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ANNA MORLEY
Anna Morley is an Australian multi-instrumentalist and composer, currently based in Berlin. Her music has been described as an eclectic fusion of electro-acoustic vibes with ambient overtones, woven together by fresh minimal grooves
. On stage Anna blends a unique gamut of instrumentation including the vibraphone, vocals, keys and electronic beats and samples within her compositions.
Anna wrote and released both her debut EP Character (2009, Gazebo Music) and full album Red Balance (2011) in Barcelona. Since relocating to Berlin, Anna has recorded and released her third album entitled Water Door (2013).
In 2016 Anna released her fourth album Treasure Pleasure (Cult Classic Records), with recording and production being carried out at a combination of renegade and pro-studios between London, Barcelona and Berlin. In November 2019 Anna released her fifth album, entitled Visceral (Hymen Records).
Treasure Pleasure takes all that is great about Morley’s work – her love of sound and her ability to craft wondrously expansive walls of sound, her fondness for off-kilter rhythms that dance in your head long after they have passed, her use of ethereal vocals that bring a real and tangible sense of humanity – and polishes it, improves it, makes it better.
(Thomas Mathie - Echoes and Dust, 08.08.2016)
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ARRUDA
ARRUDA, aka Daniel Arruda, is a Berlin-based singer songwriter from Sao Paulo, Brazil whose music and on-stage charisma conjure up a vast melting pot of world music influences.
Early career successes include performing and recording with Brazil’s Relo Rolo, selling more than 20,000 vinyl copies, an impressive achievement for an independent album. Arruda set foot on stage for 15 years touring Europe, notably in Spain and Germany. During that time, Arruda has performed with the likes of Nego Kbca, Cia de Operaios and as a solo artist at numerous well known world music festivals, including Brasil No Ar (Barcelona), Rudolstadt Festival, Bremer Karneval and at many of the leading live music venues in his adopted home town of Berlin.
Produced in Berlin at the world renowned Bakermoon Studios in collaboration with British producer Ed Bentley and a whole host of well regarded musicians, his latest studio album “Semente” was released in March 2020, resulting in a masterful collection of contemporary Brazilian music, ranging from classic roots to reggae to romance to upbeat electronic moments of pure bliss. This is World Music for the ‘20s - the 2020s.
https://www.arruda.de
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FRAU FISCH
Born in southern Brazil and currently based in Berlin, Frau Fisch is the performance-persona of multidisciplinary artist Caterina Renaux Hering. With narratives that address women's empowerment and the exercise of freedom within life’s conditions, Frau Fisch is a storyteller who makes electro-poetry for dancing. The aesthetic choices that underpin her musical style converge a few core intentions: to excite vitality, inspire the mind, support emotions and awaken the body to movement. Her debut EP 'Terremoto', was co-created with producer Zeno Mainardi and blends analogue synths, dense beats with the juice of her words in between.
https://fraufisch.com
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ILLAY
You can recognise ILLAY as a glowing mane of curls holding an electric bass, a cello with loop machine or a megaphone. The songs that she writes, on the other hand, are much darker but wrapped in a warm, rich texture of strings, guitars and a drop of electronica that make the medicine go sweetly down. ILLAY sings in Hebrew, English and French in the genre of oriental-indie-pop.
ILLAY is active in the independent music scene in Berlin and Tel aviv. She cooperates with many other artists such as Astrid North, composes for films and dance and a founding member of the elctro-acousti trio MOJOY. Her freshly released album “Sabotage” was described in TAZ :
"Eine Musik, die alle Gefühlslagen kennt, das ließe sich über womöglich jede Musik sagen. Doch dabei nicht in Kitsch zu ertrinken, fällt schon schwerer. Der israelischen Cellistin Illay gelingt das aber perfekt. In ihren komplexen Kompositionen und direkten Lyrics entfaltet sie eine Parallelwelt, in der sich lachen lässt, ohne das Weinen zu vergessen – und umgekehrt”.
“Sabotage” was Created in the heart of Tel Aviv in an apartment turned into a studio within only a month's time. It is full of ethereal and soulful lyrics set to rhythms that embrace pop music, Middle-Eastern disco, West African beats, and much more. All this leads to a creative debut that strikes an interesting balance that is both delicate and powerful."
ILLAY on YouTube
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KRISTA PAPISTA
Krista Papista is an artist and music producer; born in Nicosia, based in Berlin. Her current work focuses on reimagining the power structures of the Mediterranean; within this context she engages in developing and queering, politically induced, reinvented versions of history, exploring the way in which the development of new Mediterranean and Anatolian folklore can act as subversive counterpoints to homogeneous, nationalist narratives.
