Veranstaltungen

Donnerstag 30.05. 19:00 Uhr Musik
little league shows
puschen & little league shows prsnt: zzzahara (indie-rock noise-pop, us) + tba.
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doors 19h - show 20h

puschen & little league shows prsnt:

zzzahara / indie-rock noise-pop, us
zzzahara.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/zzzahara.wav

+ tba.

at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. pre-sale tickets available --> vvk.link/31qjrw0 

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For most of their life, Zzzahara has been looking backward. Raised in LA’s Highland Park neighborhood, their debut album, Liminal Spaces, confronted the changes the community has endured since Zzzahara’s childhood. That sense of loss, coupled with the persistent memories of a painful coming-of-age, led to many late night parties and an avoidant relationship with self-reflection. Liminal Spaces chronicled that ache, but these days, Zzzahara isn’t looking backward much – they’re not even looking forward. They’re just trying to be here, in the moment, as present as possible: “I realized I needed a bigger lens through which to see the world, I didn’t want to be bitter anymore.”

 


Zzzahara’s sophomore album, Tender, will be released TK via Lex Records, and it documents a period of transition following a devastating breakup. Instead of crumbling, Zzzahara began to look inward by meditating and practicing mindfulness. “I realized that drinking like, 30-40 drinks a week wasn’t making me happy, and that some of the people I hung around with weren’t real friends,” they say. “I still party, but I limit myself. When I spend time with people, I want it to feel intentional.” Touring Liminal Spaces offered Zzzahara an opportunity for further growth. They were on the road constantly following the album’s release, and Zzzahara found themselves fully responsible for the band’s wellbeing. Upon returning to Los Angeles, that sense of responsibility stuck. “If I had to describe what my life is like now, I’d say ‘consistent.’ I’m trying to be consistent with everything I do.”

 


Consistency requires tenderness, a willingness to cradle the soft parts of yourself that often go unnoticed. “After my breakup, I spent a lot of time sitting in the park journaling and crying,” Zzzahara says, laughing. Some of those pages led to the songs on Tender, whose lyrics Zzzahara describes as honest reflections on the present moment. Lead single “Kensington” narrates a walk down the block where Zzzahara’s new love lives. The ebullient, guitar-driven pop song recalls the Cure in both its instrumental aesthetics and ambiguously saccharine lyrics undercut by a scuzzy, devil-may-care delivery. “I get lost in your eyes/ Puppy smile/ Breath of wine/ Kensington/ Out of air/ Nicotine and despair,” Zzzahara drawls on the opening verse. In just two minutes, they capture the ecstatic experience of falling in love, but later, on “IDK How to Luv,” the anxiety of finding newfound love, and keeping it, takes hold. 

 


Zzzahara’s work ethic changed in the making of this album, too. “I’m not one of those musicians who can slack off and then make a perfect record in, like, a week,” they say. “I need to be consistently playing, consistently trying to learn new techniques.” To make Tender, they locked themselves in their studio and subsisted on cold brew for nine to ten hours a day. To most, this sounds nightmarish, but the monastic experience gave Zzzahara a sense of total control over the output. “I think that’s what made the record what it is.” While Liminal Spaces was recorded at Stone’s Throw and Zzzahara had access to a range of instruments to make it, Tender thrives on the intimacy created in a home studio. Though Zzzahara produced the bulk of the record, they brought in friend and fellow producer Jannick Frampton to complete it. “I learned so much making my first record and I wanted this one to prove that,” Zzzahara says. They were also inspired by their fans. “Going on tour and watching what songs people really respond to and want to dance to, that made me want to write fast songs.”

 


The immediacy of these pop songs doesn’t detract from the sincerity of Zzzahara’s lyrics. The dazzling guitar part heard on “Girls on SSRIs Don’t Cry” might hide the song’s pathos momentarily, but the chorus is an open-hearted plea to an ex. “I feel so lost without you,” Zzzahara admits. The album’s opener, “Dust,” was written and recorded during that same period of yearning. It’s a laconic song reminiscent of a mournful 1950s waltz. While Tender can largely be considered a guitar rock album, the instrument is buried in the mix on “Dust,” foregrounding programmed drums and Zzzahara’s raw vocal delivery.

 


As its title purports, Tender is a sincere album, but that doesn’t stop Zzzahara, as they put it, letting their “asshole side loose.” The determinedly bratty “I’d Like You to Leave” was written after a slew of boring dates, the kind that make you want to hide in your house and never meet anyone again. “It’s my favorite on the album,” they say. “It has the narrative perspective of being kinda drunk at a party and just watching people interact with one another. You get this sixth sense about people – you really see them.” 

