Friday 4th of August - Tape Wedding Special

The evening at the Fleischerei had one new face; it was the guy on the left, behind the U-Bahn lightbar of Rosenthaler Platz. Stephane Leonard, as his name is, has been playing together with Marcel Türkowsky, and will continue to do so.

For those who missed it. The young men were dressed in similar ice-cream colored T-shirts, and had loads of cassette-players with them. They played a very silent, sometimes delicate set using only the inbuilt loudspeakers to produce sound.

They will play again coming friday. But this time we will be joined by some guests.

First of all, TJ Mas Tapas will provide us with some strange sonicisms and do one or two or three sets of TJ-ing. Then the neighbour might join in as well. His name is Der Tapeman, and I don't see no reason why he should not perform with us.

Soichiro Mitsuya who some of us know as So, will arrive with his walkman. Maybe he will play a solo set, but I hope that he will play one short noise set with me (me is Rinus van Alebeek). Another new tapefriend was allready announced for the Fleischerei: his name is Marco aka Ichnoise. He never made it to the Fleischerei last thursday, because his calendar was one day slow. I hope he has solved the problem, and has changed the Napolitan calendar for a German one.

Well, as you see, we are allready an audience by ourselves. But you are welcome to join and listen or not listen and hang out.

We will be found from nine o'clock onwards at der alte buchbinderei, corner schererstrasse/adolfstrasse in Wedding.

Friday 28th of July

 
This Friday Melissa Moore and Staalplaat Soundsystem will play at Salon Bruit:

Melissa was allready at the Salon Bruit evening two weeks ago. That evening the little bar was rather packed, so some of you might have missed her. But she was there catching sounds, and walking around as if she was one of the regulars. Which she is not, because- regretfully for us - she will fly back to her home in Baltimore, where other fans will welcome her.

Here you can read a review of one of Melissa's performance's by one of them:

A refreshing change from the usual jaded audiences that dot the U.S. landscape for this music. Imagine a test-tube, magnified by silence, stirred by sound of water dripping, subtle space transitions to distanced kalimba, sound source, suddenly pours, oscillates, and becomes a looming flood, sudden rush of power, the mighty water, gushing relentlessly, in a full range of ever changing presence. Inner music inside the the violence of constancy, filtered color changes in controlled distortion. The inventor, Melissa Moore, creator of a laboratory of controlled noise & sound, brings together the image of wind & rain, electricity in miniscule evolutionary process becoming universes of elemental energy. I felt as if I were kayaking over relentless class 5 rapids and enjoying the ride. Wind tunnels of faint voices, power of nature, natural disaster, and in this case, the Creator was a black woman...

Then came the rains... I was lulled into deep relaxation by it all, the sound assault became sedative.

The other act on the evening of the 28th will be Staalplaat Soundsystem. They will bring ten LP.-'s and ten toy cars. Those cars have a double function. One is they act like a needle, to pick up the sounds from the LP.'s, the other one is that they will transmit the sounds, because every toy car is a little radio.

Since the cars run on batteries, and batteries run out when used, the transmitting quality and the speed of the car will slowly change and thus affect the yodelings coming from the mini loudspeakers.

There will also be a little radio in the front bar.

The entrance is free of course, well almost, 50 cents extra on your first drink, and then 1,50 for the rest of the evening.

bye for now,