“Tell The Drummer I Still Love Her” (LP & download out on IZBIT IN ZID Records bandcamp)

Record Release Concert 02.03.2020 @ Roter Salon / Volksbühne Berlin

GIRLS is the band of Zeitkratzer drummer Maurice de Martin and the actress and performer Susanne Sachsse with Dirk Dresselhaus alias Schneider TM and Hillary Jeffrey. GIRLS is also the reincarnation of a southern Bavarian “International Ladies Show Band”, founded in 1967 by Anny de Martin, the mother of Maurice de Martin. The band broke up when Anny died in 1971 and was quickly forgotten. In fact, the formation was exceptional in several ways: a band made up entirely of female members who composed themselves was something very rare at the time. To do this, they played an experimental music knitted from loops and patterns beyond the classic rock / pop song structures, which is now commonly referred to as “Krautrock” and influenced a whole generation of musicians from David Bowie to Brian Eno. Maurice de Martin catapults his family history into the present with a new cast and reinterprets his mother’s legacy and work.

This is a recording of the public noise session that was happening directly after an electric guitar + amp building workshop for kids & parents on 02.11.2019 at ausland, Berlin.

Idea & production: Tomoko Nakasato 
Host: Mario Michel / ausland, Berlin 
Workshop: José Malaquias / The Inventors 
Technical supervising, photos: Frank Deimel / Deimel Guitarworks   
Musical conduction, recording & mixing: Dirk Dresselhaus / SchneiderTM 

SATURDAY 15th of JUNE at Ballhaus Ost, Berlin.

Ilpo Väisänen / Dirk Dresselhaus / Anthea Caddy / Oren Ambarchi / Lucio Capece / BJ Nilsen
– LIVE (2 sets of reworks of selected pieces from Kalmukia, 26000 & Terra Null.)

PITA / Peter Rehberg (Editions Mego) – DJ Sets

UPDATE:
Unfortunately Hildur Guðnadóttir can’t join the concert because of movie soundtrack commitments that were re-scheduled to the same period. We are very happy to announce that Anthea Caddy will jump in for her !

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ANGEL, a collaboration between Ilpo Väisänen (Pan sonic) and Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM), is by now an institution in noise music and drones. For twenty years, the duo has explored the depths of concrete noise and grinding sound, their sound evoking associations with grand natural phenomena. No wonder, then, that in reviews of ANGEL – later known as DIE ANGEL – oceans, deserts, canyons and earthquakes are repeatedly used as metaphors.

Väisänen and Dresselhaus have, in the meantime, played an undeniably large part in the fact Drone music has matured into an independent genre. For DIE ANGEL, noise and musical action are means of communication, and music an open process, so instead of withdrawing into their unity, they’ve always sought artistic exchange with others. Thus, it is only logical the internationally renowned musicians would invite distinguished guests to celebrate their twentieth anniversary. These musicians each contributed to three ANGEL albums released by Editions Mego between 2007 and 2014: Hildur Guðnadóttir, Oren Ambarchi, Lucio Capece & BJ Nilsen.

In an exclusive celebration of DIE ANGEL’s 20th anniversary, the six musicians will share the stage, making it a world premiere.
Hildur Guðnadóttir, best known as a cellist and singer, has in recent years composed for theatre, dance and film (e.g. “Arrival”, “The Revenant”, “Sicario: Day of the Soldadound”), while Oren Ambarchi moves between new music and experimental rock. BJ Nilsen, the Swedish sound artist based in Amsterdam, deals mainly with field recordings, environmental sounds and their effects on people, and Lucio Capece was active for many years in the context of Berlin Echtzeitmusik, releasing 30 works on labels such as Pan, Another Timbre, Entr ́acte and Potlatch.

The improvisational music project DIE ANGEL creates instant compositions through communication with sound, its music generated by various sound sources, instruments and objects such as modular synthesizers, guitars, cello, bass clarinet, field recordings and everyday objects. For this joint concert with their four guests, Ilpo Väisänen and Dirk Dresselhaus will intuitively further develop and reinterpret the sound material created between 2006 and 2010.

die ANGEL (Ilpo Väisänen / Dirk Dresselhaus) played their outstanding performance based on one of the current albums Entropien I in the Auditorium at SuperBooth 2018 in Berlin. Please see the full concert in this video.

die ANGEL (Ilpo Väisänen / Dirk Dresselhaus) – Entropien I at SUPERBOOTH 18 from HerrSchneider on Vimeo.

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die ANGEL : Entropien I (Cosmo Rhythmatic 2017)

In physics, entropy is a quantity generally described as the measure of disorder within any kind of thermodynamic system, including the universe. It counts the microscopic states that system can assume when open, interacting with others or getting altered by external conditions.
Thus, entropy makes for the perfect description of the way Ilpo Väisänen (Pan sonic, I- LP-O IN DUB) and Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM, A S S, Locust Fudge) have approached music creation since the establishment of their collaborative project Angel (now die Angel) in 1999. Allowing energy to flow freely through machines, bodies and different acoustic conditions, they’ve generated a powerful archive of mutating sonic states. A kind of creative attitude that favors exploring the physical complexity of (un-)structured electronics.
That’s where the title for their release on Cosmo Rhythmatic comes from, “Entropien” being the Finnish word and the German plural for entropy. Getting back to the stripped down set of their beginnings (modular synths, effects and processed guitar), they’ve come out with one of their most, intense, rawest and noisiest albums to date, showcasing an impressing scale of dynamics while attacking the senses with belligerent tones. Oren Ambarchi also shows up on two tracks, intertwining his drums, field recordings and guitar within the duo’s discordant layers.

Video by coL