Dense

As some most of you will know, today (April 16th) is record store day, a.k.a. the only day in the year where people like us can bash you on the head about commercialism without feeling bad. In other words, if you don’t want something like this to happen, please support your local beat dealers.

And though we are still recovering from yesterday’s 8th Densehall party, we have two great reasons for you to come and show up at Dense today:

1. Kohvi Radio DJs Estrada and Snafu will spin a fine selection of records at the store, together with lo-fi punktronic hero Pastacas. That’s for free, that’s at Dense today, and it starts at 6M. The sun is shining, the music will be good, and the beers are cold.

2. On top of that, we’re partnering with  our friends of Equinoxe records to offer  exclusively today a limited quantity of the “Das Abstrakt EP” fron Deckard, a very fine record of downbeat abstract hip-hop, originally self-produced in 2004 and available right now at Dense. Quantities are limited: first come, first served.

All right, what you are waiting for? See you at the store later today.

Dense is now selling tickets for a very exclusive event taking place on the 9th of September at Festsaal Kreuzberg.

Our friends over at Shitkatapult is organizing a party there, almost completely reserved to friends and guests of the Popkomm festival. But lo and behold! we have a small amount of tickets also available for everybody.

The line-up, you say?

Live:
T.Raumschmiere
Warren Suicide

DJ:
Sid Le Rock
Daniel Meteo
Phon.o

at
Festsaal Kreuzberg
September 9th, 2010

Note that no tickets will be sold at the door. The only way to get in is to come to Dense and buy a ticket there, for 12 Euro.

with parts of the crew finishing up their diplomas, being scattered around Germany on festivals or maintaining some of the best labels in the world, we are so busy this weekend that we can’t deliver you a full on newsletter this week. But here’s still some thing not to miss

First of all, the club of our hearts, the Zentrale Randlage, celebrates post-mortem its 5th Birthday this Friday. Since we can’t miss this party, our very own DJ Marius Reisser will spin some of his dopest records for you.

Also Littlebig and Tigerbeat6 / Tigerbass teamed up to bring you a sick line-up to celebrate the release of the newest Tigerbass LP: “Shout at the Döner”. Since we can’t miss this, too, we will be attending the party with a small selection of our goods, so if you haven’t had the chance for visiting us in the last weeks, you can stock on vinyl while clubbing.

Finally, Berlin’s Zhark label is celebrating their 13th birthday, and going at it with a dark and raw bang at Raum 18, also on Friday.

Another birthday, but this time not this Friday: the weekly Killekill parties are celebrating their first year at their usual Berghain Kantine location next Wednesday.

Finally, if the weather stays nice for a bit, you might enjoy two early parties at the “Terasse”, a.k.a. the open air “beach” parties right next to Maria am Ostbahnhof, on Saturday and Wednesday.

So yeah, enjoy this parties, grab some tasty food at the Karneval der Kulturen and don’t forget: Dense loves YOU!

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Friday, 29.05.:
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5 JAHRE ZENTRALE RANDLAGE

LIVE
* SOCIETY SUCKERS (Kool.Pop, PeaceOff, Mental Ind., Lux Nigra)
* MAGNUM38 (Shitkatapult)

DJs

* DJ PURE (crónica, Mego, d0c)
* MARIUS REISSER (stillavailable, dense)
* DJ POINGI (Clash of the Titans)

VISUALS
* SANSCULOTTE (Clash of the Titans)

PLATTENSTAND
* MINIMAMEDIA MAILORDER

23 Uhr / 11 pm

Prater (Kastanienallee 7-9)
10435 Berlin – P’Berg

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TIGERBEAT6, TIGERBASS & LITTLEBIG PRESENT:
SHOUT AT THE DÖNER

live:
The Bug + MC Flow Dan (Live – Ninjatune / Rephlex / Klein / Tigerbeat6 / Souljazz / Roll Deep / Hyperdub)

http://www.myspace.com/thebuguk

Kid606 (Live – Tigerbeat6 / Ipecac / Souljazz / Tigerbass / Wichita / Shockout)

DJ Rupture (DJ – Soot / Agriculture / Souljazz / Dutty Artz / Tigerbeat6)

Sick Girls (DJ – Violent Turd / Revolution No5)

Christoph De Babalon (Live – CFET / DHR / Fatcat)

Sly 1 (DJ – Tigerbass / Birthday Party Berlin)

23 Uhr / 11 pm

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

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ZHARK INTL 13TH BIRTHDAY:

live:
Amboss
Hecate
Base Force One
Ratbag
Evil Trust

Raum 18
Ziegrastrasse 11-13
12057 Berlin

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Saturday, 30.05.:
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TERASSE PRE OPENING WEEKEND PART V.

