Date:
Friday 31st of January
Venue:
UT Connewitz
(Wolfgang-Heinze-Straße 12a)
Time:
Doors: 08:00pm
Bands: 08:30pm
Bands:
Dollkraut(Band)
- Knekelhuis, Charlois, Pinkman -
Netherlands
- Elephants On Parade, Fuzz Club, Burger Records -
Usa
Leipzig
Tickets: https://bit.ly/2XLXRLQ
Event: https://bit.ly/36JdypS
Band Info:
Dollkraut(Band)
If there’s one thing that Dollkraut can’t stand, it’s predictability. For the past decade, frontman Pascal Pinkert has passionately pursued musical unpredictability. From muscular dub-flecked synthesizer workouts, to electro-fired post-punk, body wave and freaky ethnic explorations, Pinkert’s music surprises and thrills at every turn. This unpredictability and fearlessly open-minded approach is naturally also one of the standout features of the Dollkraut Band and Pinkert's solo DJ performances.
Performed by Pinkert alongside a bass-player and a drummer, using a range of non-conventional analogue instruments and unusual, vintage synthesizers, Dollkraut's band shows combine a wall of sound and visuals with the same experimental, lo-fi approach that marks out Pinkert’s recorded output. Think members of Portishead, and Front242 jamming with Neu! and Linear Movement, and you’re close to the Dollkraut live sound.
As for Pinkert’s future plans, you’ll just have to wait and see. If his career so far has taught us anything, he’ll most likely continue confounding expectations.
Elephant Stone
Elephant Stone Bio 2019
Montreal's Elephant Stone is the Polaris Music Prize-nominated psyche-pop creation
of Rishi Dhir (vox, bass, sitar) and long-time collaborators Miles Dupire (drums) and
Gab Lambert (guitar). Debuting in 2009, Elephant Stone has released 5 criticallyacclaimed albums and toured extensively throughout North America and Europe and
enjoyed significant success on US college/non-comm and Canadian commercial
radio. As a highly-regarded sitar player, Dhir has also collaborated with indie rock
icons (Beck) and legendary cult bands (The Brian Jonestown Massacre) and is a
member of psych "super-group" MIEN (ft. members of The Horrors, The Black
Angels).
Released in 2009 on Dhir’s Elephants on Parade Records (EOP), The Seven Seas
garnered wide-spread acclaim culminating with a Polaris Music Prize long-list
nomination that acknowledges the best full-length Canadian album. Produced by
Jace Lasek (The Besnard Lakes), the album introduced Elephant Stone’s innovative
blend of rock ‘n’ roll, Hindustani classical music, and infectious pop. The 2010 follow
up, The Glass Box EP, expanded on the spirited sounds of The Seven Seas.
Following its release, the band set out on their first North American tour supporting
the Brian Jonestown Massacre.
In 2013 Elephant Stone released their third LP, Elephant Stone. The album received
critical acclaim from NPR, Brooklyn Vegan, Consequence of Sound, and other
prominent media outlets. It also contained Dhir’s finest batch of songs yet:including
singles “Heavy Moon” and “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin,” as well as the ragadrenched meditation, “A Silent Moment.” The band spent the next year touring
throughout Europe and North America as a headliner and as support for The
Zombies, The Black Angels (among others) and multiple festivals (Levitation Austin
and France, Best Kept Secret, and so on).
A fourth album – The Three Poisons – followed in 2014. The darkly compelling and
inventive album showcased Dhir’s lyrical exploration of Buddhist themes and The
Tibetan Book of the Dead. The Three Poisons remix album – ES3PRMX – appeared
in 2015 as a digital download. Anton Newcombe of The Brian Jonestown Massacre,
Tom Furse of The Horrors, Alex Maas of The Black Angels, Peter Holmström of The
Dandy Warhols, and more contributed remixes.
In 2016 Elephant Stone released their fifth album, Ship of Fools, on Burger
Records/EOP. Produced by Marcus Paquin (Arcade Fire), the album received high
marks across the board and spawned two singles that charted on Canadian
commercial radio (“Andromeda” and Manipulator”).
After taking time to explore new collaborations and sounds MIEN, drone-spiked
instrumentals with Acid House Ragas, and remixes for paisley underground legends
The Dream Syndicate and french pop-auteurs Tahiti80, Dhir and Elephant Stone are
back in 2019 with a new single, “Land Of Dead”. Clocking in at just under 2 minutes,
“Land Of Dead” begins with the celestial strumming of a sitar but quickly takes a
turnabout into “Paranoid”-era Black Sabbath riffage with Rishi intoning of a “land of
fire”. Ending with a child’s lament of “goodbye blue skies, so long clean air...Do you
even care?” Land Of Dead is a dystopian telling of a world undone by our own doing.
Flying Moon in Space
These guys know how to sonicize a room with music. Several guitars, bass, vocals and a cool drummer make flying moon in space what they are; a group of musicians who improvise their songs uniquely.
