An evening consisting of two concerts by top-tier musical artists in Poland. Wac!!!u0142aw Zimpel will perform with premiere material from the album 'Lines' released by the Krakow label Instant Classic, while the second part of the evening will be a great opportunity to get acquainted with the solo work of Kuba Zio!!!u0142ek, nominated for the Paszporty award by Polityka magazine.
Wac!!!u0142aw Zimpel draws from all musical worlds he has been moving in for years, through various projects and bands. He intertwines American minimal music, the Indian rag system, jazz, and classical music. To build multi-layered polyphonies, he uses a looper, which allows layering successive melodic lines, evoking the thought of the Renaissance canons of Ockeghem and the compositions of Steve Reich. As in his previous projects, Zimpel presents a rich instrumentation. In addition to clarinets, 70s analog organs, and piano, he uses folk instruments from various cultures - the Laotian khaen, Indian algoza, alikwot flutes from the Carpathians, and the Ukrainian trombita.
'Kuba Zio!!!u0142ek' is another solo project by Kuba Zio!!!u0142ek after Stara Rzeka. This time, the musician partially abandons static clouds of drones and whispers, and tries to tackle the sounds of 6 and 12-string acoustic guitars connected to folk guitar effects - mainly from Taiwan and China. He complements this with an irrational addition of electronic overlays, to make it trendy and in his own voice, to make it pleasant. Kuba Zio!!!u0142ek is an artist known primarily from the Stara Rzeka project, whose two previous albums have been well received both domestically and abroad, as evidenced by words of recognition and high rankings in the charts of newspapers and portals such as: Gazeta Wyborcza, Polityka, TMobile-Music, Tygodnik Powszechny, The Quietus, Tiny Mix Tapes, Scaruffi. A symbolic summary of his musical activity was the nomination for the Paszporty Polityki award in the popular music category. The artist performs successfully in various formations and with various ensembles (including Innercity Ensemble, Alameda 3, Ed Wood, Hokei, Tâien Lai, Kapital) all over the world. He has performed in London, Liverpool, Istanbul, Barcelona, Sao Paulo, and New York.
Author meeting with Marcin Borchardt - 'The Avant-Garde of Music at the End of the 20th Century Part 1' / Film screening 'Imagine a World Without Music' [Against Gravity] Thu. 03.02.2016, 19:00, free admission
Nowhere else could this meeting have greater significance. We are extremely pleased that on a stage that has hosted around 500 concerts, including avant-garde music, we will have the opportunity to clarify a few matters. This will be made possible by the presence of Marcin Borchardt, the author of the book 'The Avant-Garde of Music at the End of the 20th Century. A Handbook for Beginners. Part 1' and the cultural animator Przemek Rydzewski, who will lead the meeting. After the meeting, we invite you to a screening of the exceptional film, the winner of the Nos Chopina competition at the Docs Against Gravity FF in 2015 - 'Imagine a World Without Music' directed by Stefan Schwietert.
Published by the W Podw!!!u00f3rku publishing house, and written in the form of a popular science guide, Borchardt's book is a testament to the revolutionary changes in thinking about music that occurred after World War II. In the first part, divided into three volumes, the author focuses on four topics: the inventions and experiments of John Cage; concrete music and Pierre Schaeffer's struggles with the canon of re mi; the history of early electronic music, especially the issues of mechanization, electrification, and mathematization of music from Pythagoras to the early 70s; and the presentation of the profiles of four minimalists (La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich, Philip Glass), whose compositions captivated American musicians at the end of the last century. Each chapter is accompanied by a synthetic 'Guide' to the most important compositions and recordings of individual artists. The aim of the book is to promote new music and fill the gap in Polish literature regarding publications popularizing contemporary avant-garde music, both in its philharmonic and underground incarnation.
Marcin Borchardt is a director of documentaries, commercials, and music videos. He is a director of television programs. He teaches aesthetics of short feature films at the Gdynia Film School and the Planet+Doc Academy at the Faculty of Philology at the University of GdaÅsk in GdaÅsk. He popularizes 20th-century avant-garde in music and film.
PrzemysÅaw Rydzewski - born in 1982 in Gdynia. Cultural animator. Fascinated by literature, music, and documentary film. His articles on alternative music and jazz can be found in Gazeta Wyborcza and on the Trojmiasto.pl portal. He regularly collaborates with the Artistic Quarterly Bliza. He initiates activities in the Tri-City against Gravity, the organizer of the largest documentary film festival in Poland - DOCS AGAINST GRAVITY FF. He also co-organizes the GDYNIA Literary Award and its accompanying festival - Miasto SÅowa. He is a PhD student at the Faculty of Philology at the University of GdaÅsk.