It’s easy to recognize the faults in others, less so in yourself. On Tender, Zzzahara is unafraid of the world seeing theirs.

Montag 03.06. 19:00 Uhr Musik
M:Soundtrack
M:Soundtrack presents: RAD (FR/USA) poetic drone weird blues-punk + F/LOR (FR/ prohibited records) Ambient electronica
Get your week started right

M:Soundtrack presents: RAD (FR/USA) poetic drone weird blues-punk with support from F/LOR (FR/ prohibited records) Ambient electronica

RAD: project founded in 2022 by singer/writer Brisa Roché and producer/musician Nicolas Laureau.

RAD: haunting duo creating collaborative slap-you-in-the-face landscapes between blues/elvin singing and drone/guitar exhalations.

RAD: quasi-Tantric dialogue between alarmingly raw improv, electronica, story-telling and heart-of-guitar.

RAD: reduction of « radical », a term used for cool/awesome in the California of the 1980s.

RAD: according to Brisa and Nicolas « A punk lullaby, an inner dialogue turned outer, breathing guitar, NY meets CA meets France with transformation transgender, FX, nature/mountains plus urban plus dreamscapes. FIRE and ICE. »

Brisa Roché und Nicolas Laureau debütieren als RAD
Veröffentlicht am 21. November 2023  von  admin
Auf dem französischen Ouvré-Label erscheint gerade das 10″-EP-Debüt des Duos RAD, hinter dem die Autorin und Sängerin Brisa Roché und der Produzent und Musiker Nicolas Laureau (Don Nino/Niño) stecken, die ihr gemeinsames Projekt nach der Abkürzung für “radical” benannten, was im kalifornischen Slang der 80er wohl so viel wie cool oder fantastisch bedeutete. Das nach seinen drei Tracks “Magenta. Cyan. White” betitelte Werk kombiniert blueslastigen Gesang und Spoken Words mit gitarrendominierter Dröhnung, flimmerndem Rauschen und rockigen Strukturen, die mehr als bloße Zitate sind, zu mitreißenden, ohrwurmartigen Soundscapes.

- African Paper 21.11.23

 

Paris based artist F/LOR (Fabrice Laureau) has chosen to record this album in a full free approach during a short session using a minimal 100% analog set-up and two non-synchronized simple electronic instruments, two effects, two channels, no overdubs.

Recently, he's also been developing a work around environmental sounds and photography during a 3 months residency in the north of France for two exhibitions (at Gare Numerique, Jeumont, and at Galerie Idem+Arts, Maubeuge) presenting sound installations and photo work. "Edges" refers to the action of time and natural processes but also to all the points where switches can happen.

 

Freitag 07.06. 19:00 Uhr Musik
LOSE TEMPER
Ausverkauft: F*CKING ANGRY + support
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Record Release Konzert.

Record Release Konzert.

Bonn und seine Umgebung sind leidlich bekannt für Punkrock-Institutionen wie CANALTERROR, HAMMERHEAD oder MOLOTOW SODA – jetzt kommt eine Band, die schon mit ihrem Namen ein Fass aufmacht und diesem Image auch musikalisch perfekt gerecht wird. Sängerin BECKX besticht mit ihrer sehr markant-fordernden Stimme und Texten auf Englisch und Deutsch, die keinen Zweifel an ihrer Ausrichtung lassen. Musikalisch verdichtet sich all das, was man als die perfekte Symbiose aus der lässig-verachtenden Rebellion des Punkrock und der überrollend-hysterischen Wucht des Hardcore bezeichen könnte.

 

https://fuckingangry.bandcamp.com/track/nicht-von-dieser-welt

https://fucking-angry.blogspot.com/

 

Das Konzert ist ausverkauft.

Samstag 08.06. 19:00 Uhr Musik
Punkfilmfest Berlin Booking
Allgemeines Chaos Kommando A.C.K (Punk/ Frankfurt) + Muell (HC-Punk/ Berlin)
Tickets
VVK startet am 6.3.24

Seit Ewigkeiten am Start und immer noch kraftvoll voll geradeaus ohne Kompromisse.

 

Dienstag 11.06. 19:00 Uhr Musik
M:Soundtrack
M:soundtrack: *Transatlantic Impulse Response* w / Mbira
Special evening with Mbira Masters

*Transatlantic Impulse Response* is A unique Zimbabwean + Brazilian/German collaboration featuring the Matepe mbira, roots drumming from the deep traditions from both sides of the ocean, Afro-futurist electronic beats, and a combination of all these. 