Koalblo
Léonard de Léonard (Leonizer – Ekleroshock)
Elroy (Bisou GTI)

from 4pm
Die Terrasse
An Der Schilling Brücke
10243 Berlin

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Wednesday, 03.06.:
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KILLEKILL 1ST BIRTHDAY PARTY:

ARK (perlon, circus company/paris) – dj
DONK BOYS (frankie, dirtybird, trapez/malmö) – dj
INFINITE LIVEZ (big dada, /ninja tune/ london) – live
DJ FLUSH (killekilll) – dj
FRANK BEAN & THAT FUCKING SARA (killekill) – hip hop/funk/elektro openig set.

+ große TECHNO TOMBOLA mit YANEQ

21h
7€
Berghain Kantine
(we don’t have the exact address, but it’s right left of the main Berghain building)

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IMPROV SERIES AT THE TERASSE:

Jochen Arbeit (Gitarre, Electronics)

Der Nachbar (Bass)
Improv Rythm Section

DJ: Jazz Sound System

from 6pm – show start at 8pm
Die Terrasse
An Der Schilling Brücke
10243 Berlin

After a rather quiet week, a rather exciting one awaits us.

On Saturday you have to choose… Do you want to get destroyed by killer basslines (then you’ll go to Raum18, to see Jamie Vex’d and Onra play) or do you want to get your eardrums wasted by hyphy leadsynths (then you head over to the Dry Guillotine at Maria)? If none of this wakens your interest, visit the Kesselhaus instead and enjoy some Beirut’esque Klezmer-Balkan-Gypsy fusion instead.
You might have already heard it, but Sunn o))) finally return to our quiet little town once again. Even though we heard that the concert is already sold out, we have to mention it. But we also heard that if you just grab yourself a beer and sit down at the Prater Biergarten you’ll have a pretty good chance to listen to the concert anyway… On Monday Jimi Tenor and Kabu Kabu will impress us with some afro-jazz. So if you were looking for an opportunity to wear your Sun-Ra inspired Osiris costume, that might be the chance for it. But he isn’t the only legend in town this week, because on Tuesday Jarboe will enter the stage at Café Zapata (in company of some grim doom metal bands, though). Thursday offers us three small but interesting events. First of all we have the bi-weekly Dubstep Standards party at Edelweiss (this time with our dear friends the Society Suckers and their chiptune-dubstep outfit Karlmarxstadt). Then there will be a concert with Jozef van Wissem, the dutch maestro of electro-acoustic lute. He isn’t as famous as Sir Richard Bishop or James Blackshaw, but  a great and fascinating musician nonetheless. Finally there will be a butoh dance performance at the LUX in Kreuzberg. Goose-bumps guaranteed.
The last recommendation we have for you is a new music site called “The V Sessions”. They want to improve your onlince concert experience and premier on coming Thursday with a live performance by Christian Fennesz. The show will cost 5 € and offer multiple camera angles. We don’t know if their concept will work out, but we wish them the best.

Plenty of new stuff came in last week, so come and visit us!

Yours truly,
Your Dense.

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a) 23.05.: Serious Bass with Sirius @ Raum18
b) 23.05.: The guillotine is sharpened once again @ Maria
c) 23.05.: With accordeons and fanfares  @ Kesselhaus
d) 24.05.: The search for the brown note @ Prater
e) 25.05.: Finnish funkstravaganza @ Lido
f) 26.05.: Unheavenly voices @ Café Zapata
g) 28.05.: Renaissance romanticism @ White Rabbit
h) 28.05.: Post-communistic basslines @ Edelweiss
i) 28.05.:  Dance in the secret garden @ LUX
j) Transmission: Fennesz live at www.thevsessions.com

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Saturday, 23.05.:
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SIRIUS

http://www.myspace.com/siriusraum18

live:
Jamie Vex’d (Planet Mu/Hotflush)
ONRA (BoBun/Favorite/Circulations/AllCity)
Timeblind (Version/Soot/Orthlorng)
special guest appearance by Pursuit Grooves (NY)
Doshy (Robox Neotech/Tigerbeat6)
TWRA a.k.a. Beatnik’74 (DUBWD/TBSC)
DUAL (DUBWD)
TAPPI (DUBWD)
Raspel (DUBWD)
zet. (Robox Neotech)

23 Uhr / 11 pm

Raum 18
Ziegrastr. 11-13
12057 Berlin-Neukölln

http://www.raum18-berlin.com/

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DRY GUILLOITINE!

live:
MIXHELL (New Judas / Boys Noize – SaoPaulo)
THE NEW JUDAS ALL STAR TEAM
STEVE aka ONE MAN PARTY (One Man Party – Gent)
T-RAUMSCHMIERE (Shitkatapult – Berlin)

Und wieder ist sie da! Die Guillotine ist gefährdet wie nie zuvor! Der Drummer von Sepultura, der Drummer von Soulwax, ein paar Judas(se) und der Punk Mastermind vom Scheisse Katapult sind am Start. Es klingt nach Gewalt, Schmutz und brachial modernem Electro Dance Musik. Dieses mal werden unsere Gastmusiker den Aufstand gegen die Guillotine ausrufen! Lass krachen!

