STAUBGOLD SPRING 2008 NEWS - "an alternative route to euphoria"

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> + KLANGWART: "An alternative route to euphoria"
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> + STAUBGOLD OFFICE CLOSED from 25 April to 5 May 2008
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> + 10 Years of Staubgold @ MINI MIDI FESTIVAL, Beijing
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> + JASMINA MASCHINA's "The Demolition Series" cd/lp out on Staubgold
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> + MAPSTATION / PAUL WIRKUS: "Forest Full Of Drums" vinyl-only lp
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> + PEDAL cd out now: duo improvisations for two grand pianos
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> + Staubgold DJ NIGHT @ PALOMABAR, Berlin
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> + LIVE DATES
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> + FORTHCOMING RELEASES
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> * * * KLANGWART: "An alternative route to euphoria" * * *
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> http://www.myspace.com/klangwart
>
> "This is the first studio album in eight years to emerge from the
> partnership of Cologne and Berlin based electronic duo Markus Detmer and
> Timo Reuber, aka Klangwart. It arises from an ongoing live experiment
> they've been conducting for some years.
>
> The progress of 'Stadtlandfluss', however, is less in flux, and has more
> of a narrative arc. 'Zwei Töne' is like the 'birthing' of the album, two
> tones swimming like sperm, followed by the binary bickering of 'IO'.
> Then comes 'Radio', in which the album really fans out, ascending
> towards 'Telemann', a veritable hurricane of oscillating soundwaves,
> before the happy ending that is 'Mein Herz, mein Haus'. An alternative
> route, this, to euphoria."
>
> (David Stubbs, The Wire, May 2008)
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> Klangwart's "Stadtlandfluss" will be released on Staubgold in May
> (staubgold 80 cd/lp).
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>
> Klangwart live:
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> 02 may @ mini midi festival, 2 kolegas bar, cn- beijing
> 15 june @ synch festival, gr- athens
> 08 august @ off festival, pl- myslowice
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> * * * STAUBGOLD OFFICE CLOSED from 25 April to 5 May 2008 * * *
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> PLEASE NOTE: Our office is fully closed from 25 April to 5 May 2008.
>
> Don't even try to reach us during that time :)
>
> Any orders through the webshop will be processed right after our return.
>
> For distribution and promo purposes, and to get hold of the Staubgold
> cell phone number - really urgent cases only! - please contact either
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> Indigo, attn. Lutz Falldorf, mailto:lutz.falldorf@indigo.de
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> or
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> MDM, attn. Jörg Heidemann, mailto:joerg.heidemann@mutualism.de
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> Thank you for your understanding!
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>
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> * * * 10 Years of Staubgold @ MINI MIDI FESTIVAL, Beijing * * *
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> 2 May, 10pm @ 2 Kolegas Bar, Beijing, China
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> http://www.minimidi.cn
> http://www.myspace.com/minimidifestival
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> MINI MIDI FESTIVAL, GOETHE INSTITUTE BEIJING and KULTURAMT KÖLN
> present:
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> Mapstation (live)
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> Joseph Suchy (live)
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> Klangwart (live)
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> Reuber (live)
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> + DJ Markus Detmer
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> + label workshop with Markus Detmer (2 to 5pm)
>
>
> Exclusive Staubgold label compilation cd available for free during the
> event.
>
> All performances are part of the Goethe Institute's German Electronic
> Music Series.
>
> Curated by Yan Jun, http://www.subjam.org.
>
> "China's only outdoor experimental music festival celebrates its fourth
> year with showcases from Staubgold and Shansui and includes performances
> from Andy Guhl (Voice Crack), Janek Schaefer, FM3, Joseph Suchy,
> Mapstation, Yan Jun and more plus conversations on independent record
> labels, experimental music festivals and 90s Taiwanese noise music."
> (The Wire, May 2008)
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> THANK YOU: Yan Jun, FM3, Manfred Post, Goethe Institute Beijing.
