GORRRRILLA MASK!!!!

I have to announce this today since there are only a few days left until the terrorisingly powerful trio GORILLA MASK is performing in Berlin! 

This SUNDAY, MAY 20th they are playing as an opening band at NAHERHOLUNG. This is a really cool place situated in Berlin Mitte behind the movie theatre “Kino International”. It’s not super easy to find so check out this link where you can have a clear view of how to get there: http://www.naherholung-sternchen.de/contact.php and you will find it very easily!

They play at 9PM and the next band plays something else. Don’t really know much about them. But they are from Austria I think… Anyhow… Peter Van Huffel’s GORILLA MASK includes the following musicians: 

Peter Van Huffel – alto sax

Roland Fidezius – double bass (with effects… very cool!!)

Rudi Fischerlehner – drums

Charlotte & Mr. Stone: I, POLITICIAN

Das BEN FAKE ORCHESTER stellt “MACHT MUSIK” vor, eine künstlerische sowie performative Auseinandersetzung mit Propaganda, Re-Volution und De-Monstration, von StudentInnen des Studiengangs Europäische Medienwissenschaft (FH Potsdam/Uni Potsdam).

Ich freue mich, mit Simon Vincent eine neue Seite unserer Gruppe “Charlotte and Mr. Stone” zu zeigen. I, POLITICIAN ist durch Stéphane Hessels “Indignez-vouz!” inspiriert.

Das Abendprogramm:

Ben Fake Orchester:
MACHT MUSIK

Fan Dango

SPIN. TAUGHT.

Charlotte & Mr. Stone:
I, POLITICIAN.

Datum: 03.05.12
Ab: 20:00
Eintritt €8/5
Wabe, Danziger Str. 101, 10405 Berlin

www.wabe-berlin.de

First a few good nieuws: I will be performing with the Folk/Tassignon Quartet in Bamberg and Nürnbegr on March 24th & 25th. We are very much looking forward to these two concerts. And we will also be playing later this year in Zürich at Moods, a very special place in Switzerland. Looking forward to the chocolate as well…

More info about these concerts on my website: www.sophietassignon.be.

Now I would like to invite you to a special concert of a band with which I have recorded last year a number of terrific songs and improvisations. My co-leader is saxophonist Peter Van Huffel and we will present the recorded music to the public on March 9th at Jazzclub Schlot in Berlin. This place is not directly in the centre but it is easily accessible per public transport and most of all, the sound in there is amazing! The club also has a nice and warm vibe so I hope to see many of you there…

Sophie Tassignon & Peter Van Huffel’s HOUSE OF MIRRORS

Sophie Tassignon – voice, compositions
Peter Van Huffel – soprano sax, clarinet, compositions
Julie Sassoon – piano
Miles Perkin – bass

FRIDAY, MARCH 9th, 2012 @ 21:00

Kunstfabrik-Schlot

Edisonhöfe – Chausseestrasse 18
Zugang über Schlegelstrasse 26
10115 Berlin

http://www.kunstfabrik-schlot.de/

For more band info:

www.reverbnation.com/houseofmirrorsmusic

March 9th at JAZZCLUB SCHLOT (Berlin)

First a few good nieuws: I will be performing with the Folk/Tassignon Quartet in Bamberg and Nürnbegr on March 24th & 25th. We are very much looking forward to these two concerts. And we will also be playing later this year in Zürich at Moods, a very special place in Switzerland. Looking forward to the chocolate as well…

More info about these concerts on my website: www.sophietassignon.be.

Now I would like to invite you to a special concert of a band with which I have recorded last year a number of terrific songs and improvisations. My co-leader is saxophonist Peter Van Huffel and we will present the recorded music to the public on March 9th at Jazzclub Schlot in Berlin. This place is not directly in the centre but it is easily accessible per public transport and most of all, the sound in there is amazing! The club also has a nice and warm vibe so I hope to see many of you there…

Sophie Tassignon & Peter Van Huffel’s HOUSE OF MIRRORS

Sophie Tassignon – voice, compositions
Peter Van Huffel – soprano sax, clarinet, compositions
Julie Sassoon – piano
Miles Perkin – bass

