Großer Abschluss im großen Haus der Volksbühne mit der Neuköllner DIY-Diva Molly Nilsson und den schottischen Mercury-Prize-Gewinnern Young Fathers.
Sonntag, 14. Juni, 20Uhr
Tickets via Volksbühne.
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The grand finale at the big theatre of Volksbühne with Neukölln’s DIY-diva Molly Nilsson and Scottish Mercury Prize winners Young Fathers.
Sunday, June 14th, 8pm
Tickets via Volksbühne.
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On June 11 Torstraßen Festival POP Montreal and Shameless/Limitless are proud to present the German premiere of A City is an Island, a documentary about music and Montreal featuring Mac DeMarco, Sean Nicholas Savage, Tim Hecker, Colin Stetson, Spencer Krug and many more…
Following the screening there will be a panel discussion including director Timothy George Kelly, featured musician Sean Nicholas Savage, and artist Jason Harvey.
About the film: In a Montreal where linguistic identity is a permanent, fundamental issue, a community of talented English-speaking musicians has put down roots, attracted by the city’s cheap rents. This scene has grown into a cultural world unto itself. Warehouses abandoned in the 1990s now buzz with these autonomous but busy new arrivals, who contribute to Quebec’s cultural life even though they remain perpetually on its fringes.
Timothy George Kelly’s film is an uncompromising exploration of an independent music scene unintegrated with the culture surrounding it. Made with the same DIY ethos that its subjects apply to their music, A City is an Island traces the struggle for expression and the place of the artist amid the contradictions of contemporary society.
Thursday, June 11, 8pm
Kino Babylon
Rosa-Luxemburg-Straße 30
10178 Berlin
Tickets available via Kino Babylon.
In cooperation with:
Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids: Music is the Healing Force of the Universe Community Workshop brought to you by Torstraßen Festival, Planet Rock, Music Pool Berlin, BIMM Berlin & Cultural Odyssey
This workshop gives you the chance to learn from some of the last true masters from the heydays of “cosmic” jazz: Led by the restless Idris Ackamoor a bunch of pupils of free jazz legend Cecil Taylor at Ohio’s Antioch College used a student grant to escape the US to travel to europe and then all over Africa as early as 1972, playing and recording with local musicians wherever possible. Back in the US, The Pyramids incorporated their African experience into a music which is as unique as visionary, releasing three albums in private press before disbanding in 1977. Almost thirty years later the musicians regrouped, encouraged by the fact that new audiences and a new generation of especially electronic music producers had enthusiastically embraced their “old” music – The Pyramids have been cited as a major influence and sampled by luminaries like Flying Lotus, Caribou, Gilles Peterson and Bonobo.
About the workshop:
Since the earliest times music has been used to create community, heal, worship, create ceremony and as a vehicle to pass on the knowledge and history of the tribe/community. In those early times the line between performer and audience did not usually exist. The audience WAS the performer and the performer WAS the audience. Enter the 21st Century. There are now concert halls, clubs and art spaces that separate the performer from the audience with members sometimes sitting hundreds of feet from the stage! The atmosphere can be impersonal and non-inclusive. “Music is the Healing Force of the Universe Community Workshop” encourages new creative ways of engaging the public by blurring the distinctions between audience, musician and non-musician, professional performer and nonprofessional, and exploring new and unusual space for performances. The target audience for the workshop will be professional and nonprofessional members from the general community, as well as, “closet” musicians and singers. All musical levels are encouraged to attend with compositional structures and improvisation tailored to fit the individual needs of the workshop participants. The foundation of the workshop will be based on the compositions of instructor, Idris Ackamoor, as well as members of The Pyramids. The two day workshop at NK on May 22 and 23 will culminate in a mutual performance of Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids and the workshop participants on June 13 at this year’s Torstraßen Festival.
Dates:
22.05. 18.00 – 22.00
23.05. 11.00 – 18.00 (including lunch break)
23.05. 20.00 Q & A with Idris Ackamoor & The Pyramids (public, free admission)
Address:
NK Project
Elsenstraße 52
2. Hinterhaus Etage 2
12059 Berlin
Workshop fee:
40 €
Register here:
info@planetrock-booking.de
(please mention your instrument, if applicable)
Am 20. Mai geht es weiter mit unserer kleinen Serie von Warm-Up Veranstaltungen in Kooperation mit Shameless/Limitless im Acud Club. Wir freuen uns auf das Berlin-Debut der New Yorker Ausnahmekünstlerin Gabi, die ihr neues von Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) und Paul Corley (Oneohtrix Point Never, Tim Hecker, Ben Frost) produziertes Album Koo Koo präsentieren wird. Genauso gespannt sind wir allerdings auf die in Berlin beheimatete Künstlerin Johanne Swanson alias Yohuna die den Abend beginnen wird.
On May 20 we’re inviting you to Acud Club to join the second warm-up concert, presented in cooperation with Shameless/Limitless. This time we’re looking forward to the Berlin debut of the very exceptional artist Gabi from New York, who will present her new Album Koo Koo, produced by Daniel Lopatin (Oneohtrix Point Never) and Paul Corley (Oneohtrix Point Never, Tim Hecker, Ben Frost) and released via Software Recordings. Gabi’s performance will follow the appearance of a Berlin-based artist we’re equally excited about: Johanne Swansons aka Yohuna.
20. Mai / 21.00 Uhr
Acud Club
Veteranenstraße 21
Gabi + Yohuna
Tickets via Koka36
Facebook-Event
In Kooperation mit Shameless/Limitless starten wir eine kleine Serie von Warm-Up Veranstaltungen. Den Anfang macht Komponist, Songwriter, Produzent und Multinstrustrumentalist Shub Roy aka Night Musik, bekannt aus Kollaborationen mit Dirty Beaches, jetzt mit beeindruckendem neuem Material auf Mind Records. Dazu und auch toll: Deaths aus Berlin.
In cooperation with Shameless/Limitless we’re starting a little series of warm-up event. First one up is composer, songwriter, producer and multi-instrumentalist Shub Roy aka Night Musik, known from his collaborations with Dirty Beaches, now appearing with impressive new material on Mind Records. Also on the bill, and also great: Deaths from Berlin.
21. April / 21.00 Uhr
Acud Club
Veteranenstraße 21
Night Musik + Deaths
Facebook-Event
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