 minutes.
Alexandra Cárdenas (live coding, visuals)
Caroline Siegers (cranks and pendulums, visuals)
Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2024
Mohammad Reza Mortazavi (Polyphonic Percussion), Julius Gabriel (Saxophone Explorer)
Doors: 19.00
MOHAMMAD REZA MORTAZAVI
(POLYPHONIC SOLO PERCUSSION)
The diverse sound of tonbak and daf has always fascinated Mortazavi. It connects him with an understanding of music and movement that is as multifaceted as it is constantly evolving. His musical ideas transcend traditional techniques and ways of playing both instruments. Mortazavi describes finding a balance between concentration and letting go as the core element of his musical work: a constantly changing movement in which the boundaries of body and mind dissolve into one another. Mortazavi directs his focus exclusively on music, detached from the instrument and national-cultural narratives, in pursuit of the idea of a universal music in which something human connects in a profound way.
JULIUS GABRIEL
(TWIN & PERCUSSION SAXOPHONE)
Julius Gabriel is a saxophonist whose work explores the boundaries and intricacies of his instrument. He delves into the dynamic interplay between corporeality, acoustics, transcendence, and hypnosis. His musical foundation is deeply rooted in improvisation, drawing inspiration from an eclectic spectrum of genres. A virtuoso, in an existentialist sense, presenting his brand new record „Tales from the Subterranean“.
Dienstag, 11. Juni 2024
A.way-A.gain (EarthCrowdJazz)
Dirk Engelhardt (tenor saxophone)
Klaus Axenkopf (bass)
Esteban Ruiz (drums)
Montag, 10. Juni 2024
Aki Takase & Alexander von Schlippenbach (piano 4 hands) (Jazz)
Doors: 19.00
„They are having a conversation within the medium of sound. But they complement one another in a way that makes any stylistic differentiation irrelevant. With all the transparency in the course of their playing the dialogical principle opens out into an holistic piano language. What counts is freedom and the responsibility to create something new, driven by the awareness of continuous change.“
„One of Europe’s premier free jazz bandleaders, pianist Alexander von Schlippenbach’s music mixes free and contemporary classical elements, with his slashing solos often the link between the two in his compositions.“
Sonntag, 9. Juni 2024
Larry Porter (solo piano) (Jazz)
Doors: 19.00
Larry Porter is considered one of the most respected Jazz pianists currently playing in Germany. His professional career spans five decades. His personal understanding of the art and language of Jazz has taken him to all corners of the world. Along the way, he has collaborated with some of the greatest American Jazz legends including: Chet Baker, Mel Lewis, Archie Shepp, Thad Jones, Art Farmer, etc. He is known for remarkable imaginative improvisations in his performance of standards and original material.
As a solo pianist, Larry presents a wide range of music, from songs of the 1920s to Jazz pieces by Thelonious Monk and Duke Ellington to his most recent original compositions.
Samstag, 8. Juni 2024
Limpe Fuchs (Piano Solo)
Limpe Fuchs is a legend in the experimental music scene. In the late sixties, this percussionist drummed on self-made instruments, together with her then husband Paul Fuchs, in the Ensemble Anima. During that time, Limpe and Paul Fuchs cooperated with the classic pianist star Friedrich Gulda, as well as with jazz luminaries like Albert Mangelsdorff, and continually attracted the interest of their audiences in new constellations. Limpe Fuchs‘ solo performance with „variable wood and stone rows, ringing bronze in the pendulum strings, and a variety of skin and bronze drums“ is a rare occasion to witness one of the early avant-gardists of the scene from the old Federal Republic Of Germany. She attempts, while playing live, to develop her musical ideas from the „resonance of the location where the performance takes place“ – „to make music in the flow of time, with simplicity and emotion“! Her main concern is to sensitize the process of hearing: „Every tone is a sensation. Listening instead of shutting one’s ears. Establishing silence.“
Einlass: 19:30, Beginn: 20:30, Ende: 22:00
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Musicboard Berlin GmbH
Samstag, 1. Juni 2024
CZentrifuga Kunstmarkt (Art Market)
Start: 14.00
The CZentrifuga collective invites friends of handicrafts, amateurs and professionals, to the art market at the Jugendwiderstandsmuseum in the Galiläakirche. Screen prints, graphics, wood prints, homemade clothes, cassettes, vinyl records, crochet work, etc.