FRIDAY, MARCH 9th, 2012 @ 21:00

Kunstfabrik-Schlot

Edisonhöfe – Chausseestrasse 18
Zugang über Schlegelstrasse 26
10115 Berlin

http://www.kunstfabrik-schlot.de/

For more band info:

www.reverbnation.com/houseofmirrorsmusic

Thursday – experimental electro acoustic music… all ears open…

Charlotte & Mr. Stone, live @ W(h)at is Jazz
26.1.12, 9pm
Venue: Kaffee Sternchen, Berolinastrasse 7 (U-Bahn Schillingstrasse), Berlin. (to find it easily: http://www.naherholung-sternchen.de/contact.php)

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http://www.naherholung-sternchen.de/ http://whatisjazz.de/

CHARLOTTE & MR. STONE featuring Sophie Tassignon (voice, loopstation) and Simon Vincent (electronics).

Coming together in April 2009 to record their first material, Sophie Tassignon (voice/loopstation) and Simon Vincent (electronics) present in their debut album “Trees and Birds and Beautiful Things” a highly personal and distinctive musical language comprising stunning soundscapes, deep, resonant and granular textures.

Their music is at once dynamic and electronic yet also highly lyrical and at times even romantic, displaying the command that both have of their respective instruments.

Don’t miss the Folk-Tassignon Quartet @ the B-Flat in Berlin

I am very excited about this upcoming concert as Susanne Folk and I don’t often play in Berlin. We have just received our last recorded tracks finally mixed and hope the CD will be released soon. We will perform the songs of our new CD on Sunday the 22nd of January at the B-Flat (Rosenthalerstr. 13 – Berlin – 9.00pm) and probably we’ll have a new song ready by then as well… So don’t miss it…

With the sound of a chamber music ensemble and a unique instrumental formation, the Folk-
Tassignon Quartet creates a musical ambience that one can only fall in love with!

The compositions of Belgian singer Sophie Tassignon and American-German saxophonist/clarinetist Susanne Folk tell stories, depict unbelievable images, retrace the secret of time,
and delve into a wide range of emotions.
The music is refined and tenderly arranged for voice, two wind instruments and
double bass; and it explores all facets of the four solo instruments.

The listener is free to be carried away by the powerful group sound, or to follow the stories being sung; to decipher the melodic lines of the individual voices, or to be carried by the senses into the captivating rhythmic pulses, which are built through Folk and Tassignon’s intricate arrangements, and which often create the feeling that a fifth band member is present on drums. 

It is easy to find an array of musical elements in the writing of Folk and Tassignon – who both have a love of mixing musical textures and styles such as tango, reggae and swing – and to walk away from their music with a feeling of fulfilling enjoyment and surprise. 

Inter and Outersoup last Sunday

On Sunday night I played with my project Charlotte and Mr. Stone at a really strange little place in Berlin’s Prenzlauerberg, called Intersoup. Ironically the place had been broken into only hours before the show, and has a few questionable aspects (such as electrical wires dangling in front of the concert room doors); however Canadian saxophonist Peter Van Huffel and German saxophonist Frank Paul Schubert opened our CD release concert performing four improvised saxophone duets, using alternatively the alto and the soprano saxophone. It was a great pleasure to be taken away by these two lines of melodies entangled or separated, sometimes creating multi phonics, and delving into many possible sound textures. Simon and I were then inspired to explore some new sound textures with our electronic material.

The next concert will be held in Berlin on January 26th and here is an article of another concert we did in Berlin last month, which describes quite well the music Simon and I perform: http://schönschrift.org/artikel/charlotte-mr-stone-giggeln-glucksen-schmunzeln-schrecken/ It is in German though….

20. November 2011 – CD RELEASE PARTY!!

Next Sunday Simon Vincent and I are presenting our first CD, “Trees, Birds & Beautiful Things” released on the british label VISIONOFSOUND. There will be a concert at a very nice cafe here in Berlin. We also have an opening band: a saxophone duet. All the info is below…

CD – release Party

INTERSOUP
Schliemannstraße 31
10437 Berlin

20. November @ 9pm

PETER VAN HUFFEL / FRANK PAUL SCHUBERT DUO

Peter Van Huffel: alto and soprano saxphone
Frank Paul Schubert: alto and soprano saxphone

CHARLOTTE AND MR. STONE – new CD!!

