Freitag, 18 April, 2025 - 20:10
Pidgins: Refrains of the Day
Door 20:00 / Concerts 20:30 / Tickets ( only at door ) 10 - 15 euro
Pidgins is an experiment in percussive languages. The Mexico City duo improvise complex rhythm matrices by phasing metric, melodic, and rhetorical phrases. These pattern systems form the grammar Pidgins use to construct linguistic puzzles—from productivity mantras to guided de-meditations. Pidgins' rhythm and chant work invokes the oral and rhythmic methods of traditional trance rituals in order to interrogate contemporary trance states—managerial class dogmas, self-help literature, and new age therapies.
Percussionist Milo Tamez's drumming is informed by a decades-long study of polyrhythm. Tamez flows between minimal percussion and extended drum set, employing melo-rhythmic percussive textures within multidimensional patterns. Vocalist and electroacoustician Aaron With's finger percussion electronics mix just intonations, historical instruments, and field recordings. His synthetically processed vocal chants of technocratic jargon mantras interacts provocatively with the duo's ritualistic percussive energy. The Quietus described the tension: "the intensity and depth of Pidgins’ playing breathes new life into dead cliches, triggering an excess of meaning where meaning seems to have all but disappeared."
https://www.pidginsmusic.com milotamez.net aaronwith.com
