Odd places for new literature

The next edition of the auditory canal leads you to Haidhausen. New literature take specific courses. From the medieval blacksmiths over the last farm on the basement church, by the Max-Reger-organ loft above the funeral parlor to the cemetery Ewerk, the women's prison Neudeck on the bedroom furniture department Willinger in the violin-making workshop Loeffler.

Authors exciting, new, querbeet. Abi Ofarim of memoirs about felt stories about Robert Penzkofers debut Hültners inspector Cajetan. Marc Knight evacuated the Zugspitze, Roland Krause Giesing, Tanja Kinkel missed the Middle Ages, the team parsimony, Elena Lorschied, Shirley Seul, Peter Klimesch and all the other stories tell of or to match the seats. Or the opposite.

The final party in jail!

Tract cells and the prison yard, exercise hall and infirmary in colored light.
Vodka instead of water, jumping instead of sighing, ratchets instead of remorse.

Registration on the website on which all the venues, authors, and reservation portal can be found.
The ear canal on 28 April from 20:00 clock.

Of Monsters and Men | My Head Is An Animal

This Friday is the day. The long-awaited debut album My Head Is An Animal of the youngster Chapel Of Monsters and Men appears at last in this country. In 2011, the sextet made ​​on Icelandic national borders of the talk, as was their first single, Little Talks to which there are now more recently, a video, celebrated by various blogs. Meanwhile, the band is enjoying especially in the U.S. ever-increasing recognition of what is rewarded with an extensive summer tour in the States. In this country, we must first deal with the two already sold-out concerts at 27.04. in Cologne and at 28.04. settle in Berlin. And if the music stops at the end of what promises to Little Talks for a long time, we hear from this Friday.

Jason & the Lyrebird - In a Tee Pee We Shall Lie

Jason & the Lyrebirds are a band from Sydney. As it describes the web page met singer and guitarist Matt Hampton and his future bandmate Keyborderin Elenius Oberon in a supermarket and the two decided on the same day to start a band. Meanwhile, the three other band members are found, released their first EP "In A Tee Pee We Shall Lay" and has already played tour and festivals. Next would come the guys and gals really then to Europe. Until then, you hear the other songs on here.

The Psychic Paramount: Noiseverknotung

It is punk in its fury, noise in its extremity rash, and progressive in shape: small p-per-gress as a verb, progress progress progress, move move move, forward, onward upward.

Noisig verknotetet and sinewy verästeltelt comes from the instrumental rock of THE PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT. The music of the New York trio is full of corners, edges and dissonance, but entirely free from all too often encountered in instrumental rock contexts kitsch and self-pity. A discreet note Psych mixes with jazzy playfulness and openness to an interesting, powerful, noisigen mix of styles. The music is constantly in motion, always probing and looking different directions.

Six years after the debut album "Gamelan Into The Mink Supernatural" in February 2011 with "II" the second album from THE PSYCHIC PARAMOUNT LP and CD released by No Quarter.

Hip burning down the hut!

For the second time brought So .. What? Events on Easter Saturday "Rockin With The Best" in Munich. With the launch were the hip-sizes onyx, MOP, Lords of the Underground, and MoTrip Sixkay. As local support also was Fatoni by the band Cream Fresh here. First of all it was! "The hut is burning" and who's been there knows: That was not promised too much.

On the Facebook page of the organizers after the show thanking all who've been there. In particular: "And very special thanks to the engineers on the stage who has gone on anyway, after he .. by Onyx with lamps, Micros and everything was thrown at them got into the hands of ... sex, drugs & rock n roll so what. .? "For those who missed the event after all, may be in the picture look like it was.

Lecture at Gasteig: equality before God - equality before the law?

Lecture at Gasteig: equality before God - equality before the law?

Hans finds MaierAm 19/04/2012 Gasteig, more precisely in the lecture hall in the town library, a lecture from the series "Are religions capable of democracy?" Instead of Prof. Dr. Hans Maier. The question this time: Does equality before God and equality before the law? Christianity, which has made people equal before God, will not turn on the other hand, that citizens are equal before the law. "- So pointedly put it mid-19th Century, the French scientist Alexis de Tocqueville law the principle of equality as a condition of his conception of the state.

Prof. Dr. Hans Maier will address in his talk with whether and how far the religious principle of equality before God in the laws of democratic systems found its expression. Prof. Dr. Hans Maier, a former Bavarian Minister of Culture and retired owner of Guardini Chair of Christian belief.

On 05/23/2012, this lecture series continues with: "After the age of extremes - a victory for democracy?"

Hole's classical training reunited in New York

Hole's classical training (which existed between the "Live Through This" and "Celebrity Skin") again in a match two days earlier stage in the Public Assembly in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Did not miss any of the greats. Neither Eric Erlandson (who has been talking too much about Kurt Cobain lately), and Patty Schemel, and Melissa Auf Der Maur, and Courtney Love. Everyone wanted to surprise the staff with a live performance of the classic post-grunge entitled 'Miss World' which led to fans of Love to enter a state of trance really unexpected.