'Imagine a World Without Music' (eng. Imagine Waking Up Tomorrow and All Music Has Disappeared) directed by Stefan Schwietert. Grand Prize winner of the Nos Chopina competition at the Docs Against Gravity festival in 2015.
The main character of this documentary film is Bill Drummond - in the 80s and 90s, co-founder of the punk band Big In Japan and acid-pop band KLF, writer, former celebrity, philosopher, activist, producer, manipulator, a man who burned a million pounds in cash and threatened his audience with a machine gun, a promoter of the idea of No Music Day, in recent years dedicating himself to the enigmatic project K17. This utopian, stretched over many years choir project creates music by rejecting musical tradition, melodic words, and rhythm. Drummond travels across the UK, recording people he encounters who emit, shout, mumble, and grunt very different sounds. The whole is mixed, muffled in the background, and... forever erased from the computer's memory. K17 enjoys popularity all over the world - Drummond has realized it in places like Beijing, Jerusalem, Port-au-Prince, and Gothenburg. The film is a story about radical searching for freedom - Drummond is able to erase the entire musical past from which he could draw profits to this day. For years, he has banned any reissues of KLF hits, systematically fighting to remove his work from the Internet. Obsessed with the ideas of being-in-the-present, true encounters with other people, and 'pure' sounds, he does not cash in on his past, constantly searching for new solutions and inspirations.
Art workshops for children MUSIC FOR LITTLE ONES Sat. 06.02.2016, 12:00-15:00, free admission
We invite you to workshops for creating musical instruments. Using unnecessary items, we will create fantastic rattles, drums, and shakers. Then we will decorate them according to our own ideas, and at the end of the workshop, we will use them for joint music-making! :)
The project 'Dot in a Dot...' was created out of the desire to share this with the youngest explorers, and also from the belief that together we can achieve more! Our workshops will help develop your child's manual skills, introduce them to various artistic techniques, and provide great fun at the same time :) During the workshop, each participant will learn how to creatively use seemingly unnecessary items, such as toilet paper rolls, cardboard boxes, old newspapers, or plastic caps. We want to teach children a creative perspective on the world around us. Each session is unique, and the children's creations can be taken home.
Conducted by: Dorota Pasek and Katarzyna Cecot - graduates of the Academy of Fine Arts and the Pedagogical Studies in Warsaw.
Concert Joe McPhee & Chris Corsano [US] Sun. 07.02.2016, 20:30, admission 35 PLN Saxophonist Joe McPhee, a legendary figure, one of the most respected musicians/improvisers in the world, and outstanding drummer Chris Corsano, who collaborates daily with Paul Flaherty, Thurston Moore, Nels Cline, Mats Gustafsson, and Björk, will perform on 07.02.2016 at the only concert in Poland at 'Pardon, To Tu'.
Chris Corsano - American drummer and improviser, also called 'the new hope of drumming'. He was born in 1975 in Englewood, New Jersey. He has been active on club stages as a musician since the late 1970s. Since 2001, he has collaborated with the famous saxophonist and improviser Paul Flaherty. He has recorded and performed alongside Joe McPhee, Wally Shoup, Thurston Moore, and Jim O'Rourke from Sonic Youth, Nels Cline, Massimo Pupillo (Zu), Mats Gustafsson, Akira Sakata, Darin Gray. In 2007, he performed with Björk promoting her album 'Volta'. He is also a member of the band Rangda - along with Sir Richard Bishop and Ben Chasny. He is one of the most sought-after drummers of the younger generation, possessing impeccable technique and full of creative invention.
Too Many Fireworks at Pardon To Tu â IndieTalks Tue. 16.02.2016, 19:00, free admission
A discussion and networking event held 4 times a year in Warsaw dedicated to the independent music industry. The label Too Many Fireworks, the club Pardon, To Tu, and Radio Kampus invite you to lectures and discussion panels, during which artists and people from the broadly understood music industry will present various aspects of their activities and discuss the hottest topics concerning the Polish independent scene. We warmly invite both those involved in music-related activities and fans - we hope that the format of open discussion about ideas and problems will contribute to the integration of the music community. 'Do It Yourself: How to Build a Scene?' is the first installment of the IndieTalks series, where we will consider how organizing and promoting concerts and events can build a community of musicians and artists.
