Picture from “Nobodaddy is perfect - Odysseus, Bach und die Kunst des Verschwindens” © Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop

Live Set - Witold / Nico - Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop feat. ANIKA @ Radial System, Berlin

After many months of preparation, the show has found a date, this coming August 8th and 9th.

For this very special performance, with an audience of just 50 people, Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop and Anika join forces to interpret Nico’s "Desertshore”.

A lofty room, darkness, 8 strings players and Anika create a parallel universe, of flowing bassy rivers, of joy and of a tortured soul, drifting atop.

Tickets go on sale this Friday. Better be quick. 

Tickets 16 Euro / discount 12 Euro

Advance sales will start from Friday, July 24th at 10 a.m. // Additionally, the concert is broadcasted to the covered deck on the 3rd floor of radialsystem. Admission is free, but registration is required. More information on the registration-process will be announced shortly.

https://radialsystem.de/programme/62537/222836/?lang=en

Nico’s “Desertshore” album cover

This comparison of musical works of different genres from the 1970s is made up of Witold Lutoslwaski's "Preludes and Fugue," for 13 string players, written between 1970 and ‘72, and "Desertshore," Nico's third solo album, released in 1970. Both works are interpreted by the Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop, together with the artist and singer ANIKA. These two pieces seem to have nothing in common and yet are two contradictory descriptions of the world of their time. What happens when such diverse works from different cultural productions are aesthetically juxtaposed? Using the concept of “suture,” borrowed from film theory, i.e. the “sewing together” of supposedly unsuitable materials, Kaleidoskop looks at unexpected connections between the works and genres.

Lutosławski seeks artistic expression in the stark contrast between aleatoricism and extreme complexity in seven different and overlapping prologues, i.e. preludes, which precede a large-scale fugue. "Desertshore," arranged and produced by John Cale in 1970, is stylistically situated somewhere between gothic, folk rock, and Romanticism. Taking the form of a song cycle, the songs make use of symbols of German Romantic traditions. It is dark and disturbing, with vocals that intensely penetrate the music and at the same time remain strangely far removed from it.

Music and performance Solistenensemble Kaleidoskop & ANIKA  

Musical direction Miguel Pérez Iñesta, Grégoire Simon, Paul Valikoski