The Optimal record shop and club invite two concerts:Saturday, 28 April 2012, 20h
30 years presents optimal:ERIC ARROW
"Come, let's take a drum in the snow" - readingOptimal record shop, Kolosseumstr. 6
Rocko
Schamoni called him "one of the best music critics in this country" and
said: "His book has made me curious about pop music again." Said book is beautifully titled "Come, let's take a drum in the snow." In
it the author tells FAZ revered cult times hilarious, at times surreal,
psychedelic kind of trembling, sometimes with passion about his
adventures in the strange world of pop music.
He
goes on holiday with Morrissey, tasted strange drugs, goes to costume
parties with the Beatles and James Blunt wants everything bad in this
world. The
intro magazine writes: "As far as the balance between serenity and
extravagance, gallows humor and deadly seriousness, Arrow has the hang
of it. He makes his subject so well. Yes, better than many others. "
In an interview with Eric arrow cleaning Jellen.
Q: Mr. Arrow, write concert reviews, which are better without a doubt the U.S. concerts himself. How does it work? What kind of meditation that mental exercise, which studies literature, which potion can recommend us to this?
A: Thanks for the Geblüm! I'm
using an ancient potion of enthusiasm, prejudice, curiosity,
Nachurteilen, Zirzenischen joy and a small admixture of alcohol. Studying this helps a little. What I really want to paint a picture, although I am not really matter who is there now just to paint. As long as the people on the stage as types are to grasp, it's fun. Bad are really just the concerts, where absolutely nothing happens. There is also a musician, to whom one can not go more than once. These include people such as James Blunt, Katy Perry, as well as forest and meadow-like indie rockers Mando Diao.
Q:
We as Northern Soul fans, with The Jam, grew up Squeeze and Elvis
Costello, to then swing to the heights of a Burt Bacharach, Scott Walker
and Brian Wilson comes up when listening to newer British bands
sometimes the feeling of a subtle cultural pessimism, thank God you do not share. What kind of message makes you discover the music of younger artists to your letter so merrily and nimbly?
A: Oh, this cultural pessimism affects me even now and then. And
yes, I am now of opinion that can not hurt a bit cultural pessimism,
for all the soon-reflexive, controlled enthusiasm soon cry. I
also feel more comfortable if the music sounds senile Super composers
and songwriters can strap on your high-uncles, the guitars. But there are always great young bands, with "young" is relative, of course. I liked but also as a young boy, no music, which is too bubbly "young". And everything is too close to the so-called "cutting edge" bores me anyway. A bit premature senescence is not harmful. I like young bands that sound a bit oldish - and gives it over again, because the boy is fascinated by the ancients. Just me Brian Lopez of Tucson and the Briton James Levy & The Blood Red Nose very much. Or yes, panic, where is the Elderly, the youngest, yes.
Q:
Obviously, you feel no disgust at the German popp rock stretching a la
Udo Lindenberg, Wolfgang Heinz-Rudolf Kunze and Niedecken. At the same time you appreciate the work of quite peculiar looking like Jochen Bard Distelmeyer and Jan Delay. Can you explain the reasons for your kindness Sibylline something?
A: To put it in the characteristic style of playing for time talk show politicians: We must differentiate you! First: to sing with a German accent is not easy, you can hear that in the many that make it so depressingly bad. I
was always interested in what you can do with the German language, not
least because I write myself and I feel much closer to song writers as
poets. In addition: I grew up with this early-eighties German rock nonsense. The shapes, whether I like it or not. And
so I'll probably all my life remain soft and receptive to the early
work of skeptical eyed gentlemen Niedecken and Kunze, who have taken
both approaches, Nice. Both late work is mostly scary, but only at the margins. Lindenberg I mean, aside from a few individual songs, there is nothing but a brand. In
Beyonce's is similar: Musically, I am interested in about the same as
snowboarding or peat, but the inconsistency of this type is not
uninteresting. And Distelmeyer - in addition to Funny van Dannen and Hans-Eckart Wenzel - German my favorite lyricist. He is also a very interesting, because mature and edgy stage character.