Musical accompaniment program through the day by musicians and DJs from the CZentrifuga collective. Ignatz Bee, Schmacke, Andres del Tiempo and many more.
Freitag, 31. Mai 2024
Erlend Apneseth Trio
(Contemporary Norwegian Wood)
Erlend Apneseth (Hardanger fiddle, mora harp)
Stephan Meidell (guitar, electronics)
Øyvind Hegg-Lunde (drums, percussion)
A new Northern star that shines from Norway!
Erlend Apneseth Trio’s first album, „Det Andre Rommet“, earned glowing praise in Norway and abroad, and received both a Norwegian Folk Music Award in the open category and a nomination for Spellemannsprisen (the Norwegian Grammy). The BBC Music Magazine gave it the highest possible rating, and wrote: „The diversity of moods, styles, settings – and the track sequence – make for an enthralling listen.“ MOJO praised the trio’s „close, intuitive compositions groaning, roiling and clattering with a raw exploratory life, creating a wild new strain of Norwegian folk tunes that move, appropriately, from sun-dappled utopianism to the bleakest noir netherworld.“ The trio returned a year later with a masterly, poetic and surprising album, „Åra“, where the musicians sound more cohesive than ever. The album was once again nominated for Spellemannsprisen in the open category, and got overwhelming reviews both in Norway and internationally.
Doors: 19:30
Donnerstag, 30. Mai 2024
F.S. Blumm Trio
Marla Hansen & Band
Am Start präsentiert: Double Record Release Show
F.S. Blumm Trio:
F.S. Blumm (guitar)
Anne Müller (cello)
Michael Thieke (clarinet)
Guitar alchemist and radioplay writer F.S. Blumm in a trio with cellist Anne Müller (Nils Frahm, Victoria Soundtrack) and Echtzeit clarinetist Michael Thieke.
Marla Hansen & Band:
Marla Hansen (viola, violin, guitar, voice)
Isabelle Klemt (cello)
Mark Pringle (bass)
Andi Haberl (drums, electronics)
Marla Hansen made a name for herself as violinist for Ravi Coltrane, Sufjan Stevens, The National, My Brightest Diamond. Now she presents her new album with band and The Notwist drummer Andi Haberl.
Einlass: 19:00, Beginn: 20:00, Ende: 22:00
Samstag, 25. Mai 2024
Drone Day: Zinc & Copper, Erik Skodvin aka Svarte Greiner, DJ Eleni Poulou
Zinc & Copper is an internationally recognised low brass ensemble founded in 2005 by Robin Hayward, working together with Elena Kakaliagou and Hilary Jeffery since 2014. Through an intensive exploration of microtonal and natural tunings, they have developed a unique ensemble sound characterized by the warmth of low brass instruments and a wide range of extended playing techniques.
Svarte Greiner is a dark ambient project by Erik K Skodvin (full name, Erik Knive Skodvin), half of the Norwegian duo Deaf Center, formed in 2005 in Oslo, Norway. Currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Svarte Greiner is a founder of Miasmah Recordings.
Eleni Poulou has recorded and toured worldwide with many groups including The Fall and Shizuo. She formed Organza Ray with Hilary Jeffery in 2022, her most recent solo album is “Karta” which merges Greek Pontic music with other sounds and beats.
Einlass: 19.00, Beginn: 20.00, Ende: 22.00
Freitag, 24. Mai 2024
Happy 100th Birthday Tribute to Marshall Allen on Earth (Jazz)
Reverend Hunter S. Chicken (titan tenor sax)
Pharoannes Rhea Schleiermacher (baritone saxophone, moon synthesizer)
Yorgos Iapetus Hochapfel (sun organ)
Isis Dione Rößler (horsehead nebula bass)
Yan Tethys Leipnitz (starr drums)
ngoma lugundu (baobabs, aegaeon vulcan dance)
& some very special extraterrestrians
Marshall Allen is best known for his work with Sun Ra, having recorded and performed mostly in this context since the late 1950s, and having led The Sun Ra Arkestra since 1995, after Sun Ra’s death in 1993 and John Gilmore’s death two years later. Critic Jason Ankeny describes Marshall as „one of the most distinctive and original saxophonists of the postwar era.“
Let’s celebrate the birthday of the oldest practicing alto saxophonist and big band leader between the Sun and Jupiter.
