On May 9th at ausland Berlin’s Fluid Form Club present the radical and telepathic duo of Kamilya Jubran and Werner Hasler: geniuses of shape-shifting traditions, transforming vocals, oud and trumpet with quadraphonic electronics. The night is hosted by genre escape artists Witch ’n’ Monk: anarchic soprano, hybrid flutes and percussive guitar.
Musician, composer and one of the most revered figures for today’s younger generation of experimental and alternative Arabic music-scenes, Kamilya Jubran (text, oud & vocals, collaborates with long standing musical partner, composer, accomplished trumpet player and seasoned electronic musician Werner Hasler (trumpet & electronics).
Together they unravel a musical universe of possibilities; a unison of timbres, cultures complementing, the complicity of verses, and modes and languages confronting each other in the duo’s own way of communicating respective origins and contemporaneity. Lyrical, within a sound full of contrast and ornamentation, they pursue an expansion of their repertoire with imaginative interpretation and improvisation.
Jubran and Hasler seek new sonic and phonetic territory, based on the wasla compound form found in the classical repertoire of Near Eastern music and in Western modern and improvised music. The chemistry between them gives birth to a singular, original and extratemporal sound.
“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! Intertwining dark/light, feminine/masculine, composed/improvised and punk/romantic, dreamlike improvisations are sampled, manipulated and reinvented through the lens of contemporary music and pop. You have never heard anything quite like Witch ’n’ Monk!” — John Zorn