Besides being performing musicians, Othnell "Mangoma" Moyo from Harare, and Fabiano "K'boko" Lima from Berlin/Recife are ethnomusicological researchers, multi-instrumentalists, teachers and ambassadors of the rich musical traditions of their native countries.

For this reason they have been invited to participate in the cultural preservation project "Matepe 21st", conducted by symres.org and the German Embassy Harare, which spawned that collaboration.

The matepe is arguably the most sophisticated lamellophone on the African continent, unmatched in sonic complexity and technique - imagine a huge 3-octave kalimba with mysterious basses and tuned overtones. 

Unfortunately there are only very few remaining master musicians of this instrument, and Othnell "Mangoma" Moyo- likely Zimbabwe's most prolific and widely known percussionist - dedicated himself to becoming one of them, and take this unique tradition into the current generation.

Fabiano "K'boko" Lima's mission is to transfer the musical essence of traditional music into contemporary electronic styles without degenerating into "ethno loops" - mere exotistic decoration.

Together with his musical sensitivity and deep understanding of (colonial) history and traditional spirituality, this is an indispensable prerequisite for approaching the musical heritage of the Matepe from the technological side, effectively making “electronic” Berlin a third coordinate in the triangle with Harare and Recife.

*The matepe is a type of mbira (lamellophone) from northeast of Zimbabwe and adjacent areas in Mozambique. Regional variants include the hera and the madhebhe.Created from strikingly simple elements, the otherworldly beautiful matepe music is without doubt among the most complex and sonically rich on the entire African continent - nothing in the world sounds like matepe!

K'boko: a Brazilian artist based in Berlin, is a DJ, producer, percussionist, music therapist, and social worker from Brazil. Specializing in afrodiasporic bass music, his beats seamlessly blend organic Afro-Brazilian roots with digital and electronic influences, drawing inspiration from afrodiasporic sounds from all over the globe.

Mittwoch 26.06. 19:00 Uhr Musik
little league shows
puschen & little league shows prsnt: EXEK (dub-post-punk, aus) + tba.
Tickets
doors 19h - show 20h

puschen & little league shows prsnt:

EXEK / dub-post-punk/lofi, aus
exek.bandcamp.com  / instagram.com/sound_exek 

+ tba.

at Schokoladen. doors 19 uhr, concert starts 20 uhr. pre-sale tickets available --> vvk.link/33axivk
aftershow djs tba.

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EXEK are returning to Europe and the UK in May/June 2024! The Australian post-punk outfit will be promoting their latest record ‘The Map and the Territory’ released October 2023 on Foreign Records. The other reason for the tour is that the band is now ten years old. In that time, EXEK have released six albums, and have toured Japan, the USA, and Europe. Their sound is difficult to pigeon hole due to a wide variety of influences (punk, trip-hop, RnB, dub, kraut, avant-garde), but the general consensus is something in the lineage of The Fall, Happy Mondays, ESG, and PIL. 

For the band, the highlights are not fame and fortune (well aware of their slim odds), but more so finding recognition amongst the artists they admire and are influenced by. Whether it's supporting Liars and Anika, or being added to playlists by late greats like Mark Stewart and Andrew Weatherall. Come find them playing a town near you!

Freitag 12.07. 19:00 Uhr Musik
Punkfilmfest Berlin Booking
GUM BLEED (Punkrock from China) + tba
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Formed in 2006 and hailing from the heart of China's cultural and political center, Beijing, GUM
BLEED have rapidly won over the underground scene, establishing themselves as a pivotal force
supporting China's youth culture.
Merging political awareness and metaphorical lyricism with the high-energy blend of punk,
hardcore, rock, and thrash, GUM BLEED crafts a classic and compelling sound. Their impressive
discography includes three albums, four EPs, and numerous compilations.
For a remarkable 18 years, Gum Bleed has been at the forefront of promoting Chinese punk. Not
only committed to shaping the rebellious sound of China's new generation, Gum Bleed's
dedication has taken them across the globe, captivating audiences with over 1,000 electrifying live
performances while actively working to forge connections between their local scene and the
broader global punk community.
The band's third and latest full-length album, "Punx Save the Human Race," was unleashed in
2021 through collaborations with labels in China, Germany, and Poland. As the world emerges
from the pandemic-induced hiatus, Gum Bleed is gearing up to hit European stages, bringing their
unique sound to audiences eager to experience the essence of rebellion and resilience. Get ready,
Europe – Gum Bleed is coming back again!

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