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A L'ARME! FESTIVAL

International festival for avant-garde jazz & vibrant experimental music in Berlin since 2012. An event by Louis Rastig & Karina Mertin (ABOUTNOW).

In cooperation with Radialsystem & Silent Green. Artistic Director — Louis Rastig
Concept Planning & Managing Director — Karina Mertin (ABOUTNOW)
Production — ABOUTNOW
Graphic & web design — Karolina Pietrzyk, Oliver Spieker & Tobias Wenig

Funded by the Senate Department For Culture & Social Cohesion. RADIALSYSTEM
Holzmarktstr. 33
10243 Berlin (S-Ostbahnhof)

www.alarmefestival.de

31/12/2024

💛 We share the memories of the A L‘ARME! 2024.
Thank you for 12 years together!

photos: julianeschuetz.com

20/12/2024

A L’ARME! FINALE HIGHLIGHTS 🟨 HAINO / SALVO / NILSSEN-LOVE *Premiere

The Japanese-Argentinian-Norwegian cooperation with vocals, guitar, baritone saxophone, and drums is characterized by their tendency to slowly build up tension – alternating with unpredictable outbursts.

The trio’s premiere wasn't about moving from a certain starting point to a pre-defined goal, but rather about seeing performance as an endless process. Every sound was an extension of the previous one and an impetus for the next.

Keiji Haino (JP)—electric guitar, vocals
Sofía Salvo (AR/DE)—baritone saxophone
P**l Nilssen-Love (NO)—drums

photos: julianeschuetz.com

19/12/2024

A L’ARME! FINALE HIGHLIGHTS 🟨 CASPAR BRÖTZMANN BASS TOTEM / AMADOU

Brötzmann is one of the most innovative electric guitarists of the last 40 years. With Bass Totem, he has dedicated himself to the raw, physical exploration of his “long scale electric bass.” At A L’ARME!, he prestented for the first time ever the Bass Totem composition “The Lovers and Destroyers,” which will also be released as an album.

The second part of the concert was dedicated to his – practically inevitable – collaboration with Farida Amadou. A self-taught bass player, Amadou has been working in a very similar tonal space for many years now, scanning the entire frequency spectrum of her instrument in search of its greatest energy potential. This electric bass summit was the duo’s first live performance in Berlin.

Caspar Brötzmann (DE)—long scale electric bass, vocals
Farida Amadou (BE)—electric bass

photos: julianeschuetz.com

13/12/2024

A L’ARME! FINALE HIGHLIGHTS 🟨 JOHANSSON / JELINEK

Sven-Åke Johansson is one of the heroes of the European free jazz scene of the 1960s. Now in his 80s, he remains active in a wide variety of contexts and collaborations.

Johannsson has been working with Jan Jelinek, a kindred spirit in the field of electronic music, since 2017. The pair’s core concept is to confront Johannsson’s drum playing, made up of simple, flowing, organically proliferating figures, with Jelinek’s modular synthesizer: the assumed regularity of machines with the small deficits of human action.

The duo combines two generations and two tonal languages that are linked by a shared sensibility. Johansson is imbued with the anarchist spirit of jazz and trusts in obscure, even absurd ideas, while Jelinek understands how to constantly recontextualize the micro-textures of rhythm and sound.

Sven-Åke Johansson (SE/DE)—percussion
Jan Jelinek (DE)—modular

photos: julianeschuetz.com

12/12/2024

A L’ARME! FINALE HIGHLIGHTS 🟨 BYETONE (raster)

Olaf Bender’s career started with the chance find of 16-mm film equipment when he was a young student living in Karl-Marx-Stadt. He saw film as a raw material begging to be manipulated, no matter how limited or simple the technical means may be.

A few years later, Bender applied this approach to the fields of music and design. As a member of the GDR avant-garde pioneers AG Geige, founder of the legendary art and sound platform raster, and with numerous collaborations and his solo project Byetone, Bender has challenged the foundations of perception again and again.

Byetone’s music is rhythmically suggestive and hypnotic, an overlapping of minimalism and rebellion that is extremely clear in terms of structures, but also shaped by its undeniable punk attitude.

Olaf Bender (DE)—modular AV

photos: julianeschuetz.com

11/12/2024

A L’ARME! FINALE HIGHLIGHTS 🟨 I LIKE TO SLEEP

Names can be deceiving. After all, everyone is guaranteed to be wide awake when I Like To Sleep sends the otherwise soothing sounds of a vibraphone through amplifiers and distortion pedals, placing them in the spotlight of their power-jazz-rock and electrifying their audience.

Since its founding in 2015, the trio from Trondheim is known as one of the most energetic and loudest bands on the Norwegian scene. Performances at the Roadburn Festival in the Netherlands and the Tampere Jazz Happening have undeniably confirmed this fact.

At the same time, however, Amund Storløkken Åse, Nicolas Leirtrø, and Øyvind Leite also work on commissioned pieces – for example for the Trondheim Jazz Orchestra – and have developed their own musical language with elements of free improvisation, prog rock influences, and a whole lot of intensity.