Space is the Place!
Einlass: 19:30, Beginn: 20:00
Freitag, 17. Mai 2024
Embryo (KrautWorldJazzCaravan)
Happy Birthday X-tian in Space!
Marja Burchard (keys, vibraphone, santur, trombone, percussion)
Wolfi Schlick (saxophone, flute)
Michael Wehmeyer (organ, duff)
Maasl Meier (bass)
Jakob Thun (drums)
& guests & family & you
Vagabond caravan of infinity. 55 years on the road on the rings of Saturn. A jubilee in our caravanserai.
Einlass: 19:00, Beginn: 20:00
Dienstag, 14. Mai 2024
Anna Kaluza – Henrik Walsdorff Quartett (Jazz)
Anna Kaluza (alto saxophone)
Henrik Walsdorff (tenor saxophone)
Jan Roder (bass)
Christian Marien (drums)
The ensemble draws its energy from the immediate, the music is composed in the moment, is created with the audience and the space and is based on quick reaction and communication.
Einlass: 19:30
Sonntag, 12. Mai 2024
Blueblut / Puna (Jazz not Jazz)
Blueblut
Pamelia Stickney (theremin)
Chris Janka (guitar)
Mark Holub (drums)
Emerging from Vienna’s underground scene, Blueblut has the intensity of rock, the openness of electronics and the razor-sharp precision and wild improvisation of jazz. „… the most effective wake-up call you can ever experience.“
Puna
Olaf Rupp (guitar)
Meinrad Kneer (bass)
Rudi Fischerlehner (drums, percussion)
Rudi Fischerlehner unleashes a firework of cymbal sounds, tonewoods, rim shots and shaken rattles on Rupp’s sombre sonority, that ricochets like a hail of bullets through the depths of a huge stalactite cave.
Einlass: 19:00, Beginn: 20:00
Samstag, 11. Mai 2024
Die Lebensbeichte des Francois Villon
Theater
Alfons Kujat in seiner Glanzrolle als Gauner, Dichter, Hurensohn.
„Kehr ich zurück …?“ – Nach harter Haft, nach mehr als 500 Jahren, nach Umsturz, Verbannung und Pestilenz, kehrt er, in unseren Schoß, zurück. Ein Abend voller Weisheit, Turbulenzen und Verzückung. Ein Loblied auf das Leben, die Lust, den Zweifel und all deren Vergänglichkeit. Himmelhoch jauchzend, zu Tode betrübt. Worte wie die Faust auf’s Auge. Wen es nicht packt, den packt er. Wer ihn gesehen hat, der hat ihn getrunken.
Reservierung: 030 212 389 01
Einlass: 18:45, Beginn: 19:30
Donnerstag, 9. Mai 2024
Rondo Projects, Edition Berlin No. 2
Piano, Voice: Mazyar Younesi
Percussion: Roshanak Rafani
Viola: Niki Yaghmaee
Clarinet, Bass Clarinet: Ruben Staub
Sonntag, 5. Mai 2024
Zea (The Ex – guitar) & Xavier Charles (clarinet)
Since 2008 Zea has been the solo project of Arnold de Boer. He’s also a singer and guitarist in legendary Dutch band The Ex. Before 2008 Zea was a duo and earlier a five piece band, but the songs were always written, arranged, recorded and produced by De Boer. His label, Makkum Records was formed in 2009 with intention to release his own projects, but since 2012 the label has offered many other eccentric releases.
Xavier Charles is an amazing clarinet player from France working mostly in the international improvised music scene. The combination with the open minimal guitar play of Zea (Arnold de Boer) works like a treat.
Einlass: 19:00, Beginn: 20:00, Ende: 22:00
Samstag, 4. Mai 2024
Die Lebensbeichte des Francois Villon
Theater
Alfons Kujat in seiner Glanzrolle als Gauner, Dichter, Hurensohn. Wer ihn gesehen hat, der hat ihn getrunken.
„Kehr ich zurück …?“ – Nach harter Haft, nach mehr als 500 Jahren, nach Umsturz, Verbannung und Pestilenz, kehrt er, in unseren Schoß, zurück. Ein Abend voller Weisheit, Turbulenzen und Verzückung. Ein Loblied auf das Leben, die Lust, den Zweifel und all deren Vergänglichkeit. Himmelhoch jauchzend, zu Tode betrübt. Worte wie die Faust auf’s Auge. Wen es nicht packt, den packt er.
