Another great night at West Germany presented by Occulto with Paul Beauchamp, Head of Wantastiquet and Dirge all performing. So get ready for a prime dose of ambient, experimental and drone and return to the beloved West Germany at Kotti for a night of beautiful music, tape loops, field recordings, synths, drones, musical saws and more!
Paul Beauchamp began his musical career at the base of the Appalachian Mountains in the early 90s experimenting with tape loops, field recordings, found objects and improvised instruments performing in the art group Diviner. After several years of activity in the home taper scene he cofounded the international artist/musician collective Radon which went on to record and publish such diverse acts as Smegma and Steve Mackay as well as his own Radon resident tribal/industrial/noise group Sikhara with whom he traveled extensively touring America, Europe and Asia non-stop for several years. During the course of these events Paul has had to opportunity to collaborate with a myriad of influential musicians in the studio, live and improvised composition including Johann Johannsson, Colin Potter, Steve Stapleton, Jochen Arbiet, Fabrizio Modonese Palumbo and Julia Kent.
Head of Wantastiquet is the current solo project of sound artist Paul LaBrecque: The music is a thoroughly Modern/NOW take on the early minimalist experiments of John Cale’s Sun Blindness tapes, projected through a prism that refracts into hallucinatory images of Andrew Wyeth and Caspar Friedrich, the temporal finality of Altamont and Kenneth Anger, the bare feet grounded to the soil of Träd Gräs och Stenar, and the beautiful desolation of Doc Boggs’ early 20th century Appalachian hollers. Collaborations and live performances with: Sunburned Hand of the Man, Thurston Moore, Faust, LSD March, Magik Markers, MV&EE, Wooden Wand, Louise Landes Levi, Orphan Fairytale, Cam Deas, Daniel Bachman among others. Releases on labels such as Open Mouth, Ecstatic Peace!, Conspiracy, Letmo Productions, Manhand and Wooden Finger.
Dirge is the ambient/drone project by Digital in Berlin editor Dirk Markham. Dirk has been making experimental recordings and teaching himself every instrument he can get his hands on since his years studying mental philosophy at Edinburgh University in the late 90s. While an ongoing collaborative exchange with the Forest Records Collective still provides a strong bond to Edinburgh, Markham has been residing in Berlin for the last 10 years where he previously worked for Gudrun Gut’s indie label monika enterprise and is now part of the research and development team with Native Instruments.
Paul Beauchamp, Head of Wantastiquet and Dirge
Saturday, 23rd April 2016 | 21:00 CET
Westgermany | Skalitzer Str. 133 | 10999 Berlin/Kreuzberg
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