>
>
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> * * * JASMINA MASCHINA's "The Demolition Series" out on Staubgold * * *
>
> + ORDER from http://www.staubgold.com
>
> + PRE-LISTEN and DOWNLOAD @ finetunes.net: http://snipurl.com/staubgold
>
> + VISIT Jasmina Maschina @ http://www.myspace.com/jasminemaschine
>
> + RELEASE PARTY @ Schokoladen, Berlin (Ackerstrasse 169)
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> 24 April 2008, 8pm
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> Jasmina Maschina & Band (live)
> (Jasmine Guffond, Theresa Stroetges, Torben Tilly, Tony Buck)
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> Golden Diskó Ship (live)
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> Human Elephant (live)
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> and DJs Markus Detmer & Torben Tilly
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> + staubgold 86 Jasmina Maschina - The Demolition Series cd/lp
>
> Binding the overpass between sensuality and stoicism, ephemera and the
> sublime, hesitation and intoxication, Jasmina Maschina's sonic folk
> soundscape transports you to the world of a familiar song that you are
> only too pleased to hear again. Her music glows with experience and
> feelings that are alien to none, and as yet imagines every part of human
> triviality to be unique and vital in its own subordinate way. It is the
> gorgeousness of the everyday.
>
> She melds the most simple and innocent chord progressions of
> time-honoured folk music with a noisenik's attraction to repetition,
> drone and inventiveness to create the sensation of paresthesia on the
> skin and mind.
>
> Lyrically, Jasmina Maschina lists the characters of the familiar and
> places them in the warm care of her imagination. The vocals resonate
> astonishment at the normal wonders of the world, an intensity of just
> being lucky enough to feel sensation and experience. They undertake the
> weight of human emotion with a flightful ease.
>
> "The Demolition Series" sounds like an effortless album. Soaring beauty,
> short rides to nowhere, characters met in the dark, are all in the
> experience of the artist. Purely, it is a clear view through steely eyes
> with a touch of innocent mysticism.
>
> Jasmina Machina currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany, is one
> half of the experimental electronic duo Minit and composes sound for
> installation and film. She composed, recorded and produced her first
> solo album, "The Demolition Series", at home. Guest musicians appear on
> the album; Torben Tilly (guitar), Jimmy Trash (melodica), Ari Benjamin
> Meyers (piano), Anthony Pieretti (drums) and Lucinda Dayhew (voice).
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> "Instead of focussing on world weariness she draws on the healing powers
> of good pop music."
> - Markus von Schwerin, Tip 16/06 Berlin
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> "Her brand of folk is classic and consists of soft harmonic ballads, yet
> she is not easily classifiable; another pulsating, hypnotic layer is
> always present."
> - Clarissa Lempp, Live Review, Trompete Berlin 20.4.07
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>
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> * * * MAPSTATION / PAUL WIRKUS: "Forest Full Of Drums" * * *
>
> + order from http://www.staubgold.com
>
> + pre-listen and download @ http://snipurl.com/forestfullofdrums
>
> + watch video @ http://snipurl.com/forestvideo
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>
> + staubgold 85 Mapstation / Paul Wirkus - Forest Full Of Drums lp
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> "Everything was already there. The trees, the wind, the birds, the muddy
> soil, the undergrowth, playing children, people taking walks, the
> distant hum of a motorway and airplanes above.
>
> We arrived there as beginners. We had to wait for the right weather, to
> look for a good spot, to practice patience, to carry the drum kit
> through the bush and to set it up and start playing and recording.
> Daylight was all that was needed.
> It had begun as a fantasy, a vague and simple picture that you carry
> with you. Derived from the joy of being outside in nature: a drum kit
> standing in a forest. What would it sound like if you play and record it
> there? The forest as a resonating space. A room where you are inside and
> outside at once. Sometimes it looks like a friendly home and at other
> times becomes an eerie sea.
>
> A space in which the ancient sounds of the world meet the sounds of
> civilization. If you stand in one spot it is difficult to recognize
> where the sounds are coming from and whom or what they belong to.
> Playing and recording there was very far from being in a perfectly
> controlled studio situation. First we started hitting the drums we
> brought and then later on we started picking up sticks and branches,
> tossing around big logs and becoming curious about what they would sound
> like. The forest had slowly changed our initial ideas in an elegant way.
> It enabled us to make music with just what we found and what was there.
> In the very moment that we wanted to do it, we simply had to dive into
> it, look underneath. Then the world became a bigger place than it was
> before."
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> Paul Wirkus: drums, cymbals, branches, leaves, air improvisations
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> Stefan Schneider (Mapstation): steps, recording, editing, mixing
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> * * * PEDAL cd out now: duo improvisations for two grand pianos * * *
>
> + order from http://www.staubgold.com
>
> + pre-listen and download @ http://snipurl.com/pedalalbum
>
>
> + staubgold 83 Pedal - Pedal cd
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> Pedal is Chris Abrahams (The Necks) and Simon James Phillips from
> Sydney/Australia. Beautifully recorded in a concert hall on two concert
> grands - these seven pieces have an emotional intensity, which
> transcends the minimalist form of their conception.