Q: Do you have journalistic role models? We believe in your book, for example read out a kind of quiet admiration for the blessed Clara Drechsler to have ....
A:
As a model I would not call Clara Drechsler directly, but I've read
your article very much like Spex because they had delusions and humor. To
Ms. Drechsler me in the eighties but more impressed that here in
Cologne, the first ever concert began after they had entered store. I also like to read Wolfgang world, but again, I would not talk about role models. I actually have really influenced more musicians here, especially my hero, the English singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock. As a perspective and a sound that is ultimately a worldview that shaped me, and doubt if that can be read out.
Q: How would you outline for your world view and that has to do with your favorite pop music?
A: I am inclined to understand the world as an absurd place. This is not particularly original, is added. It
does show how I got music (or art in general) look: I am moved by it
just to watch people while trying to create the midst of a Gestöbers of
futility and counter to the Beballerung with close lying and banal
beauty and sense pin end, also if they overstretch oneself is this desperate. Often it is this failure that this thing makes me so touching, because we would then again at the German Rock. Or when Prog And if someone really something bewitching works, then I get very small and amazed. There are songs in which something may occur to me, because songs are for me the artistic unit in general. It
may sound simple, but if someone in three minutes and twenty seconds
explaining something about the world - and if there is another
explanation of their inexplicable - then I'm blown away.
Q: Do you think that politics is important in pop music?
A: All "Important" scares me. I think it is inevitable. As love.
Q: But the love is just a classic topic in pop music!
A: Yes, I also believe that politics is fairly classic.
Q: So ... is the policy as anything in pop music classic in good hands?
A: I think so, although I prefer love songs and I just can not think of a political favorite song.
Q: Hmmm. They are not communists schonmal. Are you at least for Catholics?
A: Of course. That probably explains my love for a) Dylan and b) the Italian pop in general, and Adriano Celentano in particular. Now I remember a political but a favorite song: "Prisencolinensinaiciusol" by Celentano. But yes Celentano has also made more political songs than Italian cheeses.
Q: Celentano is of course a comrade ...
A:
But I could well imagine that even a Communist - provided he is also an
esthete - offense on many political songs might take
Q: Of course.!
The
most horrible songs like "Joanna" by Eddy Grant's "Imagine," "Blowin
'In The Wind" (sorry!) and "We Shall Overcome" are all meant
politically. Here, the "break the soft water of the stone" to better classes such as the German political Schunkler á la. As one of the nuclear death appears again as a consolation
A:. For this I recommend Heinz Rudolf Kunze "I am against peace".
Q: Touché! Now the question at the end: How do you envision as a Catholic music critics as hell and heaven?
A: Oh, the hell that is so hard to imagine, because the earthly reality is already so filled with terror. So
I can not say that singing in hell louder Schluffi German boys with
Xavier Naidoo-para-sensitive voice songs, which is often reported as of
perplexity and confusion, and continuously the word "somehow" falls.
But I'm not a good Catholic. So I am waiting in heaven matters not the hereafter. Prince
has once responded to my presence on the same question: "How fucking
again am I supposed to know what's going on in heaven for music?". Then he pulled apart the interviewer's question list. But I'm not Prince. I leave myself to the thought experiment and others suggest a mixtape with Sinatra, Dylan, Hitchcock, Morricone, Gainsbourg, the Flaming Lips, Celentano and Sam Cooke before. And of course Prince.
Saturday, April 28, 2012
Friday, April 27, 2012
Anesthesia complacent?
The exhibition and preview of O.R. Orpheus
invite the visitor to cross-border change between reality and fantasy,
ancient and present and between beautiful and ugly. While
Orpheus descends into the underworld to search for Eurydice, the
visitor climbs the musical-theater room installation down into the
vaults of deep-raid shelter in the Luisenstraße.
Here, deep under the earth, then suddenly you find yourself back in the sterile world of a surgical theater. The unique installation space of the project, a collection of paired parts of walk-film set with video animations and simulations that numbs the senses and sends the visitor to the musical and theatrical journey through a maze. Like Orpheus in Hades is wrong with that expectant self worlds of hope and disappointment, aesthetics, and deformation.
