following the success of their first event at ACUD with Elliot Sharp + ASHES in June 2016 - AUXXX returns this November with two special concerts
1 - SUNDAY 20 NOVEMBER: CUL-DE-SAC + ELSAFFAR - KAKALIAGOU - TAVIL
2 - MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER: LA TOURETTE + CASSERLEY - KERBAJ - SJÖSTRÖM
SUNDAY 20 NOVEMBER @ ACUD BERLIN Mitte
CUL-DE-SAC + ELSAFFAR - KAKALIAGOU - TAVIL
A concert with two sets of energetic improvisation, expanded noise and accelerated electronics. Featuring Iraqi-American trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, Greek-Austrian horn player Elena Kakaliagou and Turkish drummer Utku Tavil plus the Cul-De-Sac Accelerated Evolution Orchestra from Zagreb. Unmissable ultra enthusiastic and uplifting sounds from the international underground!
set 1:
ELSAFFAR - KAKALIAGOU - TAVIL
Amir ElSaffar - trumpet
Elena Kakaliagou - french horn
Utku Tavil - snare drum, electronics
set 2:
CUL-DE-SAC Accelerated Evolution Orchestra
Franjo Glušac - electric guitar, effects
Neven Jurić aka "Nenchi" - french horn
Andreja Kurelec Košavić - vocals, trumpet
Miro Manojlović - vibraphone, xylophone, percussions
Ivan Marincel - trombone
Igor Pavlica - trumpet
Damir Prica Kafka aka "Capri " - saxes, keyboards
Darko Rundek - bass, effects
Bruno Vorberger - drums, percussion
Nikola Vincelj aka "Jinks" - visuals
doors open - 20:00
music starts - 21:00
ACUD MACHT NEU
Veteranenstraße 21
10119 BERLIN Mitte
acudmachtneu.de
MONDAY 28 NOVEMBER @ ACUD
LA TOURETTE + CASSERLEY - KERBAJ - SJÖSTRÖM
a concert of two contrasting sets featuring emotional experimental pop and dynamic electro acoustic improvisation, with musicians from Austria, Finland, Germany, Lebanon and UK
set 1:
LA TOURETTE
Tonia Reeh - vocals, piano
Rudi Fischerlehner - drums
set 2:
CASSERLEY- KERBAJ- SJÖSTRÖM
Lawrence Casserley - SPI (signal processing instrument)
Mazen Kerbaj - trumpet
Harri Sjöström - soprano & sopranino saxophone
doors open - 20:00
music starts - 21:00
ACUD MACHT NEU
Veteranenstraße 21
10119 BERLIN Mitte
ARTIST INFO
ELSAFFAR - KAKALIAGOU - TAVIL
AMIR ELSAFFAR
Iraqi-American trumpeter, santur player, vocalist and composer Amir ElSaffar has distinguished himself with a mastery of disparate musical styles and a singular approach to combining aspects of Middle Eastern music with American jazz, extending the boundaries of each tradition. A skilled jazz trumpeter with a classical background, ElSaffar has created new techniques to play microtones and ornaments that are idiomatic to Arabic music but are not typically heard on the trumpet.Additionally, he is an acknowledged performer of the classical Iraqi maqam tradition, and performs actively in the US, Europe and the Middle East as a vocalist and santur player.
amirelsaffar.com
ELENA KAKALIAGOU
Elena Kakaliagou is a Greek-Austrian french horn player and performer, currently based in Berlin. Starting out with piano lessons, she moved on to the French horn at the age of 18. After completing her studies in Athens with Vangelis Skouras, she moved on to KUG-Graz to continue her education under the teaching of Hector McDonald. Instructed by Erja Joukamo-Ampuja, Elena obtained her Master’s degree from Sibelius Academy, Helsinki in 2010 in French horn and chamber music. During her career, Elena has received scholarships from Klangforum, Impuls and Ensemble Modern with teachers like Mike Svoboda and Bill Formann. Elena’s field of specialization is free improvised and contemporary music, next to classic chamber music. She has performed premiers and classical repertoire both as a soloist and as a member of Ensembles such as Ensemble Linea, Unitedberlin, KNM Berlin, zinc & Copper and zeitkratzer at Festivals such as Ultraschall Berlin, Maerz Music, Randspiele, Musica Nova (Finland), Musica (France), Warsaw Autumn, New Adits and Klanspuren (Austria). She has also worked with individual artists: Riikka Innanen, Samuel Stoll, James Andean, Ingrid Schmoliner, Katharina Klement, Catherine Christer Hennix, Robin Hayward, Simon Steen-Andersen, Thomas Noll, to name but a few. Elena is the co-founder of the Helsinki-based Rank Ensemble, the Austrian trio PARA, the performance groups Lúiss and Continuous Variation, as well as the classical wind quintet Aeolides.
