Kamilya Jubran & Werner Hasler
Kamilya Jubran (singer, oud) and Werner Hasler (trumpet, electronics) have been collaborating since 2002, intent on bringing together disparate cultural and artistic roots. Hasler is an electronic musician and trumpeter working on hybrids of exhibitions/installations and concerts, emphasizing spatialisation and live sampling. Jubran is one of the most revered figures in the experimental and alternative […]
Topu & Salenta
Salenta De Badisdenne and Topu Lyo met in 2018 at a friend’s place in Bed-Stuy in Brooklyn. They decided to play Brooklyn duo Salenta De Badisdenne, pianist, and Topu Lyo, cellist, make blossoming, delicate reflections on music and inner life. There is no right or wrong way to what they do, there is hardly any editing afterwards. Theirs […]
Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle
Founded in Munich in 1980, legendary German band Freiwillige Selbstkontrolle still plays with their original line-up: Justin Hoffmann on keyboards and guitar, Thomas Meinecke on guitars, cornet and drum pads, Michaela Melián on bass and cello, Wilfried Petzi on guitar, mandolin and trombone. Since 1990, drummer Carl Oesterhelt has been the fifth permanent member, replacing […]
Alexander Hawkins & Angelika Niescier
Alexander Hawkins and Angelika Niescier both have their roots in jazz, and both love the avant-garde jazz of Ornette Coleman and Cecil Taylor. They are both technically skilled instrumentalists with sparkling temperaments, enormous drive and a deep interest in experimentation. Hawkins is a composer, pianist, organist, and bandleader. His own unique sound world is shaped […]
Rave At Your Fictional Borders
Rave At Your Fictional Borders emerges out of a wholehearted belief that the collective we are, is one bio-organism with planet earth and the universe, rendering the human-made concept of borders obsolete. With one foot in and one foot out of societal realities, the trio strives to push the boundaries of genre, infusing the rich […]
Church Andrews & Matt Davies
Church Andrews (aka Kirk Barley) and Matt Davies play live electronics and analog percussion, a call and response between Church’s synth sounds and Davies’s drumming. The result is a series of sonic organisms, semi-mechanical ecosystems that click and whirr with subtle, shifting focus. The duo often work with alternate tunings, employing just intonation or observed […]
Ciccio & 2mo
Ciccio & 2mo are Francesco Pastacaldi on drums and Olivier Demeaux on machines. With spangled confections of fizzy and driving percussion, multilingual vocals and pitch-bent electronics, they explore the cracks between classic French psych and industrial, like Vox Populi or Geins’t Naït, and its contemporary descendents, like the Editions Gravats label, with a smart balance […]
Giulio Erasmus & The end of the worm
Giulio Erasmus’s music swirls into unintelligible mutterings, songs, and collapsing collages, all made with the idea of keeping things simple. It is post-punk p-funk, pre-post dub. It is a kind of proto-music that delves into post-punk’s past and confronts it with new ideas of abstraction, space, and effectiveness. Between alienating and concrete, making the hiss […]
Plants Heal
Long-time collaborators Dave De Rose and Dan Nicholls channel their love for ambient and dance music into Plants Heal. Their work delivers an inherent intensity, reaching out for an emotive and natural connection to making sounds, showcasing their impressionistic, gritty and textural musical statements through improvisation. Together with visual artist Lou Zon, they perform improvised […]
The killing Popes
Drummer and composer Oliver Steidle is behind the future jazz band Killing Popes, together with keyboardist Dan Nicholls and guitarist Keisuke Matsuno. The band serves as a testing ground for developing new rhythmic ideas and the possibility of a deep interweaving of musical styles. Rhythmically complex, with catchy melodies and a very defined space for […]