>
> "What are they thinking? These guys are doing a record of acoustic piano
> music in this day and age! And let me tell you something, my prejudice
> was totally crushed within the first minute of listening to this cd.
> Just when I was thinking two grand pianos, four hands have nothing to
> say in this 21st century...
>
> Yes, we have two grand pianos, four hands, and two brilliant minds!
> These musical soldiers are highly decorated. Both players were drawing
> from their unique musical gene pool. Every single piece of music on this
> recording was fully improvised. I was making little imaginary film clips
> in my head to all seven improvisations on this cd. A range of emotions
> was deeply felt.
>
> To borrow a phrase from Mr Ornette Coleman in relation to his view about
> the state of music in general... 'Beauty is a rare thing'. Well, here is
> that rare thing." (James Tsai, Fuse Music Group)
>
>
>
> * * * Staubgold DJ NIGHT @ PALOMABAR, Berlin * * *
>
> "no boundaries, just hot shit with love..."
>
> The monthly Staubgold dj night now every first Wednesday from 9pm at our
> favourite bar in Berlin-Kreuzberg!
>
> Next edition:
>
> Wednesday 7 May - 9pm
> @ Palomabar, Skalitzer 135 (Kottbusser Tor), Berlin
>
> featuring
>
> zeitblom (Pole/Heaven And)
> Markus Detmer (Klangwart/Staubgold)
>
> Free entry!
>
> http://www.myspace.com/thestaubgolds
>
>
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> * * * LIVE DATES * * *
>
>
> DJ MARKUS DETMER
>
> 24 april @ schokoladen, de- berlin
> 02 may @ mini midi festival, 2 kolegas bar, cn- beijing
> 07 may @ palomabar, de- berlin
> 04 june @ palomabar, de- berlin
>
> http://www.myspace.com/thestaubgolds
>
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> ---
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> LEAFCUTTER JOHN
>
> 25 april @ skif festival, ru- st petersburg
> 01 june @ the macbeth, uk- london
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>
> current album:
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> staubgold 68 the forest and the sea cd/lp
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> http://www.myspace.com/leafcutterjohn
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> ---
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> KLANGWART
>
> 02 may @ mini midi festival, 2 kolegas bar, cn- beijing
> 15 june @ synch festival, gr- athens
> 08 august @ off festival, pl- myslowice
>
>
> forthcoming:
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> staubgold 80 stadtlandfluss cd/lp
>
> http://www.myspace.com/klangwart
>
>
> ---
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> HARALD SACK ZIEGLER
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> 03 may @ tsunami club, de- cologne
> 31 may @ live looping festival, loft, de- cologne
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>
> Harald Sack Ziegler on Staubgold:
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> staubgold 28 kopf zahl bauch cd/lp
> staubgold 59 punkt cd
>
> forthcoming in 2008:
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> staubgold 89 sack & blumm: returns cd
>
> http://www.haraldsackziegler.de
>
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> ---
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> MINIT (Jasmine Guffond & Torben Tilly)
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> 15 may @ bang bang club, de- berlin (with spectrum aka sonic boom)
>
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> Jasmine Guffond and Torben Tilly on Staubgold:
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> staubgold 53 minit: now right here cd/lp
> staubgold 74 organ eye: organ eye cd/lp
> staubgold 86 jasmina maschina: the demolition series cd/lp
>
> http://www.myspace.com/minitmusic
>
>
> ---
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> KAMMERFLIMMER KOLLEKTIEF
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> 8 june @ jazz festival, de- worms
>
>
> current albums:
>
> staubgold 70 remixed cd
> staubgold 77 jinx cd/lp
>
> http://www.kammerflimmer.com
> http://www.myspace.com/kammerflimmerkollektief
>
>
>
> * * * FORTHCOMING RELEASES * * *
>
> staubgold 75 reuber - südpol lp
> (finally on vinyl, limited to 150 copies)
>
> staubgold 80 klangwart - stadtlandfluss cd/lp
>
> staubgold 84 klangwart - zwei cd/lp
> (re-issue of the klangstelle release, first time on cd)
>
> staubgold 87 heaven and
> - sweeter as the years roll by cd/lp (tony buck, steve
> heather, martin siewert, zeitblom, alexander hacke)
>
> staubgold 88 david last vs. zulu - musically massive ep 12"
>
> staubgold 89 sack & blumm - returns cd
>
> staubgold 90 rafael toral - space elements vol. 1 cd
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>
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