The interactive musical theater combines modern and futuristic concepts, such as Augmented Reality (extension of the perception of reality by means of digital media), the alternate reality game (one of several media back inter-play multi-player where blurring the line between real experiences and imaginary events is) and the Mobile Storytelling (connection between media and reality world using QR codes). Aesthetically ORPHEUS oriented in its decor and color scheme of the 50er/60er years as well as modern computer games.
A spectacular preview before you to Hades, or other worlds or spheres up or goes down there on 4/28/2012, to be seen in the context of the Long Night of Munich's music in the bar at the Corleone Sendlinger Gate 7th place. 20h to day trans-border 3h.
Evelyn Hriberseks ORPHEUS, a mix of surreal and futuristic images, siren-like compositions and personal and / or collective theater experience. Premiere 30.05.12, 17:45-22h, Rodeo.Von 31.05-24.06.12 daily (except Mondays) from 12:45-23h, deep bunker Luis Street, 15, - €. T: 0151-599 771 06th www.orpheus2012.com
Here, deep under the earth, then suddenly you find yourself back in the sterile world of a surgical theater. The unique installation space of the project, a collection of paired parts of walk-film set with video animations and simulations that numbs the senses and sends the visitor to the musical and theatrical journey through a maze. Like Orpheus in Hades is wrong with that expectant self worlds of hope and disappointment, aesthetics, and deformation.
The interactive musical theater combines modern and futuristic concepts, such as Augmented Reality (extension of the perception of reality by means of digital media), the alternate reality game (one of several media back inter-play multi-player where blurring the line between real experiences and imaginary events is) and the Mobile Storytelling (connection between media and reality world using QR codes). Aesthetically ORPHEUS oriented in its decor and color scheme of the 50er/60er years as well as modern computer games.
A spectacular preview before you to Hades, or other worlds or spheres up or goes down there on 4/28/2012, to be seen in the context of the Long Night of Munich's music in the bar at the Corleone Sendlinger Gate 7th place. 20h to day trans-border 3h.
Evelyn Hriberseks ORPHEUS, a mix of surreal and futuristic images, siren-like compositions and personal and / or collective theater experience. Premiere 30.05.12, 17:45-22h, Rodeo.Von 31.05-24.06.12 daily (except Mondays) from 12:45-23h, deep bunker Luis Street, 15, - €. T: 0151-599 771 06th www.orpheus2012.com
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
Re-urbanization in the vicinity of Munich?
To what could be called in Munich as a re-urbanization is, as a hotchpotch of economic and cultural appreciation and social restructuring of the inner city mark: As a trend extension to further structural refinement of the old town and the surrounding neighborhoods, as real estate and finance-dominated capitalization of urban development and as the discovery of the inner city as a place to live by a money-elite and various dominant social milieu, whose wishes had been directed residenzielle rather exquisite residential neighborhoods on the outskirts or in the southern region.
The concept of re-urbanization in the case of Munich can irritate the extent that he could assume a reversal of previously observed suburbanization. In the case of Munich, however, applies to both: You could call the Munich Reurbanisierungsprozess as a specific variant of re-urbanization, which combines two directions of movement in itself. There is still, and thus could be of "continuity" to speak, instead of a socially and economically selective outsourcing of residential and commercial locations of the city into the countryside, and we have it at the same time with an equally socially, economically and culturally selective enhancement of downtown to do.
The processes have in opposite directions, but are simultaneously in their socio-spatial selectivity. But this does not mean that the observed Reurbanisierungsprozess "urban neutral" - on the contrary, visible urban Umprägungen the Old City and its fringe areas in favor of wealthy social strata and different loads are also disadvantaged. They are in turn triggers of differents Gentrifizierungseffekten, revaluations and restructuring in those urban areas that are adjacent to them directly and indirectly. These effects are particularly felt in the housing market in the supply of private households in the neighborhood relationships and also in the use of public spaces. It bluntly, the Munich city Reurbanisierungsprozess the socio-spatial expression of social dominance and dominance relationships.
