Laetitia Sadier, best known as singer of the band Stereolab, comes to Berlin for a special live concert at Berghain’s Kantine to perform songs from her excellent new album on Drag City, Rooting For Love.
During her 30 year career, Laetitia Sadier has never shied away from the hard topics, or stopped advocating for self determination and emancipation in the face of the powers that be. This is an essential part of the foundation she co-built with Stereolab and continued with Monade and an additional five LPs under her own name. 2024’s gorgeous Rooting For Love is her most recent release.
Laetitia issues a call to the traumatized civilizations of Earth: we’re urged to finally evolve past our countless millennia of suffering and alienation. Her songs score the complexities and harmonies within this directive: organ, guitar, bass, synth, trombone, vibraphone, live and programmed drums, and a vocal assembly of men and women billed as The Choir, working intricate chord/tempo/and dynamic changes, as Laetitia’s empathic presence leads the way.
Joseph Carvell returns to Karaoke Kalk with his sophomore album under the Pink Shabab moniker. »Never Stopped Loving You« was for the most part written between Spring and late Summer 2020 in his Camberwell home and like his 2019 debut »Ema by the Sea« recorded in the South of France together with Emmanuel Mario, better known as Astrobal. It’s a record informed by feelings of nostalgia, love, longing, romance and loss and, much like his previous album, displays Carvell’s knack for making introversion sound extroverted. As a bassist, his approach to songwriting is both rhythmic and melodic, making the resulting music just as visceral as it is emotive. Much like the record’s title can be understood as both a lament or an expression of joyful dedication, the music on »Never Stopped Loving You« is profoundly ambiguous.
