Picture: Beatdenkers-POLYPLAY by KID BE KID
Picture: Beatdenkers-POLYPLAY by KID BE KID

Fluid Form Club w/ POLYPLAY x Witch ‘n’ Monk + Işıl Karataş at ausland / Saturday, 8.2.2025

Fluid Form Club presents passionately unpredictable music that escapes classification, for a community of curious minds. Rhythms of the multiverse exploding with futuristic utopian melodies and deep, prophetic basslines.

POLYPLAY takes you off the usual grid into uncharted musical landscapes. They’ve got a twisted, playful approach to polyrhythms—unafraid to dive deep into chaos while keeping things sharp and precise. Their sound is a glance into what the future could sound like: bold, and completely unpredictable. Intense and insane rhythms colliding with futuristic beats and dirty electro-acoustic sounds. It’s a mash-up of everything from mind-bending basslines to melodies that never sit still. POLYPLAY aren’t just making music; they’re creating an entirely new kind of movement—a sonic playground where improvisation, tension, and unexpected shifts come together in a way you’ve never heard before.

Defiantly original duo Witch ‘n’ Monk combine Mauricio Velasierra’s radically electrified Latin American flutes, with Heidi Heidelberg’s jazz-punk guitar/bass and anarchic soprano vocals.

The music travels seamlessly from structured arrangements to wild improvisations, using a myriad of control pedals and labyrinthine signal paths to orchestrate live. The essence of their collaboration is encapsulated in the name; dark/light, feminine/masculine, punk/Romantic. Celebrated in jazz, contemporary classical and DIY music scenes they have played prestigious venues and festivals such as the Royal Festival Hall, Berlin, London and Umea Jazz Festivals and Paris’ La Cigale.

Their latest album was released on John Zorn’s legendary Tzadik Records in 2020 to critical acclaim. It was named Contemporary Album of the Month by The Guardian and received the prestigious Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik.

“Blending Latin American flutes, electronics, complex vocal lines with a touch of Frank Zappa lyricism and a radical punk aesthetic, the duo of Heidi Heidelberg and Mauricio Velasierra crafts a dramatically bizarre vocal music from another dimension!… You have never heard anything quite like Witch ’n’ Monk!”John Zorn

Işıl Karataş is an experimental filmmaker and multimedia artist whose work spans short film, ethnographic audiovisual works and music videos for various underground and avant-garde musicians.

FLUID FORM CLUB #8: POLYPLAY x Witch ‘n’ Monk + Visuals by IŞIL KARATAŞ

Saturday, 8.2.2025
ausland | Lychener Strasse 60 in 10437 in Berlin
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