It is still not clear what further consequences associated with it. A Munich-based journalist describes two scenarios: "you could say it bluntly, Munich has two choices before him. Option one: The bubble bursts, the developers stuck with empty floors. Then there will be some failures, the market will change, not always, but perhaps a bit - in fact, are now distributed in many luxury homes that have very large apartments into smaller, slightly cheaper, because this increases the circle of buyers. For the average income in Munich a little hope, but really very little, because one thing is certain: The price of land and housing will not sink, so it does not come by.
Option two: the experts are mistaken, and is also available in the next ten years be enough buyers who can afford living in the heart of the city. Then we could with Munich happen, what do cities like London and Paris for a long time: the expensive quarters are always empty, there are either only shops and offices or well-sealed apartment block with a porter, and who have a regular-paying job, have far outdoor living, the suburbs or further, and each day more than an hour drive to work. In some quarters in Munich, in Bogenhausen better in Schwabing, one gets a feel for it already, looks like that might someday: Only disappearing cafes and shops, then come antiques and furniture stores that customers almost never see. Then one day disappear, these shops. And everything is very well swept, empty sidewalks "(Max Fellmann in SZ-Magazin v. 11.3.2011, p 28).
Both scenarios offer the losers of the poor development prospects. Could in either case - should the upgrade to continue the city in favor of a high-income plutocracy more - enter a situation in which the city center to offer as a code to identify the city citizens / internally with their community a high priority for the shrinking layer of " average income - the center of Munich for a no-go area average citizen "in the city and the surrounding area to lose its relevance to the Munich city center, then neither monetarily and mentally still" afford "to?
But if not a collective appropriation of and identification with the inner city will take place, the cohesion of the community in Munich, is up for grabs. If this is not to enter anything, then the city policy, city planning and civil society on the ground will have to deal with issues of gentrification and urban society to address emerging stronger than she is obviously ready to present.
This article is an excerpt from the same article in the recently published book "re-urbanization. Materiality and discourse in Germany ", edited by Klaus Brake and Günter Herfert, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag Springer-2012th.
The concept of re-urbanization in the case of Munich can irritate the extent that he could assume a reversal of previously observed suburbanization. In the case of Munich, however, applies to both: You could call the Munich Reurbanisierungsprozess as a specific variant of re-urbanization, which combines two directions of movement in itself. There is still, and thus could be of "continuity" to speak, instead of a socially and economically selective outsourcing of residential and commercial locations of the city into the countryside, and we have it at the same time with an equally socially, economically and culturally selective enhancement of downtown to do.
The processes have in opposite directions, but are simultaneously in their socio-spatial selectivity. But this does not mean that the observed Reurbanisierungsprozess "urban neutral" - on the contrary, visible urban Umprägungen the Old City and its fringe areas in favor of wealthy social strata and different loads are also disadvantaged. They are in turn triggers of differents Gentrifizierungseffekten, revaluations and restructuring in those urban areas that are adjacent to them directly and indirectly. These effects are particularly felt in the housing market in the supply of private households in the neighborhood relationships and also in the use of public spaces. It bluntly, the Munich city Reurbanisierungsprozess the socio-spatial expression of social dominance and dominance relationships.
It is still not clear what further consequences associated with it. A Munich-based journalist describes two scenarios: "you could say it bluntly, Munich has two choices before him. Option one: The bubble bursts, the developers stuck with empty floors. Then there will be some failures, the market will change, not always, but perhaps a bit - in fact, are now distributed in many luxury homes that have very large apartments into smaller, slightly cheaper, because this increases the circle of buyers. For the average income in Munich a little hope, but really very little, because one thing is certain: The price of land and housing will not sink, so it does not come by.