Sophie Tassignon: voice and loops
Simon Vincent : live electronics

the event…

a few shots taken by Delphine Donzé – www.lignegraphique.ch during the performance of Cobra led by Nathan Fuhr last Friday at Mica Moca in Berlin:

Thanks, Delphine!

Marcel Martin (Gitarre) -
Anna Kaluza (Saxophon)
Rui Faustino (Schlagzeug)
Julius Gabriel (Saxophon)
Peter van Huffel (Saxophon)
Sophie Tassignon (Voice)
Ali Berkok (Piano)
Hoschiko Yamane (Violine)
Ulf Mengersen (Kontrabass)
Ritsche Koch (Trompete)
Roland Satterwhite (Gitarre, Violine, Voice)
Colin Hacklander (Drums, Percussion)
Masaya Hijikata (Drums)
Nathan Fuhr (Prompter, Bass Gitarre)

first COBRA experience at MicaMoca tomorrow night!

I am very excited about tomorrow’s performance at MicaMoca, a great venue in Berlin- Wedding. Here you will find the info and a little explanation:

Friday, August 5th

concert @ 21:00
5€
Mica Moca Project Berlin

Lindower Strasse 22, S/U Wedding

13347 Berlin, Germany

Berlin Cobra No. 08
initiated & curated by Marcel Martin and Anna Kaluza

an improvisation ritual laboratory by Nathan Fuhr
point of departure: a game-piece by John Zorn
…(and in his absence, thus, respectfully, “renegade”)

Berlin Cobra is a concert series which has been a product of the city’s creative music scene since 2005. Each edition is initiated & curated by a different participating musician who assembles their dream-team band of ca. 12 diverse players to learn & perform Cobra, the infamous & controversial “game piece” invented by the supremely iconoclastic composer John Zorn. The concerts are directed by Nathan Fuhr, who performed in Cobra with Zorn himself in New York, and transmits the system to the participants in workshop form. Berlin Cobra is officially “renegade” Cobra, as it is not in the presence of Zorn. And naturally, Fuhr, a classically-trained conductor who also works in dance & with trance, channels a plurality of other influences– transdisciplinary & especially transcultural– with his own style: a subtle language of sculpting synergy and an ever-expanding codified physical language which are the foundations of his current project, Demonshaker.

Marcel Martin (Gitarre) – www.myspace.com/marcelmart​in
Anna Kaluza (Saxophon) – www.myspace.com/berlinio
Rui Faustino (Schlagzeug) – www.rui-faustino.com
Julius Gabriel (Saxophon) – www.myspace.com/whatawaste​ofbeauty
Peter van Huffel (Saxophon) – www.petervanhuffel.com/
Ali Berkok (Piano) – www.arkana-music.com/
Hoschiko Yamane (Violine) – www.myspace.com/hossiek0vn
Ulf Mengersen (Kontrabass) – www.myspace.com/berlinio
Ritsche Koch (Trompete) – www.ritschekoch.com
Roland Satterwhite (Gitarre, Violine, Voice) – www.benedekrecords.com
Colin Hacklander (Drums, Percussion) – www.capact.com
Sophie Tassignon (Voice) – www.sophietassignon.be
Masaya Hijikata (Drums) – www.mi-kuni.com/people.htm​l
Nathan Fuhr (Prompter, Bass Gitarre) – www.urbanrituals.org, www.impulstanz.com/archive​/artist/1089/en/

Taking a geometric cue from certain traditions of theater and ritual, the 14 of us will work with(in) the energetic wisdom of a full circle formation, around which you will be able to take a seat or move freely. Thanks to Mica Moca for accommodating the space redesign.

In addition to Cobra, we aim to also include realizations of improv schemes by Pauline Oliveros (sonic meditation), Fred Frith (photo score), and Fuhr himself (15-way-street circle conduction) in the flow. Each a different codified language of improvisation, all a nest for the exploration of languages of energy and synergy…