EXBERLINER Issue 164, October 2017

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WHAT’S ON — Music Interview “We don’t talk about The Smiths” The post-punk poets of FITH tell us the difference between Manchester and Berlin. By Michael Hoh DON’T MISS Kiku feat. Blixa Bargeld & Black Cracker A Swiss avant-garde jazz trio, a queer rap fixture and Berlin’s most famous industrial export on stage at Radialsystem V? What reads like someone hit the random button actually sounds pretty rad. Oct 1, 20:00 Interkosmos Fest With a focus on Italian, Spanish and South American performers, Interkosmos Fest’s second iteration at Zukunft am Ostkreuz speaks to the dark yet groovy side in all of us. Oct 7, 18:30 What started as an album project in 2015 has since evolved into a five-piece band that combines poetry, moody electronics and improvisation. Wordsmith Dice Miller and clarinetist/vocalist Rachel Margetts talked to us about improvisation, Brexit, and their two home bases before their gig at Privatclub on Oct 24. You started as a duo and turned into a five-piece. Dice Miller: It just came very organically. When I met Enir Da in Berlin, I wasn’t doing much music at the time. My background is in experimental film; I used to do more performance and spoken word. He sent me a track and asked if I’d like to try something out. It just happened from there. We didn’t even think it would be an album, but we got this guy, Alex [Paulick], who’s in Kreidler, he mixed our record. Your live show sounds more jazzy and improvised than your album. Rachel Margetts: [Our drummer] Charles comes from a jazz background, and I come from an improv background. We like the state where chance is being let in. DM: I’m very ambivalent about performance. I felt like the album was a whole world, and then to perform it would compromise it. But from meeting Rachel and people in the free improv scene in Manchester, I started to get interested in how I could also improvise more in my vocals. I like this cut-up idea like William Burroughs, reciting snippets from a page, just not in order, and then improvising over that, adding another layer. I want it to feel fresh. We want to keep that kind of tension. It’s never going to be the same because of that. Can you compare Manchester and Berlin’s music scenes? DM: Berlin is really freeing. It’s more a place for us to develop as a band, to collect all your inspirations and turn it into something. But I get inspired more by the scene in Manchester because it’s so intense. People are really focused and committed. It’s good for alliances, exchanging ideas, getting feedback, finding people who are like-minded to collaborate with. They’re more desperate because of this neoliberal shit going on. Well, you still get people who just like Oasis. [Laughs] I just had to de-romanticise Manchester. RM: People reacted to the legacy of this guitar music in Manchester so much. No one wants to really go there again. I mean, I love The Smiths, but you just don’t talk about them. Everyone’s like, “Shut up!” But Manchester has a more condensed underground community. It’s got this rich history of punk, post-punk and electronic music, and you still get Mark E. Smith performing in a corner pub. It’s pretty local still. Here the underground is overground, it’s bigger, and it’s more dispersed. But Manchester is under an extreme threat of gentrification at the moment. It’s happening quicker than in Berlin. Melinda Pafundi Vessels The Leeds lads play some gripping and danceable new tunes off latest album The Great Distraction (Different Recordings) at Prince Charles. Oct 26, 20:00 Shintaro Sakamoto As part of the psychedelic outfit Yura Yura Teikoku, Tokyo-based Shintaro Sakamoto has been a star in Japan since the early 1990s. Listen to him perform his funky third solo record Love if Possible live at Urban Spree. Oct 30, 21:00 Left to right: Dice Miller, Rachel Margetts Melinda Pafundi 36 EXBERLINER 164
