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30/07/2024

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28/03/2024

OUT NOW:
Julius Gabriel - Tales from the Subterranean

Born out of new sounds and rhythms that the musician discovered during the pandemic, “Tales From The Subterranean” embodies a blend of primal energy and inventive exploration across twelve tracks. It invites you to move. Merging saxophone finger percussion with a continuous siren whisper emanating from the instrument, provoking euphoria, fear and satisfaction all at once. Slowly you start to understand the sense of discovery behind the record and the needs Julius had, like to construct a saxophone with drone capabilities and closer to an idea of natural sound. “Tales from the Subterranean“ stands as a testament to the resilience of artistic expression. It is primal music.

𝙏𝘼𝙇𝙀𝙎 𝙁𝙍𝙊𝙈 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙐𝘽𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙍𝘼𝙉𝙀𝘼𝙉 is a collaboration between Lovers & Lollypops and Ana Ott. Recorded and mixed by Rabih Beaini at Morphine Raum, mastered by Rashad Becker at Clunk Studio. The artwork was created by Simon Mellnich.

◉ Listen and order 𝙏𝘼𝙇𝙀𝙎 𝙁𝙍𝙊𝙈 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙐𝘽𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙍𝘼𝙉𝙀𝘼𝙉 here:
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26/03/2024

Julius Gabriels
𝙏𝘼𝙇𝙀𝙎 𝙁𝙍𝙊𝙈 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙐𝘽𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙍𝘼𝙉𝙀𝘼𝙉 Tour 2024 got updated!
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LP-RELEASE March 28th
PRE-ORDER anaott.bandcamp.com
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30.03.2024 - TAM TAM OK - CAFÉBAR MONA München, Germany

01.04.2024 - VEKKS Wien, Austria

02.04.2024 - MANYI Budapest, Hungary

03.04.2024 - KVAKA 22 - Belgrade, Serbia

04.04.2024 - LABORATORIUM - Skopje, North Macedonia

05.04.2024 - BOBBINA - Sofia, Bulgaria

07.04.2024 - KARGA BAR - Istanbul, Turkey

12.04.2024 - WIP - Athens, Greece

13.04.2024 - OV OFF STUDIO - Athens, Greece

14.04.2024 - TO PIKAP - Thessaloniki, Greece

16.04.2024 - TEATRO FANTASIA - Barletta, Italy

18.04.2024 - PICCOLO TEATRO DEL MERCATO - Ragusa, Italy

19.04.2024 - BARACCIO - Catania, Italy

20.04.2024 - CURVA MINORE - Palermo, Italy

22.04.2024 - FANFULLA - Roma, Italy

26.04. 2024 - THE CAVE - CASA MADIBA - Rimini, Italy

27.04. 2024 - NUAL FESTIVAL - Bologna, Italy

5.05.2024 - CRUCE - Madrid, Spain

9.05.2024 - MARCO - Vigo, Spain

10.05.2024 - TRICICLO - Barcelos, Portugal

15.05.2024 - LOVERS & LOLLYPOPS - Porto, Portugal

16.05.2024 - LISA - Lisbon, Portugal

17.05.2024 - SALA 6 - Barreiro, Portugal

06.06.2024 - TBA - Barcelona

09.06.2024 - LOKAL HARMONIE - Duisburg, Germany

12.06.2024 - Galiläakirche - Berlin, Germany

Part of this tour is supported by Goethe-Institut as part of their “Touring Green” funding program.

15/03/2024

Release day! Julius Gabriel presents "The Twins", the third single from his debut 𝙏𝘼𝙇𝙀𝙎 𝙁𝙍𝙊𝙈 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙐𝘽𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙍𝘼𝙉𝙀𝘼𝙉, set to release later this month. This LP release is a collaboration between Lovers & Lollypops and Ana Ott.

The spring tour of Julius Gabriel in Europe is announced

✧ 30.03 · Cafébar Mona · Munich, Germany

✧ 01.04 · Vekks · Vienna, Austria

✧ 02.04 · MANYI - Kulturális Műhely · Budapest, Hungary

✧ 03.04 · Kvaka 22 · Belgrade, Serbia

✧ 04.04 · Laboratorium · Skopje, North Macedonia

✧ 05.04 · Bobbina · Sofia, Bulgaria

✧ 13.04 · Ov Off Studio · Athens, Greece

✧ 14.04 · To Pikap · Thessaloniki, Greece

✧ 16.04 · Teatro Fantasia · Barletta, Italy

✧ 18.04 · Piccolo Teatro del Mercato · Ragusa, Italy

✧ 19.04 · Baraccio · Catania, Italy

✧ 20.04 · Curva Minore · Palermo, Italy

✧ 22.04 · Fanfulla · Rome, Italy

✧ 26.04 · Casa Madiba· Rimini, Italy

✧ 27.04 · N U A L · Bologna, Italy

✧ 05.05 · CRUCE ARTE Y PENSAMIENTO · Madrid, Spain

✧ 09.05 · Festival Sinsal · Vigo, Spain

✧ 10.05 · triciclo · Barcelos, Portugal

✧ 15.05 · Lovers & Lollypops · Porto, Portugal

✧ 16.05 · Lisa · Lisbon, Portugal

✧ 17.05 · SALA 6 · Barreiro, Portugal

✧ 14.06 · Lokal Harmonie · Duisburg, Germany

⎖ "The Twins", "Footworks" and "Giovanni's Friend“ can be listened to for free on our Bandcamp pages.

