Art

CRAVE and Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt

2. Dezember 2011
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This friday, last show in 2011, and having rounded off officially eight years of underground promoting. This time at Madame Claude Poplars and Rocks presents: CRAVE and Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt.
CRAVE is the side project of Jonny Teardrop, native french from Paris, part-time american, now for some time already residing in Berlin. As Jonny Teardrop he made a smashing performance this year at drop dead festival at maria, and played on and off the small experimental music venues such as loophole, where I by accident spotted him first and approached him to find out who he was. CRAVE is Jonny’s latest project that he plans to develop in the future, with guest musicians willing to contribute – I would! so long, on friday, solo. Jonny says he always brings the police, but let’s hope the cellar will keep us safe… After his first self-released EP young, out in june this year, his first album followed on november 9th: heal, an amazing self-produced album, that leaves one dizzy already while listening to the first song, but will totally have taken one after the whole length of the album into a different sphere of consciousness. Whereas the shows of jonny are pure raw distorted energy, the album lowers the tempo, oscillating back and forth, down pitched and trippy, never telling you where to take you next. He will go far.

Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt takes the otherworldliness a step further: his noise is a complete thick foggy curtain of something visionary, that cannot be shaped. when I saw him first many years ago, when experimental music was not all over town yet, I was astounded by the way he treated his guitar, seamingly hardly touching it, more happening accidentally to be there to help him create the sound he wanted. The film clips he started to produce to go along his compositions stress the coincidence of the extract of a pattern. Originating from Chicago, Sean is living now for a long time in Berlin, making himself a name in the underground scene of the noise family, also starting to organise himself experimental noise nights. His latest album Gesang der Geister was out on avachorda. But keep checking, he produces mini albums regularly, sometimes daily. Some are found here.

Opened will be the night by Whale vs Elephant with a short set of new songs. Visuals by Lady Lazer Light (Wellington). On decks Rad Spin Rotate Club with latest resident Raving Mad Carlos (Buenos Aires), guest DJ Kyra LaMariana (New York) and our very own Julie (Berlin).
Madame Claude, Friday, December 2nd. Show starts 9.30pm sharp. Admission – still – free donation! We always appreciate your coming along. Thanks to all who came at least once in the past eight years. Not to mention our gratitude to those who made it even twice. On to the ninth…

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Drawings by Jonny.

Thought Creature, Shoxxx, Human Elephant

7. Oktober 2011
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this month at poplars and rocks at madame claude: THOUGHT CREATURE. this former three-piece from wellington, new zealand, had recently relocated to berlin, where they got casted right away from the street. or let’s say from in front of a club, where the outside yard was more attracting than the inside bands. big in their home country, they went looking for the challenge into the uncertain and new. now with the experience of a few tiny festivals in never-heard-of areas in germany enriched, and with two secret gigs to warm up the berlin audience, the now two piece will play finally their first big official gig in this town, within the cosy walls of madame claude. having said that the band now consists of two remaining members, and having shifted their initial more indie sound towards a much darker, electronic psychedelic sound, it has to be stressed that a third member is still essential to the band, producing the visual equivalent for the sound. (most friendly already lending her abilities to last month’s acts.) the band’s first full length album Teleport Palace (2008) is available for free download. the ep Total Recall (2011) can be streamed on soundcloud. a new album Ocean Dream is anticipated.
speaking of visual enjoyment, we went a step further to fuse the music with the arts: SHOXXX, artist and animator from hiroshima, japan, will present one of her delighful and charming live animations, in which all materials are being used to make a comic start developing right as you watch the screen, following the sound track. years before, I have noted I had come across shoxxx‘ comic-style art before, when I felt so touched by a little pressed flower: part of the cd cover for No Nebraska’s aloha.
the sound track on decks comes this time from very special guest THE HUMAN ELEPHANT. having been a bit quiter the past few years, john didn‘t get lost in his day jobs, or rather night jobs, but kept, beside other projects in the meantime like rats live on no evil star with bernd jestram from tarwater, working on a album, produced also by former and no one less than dirk dresselhaus aka schneider tm: White Thunder (umor rex records) is out this october! and this has to be celebrated. a wonderful video shot by jan of former the aim of design is to define space is the first visual release. you can listen to the whole album on soundcloud.
joining resident rad spin rotate club will also raving mad carlos. more surprises always to be anticipated!


Friday, October 7th, Madame Claude. Show starts at 10pm sharp. Admission is free donation.

christy and emily

29. Juli 2011
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poplars and rocks presents Christy and Emily, a duo located in Brooklyn, New York: while Christy grew up with Metallica, Emily was classically trained on piano, before she entered Christy’s band The Lil‘ Fighters, the beginning of a fruitful collaboration. Christy and Emily released three albums so far: after Gueen’s Head and Superstition, No Rest was released last year on German label Klangbad records, produced by Hans Joachim Irmler of krautrock band Faust. Beside this psych folk project, Emily still found the time to record the whole work of Anton Webern and work with such illustrious names as Oneida, while Christy also plays in punk band The Totallys. If they find time for something else, they go on tour. So we welcome them this time while hanging out in Berlin to play a spontaneous set at an art house party: the whole day at LA54 you can see exhibitons again, watch screenings, attend workshops, part-take in a fleamarket, and see bands and performances. Christy and Emily will play in the cellar around midnight.
Landsberger Allee 54. 30th of July, from 3pm to 3am. Band on around 11pm. and the best of all: the admission is free!

landsberger 54

25. Juni 2011
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tonight, this saturday, june 25th, we are involved in supporting a little art venue in berlin, one of those many endangered to close down soon due to new expensive housing projects for the new clients of this town, beside the many many art and music venues who had close down the last couple of months… landsberger allee 54, once the biggest brewery in europe, after the ‚change‘ in 1990 closed down, then empty for many years, now used and revived for some time by artists, musicians and other creative minds, for who to find working space in the city nearly becomes impossible these days, now sold to a new investor and always on the brink of having to close it’s doors for the workers to make space for new lofts. to raise awareness for their destiny the building invites people and friends regularly to parties and open houses. this time some old acquaintances of poplars and rocks will join the underground stage, with such fine names as STRANGE FORCES, ADDITIV, PARK, MACACO MAU, POP CAMPAIGN, EAST BRUNSWICK ALL GIRLS CHOIR, beside some other bands. plus DE LA MONTANA, a total new act, that we had also to book immediately for the next issue at madame claude, although they never had played live before – use your chance as long as you have it; only sometimes it offers itself a second time…

LA54, Landsberger Allee 54, Berlin. party with free donation. bands start around 8pm at several spots. more art, films, screenprint workshops. join and make a change.

neurotitan

8. Januar 2011
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tonight last day of chance to see an exhibition we organised at neurotitan gallery with works by neoangin, stereo total, warren suicide, mittekill, richard von der schulenburg, tomas of dd/mm/yyyy, oska, angie reed, dm bob, touchy mob, myself and many many more. party all night at neighbouring eschschloraque. live with oska from chuckamuck, youre only massive, macaco mau and gustaf heden as surprise guest. rad spin on decks at eschschloraque, krysmopompas sound system at the gallery before. more soon or get it here.