WHAT’S ON — Music MY PL AYLIST by Fith 1-Oiseaux-Tempête “AL-’AN!” DM: Mind-bending crossover between field recording, travel diary, and drone catharsis. 2-Kate Bush “Aerial” DM: Spinozist expression in musical form; Kate Bush as seer-sorceress. 3-Midori Takada “Through the Looking Glass” DM: Listen to get initiated into another dimension. 4-Natalie Beridze “Sleepwalkers” RM: Icy, left-field, somehow a bit Pet Shop Boys. Natalie Beridze has been a huge influence on me and opened me up to the Georgian ambient/ techno scene. 5-Asa-Chang & Junray “Hana” RM: The drama of the classical samples and removed mechanical voices in Konnakol rhythm take me somewhere strange. It’s film/life/ future/past. Tips Classical Ellen Fullman After spending four days setting up her infamous long string instrument at Villa Elisabeth, the celebrated avant-garde composer will perform in Berlin for the first time joined by Konrad Sprenger on guitar. Oct 7, 20:00 Satyagraha Tired of Ben Kingsley as Ghandi? Get a new perspective on his concept of non-violence with Philip Glass’ minimalist opera staged at Komische Oper. Oct 27, 19:30, Oct 31, 18:00 LONDON GRAMMAR 26.11. UFO im Velodrom ODESZA 07.10. Astra GANG OF YOUTHS 11.10. Musik & Frieden CASHMERE CAT 13.10. Bi Nuu ZOOT WOMAN 18.10. Bi Nuu MOGWAI 14.10. Columbiahalle meltbooking.com facebook.com/wearemeltbooking AUSTRA 20.10. SchwuZ VAGABON 23.10. Privatclub ASGEIR 20.11. Huxleys ZOLA JESUS 22.11. SO 36 NICK MURPHY FKA CHET FAKER 22.11. Columbiahalle 6-Lena Platonos “Shadow Of Blood” RM: Genius of the times, Platonos is a hugely influential figure in the Greek electronic/new wave scenes, and a new discovery for me. This track makes me cry in public places – need I say more? Do current politics find their way into your music? RM: A lot of Dice’s characters are historical figures. You’re addressing politics by looking at different histories: the history of women; the history of Europe. DM: Isabelle Eberhardt, for instance, born in Geneva at the end of the 19th century, who converted to Islam and became a Sufi. Only men were allowed in these circles. So I’ll talk about that, but we don’t use the everyday rhetoric of political speech, because we find that problematic. What does FITH stand for? DM: At first was an acronym of a track called “Fire In The Hole”. We just started to send e-mails to each other with FITH, and we thought it was a cool name and we kept it. After a while it changed, because Rachel decided it was something else. RM: Fucked in the head. DM: More sophisticated than that. The name keeps evolving. ■ FITH w/Mechanical Tales Tue, Oct 24, 20:00 Privatclub, Kreuzberg OCTOBER 2017 Clubbing Ellen Fullman Synoid UK techno (Rebekah) meets French rave (I Hate Models) meets Japanese techno (Takaaki Itoh) at this month’s Synoid at Griessmühle. Oct 13, 23:59 Beatgeeks Wknd Spcl #6 Has it been a year already? Gretchen once more invites producers to take the limelight. Onra, Lex Lugner, S. Fidelity, Al Dobson Jr and more have c o n fi r m e d. Oct 14, 22:00 Nicola Cruz If you haven’t got a ticket to his soldout set at Kantine am Berghain, try to get on the guest list and witness the Ecuadorian weaving folkloristic themes into his mesmerising electro cosmos. Oct 27, 20:00 Nicola Cruz John Fago Courtesy of ZZK Records MICHAEL NAU 02.10.17 Privatclub WHITE WINE & SOFT GRID 11.10.17 Kantine am Berghain ROBYN HITCHCOCK 21.10.17 Monarch CHAD VANGAALEN 22.10.17 Kantine am Berghain SIMON JOYNER 25.10.17 Monarch PRIESTS 26.10.17 Urban Spree THE WEATHER STATION 29.10.17 Monarch THE FRESH & ONLYS 30.10.17 Marie-Antoinette GIRL RAY 13.11.17 Monarch JANE WEAVER 17.11.17 Privatclub MICHELLE GUREVICH 17.11.17 Silent Green SLEEP PARTY PEOPLE 21.11.17 Musik & Frieden RICHARD DAWSON 29.11.17 Kantine am Berghain TICKETS & INFO: PUSCHEN.NET THE KVB 10.10.17 Musik & Frieden MOUNT EERIE 05. + 06.11.17 Silent Green MAC DEMARCO 08.11.17 Astra – ausverkauft 09.11.17 Astra – Zusatzshow JULIEN BAKER 14.11.17 Heimathafen Nk DESTROYER 17.11.17 Festsaal Kreuzberg
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