Her upcoming production, titled "Fucklore Phenomenology”, is a concept album that focuses on the dislocation and relocation of topographic narratives; switching back and forth between Middle Eastern, Mediterranean, Balkan sounds and folklore, to post-punk, experimental electronica. It explores the development of an intercultural, transnational, queer network that manifests the movement, migration and scattering of people away from their homeland, and newly created spaces that transform identities and cultures.
Her work has been presented and published in Ars Electronica, Venice Bienalle, Crack Magazine, Clash and Heroines of Sound.
Krista Papista on SoundcloudKrista Papista on Facebook
PAULA SCHOPF
Paula Schopf will give a workshop on field recording and sampling where participants can learn simple techniques to pimp-up their music creations without huge infra-structure or a high level of technical knowledge in sound art. This workshop is open to the audience in general, no previous experience is necessary but recommended. Length: 2 hours, Participants: 12.
Paula Schopf (*1970 Santiago de Chile) is a DJ, musician and sound artist. She lives in Berlin. In 1977 she started her DJ career under the stage name Chica Paula and became a key figure in the city’s then emerging dance music scene. Invited by Gudrun Gut, she became part of the Berlin-based artist collective Ocean Club, a community of musicians, DJs and visual artists born in the German capital, which later gave rise to a radio show of the same name. In 2017, she completed her master’s degree in Sound Studies (with Hans Peter Kuhn) at the University of the Arts in Berlin.
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Dornika
Gender fluid Iranian-American artist Dornika is a Berlin based musician, visual artist, drag performer and vocal coach. Born in Tehran, she migrated with her mom to the US at age 7 only to move back a few years later to Tehran where she grew up. She moved to Berlin in 2017, establishing herself shorty after in the vibrant queer nightlife scene, creating alter-ego Many Faced Godx, and mixing drag, music and dance performance in festivals and clubs in Europe.
Dornika started playing classical piano at an early age. She later learned classical guitar and Setar only to discover her real passion in singing and composition. As a teenager she wrote pop songs and composed on her bedroom piano. After facing many hardships in Iran as a female singer, she took a break from music and studied Fine Arts in Tehran and then in Berlin. She started writing and producing music again in 2019 and shortly after started teaching others how to find power in their voices drawing compassion from hardships she faced herself.
Dornika's work is heavily influenced by her activism, confronting subjects of state violence, sexism, inequality and mental health. Her debut single, Fatbulous, is a body positive high energy pop track celebrating traditionally shamed elements of female bodies. Dornika’s music is not bound by genre. She draws from all parts of her life, picking up as she goes and exploring elements of jazz, hip-hop, pop, Iranian folk, voguing beats, techno and experimental electronic music.
Dornika on Instagram
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RAINHAS DO NORTE
Die Rainhas do Norte ist aus der Faszination für die Musik aus dem Nordosten Brasiliens, insbesonderen dem Maracatu-de-Baque-Virado, heraus geboren. Von diesem Ursprung hat die Band die Charakteristik beibehalten, ihr Klangfundament auf Perkussionsinstrumente und Stimmen aufzubauen, wobei ein Bass die Harmonien unterstüzt.
Die Rainhas do Norte verstehen sich als feministische Band. Sie haben sich längst von der gängigen Textthematik des Maracatu verabschiedet. Sowohl ihre Art des Spielens als auch die Inhalte der Texte sind von der Tatsache geprägt, dass Rainhas do Norte mit 9 Frauen aus drei Ländern – Brasilien, Deutschland und Israel - besetzt ist. Ihre Arbeit ist ein Plädoyer für die weibliche Selbstbestimmung, nicht ohne Humor und etwas Selbstironie.
Das musikalische Spektrum hat die Band stets erweitert. Die Multimusikalität Berlins, das Experimentieren mit Rhythmusinstrumenten verleihen den Rainhas do Norte ihren besonderen touch. No borders music!
Rainhas Do Norte on YouTubeRainhas Do Norte on Facebook
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WONDERSKA
Es gibt sie seit 15 Jahren, sie werden als Geheimtipp für einen Berlinbesuch gehandelt und haben eine große Fan-Gemeinde nicht nur in der Hauptstadt: WonderSka.
Ihr Repertoire: bekannte Ska-Klassiker und verskate Popsongs. Ihre eigenen Stücke gehören mittlerweile zu Gassenhauern auf Straßenfesten und Partys.
Mit Texten gegen Spekulanten und Ignoranten bringen die sieben Musikerinnen die Verhältnisse zum tanzen. Der Sound von Zupf-, Blas-, Schlag- und Tasteninstrumenten steckt an, reißt mit, jeder Muskel vibriert. Wer sie einmal live gesehen hat, wird wiederkommen!
WonderSka on Soundcloudhttps://wonderska.de