Reservierung: 030 212 389 01
Einlass: 18:45, Beginn: 19:30
Samstag, 27. April 2024
Die Lebensbeichte des Francois Villon (Theater)
„Kehr ich zurück …?“ – Nach harter Haft, nach mehr als 500 Jahren, nach Umsturz, Verbannung und Pestilenz, kehrt er, in unseren Schoß, zurück. Ein Abend voller Weisheit, Turbulenzen und Verzückung. Ein Loblied auf das Leben, die Lust, den Zweifel und all deren Vergänglichkeit. Himmelhoch jauchzend, zu Tode betrübt. Worte wie die Faust auf’s Auge. Wen es nicht packt, den packt er. Alfons Kujat in seiner Glanzrolle als Gauner, Dichter, Hurensohn. Wer ihn gesehen hat, der hat ihn getrunken.
Reservierung: 030 212 389 01
Einlass: 18:45, Beginn: 19:30
Freitag, 26. April 2024
re:sustain – Sound, Music, Sustainability: drusnoise / Xayide / Samaquias Lorta / Germaine Png
An evening of live electronic performances.
Einlass: 19:00, Beginn: 20:00, Ende bis: 22:00
Donnerstag, 18. April 2024
Saba Lou & Band / Oska Wald & Lazy Horse
Double Record Release Show!
At the age of 17, King Khan’s daughter Saba Lou released her Space-Pop debut, Planet Enigma. Now her latest album Novum Ovum clearly shows the influences of Gospel, Doo Wop, Country, Punk and Funk.
For the record release of his new album, Oska Wald (Chuckamuck / Die Verlierer) plays old-fashioned lo-fi neo-folk craftsmanship with his band Lazy Horse.
Presented by Bretford Records
Einlass: 19:00, Beginn: 20:00, Ende bis: 22:00
Dienstag, 16. April 2024
Borgmann / Cajado / Kellers (Jazz)
Thomas Borgmann (tenor saxophone, flute)
Vinicius Cajado (bass)
Willi Kellers (drums)
The bird image, and the fluttering, soaring of the idiom of Jazz itself, meet here, on the shimmering glacier of Borgmann’s music. No doubt, Thomas ‚Big House‘ Borgmann is one of the leading natives who inhabits the wonderland of his saxophone.
Einlass: 19:30
Sa, 13. April 2024
Die Lebensbeichte des Francois Villon
Mit Alfons Kujat (Theater)
„Kehr ich zurück …?“ – Nach harter Haft, nach mehr als 500 Jahren, nach Umsturz, Verbannung und Pestilenz, kehrt er, in unseren Schoß, zurück. Ein Abend voller Weisheit, Turbulenzen und Verzückung. Ein Loblied auf das Leben, die Lust, den Zweifel und all deren Vergänglichkeit. Himmelhoch jauchzend, zu Tode betrübt. Worte wie die Faust auf’s Auge. Wen es nicht packt, den packt er. Alfons Kujat in seiner Glanzrolle als Gauner, Dichter, Hurensohn. Wer ihn gesehen hat, der hat ihn getrunken.
Reservierungen unter: +49 (0) 30 2123 8901
Einlass: 18:45, Beginn: 19:30
Freitag, 12. April 2024
Agua Dulce: Ale Hop & Laura Robles
Wire Magazine’s 2023 Top Ten Record
Ale Hop (guitar, electronics)
Laura Robles (cajón)
The two Peruvian musicians take the pulses of dances like Landó, Zamacueca, Festejo, Alcatraz, Lamento and Son de los diablos, electrifying and mutating them into pure textures, or reinforcing the physical character of the cajón through repetition and distortion.
Supported by Musicboard Berlin
Eintritt frei
Einlass: 19:00
Sa, 6. April 2024
Die Lebensbeichte des Francois Villon
Mit Alfons Kujat (Theater)
„Kehr ich zurück …?“ – Nach harter Haft, nach mehr als 500 Jahren, nach Umsturz, Verbannung und Pestilenz, kehrt er, in unseren Schoß, zurück. Ein Abend voller Weisheit, Turbulenzen und Verzückung. Ein Loblied auf das Leben, die Lust, den Zweifel und all deren Vergänglichkeit. Himmelhoch jauchzend, zu Tode betrübt. Worte wie die Faust auf’s Auge. Wen es nicht packt, den packt er. Alfons Kujat in seiner Glanzrolle als Gauner, Dichter, Hurensohn. Wer ihn gesehen hat, der hat ihn getrunken.
