BERLIN - Kiezsalon Opening w/ Valentina Goncharova, Blue Lake, Zoh Amba | Saturday, 4 May, 2024

 

View in browser Dear friends and music lovers,   In just over two weeks, on Saturday, 4 May, we host Ukrainian underground legend and violinist Valentina Goncharova, plus the Berlin premieres of zitherist Blue Lake and jazz saxophonist Zoh Amba playing solo at our Kiezsalon Opening.   These artists follow Friday's lineup of Ka Baird, Josephine Foster and Antonina Nowacka, together inaugurating our Kiezsalon season for 2024 at the 150-year old Zionskirche.   Tickets for each evening are sold separately and, as always, they are 10 euros each. Buy Tickets Valentina Goncharova (UA) Saturday, 4 May 2024 Historically informed violin player, prize-winning street musician, new age experimentalist, chamber ensemble performer and conservatoire deviant - Valentina Goncharova boasts a layered musical legacy.   Her immense output dating back to the 1970s “offers a window into a lesser-known Soviet history of experimental music,” writes The Guardian, her music is “made for personal pleasure; as exploration, and therein lies its magnetism”. At Kiezsalon, witness Valentina’s unmissable and incredibly free synthesis of electro-acoustic, noise and new-age tropes.   Her multiplicity as a composer can be heard further on her once lost and since re-released recordings from 1987​-​1991. Listen on Bandcamp Blue Lake (DK) Saturday, 4 May 2024 Behind Blue Lake is Texan Jason Dungan, whose instruments of choice include a self-built, 48-string zither.    In 2023, Tonal Union issued Sun Arcs, marked by its meditative layering that got named ‘Best New Music’ by Pitchfork, who praised its picturesque tracks that invoke an “intimate view, one that can feel both magical in its simplicity and all the more compelling for what’s just out of frame.” Listen on Bandcamp Zoh Amba (US) Saturday, 4 May 2024 Zoh Amba is a composer and saxophonist with an avant-garde blend of folk melodies, mesmerising refrains, and repeated incantations.    “Hearing Amba play, it’s clear that her passion comes from somewhere deep inside. In the first few minutes of a recent concert,” observes The New York Times in their profile on the 23-year old, “she erupted with low-register blasts, then worked her way up to the altissimo range of her tenor sax, her cheeks puffing as she summoned harsh multiphonic squeals.” Listen on Bandcamp With spring now in full swing, we look forward to inhabiting the vibrant grounds surrounding the Zionskirche at the top of the Weinbergspark—taking time to reconnect with Kiezsalon regulars and meet newcomers. Buy Tickets See you very soon.   All the best, Michael Rosen & Team ­ Presented by D/B Oscillations: Cape Town – Berlin Akademie der Künstepresents sound works from South Africa and Germany in their group exhibition, opening Friday 26.04. Rossum’s Universal Robots (R.U.R) gamut inc brings back their robot opera to the Theater im Delphi for just 3 days, starting Thursday 02.05. The Necks The Australian ambient post-jazz trio return to Berlin for another improvised sound voyage on 23.04 at Heimathafen Neuköln. Our next Kiezsalon   Kiezsalon Opening Friday, 3 May w/ Antonina Nowacka, Josephine Foster and Ka Baird Saturday, 4 May w/ Valentina Goncharova, Blue Lake and Zoh Amba   Doors 19:00 | Starts 20:00 CET Zionskirche | Zionskirchplatz in 10119 Berlin-Mitte   Tickets / Find on Google Maps / Facebook Events | Read more... ­  ­  ­  ­  Digital in Berlin Brückenstraße 1, 10179, Berlin This email was sent to news@degem.de   The Kiezsalon is a project by Digital in Berlin. Curated by Michael Rosen and funded by Senate Department for Culture and Social Cohesion. Presented by The Wire and taz, die tageszeitung.   Um diese E-Mail auf Deutsch zu lesen, kopieren Sie den Text und fügen sie diesen in den Übersetzer von DeepL.com ein. Images in this E-Mail: Kiezsalon by Victoria Alexandrova. Valentina Goncharova by Mageede Haal. Blue Lake by Alex Kozobolis. Zoh Amba by Scott Rossi. Denise Onen, "Understanding“ by Lili Bo Ming. Rossum’s Universal Robots by Marion Wörle. The Necks by Camille Walsh. You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to Digital in Berlin, Kiezsalon, visited one of our events, or were in contact with us recently. ...