Amund Storløkken Åse (NO)—vibraphone, electronics
Nicolas Leirtrø (NO)—baritone guitar
Øyvind Leite (NO)—drums

photos: julianeschuetz.com

29/11/2024

A L’ARME! FINALE HIGHLIGHTS 🟨 ØKSE

The Mandelbrot set has the property of being self-similar in every sub-section and yet it is also always fractally broken up when viewed in detail. Savannah Harris, Petter Eldh, Val Jeanty, and Mette Rasmussen also move within these kinds of labyrinthine structures.

The quartet, which was founded by Harris and Rasmussen in 2022 for the Jazzfestival Saalfelden, combines complex parameter values of drums, bass, electronics, and saxophone and adds elements of free jazz, punk, Krautrock, and guttural vocal hymns.

The band’s name promises that none of this will sound overly mathematical for a single second, even against this theoretical background: Økse is the Danish word for “axe,” one of humanity’s oldest tools and one that, in case of doubt, can be used to break through any and every sonic knot.

Savannah Harris (US)—drums
Val Jeanty (US)—electronics
Mette Rasmussen (NO/DK)—alto saxophone
Petter Eldh (SE/DE)—double-bass, electric bass, electronics

photos: julianeschuetz.com

20/11/2024

A L’ARME! FINALE HIGHLIGHTS 🟨 GRISCHA LICHTENBERGER (RASTER)

Grischa Lichtenberger is a musician, sound designer, visual artist and performer. From the very beginning – his earliest music was released nearly 20 years ago – the virtuosity with which he operates his fleet of digital machines has been as impressive as his artistic vision and radicality. Harsh sounds find their counterweight in emotional depth. Glitchy, broken beats contrast with distorted voices and dramatic sound landscapes.

Most recently, his work has been commissioned by large dance companies like the Batsheva Dance Company, whose production “Last Work” featured music composed and produced by Lichtenberger.

After performing recently at A L’ARME! with a quartet (together with Philipp Gropper, Gaia Mattiuzzi, and Moritz Baumgärtner) aiming to dissect the structures of jazz.

Grischa Lichtenberger (DE) — electronics / AV

photos: julianeschuetz.com

13/11/2024

A L’ARME! FINALE HIGHLIGHTS 🟨 NAALJOS LJOM *Aftershow

It’s as if two travelling musicians from the early 19th century wandered into a techno club. The members of Naaljos Ljom move work the structures of Norwegian folklore and play corresponding instruments, while at the same time shifting the context and a few sound parameters along the way.

With their focus on tradition, Anders Hana and Morten Joh are working to expand deeply ingrained systems and routines: by finding harmonies, including outside of strict half-tone steps; in the broader microtonal space; and with irresistible, foot-stomping rhythms. All this based on their own unique signature sound, which has evolved out of the interplay of the mouth harp and the zither-like langeleik together with an electric guitar, synthesizers, and drum machines. Naaljos Ljom call it “folk-synth-dance music”.

Anders Hana (NO) — mouth harp, fiddle, Hardanger fiddle, langeleik
Morten Joh (NO) — analog synths, drum machine, Norwegian folk drum

photos: julianeschuetz.com

07/11/2024

A L’ARME! FINALE HIGHLIGHTS 🟨 GUDRUN GUT (Monika Enterprise)

Musician, label owner, and ambassador for unconventional music – Gudrun Gut is all these things and more. She has been a figure of Berlin’s subculture since the early 1980s as a member of bands like Mania D, Malaria!, and Matador; she created Oceanclub, which has held events around the world; she launched a radio show with Thomas Fehlmann on radioeins; and she has initiated countless collaborative musical projects with other artists.

She also shared a love of unusual music with Monika Döring, whom she met in 1982 when they both attended concerts at Loft. The central platform for many of these activities is her label Monika Enterprise, with which Gudrun Gut has made her vision of relevant, inspiring music a reality since 1997.

Another major platform has been her documentary series GUT, which is available online in the ARD Mediathek.

Gudrun Gut (DE)—electronics, voice

photos: julianeschuetz.com

29/10/2024

A L’ARME! FINALE HIGHLIGHTS🟨 ANTUMBRA: STEMESEDER–LILLINGER

STEMESEDER – LILLINGER is an electro-acoustic field of tension. Floating freely and without genre designations, the producer duo inhabits myriad border regions of contemporary music, focusing on sonic,compositional and thematic multidimensionality. With ANTUMBRA, the award-winning artists to expand their body of work. Procedural methods employed in their previous works PENUMBRA and UMBRA are revisited, newly assembled, integrated and expanded. Plucked, percussive and electronic instruments, references to sample culture, serialism or folk musics, and the elaborate post-production work imbue ANTUMBRA with its enormous richness of color, sonic saturation and utopian vision. To STEMESEDER– LILLINGER: ANTUMBRA (pre-shadow; from Latin ante, “before“, the region from which the occulting body appears entirely within the disc of the light source) is the realization of another visibility of what has not yet been shown and seen.

Elias Stemeseder (AT/DE) — synthesizer, electronics
Christian Lillinger (DE) — drums, electronics

photos: julianeschuetz.com

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