Avishai Cohen Quartet
You’re a purist a la Ryan Gosling’s character in "La La Land" and don’t consider any XJazz feature as “real jazz”? Catch Israeli double bassist and Downbeat darling Avishai Cohen at Silent Green,...
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This month at Berlin jazz institution Quasimodo: art rock icons Half Japanese, who will hit the stage with 16th studio album "Hear the Lions Roar" and all the disregard for tuned guitars they can muster.
View ArticleCrescendo
The Universität der Künste's classical music festival is back for its ninth year, this time under new artistic direction by professors Markus Groh and Konstantin Heidrich.
View ArticleEnsemble Shiraz & Kian Soltani
Cello player Kian Soltani joins forces with the Ensemble Shiraz to present a programme filled with traditional Persian music
View ArticleHuman Requiem
Does Johannes Brahms’ famous requiem really need choreography? Decide yourself, at any of the three performances on show at Radialsystem V. Our take? When the Rundfunkchor and Sasha Waltz are involved,...
View ArticleAnna VR
With only one video, the Dutch Berliner has been keeping her online presence to a minimum. Get the full picture of her jazzy, trip-hop-infused antics at Kantine am Berghain
View ArticleCamp Claude
Keeping themselves busy in 2016 by releasing their album Swimming Lessions in spring and a follow-up EP Hero in autumn, the French band take the stage at Kantine am Berghain with their summery yet...
View ArticleMerzbow, Keiji Haino and Balász Pándi
Improvisational delights await when noise master Merzbow, improv guru Keiji Haino and drummer Balász Pándi take the stage at St. Elisabeth-Kirche. Heith and Jesse Osborne-Lanthier will be opening.
View ArticleRaving Iran Loving Birgit
Birgit & Bier screens the 2016 Tehran techno scene documentary "Raving Iran", then invites its protagonists to get behind the DJ booth.
View ArticleSacrebleu
Holy shit! Aka Aka feat. Thalstroem are at it again, inviting Alec Troniq and Ben Böhmer to join their label shenanigans at Ritter Butzke.
View ArticleTrrrnny
A night of artsy glamour and queer performances at Anita Berber with Berlin faves Godmother debuting new songs as well as Olympia Bukkakis, Sado Opera, Miss Nipple and DJ sets by Rui Ho and Jared Abbott.
View ArticleManu Louis
Belgian Berliner Manu Louis, prolific composer and performer of experimental chanson, presents his latest album Kermesse Machine, with this release show
View ArticleDrum machines and Wagner revisited
Before open-air season lures us into its cradle of euphoric escapism, two indoor festivals invite us to indulge in a little more brain-heavy fun: percussion-centric Syn/Cussion (May 5-7) and the...
View ArticleTorstraßenfestival
Torstraßenfestival is attempting to get past its “Seven- Year Itch” by expanding over four days and nine venues, many of them way beyond the namesake street. We’ll be in the centre of the fray on...
View Article20 Jahre Ensemble Mosaik
Like your favourite English language mag, Ensemble Mosaik isn’t afraid to get experimental. They celebrate their 20th anniversary with three performances in June and July:
View ArticleThe Berlin effect
Belgian Berliner Manu Louis talks about how his adopted city influenced his latest album Kermesse Machine, out in Germany May 27 with a double release show, coupled with Jim Avignon aka Neoangin, at...
View Article20 Jahre Ensemble Mosaik
Like your favourite English language mag, Ensemble Mosaik isn’t afraid to get experimental. They celebrate their 20th anniversary with three performances in June and July.
View Article20 Jahre Ensemble Mosaik
Like your favourite English language mag, Ensemble Mosaik isn’t afraid to get experimental. They celebrate their 20th anniversary with three performances in June and July.
View Article40 Years of Schwuz
From Schöneberg to Kreuzberg to Neukölln, moving around has been de riguer for queer hub Schwuz, now celebrating 40 years since the Homosexuellen Aktion Westberlin decided to bring LGBTQ life “Out of...
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