Posts Tagged ‘Musik’
(English) Sing Blackbird
Tam Eastley profiles vegan-vintage concept store and cafe, Sing Blackbird... It's no secret that finding a job in Berlin isn't easy. With the highest unemployment rate in all Germany (XX%), Germans and ex-pats alike need to be increasingly creative when it comes to finding a job, or find themselves forced to leave and look elsewhere. While this can be a struggle and a stress, it also accounts for the abundance of small, creative businesses here in the city. Two years ago, Diana Durdic [...]
(English) Dustin O’Halloran, Pianist & Composer
Wyndham Wallace shoots the breeze with Berlin-based pianist and composer Dustin O'Halloran... If you’ve seen Sofia Coppola’s Marie Antoinette, you may already be familiar with Berlin-based Dustin O’Halloran’s exquisite solo piano music: the American contributed a number of pieces to the film’s soundtrack, including the haunting ‘Opus 23’. A member of the band Devics, who were signed to Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde’s Bella Union Records label, he has released two albums of [...]
(English) Fête de la Musique
Paul Sullivan chats to the local organisers of the famous Fête de la Musique event... On June 21st, Berliners will once again celebrate the longest day of the year and the official beginning of summer with a city-wide music festival, the Fete de la Musique. With performances on over 80 open-air stages, the street festival offers everything from reggae and jazz, to hip hop, electronic music and klezmer. Some of the city's larger venues, like the Haus der Kulturen der Welt and the [...]
To Rococo Rot
To Rococo Rot haben sich mit ihrem einzigartigen Markenzeichen – locker daherkommende Electronic Beats - in den letzten 15 Jahren weit nach oben gearbeitet. Während der Vorbereitungen zur Veröffentlichung ihres neuen Albums – das erste seit sechs Jahren – hatte STB die Gelegenheit mit den in Berlin wohnhaften Brüdern Robert und Ronald Lippok zu plaudern: über das Aufwachsen am Zionskirchplatz, dem permanenten Versuch der Stasi aus dem Weg zu gehen und die goldenen 90er... „Da [...]
Q&A: Nils Frahm, Composer & Musician
A Berlin-based composer with a penchant for piano improvisation Raised on a musical diet of classical and jazz, Nils Frahm started playing the piano as a young student of Nahum Brodski, himself a student of Tchaikovsky’s last protégé. When the budding musician wasn’t hovering over a keyboard, he was sifting through his father’s vast collection of ECM records. Now, aged 27, Frahm has become a masterful improvisational pianist. In December he released his first two [...]
