Ras Moshe : Music Now Ensemble in New York, NY on Sun, Mar 17, 2013

Dafna Naphtali in New York on Mon, Mar 4, 2013

solo — Audio Chandelier multi-channel works, Stephan Moore in Brooklyn on Fri, Feb 1, 2013

Ras Moshe & Dafna Naphtali in Brooklyn on Sun, Feb 10, 2013

Ursel Schlicht / Sonic Exchange in Brooklyn on Sat, Feb 9, 2013

Dafna Naphtali in Miami, Florida on Fri, Mar 8, 2013

LOXM: Ladies of Experimental Music in New York City on Thu, Jan 17, 2013

Kitty Brazelton: The Art of Memory in New York on Sun, Feb 17, 2013

Kitty Brazelton & Dafna Naphtali in New York on Sun, Jan 20, 2013

Hans Tammen & Zavodniks! in Brooklyn on Thu, Jan 23, 2013

Hans Tammen & ZAVODNIKS!

“Factory (A strike!) Prison (The leader of the strikers is arrested!) Masters of the Universe (Declaration of a lockout!) Ball for the Masters of the Universe (Ending with revolution and victory of the workers!) Stock Exchange. Seizure of the stock exchange by the proletariat, who turn it into a pantheon of work.”

Unsettling, frantic and anti-sentimental, Hans Tammen’s ZAVODNIKS – for whom machine oil is mother’s milk – fuse relentless polyrhythmic machinations with ethereal yet roughly sewn soundscapes, like a mix of Mwandishi, Bitches Brew and Sextant, with a hint of Magma. Dark, sometimes brooding ensemble passages mix and mingle with tightly woven drum-loops, and extended solo cadenzas build up to a mighty hymn to machine work, music of a metallic nightmare.

ZAVODNIKS!
Engine 1: Dan Blake & Josh Sinton
Engine 2: Ursel Schlicht & Shoko Nagai
Engine 3: Dafna Naphtali & Lola Regenthal
Engine 4: Jonas Tauber
Engine 5: Satoshi Takeishi & Andrew Drury
Hans Tammen – modular anarchic synthesizer, composing, glow conducting