www.elenakakaliagou.com
UTKU TAVIL
Drummer and noisemaker Utku Tavil is an inspiring and energetic player. He travels constantly, bringing his powerful and uplifting sounds to enthusiastic audiences worldwide. Utku is also the founder of Multiversal - a network, consisting of musicians, artists, performers and spaces around the globe. Multiversal has its roots in guerrilla actions which started during 2011 on the border of Friedrichshein and Kreuzberg neighborhoods of Berlin, which has evolved into a series of events traversing live music venues, art galleries, cellars, apartments and streets in Germany, Sweden, Denmark, Italy, France, Spain, Austria, Slovenia, Greece , Turkey and beyond...
soundcloud.com/utkutavil
utkutavil.bandcamp.com
multiversal.eu
CUL-DE-SAC Accelerated Evolution Orchestra
Hailing from the dynamic underground music scene of Zagreb, Cul-de-Sac was formed by Dragan Pajić aka "Pajo" and Damir Prica Kafka aka "Capri" in 1986. They published audio cassettes, made film soundtracks and played concerts in Zagreb, Belgrade, Ljubljana, Copenhagen and Berlin. The last performance of the original line-up took place in June 1991 on the balcony of the skyscraper on the main square in Zagreb, a few months later war broke out in former Yugoslavia. Relocating to Amsterdam from 1993 - 2000, Cul-de-Sac dived into Amsterdam's thriving music scene at the time playing at clubs and galleries all over the city and collaborating with Nikola VIncelj aka "Jinks", who created posters and covers for CDs and slide shows for the gigs. After their return to Zagreb in 2000, Pajo and the other original members teamed up with young musicians, creating an orchestra of up to 20 musicians who played at festivals Austria, Bosnia, Croatia Macedonia, Serbia including the legendary Showroom of Contemporary Sound in Zagreb. Founding member Pajo passed away on 23 February 2014. He was a pioneering improvising musician who left behind a powerful musical legacy, the spirit of which continues to this day with the Cul-de-Sac Accelerated Evolution Orchestra, returning to Berlin for the first time since their 90s appearance at Tacheles.
culdesaczagreb.bandcamp.com
TRIO - CASSERLEY- KERBAJ- SJÖSTRÖM
An unexpected, spontaneous, fresh and surprising trio playing for the first time together in Berlin.
LAWRENCE CASSERLEY
Lawrence Casserley is best known for his work in free improvised music, particularly real-time processing of other musicians' sound, and he has devised a special computer processing instrument for this work. He has worked with many of the finest improvisers, particularly Evan Parker, with whom he works frequently as a duo partner, in various larger groupings and in the Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble. CDs have been released by ECM, Konnex, Leo Records, Psi, Sargasso and Touch.
lcasserley.co.uk
MAZEN KERBAJ
Recently relocated from Beirut to Berlin after his DAAD residency here - Mazen Kerbaj is well known as a comic artist, painter and musician. He pioneered improvised music in the Middle East, playing with musicians such as Sharif Sehnaoui , Christine Sehnaoui, Raed Yassine, Charbel Haber, Jad Balaben, Jassem Hindi, Franz Hautzinger , Helge Hinteregger, Lê Quan Ninh, Bertrand Denzler, Stéphane Rives, Edward Perraud, Taku Un and curating IRTIJAL - an annual international festival for free music in Beirut.
kerbaj.com
HARRI SJÖSTRÖM
Originally from Turku, Finland - Harri Sjöström is a well known improvising musician on the Berlin scene and throughout the world. His incredibly wide ranging musical life has included creative encounters with leading musicians and composers such as Derek Bailey, John Cage, Bill Dixon, Vinko Globokar, George Russell and Cecil Taylor - the latter being an ongoing collaboration since their first Berlin meeting in 1990, they recently played together at the major retrospective for Taylor's work at the Whitney in New York.
harrisjostrom.com
LA TOURETTE
La Tourette is as intense and emotional as a duo can be. On the surface some of the songs appear as fluorescent pop music pearls, but once seduced and pulled deeper into the world of La Tourette one finds even more to explore than just great songs: endless layers of influences and collisions with different musical styles and soundworlds - from experimental to african, hip hop to punk, and opera to soundscapes. Tonia Reeh is best known for her solo work as Monotekktoni and as the front singer for rock bands Masonne and Das zuckende Vakuum. In 2014 she started touring with Rudi Fischerlehner - who, as a drummer, is mostly associated with the likes of Olaf Rupp, Gorilla Mask and Fiium Shaarrk - with the idea of recreating some of the percussion effects used on her solo albums in live concerts. Over time the influence of Fischerlehner's sensitive and unorthodox drum and percussion styles melded the sound of the duo into something exciting and fresh - it could no longer be seen as "a solo thing with accompaniment". It was time to face the fact that this project had turned into a band, and the band was given the name "La Tourette".
toniareeh.de
rudifischerlehner.net