Option two: the experts are mistaken, and is also available in the next ten years be enough buyers who can afford living in the heart of the city. Then we could with Munich happen, what do cities like London and Paris for a long time: the expensive quarters are always empty, there are either only shops and offices or well-sealed apartment block with a porter, and who have a regular-paying job, have far outdoor living, the suburbs or further, and each day more than an hour drive to work. In some quarters in Munich, in Bogenhausen better in Schwabing, one gets a feel for it already, looks like that might someday: Only disappearing cafes and shops, then come antiques and furniture stores that customers almost never see. Then one day disappear, these shops. And everything is very well swept, empty sidewalks "(Max Fellmann in SZ-Magazin v. 11.3.2011, p 28).
Both scenarios offer the losers of the poor development prospects. Could in either case - should the upgrade to continue the city in favor of a high-income plutocracy more - enter a situation in which the city center to offer as a code to identify the city citizens / internally with their community a high priority for the shrinking layer of " average income - the center of Munich for a no-go area average citizen "in the city and the surrounding area to lose its relevance to the Munich city center, then neither monetarily and mentally still" afford "to?
But if not a collective appropriation of and identification with the inner city will take place, the cohesion of the community in Munich, is up for grabs. If this is not to enter anything, then the city policy, city planning and civil society on the ground will have to deal with issues of gentrification and urban society to address emerging stronger than she is obviously ready to present.
This article is an excerpt from the same article in the recently published book "re-urbanization. Materiality and discourse in Germany ", edited by Klaus Brake and Günter Herfert, Wiesbaden: VS Verlag Springer-2012th.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Listen to cross between Feist and Mastodon versions
This past Saturday was held on Record Store Day. Within the catalog of launches planned for that day was one that we really wanted to hear. We are talking about "Feistodon", split 7 "which presented a cross versions of two bands / artists as disparate and diverse as Feist and the monumental Mastodon. You can listen to both 'Black Tongue' 'A Commotion' via Soundcloud at the end of that entry.
There seems to be a blue and vibrant sound bridge joining the two covers. The key to all this synergy I think it stems from the fact that Leslie Feist has chosen to give the song that appeared on "The Hunter" a metal, cold and infectious to the urgent-sounding guitar line in much of the song. Mastodon, however, have drawn adapt 'A Commotion' with the same DNA that has been characterized over recent years.
Two topics. Two cross-cultural. Two delicacies that you can not miss.
There seems to be a blue and vibrant sound bridge joining the two covers. The key to all this synergy I think it stems from the fact that Leslie Feist has chosen to give the song that appeared on "The Hunter" a metal, cold and infectious to the urgent-sounding guitar line in much of the song. Mastodon, however, have drawn adapt 'A Commotion' with the same DNA that has been characterized over recent years.
Two topics. Two cross-cultural. Two delicacies that you can not miss.
Friday, April 20, 2012
Miike Snow - Happy to You
Two and a half years ago that Miike Snow released their self-titled debut album and it became the shooting star of the year.
Then it was quiet at first, the trio, so I already feared they would be on the way to the rapid success has been lost.
Doubt the Swedes have now been removed with her second album, "Happy to You." The first two singles "Paddling Out" and "The Wave" is similarly catchy as the songs of their first album. The accompanying video seamlessly connect to each other and tell a story rather abstruse.
Then it was quiet at first, the trio, so I already feared they would be on the way to the rapid success has been lost.
Doubt the Swedes have now been removed with her second album, "Happy to You." The first two singles "Paddling Out" and "The Wave" is similarly catchy as the songs of their first album. The accompanying video seamlessly connect to each other and tell a story rather abstruse.
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Reading with Thomas Keller spirits Steinäcker
A reading that you should not be missed: "The year in which I ceased to worry, and began to dream"
Only 35 years include Thomas Stone fields and has achieved only four ground-breaking novels: Already with his debut, "Wallner begins to fly" (2007), he has provided the ultimate family saga and a bold form of experiment, with "ghost" a year later, a cross-media text-Graphic Collage tries, and with "sanctuary" (2009) even before Christian Kracht written about the German colonial empire. With his latest, for the Leipzig Book Fair nominated "The year in which I ceased to worry, and dream started," a bitterly ironic book about our "brave new" world of employees was Thomas as of Steinaecker star of this literature spring!