Reservierungen unter: +49 (0) 30 2123 8901
Einlass: 18:45, Beginn: 19:30
Donnerstag, 4. April 2024
Rita Braga
Sir Percy
Am Start präsentiert: Double Record Release Show:
Rita Braga (ukulele, banjolele, synthesizer, organ, vocals)
Singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rita Braga plays vocals, organ, synths, drum machine, ukulele, banjolele and is influenced by early 20th century variety, electronic music pioneers, post-punk, cabaret and more
Sir Percy
Erik Haegert (organ, vocals)
Jan Rohrbach (bass, vocals)
Ghost Crooner Duo presents their debut «No Name God» on OBJETROUVÉ.
Einlass: 19:00, Beginn: 20:00
Do, 28. März 2024
Nasim-e Shargh: Concert in Chahargah (Classical Persian Music)
Hossein Taghinejad (santur)
James Wylie (kamancheh, gheychak)
Roshanak Rafani (tombak)
Bastian Duncker (ney)
Santur, kamancheh, gheychak, tombak and ney are instruments which can be traced back to Persian antiquity and because of this, transport the listener with their unique sonic qualities as well as their stark yet intricate performance practices. Dastgah-e Chahargah, one of the less commonly performed of the twelve modal systems in classical Persian music today, invokes vitality, courage and spiritual optimism – qualities that we desperately need in today’s world!
Einlass: 19:00, Beginn: 20:00, Ende bis: 22:00
Photo credit: Adrien Olichon
Die, 26. März 2024
Tuba Something
Jose Davila (Tuba)
Orlando Boeykens (Tuba)
Jose Davila wuchs an der amerikanischen Ostküste auf und studierte Musik an der University of Connecticut und am Mannes College of Music. Danach arbeitete er in der New Yorker Musikszene im Bereich des traditionellen und modernen Jazz, des Salsa und der klassischen Musik. Er war Mitglied von Henry Threadgills Formation Zooid (Up Popped the Two Lips, 2001); außerdem arbeitete er mit Liberty Ellman und Steve Lehman. Er wirkte auch bei dem für den Grammy nominierten Salsa-Aufnahmen des Spanish Harlem Orchestra (Un Gran Dia en el Barrio) und der Soneros del Barrio (Remembranzas und Siguendo la Tradicion) mit. 1985 gastierte er mit der Band Orange Then Blue auf dem Jazzfest Berlin. Davila spielte im Laufe seiner Karriere auch in den Bands von Ray Charles, Andrew Hill, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Marc Anthony, Eddie Palmieri, Ray Anderson, Butch Morris, Ted Nash, ferner im Lincoln Center Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra, dem American Symphony und dem New York City Opera Orchestra. Im Bereich des Jazz war er zwischen 1995 und 2010 an 12 Aufnahmesessions beteiligt, außer den Genannten bei Norah Jones (Not too Late, 2006), Erika Stucky und Anthony Braxton (Composition No. 19 For 100 Tubas).
Einlass: 19:00, Beginn: 20:00, Ende bis: 22:00
Photo credit: Pawel Czerwinski
Sa, 22. März 2024
Mit dem Bauch hören (Ausstellung)
Soundworks presentation by young artists from Poland, Ukraine and Belarus, students of the Interdisciplinary Studio of the Academy of Art in Szczecin. Sound installations, oniric political manifestos, sonic costumes. The event will be accompanied by improvised/noise concert of Mikołaj Tomczak, Aliaksandr Vialitchanka and Łukasz Jastrubczak. Curated by Zorka Wollny & Łukasz Jastrubczak.
Einlass: 18:00, Beginn: 20:00, Ende bis: 22:00
Sa, 16. März 2024
25 Jahre Am Start
Lake Felix
El Khat (Solo/Glitterbeat)
DJ Tellavision
Kaufhallenchor
Mit freundlicher Unterstützung von Musicboard Berlin
Eintritt frei!
Einlass: 19:00, Beginn: 20:00, Ende bis: 22:00
Photo credit: Jr Korpa