‘Late in 2010 the folks at Australian National Academy of Music (ANAM) asked me if I was interested in collaborating with a modern classical composer on a song cycle. The idea sounded so scary I said yes straight away before I could talk myself out of it.’ (Paul Kelly)
Conversations With Ghosts, is a hauntingly beautiful [...]
Iranian indie rockers Langtunes from Teheran who are banned from playing in their home country made it out with the help of the Culture Department and are playing 20 gigs around Europe. On Friday August 2nd they’ll be at Amiga Club in Berlin.
02.08.2013 @ Amiga Club
Costs 5 Euro
Mengerzeile 1-3
12435 Berlin (Alt-Treptow near Görlitzer Park)
I must begin by admitting total ignorance of a festival that last took place when I was two years old. That being said, the impressive six day programme for the first Berlin Atonal since 1990 is rapidly challenging the allure of the nearest lake/swimming pool/cool shower in this gorgeous summer heat.
Boasting a challenging array of [...]
Relevante Musik
Festival of political media art, performance and music
About the festival (information from the website of Freunde Guter Musik e.V.):
In recent years, discussion in the field of contemporary music has been dominated by the question of how to promote it. Dealing with the music itself has seemed secondary to the “goal [of] strengthening the presence [...]
Discovering two announcements in one night can be overwealming.
The National will release a new album in May followed by a North American and European summer tour. Tickets go on sale on this very day.
As for the second announcement, I’ll just leave you with a note picked up at Pitchfork.
NOTE FROM TRENT:
Nine Inch Nails are touring this [...]
Almost forgot to mention this: Geoff Barrow’s insanely banging group Beak> is going to go wild at Berlin’s Bi Nuu club tomorrow night!
ICE Lab from NY is performing for three days in Krome Gallery. This performance will be showing every step of a preparation for a concert, eliminating the long period of selection of a work or rehearsing. An installation by Bo Christian Larsson is said to create a stage that ‘blurs the boundaries between the audience [...]
It might be due to Munich’s Haus der Kunst’s continued practice of curatorial courage, or to ECM’s unique record of sonic and aesthetic single-mindedness, but I can’t think of many, or any, record labels to be honoured with a major retrospective in one of Germany’s best museums for contemporary art without it raising any eyebrows, [...]
The hard sounding peoples, ain’t nothing can’t get between us
Dances received from the splash signals so to swim in
Magical places we get and with the shiny women
Win our idle pink girl, our bodies by wraith division
The moonlight and donnin’ cloud glistenin’ glazed, that we giftin
Every sound, we trying to mash and attention
We bung the latest [...]
Starting to get excited about M83’s show in Berlin the 30th of October… See the rest of the upcoming shows here, if interested.
