As a release concert for ‘Live at The Church (feat. J Mascis)’ the improv band Krautfuzz will play another high energy performance at Schokoladen in May. This will be an AV show with live visuals by iLan.
This trio started out playing improvisational fuzzkraut-ish sessions in November 2022 after Imari Kokubo, Dirk Dresselhaus, and Derek Shirley had unavailingly planned to hook up with each other individually for a couple of years. As each of them is involved in an extended variety of music (Vladislav Delay Quartet, die ANGEL, Schneider TM, faust, Piratezombiedog, Monno, The Still, Hi-Speed Dubbing, etc.)
the premise is to boil down stylistic concepts to their essence by playing loud, time-transcending music without a safety net and giving some extra attention to communication in-between each other as well as to the individual subconsciousness. krautfuzz is embossed by an angular-futuristic tension, spanning from fuzzed-out neo-psych-rock to abstract, heavily processed minimalism, and is open at the fringes.
krautfuzz is embossed by an angular-futuristic tension, spanning from fuzzed-out neo-psych-rock to abstract, heavily processed minimalism to pure noise, and is open at the fringes, which means the implementation of occasional, non-typical musical elements in the studio, live video improvisations by iLan katin as well as surprise guest performers at their live shows, which usually join in at the 2nd set of the evening and so far included luminaires such as saz player Murat Ertel (Baba Zula), experimental saxophonist André Vida, J Mascis (Dinosaur Jr.), sitar player Chandra Shukla (Xambuca), or Eleni Poulou (ex-The Fall) & Hilary Jeffery (zeitkratzer).
krautfuzz + iLan
Friday, 23rd May 2025 | Doors: 20:00 / Start: 21:00 CET
Schokoladen | Ackerstraße 169 in 10115 Berlin-Mitte
