Friday, 30 April, 2010 - 22:00

Damo Suzuki & Chateau Laut

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Damo Suzukis Network
Damo Suzuki + Château Laut

http://www.damosuzuki.de

http://www.myspace.com/chateaulaut

Damo Suzuki weltweit bekannt als der Sänger der Band Can. Seit Jahren nun reist in weite Welten, trifft dort Musiker, die mit ihm auftreten. Merkwürdig, hippiesk, aber Kult !

In 1998 Suzuki launched Damo Suzuki's Network, an international conglomeration of various local musicians (whom Suzuki calls "Sound Carriers") who create the form of improvisational music Suzuki calls "instant composing" with him on stage. Every performance is a unique, unrehearsed event and relies heavily on interaction with the audience. Suzuki launched the label Damo's Network in 1998, releasing a series of live recordings (including Vernissage, Seattle and the box set Promise) that document this dynamic creative process ...

Château Laut ist eine experimentelle Indierockband aus Berlin um Steno Glenolak, Stefan Fähler, Max Stolzenberg und Andrew Maler.
Seit 2007 spielen sie in Venues wie u.a. dem Festsaal Kreuzberg, dem SO36 und Magnet.
2008 entstand ihr selbstbetiteltes Debutalbum auf dem Troisdorfer Label bluNoise in Zusammenarbeit mit dessen Kopf Guido Lucas (u.a. Produzent von Blackmail).
Mehrere Songs ihres Debuts sind in dem Kinofilm "Bedways" von RP Kahl zu hören, der seine Premiere im Februar auf der 60. Berlinale feierte.
Während Château Laut inzwischen an ihrem zweiten Album für BluNoise (VÖ: 2010) arbeiten, erscheint auf Haywain die Split 12" mit Jeanie Bueller, sowie ein Album mit Live-Bootlegs ihrer bisherigen Gigs.

"Diese Platte setzt dort an wo Shellac, Sonic Youth und die ganzen guten Dischord-Bands zumeist aufhören. Aufreibend horizonterweiternd."
Visions

"Fans von Shellac bis Kinski dürfte das verzücken."
Intro

"This album howls and clangs with an unholy terror then sinks back down into brooding depths. ... The band's ready to keep it simple and keep it rocking. "
aversion.com

"It’s a voice that’s almost more sound than music at times, but there’s no denying that it is music ... The band shows that musical talent goes well beyond the pop culture we’re used to."
blastmagazine.com

support:
¡Si, Mas Ghetto Punk!
Improduo aus Berlin

Simatupang - Maschat, Simaschatupang, SimaSkatooPang, CmasCa2Pang, See My Scatter Funk? ¡Si, Mas Ghetto Punk!
Das ist wie Zahnarzttermin verpennt, Behördengänge aufschieben, Internet-Auktionsende verpaßt, wie war nochmal der Name? Telefon!! That's why It's Pop!
Das ist was...

Tomi Simatupang: Voice, Guitar
Sebastian Maschat: Drums, voice 

http://www.whitestboyalive.com

Damo Suzuki's Network is an assembly of musicians.
It's a collective meeting place where like minded people go. In 1998, I toured as support to the Network in the United States. After three concerts, I was invited to perform with them. Both Damo and Michael Karoli came up to me and said, " but of course you will play with us from now on." I felt lonely on stage, so I asked Damo if my friends Tommy and then Dustin could also play with us and he of course said " Yes, why not." This process says more about Damo than me.

The goal is simple, for musicians to communicate with each other and with the audience. There are no ego's involved. Musicians send smoke signals to each other. They respond in kind. Damo selects musicians who have the potential to communicate freely and who are able to respond honestly to each other in the here and now. This also involves a respect for and dynamic communication with the audience. Both Damo and Can refer to this process as Instant Composing. Each concert is a unique event. There are never any rehearsals. Mistakes are moments of opportunity. For the musician, this process is in equal parts exciting and terrifying. I remember those joyous words that introduced the sixties cartoon series Stingray, " Anything can happen in the next half hour." For Damo, the half hour may well be two or four hours but the same principle holds true. Anything can happen.

As Damo says, " I like every concert. When everyone is in the same space and time are very happy. For me it is a really great moment, sometimes, even teardrops start falling because of my happiness. I feel very lucky to be in this moment with such an audience."

On stage in Seattle, I had a four track tape recorder that I would occasionally use much in the same way that Holger Czukay used dictaphones with Can. I remember a tape snapping and I vigorously pulled it out of the machine, holding it up for inspection. Damo turned round and gleefully told the audience, " see, no tapes!" Suffice to say, the tapes were not used again. It's not that the music eschews anything really except the act of premeditation. In the Can book, Damo said, " I'm not so much interested in anything in particular, that's why I'm singing about nothing." His words may not sound exactly like English or German or Japanese or French but I'm convinced that they impart meaning to everyone, regardless of mother tongue. This way of making music, as Damo often says, stems from the stone age. Instead of using thigh bones to beat out a rhythm or smoke signals to pass on messages, we now use drums, guitars or mobile telephones to communicate. Maybe we haven’t evolved as much as we'd like to think we have!

Damo records every show and has released several albums which document the process described in a more coherent way than one can hope to do with words. The Network continues to grow. More musicians are involved in changing permutations. Damo likens the journey to that of a train ride, he says," I'm not interested to see passed landscape again. I feel like I’m in a train traveling down the track... I’m anxious to get to the next station, and if this stop is not on map, it will be much more fun."

The journey started many years ago and the train has clearly not reached it's destination.

(Quotations from an interview with Archie Patterson and The Can Book, by Pascal Bussy with Andy Hall , SAF Pub. 1989, this text written by Mark Spybey)