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Not much going on this week, but some interesting events nevertheless. Enjoy and visit us someday at the store.

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a) 16.05.: Ngoma gets tribal @ Raum18
b) 20.05.: Die Remise improvises @ Maria Terasse
c) 21.05.: Niki Matita’s Minimotique leaves into the summer @ Madame Claude
d) Exhibition: NO ROOM SPACES @ Galerie Open

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Saturday, 16.06.:
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NGOMA

live:
TIMEBLIND [Soot/Version]
DJ ZHAO [Ngoma]
DEE-VD & CHEMO [Ngoma/Dirty Canvas]
DJ JANECK [La Bolschevita/Wiesbaden]
DJ KUSTO [La Regla]

Ngoma returns at a brand new Berlin venue, Raum 18, on Saturday 16th May with a booty-shaking line up. Headliner Timeblind is a sonic scientist from New York, currently living in Berlin. He has released on DJ /Rupture’s Soot Records, Orthlorng Musork and the mighty Tigerbeat6/Shockout label as well as prime 90s techno labels such as Probe, Missile, Synewave and Communique. Ngoma founder and resident DJ Zhao has been active as dj and sound curator since 2001, Zhao organized critically acclaimed long running sound-art series TONE_; founded and performed regularly at techno club PULSE”; and has opened up for groups such as Pan Sonic. DJ Janeck explores the similarity between Latin American music and the sounds of Eastern Europe, the Colombian cumbia with their clarinets and accordions or Cuban charanga with their violins and flutes to his Jewish Roots. DJ Bongo was born in Cuba, and his trumpet work has seen him sharing the stage with the likes of Lauren Hill ,Zap Mama, Dave Brubeck, los Van Van, Raul Paz, Sargento Garcia, Jimi Tenor, Max Herre, Morgan Heritage, Sly & Robbie, Jean Paul and Buju Banton. Without falling victim to the clichés of globalisation, DJ Bongo describes his style as “Electrolatin freestyle” or in other words: “ a corner where everything is possible”. DJ Bongo is a LaRegla resident as is DJ Kusto whose Afro-latin and tropical beats regularly rock the foundations of this venue in GörlitzerPark. DeeVD has been djing in the UK for 15 years and founded London’s ground-breaking Dirty Canvas night (grime and dubstep) and runs the No Hats No Hood label. He moved to Berlin in 2008 to join forces with Zhao on Ngoma. His DJ partner is sonic scientist Chemo, from Leeds but has been djing and producing in Berlin for three years.

With that kind of line-up you know that Ngoma represents the positive side of globalization. Bass culture and musical heritage fuse; ultra-modern riddims meet the wealth of local flavors; irresistable next-level urban dance music arise on every continent. Tanzania, India, Cuba, Egypt, South Africa, just a few destinations where wild styles are born, crucial new scenes thrive – places out of reach to most – NGOMA ambassadors of boom bring the heat from party hotspots across the known world – the wickedest beats and sweetest flows. Forget post modernism, NGOMA is the crazy sound of NOW.

23 Uhr / 11 pm

Raum 18
Ziegrastr. 11-13
12057 Berlin-Neukölln

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Wednesday, 20.05.:
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DIE REMISE IM SOMMERCAMP: WEDNESDAY IMPROV SERIES

Die Remise is starting a new event called “Die Remise Summer Camp@Maria” on May 20th. This Wednesday Improv Series is an outdoor event with a nice stage close to the river, BBQ, drinks and a terrace to hang out. Incase of bad weather there is a possibility  to move to the so called “third room”@Maria. This event takes place on a weekly base and will continue until the end of September  – when we start the Lazy Sunday again.

We would like to invite you to perform. Are you interested? Please let us know….(dont forget to mention possible dates. Thanks.):

live:
Fritz Welch (Drums & Voice)
&
Ignaz Schick (Turntable, Saxophon)
&
Chris Heenan (Kontrabassklarinette)

Brian Mitchell (Gitarre)
&
Brendan Dougherty (Schlagzeug)
&
Guido Henneböhl (Geräte)

Anat Cohavi (Sopransaxophon, Bassklarinette)
&
Ignaz Schick (Turntable, Saxophon)

Frederic Lyenn Jacque (Gitarre, Irische Bouzuki, Bass)

DJ: Jazz Sound System

chill & grill: 18 Uhr / 6 pm
live music: 21 Uhr / 9 pm

Maria am Ostbahnhof – Terrasse
An der Schillingbrücke/ Stralauer Platz 33-34
10243 Berlin

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Thursday, 21.05.:
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NIKI MATITAS MINIMOTIQUE

Last minimoutique before a long long summer break – perhaps for ever… do not miss this. Also one of the first show of berlin electronic allstar band cushion caroms supported with visuals by u-matic and telematique.

live:
Cushion Caroms – the brandnew band of Takeshi Nishimoto (guitar), 1605munro (electronics) and Miwon (electronics)

Recordentertaining the bar: Niki Matita

21 Uhr / 9 pm
Spenden willkommen / Donations appreciated

Madame Claude
Lübbener Str. 19
10997 Berlin – K’Berg

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Exhibition
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Katherine Newbegin – Behind The Scenes

Behind the Scenes is the result of this question of the history of the places, and its title describes an aspect of the artist’s work. Born in Portland, Oregon, in 1976 Katherine Newbegin majored in photography and English Literature at Hunter College in New York as well as at Yale University. Newbegin was assistant to the German artist Candida Höfer, whose photographs of interiors differ greatly from Newbegin’s. Katherine Newbegin has been travelling throughout Eastern Europe since 2005, and has also traveled in communist Cuba and US states such as Oregon. The American artist depicts the outside world, a world dominated by the past, a world which people use and discard, and which reflects human fallibility in its rooms. A worn-out, lifeless world is presented, whose attributes are isolation, shabbiness, neglect, and emotional emptiness. Newbegin is interested in what is behind the façade. She has to overcome locked doors for her research and often has to sneak into buildings like a thief. Nothing is arranged in her works, nothing is specifically illuminated or staged. Persistently, she circles the object of desire until that one perfect moment has arrived for her to take her photograph. The artist searches for traces. With a large backpack and her camera equipment in tow, the young woman goes on a search for isolated places to track down visual clues which are easily overlooked in this fast paced world. Through her lens she discovers a world long forgotten by today’s consumer. Newbegin chooses locations that have inherited their looks from politics, as it were. Soviet architecture of the 1960s, whose monumental concrete constructions were shaped by the need to prove presence and modernity, is one of the artist’s targets. Melancholy descends on the viewers of Katherine Newbegin’s color photographs. Emotionally empty rooms, hotel rooms, floors, staircases and bathrooms testify to a harshness, a type of reality which is usually hidden or quickly suppressed. In her work, Newbegin investigates these stories and this momentum, thus also analyzing universal conditions for being sheltered or unsheltered. Katherine Newbegin explains her choice as follows: “… set against the western idea of an affluent middle-class family driving to Disneyland, it is this stark contrast which acts as the crux of my fascination with these hotels. One of the most compelling aspects of the vacations offered to the ‘best workers’ of the Soviet regime was the element of control and monitoring which took place during the trips.”

Exhibition running until 2.7., Tuesday to Friday from 2 pm to 7 pm, Saturdays 11 am to 8 pm.

Galerie open
Legiendamm 18-20
10179 Berlin – K’Berg