Steinaecker Thomas was born in 1977 and lives as an author, journalist and TV director in Augsburg. His novels have won numerous awards, including the aspects of Literature Award and the Bavarian art award. His most recent novel was nominated for the Book Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2012th
Guest: Christian Frühm
Chair: Daniel Grohn
17/04/2012
20 clock
Theaters and so on
Kurfürstenstr. 8
With generous support from the Cultural Department of Munich, the Institute for Germanstik the LMU, the S. Fischer Verlag in Munich and the. With the collaboration of Antonia Huber and David Berger.
Only 35 years include Thomas Stone fields and has achieved only four ground-breaking novels: Already with his debut, "Wallner begins to fly" (2007), he has provided the ultimate family saga and a bold form of experiment, with "ghost" a year later, a cross-media text-Graphic Collage tries, and with "sanctuary" (2009) even before Christian Kracht written about the German colonial empire. With his latest, for the Leipzig Book Fair nominated "The year in which I ceased to worry, and dream started," a bitterly ironic book about our "brave new" world of employees was Thomas as of Steinaecker star of this literature spring!
Steinaecker Thomas was born in 1977 and lives as an author, journalist and TV director in Augsburg. His novels have won numerous awards, including the aspects of Literature Award and the Bavarian art award. His most recent novel was nominated for the Book Prize of the Leipzig Book Fair 2012th
Guest: Christian Frühm
Chair: Daniel Grohn
17/04/2012
20 clock
Theaters and so on
Kurfürstenstr. 8
With generous support from the Cultural Department of Munich, the Institute for Germanstik the LMU, the S. Fischer Verlag in Munich and the. With the collaboration of Antonia Huber and David Berger.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
The best restaurants in Munich
The restaurant is one of the best Dallmayr MünchensMit around 1.4 million inhabitants, Munich is the third largest city in Germany. "One of the fastest growing cities in Germany," the actual title of the city on the Isar. With a total of 13 Michelin stars in the hotel and Michelin Guide Munich has much to offer culinary specialties. So many high-profile restaurants are located in the city that knows how to impress with ever new and extravagant designs.
In addition to traditional restaurants are also crime or dinner theater scene in the city no longer a rarity. But even the so-called 0815-restaurants present themselves in the Bavarian capital in an exceptionally high quality, even the visit to the Italians next door is often an adventure.
Above all, the Park Restaurant and Dallmayr Restaurant Tantris sunbathe, awarded two stars by the Michelin Guide, the horizon of the Munich restaurant. This noble variety of the finest cuisine is served up, which is emphasized in all areas of the restaurants by modernity. For many years the two restaurants are already on the Bavarian elite, which will be expanded, especially in Munich of nine other star restaurants.
The city on the Isar convincing style, elegance and modernity, which is especially evident by the Munich-based restaurant concepts. Many restaurants in Munich have won the hearts of Bayern already. Perhaps you also discover your visit to Munich, the quality of the Bavarian cuisine.
For those who want to visit a restaurant in Munich overnight, our partners and StayMunich Stay2Munich whatever cheap accommodation!
In addition to traditional restaurants are also crime or dinner theater scene in the city no longer a rarity. But even the so-called 0815-restaurants present themselves in the Bavarian capital in an exceptionally high quality, even the visit to the Italians next door is often an adventure.
Above all, the Park Restaurant and Dallmayr Restaurant Tantris sunbathe, awarded two stars by the Michelin Guide, the horizon of the Munich restaurant. This noble variety of the finest cuisine is served up, which is emphasized in all areas of the restaurants by modernity. For many years the two restaurants are already on the Bavarian elite, which will be expanded, especially in Munich of nine other star restaurants.
The city on the Isar convincing style, elegance and modernity, which is especially evident by the Munich-based restaurant concepts. Many restaurants in Munich have won the hearts of Bayern already. Perhaps you also discover your visit to Munich, the quality of the Bavarian cuisine.
For those who want to visit a restaurant in Munich overnight, our partners and StayMunich Stay2Munich whatever cheap accommodation!
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