23 Uhr / 11 pm

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

http://www.clubmaria.de

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A HAWK AND A HACKSAW

http://www.myspace.com/ahawkandahacksaw

Wer wissen will, wie die Fusion von Balkan-Swing, amerikanischem Folk, Klezmer und türkischer Musik klingt, der wird bei A Hawk And A Hacksaw fündig. Das dritte Album des Duos aus dem US-amerikanischen Albuquerque entstand zum Teil im rumänischen Zece Prajini mit Mitgliedern des weltberühmten Brass-Orchesters FANFARE CIOCARLIA. Das Ergebnis ist ein liebevoller, romantischer Trip durch traditionelle Soundwelten, aufgepeppt durch energetischen Gypsy-Swing. Jeremy Barnes und Heather Trost erhielten auf “The Way The Wind Blows” Unterstützung von Zach Condon von der Gruppe BEIRUT, mit der A Hawk And A Hacksaw in England im Vorprogramm von Calexico aurtraten. “First-class Folk” sagt The Guardian und The Times jubelt: “Leaves you wishing more Rock Bands would show such adventure!” (amazon) Für ihre Tour haben sich A Hawk & A Hacksaw jetzt personell verstärkt und werden als 6- oder 7-köpfige Band zu sehen sein.

21 Uhr / 9 pm

13 €

Maschinenhaus
Knaackstraße 97
10435 Berlin – P’Berg

http://www.kesselhaus-berlin.de

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Sunday, 24.05.:
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SUNN O)))

http://www.ideologic.org/index2.html

STEPHEN O’MALLEY, der Doyen des Drone Doom, stattet gemeinsam mit seinem Kollegen GREG ANDERSON als SUNN O))) dem temporären Ausweichquartier der Volksbühne einen Besuch ab. Da sich das auf niedrigsten Frequenzen angesiedelte Gitarrenbrummen, seit jeher das unkaputtbare Markenzeichen dieser ebenso verehrten wie weithin gefürchteten Band, tief ins Mauerwerk noch jedes Veranstaltungsortes einzufräsen pflegt, bittet die Musikbühne alle Interessenten inständig, die im Spielplan angekündigte Anfangszeit von 20 Uhr unbedingt ernst zu nehmen.

20 Uhr (!) / 8 pm (!)

22 €

Prater (Kastanienallee 7-9)
10435 Berlin – P’Berg

http://www.pratergarten.de/

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Monday, 25.05.:
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JIMI TENOR & KABU KABU

“The set-up is so dazzling, the sound so sweeping, that at first the show just rolls over you, especially ‘Out of Nowhere’. There’s involvement, too, in the shifting interplay of orchestra, sitar, guitars, vocals and the funky interjections of Jimi’s key boards and sax.” -the Observer “The eight musicians, wearing spangled cloaks and floral garlands, are deceptively good: tight where the music demands it, but equally able to turn in a bit of hooligan jazz, with blaring trumpet and trombone solos, to complement Tenor’s more wayward tendencies… Tenor sits behind a Fender Rhodes suitcase piano, his flute propped against a piercingly amplified Moog, which he plays with his forehead during Tsunami… Only a few people attempt to dance to Tsunami’s monster riff, but everyone loves it anyway. Tenor’s best songs, such as Strawberry Place, Miracles and Beyond the Stars, the title track of his latest album, have maddeningly catchy hooks. And he can do a lot with one note, as the stomping encore of his hit Sugardaddy proves.” -the Guardian “Silly clothes can’t disguise huge talent, writes Evening Standard on Sep 16 in it’s review of Jimi’s gig at London’s Jazz Cafe. According to the review, Jimi is a remarkable multi-instrumentalist who can write and orchestrate brilliantly. “The performance was full of movement and visual interest… though he and his eight-piece band were again decked in bizarre outfits, the music drove relentlessly hard. Three Nigerian newcomers, a kit-drummer and two hand-drum percussionists, explained this surge of energy, but Jimi’s Fender-bassist and guitarist didn’t spare themselves either. His two-man brass section of trumpet and trombone riffed with taut accuracy and soloed with exuberant power, but as always Jimi was continuously the centre of attention.” -the Evening Standard