⎖ Pre-order of 𝙏𝘼𝙇𝙀𝙎 𝙁𝙍𝙊𝙈 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙐𝘽𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙍𝘼𝙉𝙀𝘼𝙉 now available: https://anaott.bandcamp.com/album/tales-from-the-subterranean



Part of this tour is supported by Goethe-Institut as part of their "Touring Green" funding program.

05/03/2024

Julius Gabriel - Tales From The Subterranean

Out March 28th
Pre Order Now
via anaott.bandcamp.com

"𝗙𝗼𝗼𝘁𝘄𝗼𝗿𝗸𝘀" is the debut single from Julius Gabriels new album 𝙏𝘼𝙇𝙀𝙎 𝙁𝙍𝙊𝙈 𝙏𝙃𝙀 𝙎𝙐𝘽𝙏𝙀𝙍𝙍𝘼𝙉𝙀𝘼𝙉. This record brings together influences from percussion music and melodic modes around the globe. Immersing itself in the nuances of two unique saxophones through techniques, rhythms, and melodies explored in isolation, a vibrant interplay emerges, connecting the realms of corporeality, acoustics, transcendence, and hypnosis.

This album is realized in collaboration with Lovers & Lollypops.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5MKDEYhGP8Q

Music, Direction & Editing: Julius GabrielCinematography: Neon LiberalSet Design: Sarah MethnerDancers: Carolin, Luisa, Mauro, Sarah, Malte, Jamie, Andrew, S...

01/03/2024

OUT NOW: Ludwig Wittbrodtz - Schleifen
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The Duo Ludwig Wittbrodt, that‘s Emily Wittbrodt on cello and Edis Ludwig on laptop and drums. The two develop a thicket of sounds and melodies that absorbs us in a completely unpretentious way and fills us with associations and warmth. We are reminded of the achievements of both Krautrock and Neue Musik, of early electronic music as well as Drone and Ambient.

At first glance, Emily and Edis seem to be an unequal couple. She has an academic background as a cellist, he is self-taught with his main instrument being computer and programming. She is active in Free Jazz, he drums with the rock band Düsseldorf Düsterboys. On the other hand, both have been active in the Free Improv scene in the german Rhine-Ruhr region for years - for example in ensembles such as The Dorf or Hilde (Emily) and Nasssau or Transport (Edis). This is the duo‘s second album.

Press:
"Im Klangbild von Ludwig Wittbrodt treffen die Liebe zum Detail und die Freude am Epischen aufeinander." (taz)

"Ein klanggewordenes Wimmelbild mit einer glühenden cineastischen Qualität." (WDR 3)

Photo: Katharina Geling

01/12/2023

OUT NOW: Limpe Fuchs - Alloa

Alloa, Bavarian for alone. Limpe likes to be alone, because she is never lonely. When she is not on concert tours, she cultivates the garden in front of the door or playfully handles her instruments in the house. Among these has recently been a restored concert grand piano, which she found orphaned at a performance venue in Switzerland and rescued from being scrapped in Peterskirchen. Since then it has been the center of Limpe's attention, is played daily, and can be heard on the recordings of this LP.

The music alternates between free improvisation and impromptu compositions, played also around fragmented recited poems. Beyond the boundaries of jazz, art song and classical music lies the freedom Limpe takes at the piano, laughingly commenting on her unorthodox, even carefree way of making music with a quote from Friedrich Gulda: "From seventy on, all pianists are bad."

Well, so what, Limpe is not a pianist anyway, she is much more than that. She is the most vivid proof of a long-lasting, versatile and intrepid musical career, the next chapter of which will also consist of Limpe no longer exclusively traveling through Europe heavily laden with all her self-made instruments, but every now and then light-heartedly from grand piano to grand piano, to then make music for everyone, as always but not necessarily alone.  
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Many thanks to Zoro Babel (mastering), Holger Adam (blurb) and Simon Mellnich (artwork). Photos: Ole-Kristian Heyer.

01/12/2023

Out now: Limpe Fuchs - Alloa (LP+digital)
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Release show tonight at , Mülheim an der Ruhr with Pit Holzapfel and DJs Genepi & Iku Sakan (iRiAi-Verlag).

