CTM Concerts contributes to the 2nd run of Since the Devil is Gone I Mostly Feel Lonely, an ongoing series of folk music concerts at Festsaal Kreuzberg and Monarch in Berlin, co-presented by Palais Wittgenstein and Digital in Berlin. The series started in spring 2011 with such greats as Frank Fairfield, William Tyler and Ex-Sun-City-Girls-project Brothers Unconnected.
The program this time reads as follows:
Wed 16.11 / Monarch / 9pm
RACHID HAROUN (Musique classique Algerienne)
DJ NOURI BEN REDJEB (House of World Cultures)
Rachid Haroun was born in Algiers in 1965. At the age of seven, and on the recommendation of his brother Moussa, himself a musician, he attended music school in Belfort-El Harrach. Rezki Harbi and Hacčne Ben Choubčne, his music teachers, taught him the art of the instrument Snitra (mandolin) and later the Kamendja (violin). In parallel, he was engaged in singing. In Essendoucia and El Fakhardjia, two major music schools in Algiers, he broadened his knowledge of the algerian Arab-Andalusian heritage and with his master and teacher Noureddine Saoudi he learned the art of interpreting the famous Nubata.
Sat 19.11 / Monarch / 9pm
RYAN FRANCESCONI (US)
In 2011, Portland’s Ryan Francesconi (until recently best known for his work as the musical director on Joanna Newsom’s stunning triple album Have One On Me) has established himself as a leading figure in acoustic composition and performance. Francesconi's solo acoustic guitar creates a surprisingly rich sound that hints at his extensive musical interests - American bluegrass, Baroque lute music, traditional Bulgarian folk and jazz improvisation among others.
› http://www.are-f.com
Mo 21.11 / Festsaal Kreuzberg / 8pm
Film: LAND OF THE SONGHAI (Sublime Frequencies, Hisham Mayet)
GROUP INERANE (Niger)
STEFFEN BASHO-JUNGHANS (Berlin)
DJ KANDIS WILLIAMS
Group Inerane is the latest band to make the transition from the rich catalogue of Sublime Frequencies recordings to the live stages of Europe. Simmering up from the rebel heart of the Tuareg guitar scene, Group Inerane are a rough-hewn, tranced-out psychedelic juggernaut careering off the path beaten to the West by their peers Tinariwen and Group Bombino, coursing instead along a thrillingly scuzzed-up parallel lineage to Link Wray, The Velvet Underground and even Creedence Clearwater Revival. Centred around band leader and six-string god Bib Ahmed, Inerane hail from Agadez, Niger, one of the most volatile zones in West Africa. The band will be supported by Berlin based guitarist Steffen Basho-Junghans, who draws influences from John Fahey and Robbie Basho. Hisham Mayet's latest film explores the music and landscape of Songhai country in Western Niger.
› http://www.sublimefrequencies.com/tour/inerane.html
› http://www.bluemomentarts.de
Wed 23.11 / Monarch / 9pm
CHARLIE PARR & PAUL CURRERI (US)
Charlie Parr is a country blues musician from Austin, Minnesota. He started his music career in Duluth, Minnesota. His influences include Charlie Patton, Bukka White, Reverend Gary Davis, and Dave Van Ronk. If anything though he is honest blood & guts.
› http://www.charlieparr.com
All information and tickets › here.
And this is the story behind the title of the series: In the 1970s a reporter named Charles Salter wrote a column for the Atlanta Journal called "Georgia Rambler." He'd get into his car, head out to some small town, and ask around until he found a story. One of the stories he found involved an older woman who was frequently visited by Satan in her dreams. When she told the local priest about these occurrences he had no better solution than putting her on medication. In the following weeks Satan indeed slowly started disappearing from her dreams. A month later the priest asked her how she felt now that she could sleep normally again. Quietly and with an empty gaze she replied: Since the devil is gone I mostly feel lonely."
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