http://www.jimitenor.com

http://www.myspace.com/myjimitenor

17 €

20 Uhr / 8 pm

Lido
Cuvrystraße 7
10997 Berlin – K’Berg
www.lido-berlin.de

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Tuesday, 26.05.:
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JARBOE

http://www.myspace.com/jarboeliving

support:
ESOTERIC

http://www.myspace.com/esotericuk

SECRETS OF THE MOON

http://www.myspace.com/secretsofthemoon

AKRIVAL

http://www.myspace.com/akrival

19 €

21 Uhr / 9 pm

Café Zapata
Oranienburgerstr. 54
10117 Berlin – Mitte

http://www.cafe-zapata.de/

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Thursday, 28.05.:
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Jozef van Wissem (NL)
www.myspace.com/vanwissem

+ Support: Steve Gunn/Heidi Diehl (of Vanishing Voice) (US)

+ “Blue” Derek Jarman (UK/1993)

Van Wissem wurde vor einigen Jahren das erste Mal bemerkt, wegen seines radikal konzeptualistischen Gebrauchs von Lautenmusik der Ranaissace: er dekonstruiert vorhandene Kompositionen, beispielsweise in dem er sie rückwärts abspielt. Ebenfalls hat er eigene Stücke für die Laute komponiert, dabei nutzt er Palindrome und Spiegelstrukturen. Die ungewöhnliche Vereinigung von Komposition und Improvisation, lässt eine nie zuvor gehörte Mischung aus zeitgenössischem Folk und früher Musik entstehen. Van Wissem hat gekonnt das kuriose Kunststück vollführt, eine Brücke zu schlagen zwischen der Eigentümlichkeit der Sprache der Lautenliteratur des 17.Jahrhunderts und der Musik der 21.Jahrhunderts. Obschon er subtile elektronische Soundmanipulationen nutzt, ist er der speziellen Klangfarbe, Resonanz und Spieltechnik der Laute treu geblieben. Seit 1999 erforscht Jozef van Wissem palindromische Kompositionenstechniken der Laute, 2008 führte er im Auftrag der London National Gallery „Sola Fide“ auf, welches eine auditive Beschreibung des Gemäldes „Die Gesandten“ von Hans Holbein, aus dem Jahre 1533 ist. Wissem betreibt sein eigenes Incunabulum Label in Brooklyn, und spielt regelmäßig weltweit als Duo mit Gary Lucas (bei Captain Beefheart), Maurizio Bianchi, James Blackshaw, Chris Forsyth, Tetuzi Akiyama und Elliot Sharp.

http://www ​.hairenter​tainment.c​om/jozefva​nwissemgdk

White Rabbit
Potsdamer Straße 98
10785 Berlin

http://www.white-rabbit-berlin.com/

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DUBSTEP STANDARDS

http://www.dubstepstandards.de/

live:
KARLMARXSTADT (Society Suckers side-project)

http://www.myspace.com/walterschultz

FASSA BEN b2b MR. BOOGIE
+ RESIDENTS

3 €

23 Uhr / 11 pm

Edelweiß
Görlitzerstr. 1-3
10997 Berlin – K’Berg

http://www.edelweiss36.com/

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SECRET GARDEN //0
Butoh Dance by Valeria Geremia

Place and non-place; physical and emotional spaces of dreams and desires, joy and pain, metaphors of lige that thus explore even the darkest sides of the sould. angle of reflection and distortion…

L.U.X.
Schlesische Str. 41
10997 Berlin – K’Berg

http://www.lux-berlin.net/

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Transmission
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Christian Fennesz – Live Solo Show

Fennesz cruises along through many different worlds, and he can’t see how that would be a problem. After starting out, guitar in hand, as a member of a rock band inspired by Sonic Youth, the 90′s see him turning to electronic music and acoustic research. He works alone but keeps his eager mind entertained through fruitful collaborations (Le Groupe de Recherches Musicales, Keith Rowe, Ryuichi Sakamoto…). The 2000′s offer him the chance to show what he’s made of: his studio album Endless Summer quickly attains cult status, the Live in Japan recording is voted one the year’s best albums by The Wire, and the latest offering, Black Sea (2008), looks like it’s on track to perform similarly.

21.00 Uhr (Paris) / 9 pm (Paris)

5 €

Live webcast with Multicam shooting covering different angles: http://www.thevsessions.com/

from now on, you can also find our show recommendations on our homepage.

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

PS: We are even more Web 2.0 now! Add us on facebook and show the world who your true friends are.

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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