Alloa, Bavarian for alone. Limpe likes to be alone, because she is never lonely. When she is not on concert tours, she cultivates the garden in front of the door or playfully handles her instruments in the house. Among these has recently been a restored concert grand piano, which she found orphaned at a performance venue in Switzerland and rescued from being scrapped in Peterskirchen. Since then it has been the center of Limpe's attention, is played daily, and can be heard on the recordings of this LP.

The music alternates between free improvisation and impromptu compositions, played also around fragmented recited poems. Beyond the boundaries of jazz, art song and classical music lies the freedom Limpe takes at the piano, laughingly commenting on her unorthodox, even carefree way of making music with a quote from Friedrich Gulda: "From seventy on, all pianists are bad."

Well, so what, Limpe is not a pianist anyway, she is much more than that. She is the most vivid proof of a long-lasting, versatile and intrepid musical career, the next chapter of which will also consist of Limpe no longer exclusively traveling through Europe heavily laden with all her self-made instruments, but every now and then light-heartedly from grand piano to grand piano, to then make music for everyone, as always but not necessarily alone.

Many thanks to Holger Adam (blurb), Simon Mellnich (artwork) and Zoro Babel (mastering). Photos: Ole-Kristian Heyer.

20/11/2023

Limpe Fuchs kommt zu uns nach Mülheim ins Makroscope um ihre Piano LP "alloa" mit einem Konzert zu veröffentlichen. Diese präsentiert sie dann mit Stimme, Synth und natürlich dem Piano und hat Pit Holzapfel an der Posaune mit dabei. Weitersagen!

Zur Veranstaltung: https://fb.me/e/3IKh0pwk7
Zum Shop: https://anaott.bandcamp.com/album/alloa

09/10/2023

Am Wochenende habt ihr die Gelegenheit, Emily Wittbrodts Bandprojekt Make You Stay bei zwei Release-Shows in voller Pracht/Besetzung zu sehen: Am Freitag in der Christuskirche zu Köln, am Samstag im Makroscope in Mülheim an der Ruhr.

Infos Köln: release-Konzert: make you stay
Infos Mülheim: Konzert: Emily Wittbrodt
Die Platte: www.anaott.bandcamp.com

22/09/2023

Emily Wittbrodt - Make You Stay
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Make you stay is a cycle of eight experimental recitatives and instrumental pieces by cellist and composer Emily Wittbrodt. The compositions are based on baroque forms, transferred to the sound of a contemporary band (electronics, electric guitar, drums, cello, electric organ and chest organ). In terms of content, the cycle deals with forms of separation. In the four recitatives, texts of the 20th and 21st centuries were set to music: Poems by E.E. Cummings and Stine Sampers, fragments of lyrics by Astrud Gilberto and a text by Emily Wittbrodt herself. The four recitatives are each performed by one of the band members, so that all four musicians have a singing or speaking role.

All recitatives are followed by an "aria", without singing, purely instrumental: in this - according to the historical model - the content of the recitatives is musically processed and further spun.

The result is music that in a weird way may be reminiscent of early classical music due to its inner structure and the sound of the chest organ, but is clearly rooted in contemporary music. With the band consisting of Annie Bloch (vocals, electric organ, chest organ), Jan Philipp (vocals and drums), Wolfgang Pérez (vocals, electric guitar, electronics) and Emily Wittbrodt (voice, cello) active musicians of Germanys experimental pop and improvisation scene can be heard on the record.

18/09/2023

Hallo Leipzig, trefft uns kommendes Wochenende beim .festival! Wir haben die brandneue Emily Wittbrodt-Platte dabei und freuen uns auf viele schöne Begegnungen.

31/08/2023

Das in Mülheim an der Ruhr ist seit 10 Jahren Ana Otts Werkstatt, Büro und Konzertort. Happy Birthday! Am Samstag feiern wir das Makro den ganzen Tag mit einem großen Fest. Mehr auf www.makroscope.de.

31/08/2023

Das in Mülheim an der Ruhr ist seit 10 Jahren Ana Otts Werkstatt, Büro und Konzertort. Happy Birthday! Am Samstag feiern wir das Makro den ganzen Tag mit einem großen Fest. Mehr auf www.makroscope.de.

24/03/2023

Nasssau - Auf Meeresspiegel
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Recorded live Makroscope, feb. 2020 with guests Julius Gabriel, Jan Klare and Niklas Wandt.

Artist Hannes Wellfonder designed the packaging. In the process he tattooed a psychedelic pattern and the name "Nasssau" on his body. His decision! He also tattooed the cassettes themselves, but buyers get a glittery sticker to cover at least part of the mess.

05/01/2023

From the Album Second Skin, to be released May 6 on Ana OttPre-order LP: https://anaott.bandcamp.com/album/second-skinVideo by Marian Maylandhttps://www.mari...

25/11/2022

OUT NOW:
Prozessor - Live / Studio

Super energetic free improv and free jazz with saxophone, electronics and drums. However, never macho, but with room for careful and even tender communication.

9 track album