Exberliner issue 185, September 2019

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WHAT’S ON — Music DON’T MISS Exek The Reeperbahn Festival (Sep 18-21 in Hamburg) has chosen Australia as this year’s focus country, so expect numerous acts from Down Under to be hitting up Berlin, too. For example, this dubbed-out post-punk quintet from Melbourne. Sep 20, 21:00 at Internet Explorer Suzanne Ciani After crashing in the basement of Philip Glass’s studio in the 1970s, this synth pioneer ascended to produce jingles for Coca-Cola and practically prophesied new age – before the genre became yoga muzak. The real thing. Sep 27, 20:00 at Trauma Bar und Kino, Moabit Marissa Nadler Hailing from Boston, this singersongwriter mixes black metal and folk music. Besides her numerous solo albums, her most recent, Droneflower, is a joint effort with Stephen Brodsky of Cave In. Sep 29 at Kantine am Berghain, Friedrichshain “ We use analogue cassette to record.” Paul Cabine Interview Although their Kreuzberg surroundings have shifted dramatically over the past quarter century, Stereo Total are happily stuck in the past. By Joey Hansom Power couple Brezel Göring and Françoise Cactus have been cranking out catchy, multilingual rock chansons since the mid 1990s, maintaining an international cult following along the way. With an upcoming tour following the new umpteenth Stereo Total album, Ah! Quel Cinéma!, the timeless pop duo talk their backwards approach, their next theatre piece and their local Kiez. What’s the story behind the Velvet Underground references in your new album? FC: It’s about the way of life of these people surrounding Andy Warhol and the Factory: always drinking, always high, nine days a week. We take drugs sometimes, but we’re not those kind of people. BG: One song is about how Lou Reed got electroshock therapy as a teenager because of his sexuality. The song will also be in the play we were commissioned to write, premiering next year in Frankfurt. We delayed that so that we could make the record first. It’s like an echo in the wrong direction. So you were hired to write these songs for a theatrical production, but you used them for your album first? BG: That’s really rotten! (Laughs.) FC: No, no, we always do that. For example, “Babystrich” from Do the Bambi was written for our play about Christiane F. You’ve been Stereo Total for over 25 years now. Have you ever thought about being Mono Total, or Surround Sound Total? FC: We’re already really backwards. BG: It’s even worse than when we started. I was recently looking at all the instruments we use, and none of them were made in the time since we started. We use analog cassette to record, which I can use faster than computers, and the sound is very satisfying. You know, I saw some films that someone made in the 1940s. He made scratches on the audio strip of the film, and it sounds like techno music from today. The brain invents the methods to make the music, even if the technology isn’t there. Cactus, in the video for “Cinemascope”, you’re dreaming in bed. Your native language is French, but this particular song is in English. Which language do you usually dream in? FC: Different languages, but mostly French. Sometimes German, rarely English. Only if some American guys show up and say something. BG: I mostly dream in German. But it’s true, when we’re traveling and in another country, the language influences my dreams. FC: He dreams in music. He often wakes up in the middle of the night and goes to the piano. BG: It helps a lot. Whenever it happens, I think “Oh, that’s a hit!” When I listen to it later, sometimes it’s ridiculous. But sometimes I do come up with wonderful melodies. You both came to Kreuzberg in the 1980s. A lot has changed. Since your last album, the neighborhood has gained a vegan fast-food joint and a coworking space sponsored by an insurance company. What is still missing? FC: They should make Oranienstraße car-free. BG: I liked the way it was so much, and now I see this big hotel at Oranienplatz that represents everything that’s wrong. That reminds me: I was in this little Turkish bar around the corner, and a young woman came up to me. She was from Denmark and asked if I could translate a message she got on Tinder. The guy was an asshole and wanted to meet her. I took over the conversation and told him to take a taxi to that hotel and find “me” at the bar. Sounds like his natural habitat. Now, in promoting your new album, you’re hosting interviews from your flat. Have all of the interviewers behaved themselves or did any of them like, start going through your refrigerator? BG: Not yet. But you know, sometimes we’ve had people from television over. They were behaving like pigs. FC: No television, unless it’s Arte or something. They’re like, “Hey, move the table over there! Put the lamp there!” They don’t even ask! They were stepping on my artwork with dirty shoes. Television people are the worst! T Stereo Total, Manuel Muerte, Namosh Sep 12, 20:30 Festsaal Kreuzberg, Alt-Treptow 30 EXBERLINER 185
WHAT’S ON — Music Courtesy of Torstraßen Festival Preview A fest compressed The ninth annual Torstraßen Festival has been condensed to a single location but remains a musical treasure hunt. Each past edition of the Torstraßen Festival sprawled to further venues surrounding the main drag between Mitte and Prenzlauer Berg. This year, though, it looks a bit different: happening as a sort of farewell to summer rather than the accustomed prelude, the polygenre festival has been streamlined into a single day at the Volksbühne, taking over the main stage, Roter Salon, Grüner Salon, 3. Stock and the theatre’s various foyers. Discovery remains the key element: for every recognisable name on the lineup, there are probably three you’ve never heard of but who are likely contenders for your next favourite band – or rapper. Besides local up-and-comers like Die Wände (“The Walls”, photo right), who formed while students at the UdK and released their noisy art-rock debut LP earlier this year, there will be numerous international acts in town, such as Shunaji (photo left): rocking the mic with old-school flair, the perceptive London MC flows over soulful loops for a sound that’s too fresh to be merely nostalgic. Or switch genre gears with Californian freak-folk artist Jessica Pratt, the Sade-istic pop of Amsterdam’s BEA1991 and the plinky playfulness of electronic producer Kate NV from Moscow. Other Berlin names include Tara Nome Doyle, the Norwegian-Irish singer-songwriter whose piano-backed 2018 single “Down With You” has racked up nearly a million plays on Spotify, and P.A. Hülsenbeck, whose jazzy dirges lean toward cult following rather than mass appeal. In night mode, the festival becomes a party with campy cabaret collective Gazino Neukölln as well as London’s rkss, who takes an arty approach to EDM, mischievously vacillating between minimal- and maximalism. So, pace yourself throughout the afternoon, and save time to check out the offerings at the Independent Label Market, with stands from the likes of Ninja Tune, Mansions & Millions and Wicked Hag. — JH Torstraßen Festival Sep 7, 12:00 Volksbühne, Mitte Lara Ohl OUR PLAYLIST 1 - Aul “Neverending” We saw this stunning band at Ostfest in Switzerland and we plan to catch them again when they play Berlin in October. 2 - Crack Cloud “Drab Measure” One of the best shows we’ve seen this year. Four cool Canadians who use punk as therapy, with four guitars on-stage. Very addictive. 3 - Gatekeeper “Chains” Ever since one of the guys from the Flennen Collective played this for us on our way to Dresden in 2016, it’s been our jam whenever we go on tour. 4 - Kala Brisella “Im Quartier” It’s no secret: We love this band so much! This one combines all of their strengths: musical frenzy, dreaminess and amazing lyrics! by Die Wände 5 - Death Cab For Cutie “No Room in Frame” An early-morning drive through an unfamiliar valley, a broken heart and a melancholic vision of the future that the protagonist seems oddly resigned to… and when the guitar drops at 46 seconds! Schaubude K ANG Berlin DER DINGE Festival für experimentelle Musik und Objekttheater SEPTEMBER 2019 31 5.9.—8.9.2019 Echtzeitmusik, Objektperformance, Klangkunst, Figurentheater www.schaubude.berlin
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