They will present material from their joint album released by Mack Avenue 'Rooms'. Two musicians - 4 guitars. Cline - who plays daily in the rock band Wilco, improvising with Tim Berne and Jim Black in BB&C, co-creating Mischief & Mayhem with Jenny Scheinman - chose 2 Gibsons: a 1965 Barney Kessel and a 3-year-younger acoustic instrument J-200. His younger colleague Julian Lage will reach for his own guitar, made especially for him by Linda Manzer, and a 1939 Martin 000-18. The album was recorded live - Lage plays in the left channel, Cline in the right. Guitarist Nels Cline, often playing with the excellent trio Medeski Martin & Wood, Sonic Youth musicians, and artists like Charlie Haden, has always moved almost on the edge of jazz music, balancing between Brazilian rhythms and electronics-infused fusions with rock. After the fifth album in the artist's discography, named in 1988 by Rolling Stone magazine as the 'new god of guitar': 'Macroscope' (2014), ironically branded as The Nels Cline Singers (which band performed at Pardon To Tu at the beginning of 2015), it is time for the acoustic, intimate face of the guitarist. Julian Lage is today one of the most interesting young guitarists, called the successor of Pat Metheny. In his musical CV, he has collaborated with jazz guitar icon Jim Hall, vibraphone virtuoso Gary Burton, Joshua Bell, and Yoko Ono. Born in California, he began learning to play the guitar at the age of five. Two years later, he was already performing publicly as a child prodigy. He studied classical and jazz music at several universities. When he was 12, he received an offer to collaborate with Gary Burton, with whom he recorded two albums. He has performed with Nnenna Freelon, Herbie Hancock, and Charles Lloyd. At the age of 21, he debuted with the outstanding album 'Sounding Point', for which he received a Grammy nomination. - 'I have always believed that music is more a part of nature than something that can be subjected to my control. Lessons are not just exercises and music; they are also inspiring, dynamic relationships with people,' says the guitarist. Thanks to this, he does not dominate with virtuosity, although his improvisations delight every connoisseur of this instrument. https://soundcloud.com/nelsclinehq/nels-cline-julian-lage-blues
Art workshops for children PROJECT: POSTER Sat. 20.02.2016, 12:00-15:00, free admission We invite children to art workshops for little designers, during which we will design and then create posters on a chosen topic. Colorful paints and markers will be waiting for you on site. We will design posters on sheets of paper, and what then? Then the finished posters can hang on the wall :)
The duo Grandbrothers consists of Erol Sarp - a jazz pianist and Lukas Vogel - a synthesizer designer. Live, they combine the classical sound of the piano with electronics, experimental music, and ambient. They define their sound as 'the fusion of piano with a drum machine'. Lukas built a special system of hammers that strike Erol's piano, controlled by a specially written application. The duo debuted with the EP Ezra last year, while at the end of February, their full-length album Dilaltion was released. Their short career has been supported from the beginning by Gilles Peterson, who regularly played the single Ezra Was Right in his show and included it in one of his compilations. Concert Tobias Delius & Christian Lilinger [DE]
Sun. 28.02.2016, 20:30, admission 25 PLN
Tobias Delius - (born 1964, Oxford, GB) British saxophonist, one of the leading representatives of the Berlin improvised music scene. He began playing the tenor saxophone when he moved to the Ruhrgebiet in Germany. During his stays in Mexico and Amsterdam, he developed his unique style. He has collaborated with many musicians from all over the world. He is the leader of an internationally recognized quartet with Han Bennink, Joe Williamson, and Tristan Honsinger, with whom he has been performing for over 20 years.
Christian Lillinger, born in 1984 in Lübben, Germany. He started playing the drums at the age of thirteen, studied under Günter 'Baby' Sommer in Dresden from 2000-2004. From 2001-2003, he was a member of 'Bujazzo' under the direction of Peter Herbholzheimer. In 2000, he won the International Improvisation Competition in Leipzig. Since 2002, he has been intensively collaborating with the group Hyperactive Kid. In 2008, he created his own band, Grund. He performs as a soloist and is a member of groups such as Joachim Kühn Trio, Rolf Kühn Quartet, Vierergruppe Gschlöss, E und U Mann, Ember, Duo Sommer, and Duo Lillinger, Schmittmenge Meier, The Vanguard, Wanja Slavin Quartet, Wanja Slavin Sextet, John Schröder Quartet, Tobias Delius Trio, Spoom. He has also played with musicians such as Gerd Dudek, Mederic Collingnon, Claudio Puntin, Rudi Mahall, John Schröder, Mack Goldsbury, Jonas Westergaard, Daniel Erdmann, Hendrik Walsdorff, Gebhard Uhllmann, Ernst Ludwig Petrowski, Urs Leimgruber, Günther 'Baby' Sommer, Paulo Cardoso, Manfred Schoof, Claudio Puntin, Simon Nabatov, Tobias Delius, Frank Gratkowski, and Axel Dörner, Barre Phillips, Alexander von Schlippenbach. Since 2003, Lillinger has been living in Berlin, working as a musician and composer.
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