Impressed to see back to Melissa and Courtney on the same stage. We all know the race has made in front of Courtney Hole, but Auf Der Maur, who has performed both solo work and collaborated on albums by Smashing Pumpkins, not behind us. It now remains to see if what happened in New York is a sign of change within the core of this training Hole.

'Ashes In The Air', the subject has joined Bon Iver and The Flaming Lips

Each time is less for the Record Store Day, the day will be the stars The Flaming Lips after confirming the launch of a disk that will be presented made ​​collaborations with artists as diverse as Nick Cave, Chris Martin (Coldplay) or Bon Iver. 'Ashes In The Air' is the theme that has joined Justin Vernon and Wayne Coyne, and today, thanks to the discovery of Antiquiet web, we can enjoy it in its entirety.


Justin Wayne and expect something huge. It was impossible to believe that they were going to create something less. Unfortunately 'Ashes In The Air' is not up to expectations: towards the end of the topic becomes crushing percussion, among other things that are missing that point only to some of the compositions are in The Flaming Lips his credit. Hopefully this piece is the exception within a disc of collaborations that at least a priori has a delicious pint.

Launches Record Store Day 2012

As we know, Record Store Day is the most important event of the vinyl industry and this 2012 is no exception. With significant growth in sales of vinyl records year after year, record labels aware of it, have chosen editions, limited editions, rarities and new releases this April 21.

Not only will take place in the United Kingdom and the United States, already beginning to feel a Barcelona edition of Record Store Day with a significant amount of national labels in the best vinyl stores in the city, in what will be a great event for all music lovers and lovers of music on vinyl.

Here you have the list of official international launch of the website of Record Store Day 2012 Something for everyone!

From classics such as The Beatles and his collection of singles, Bob Marley with the release of their soundtrack of the film "Marley" Bob Dylan boxset of "Can You Please Crawl Out Of Your Window", 7 "live the" Boss "Bruce Springsteen "Rocky ground / The Promise (Live)" and James Brown or Janis Joplin.

Oddities of David Bowie, Animal Collective and David Lynch, the song "Do Ya Thing" by Gorillaz for Converse. Unreleased tracks like "Mirror" of M83, splits like Mastodon with Feist, The Flaming Lips collaborations with Bon Iver, Mastodon and Chris Martin of Coldplay.

Covers Ryan Adams, Laura Marling or Kasabian, remixes like Arcade Fire or Battles. EP's Miles Kane, The Wedding Present and Noel Gallagher, singles from Arctic Monkeys and Guided By Voices, reissues like The Black Keys, Bloc Party and The White Stripes or jewelry collection Ramones, Sex Pistols and The Clash and many more.

The Record Store Day is just around the corner, for the sake of our ears and unfortunately for our wallets.

Interview with Mono, spring 2012

Those that you may be in Barcelona and I go the alternative rock of the 80/90 is likely to Mono sound you one of those formations encountered in the old city with years and years making war on the basis of raucous riffs, and an unmistakable roar stratospheric inviting rock sound that we redeem our beloved cabinet leather jackets. Throughout these years the trends of these major national rock has led them to be changing record, reaching a new "welfare state" embodied in "The Sky Is Everywhere," a third studio album which has with the peculiarity of having been recorded entirely in one language - Castilian - which had been substituted by the English in their previous two albums.

Kindly quote us a little over a week with Alex (guitar) and Oscar (singer) to talk to them about this new era in which children are immersed in Mono. Spanish, Jess Senra of Sidonie and recording methods are just some of the main themes in an interview that, hopefully, be to your liking:

Where did you got the idea of ​​owner the album "The Sky Is Everywhere"?

Alex: In my 3 years. Was traveling with him from the cart when asked if the sky was everywhere. That answer left me so psyched that I thought it might be a good title for the album.

Curious! Going to talk about the album itself: this was an album with which you have broken all the barriers of linguistic. If You chanted in English before, now you do in Spanish. What led you to make this change?

Oscar: The transformation came given to reach a ceiling on the opportunities offered us the English language. We wanted to somehow change the path and direction of the group. It came naturally: we started in Castilian. Our first demos and our first attempts were in our language. Little by little we realized the English language that quite clashed with our interests, and things eventually turned.

¿You saw more difficult to compose in English?
Oscar: the contrary. In English it is much easier than writing in Castilian. Everything is much more monosyllabic and spontaneous.
Alex: Yes, what happens is that in English would sound all much more extreme.
Oscar: The Castilian softens it all. Language is a very "soft" as it were in some way. The English sounds harder.

Because your two previous albums showed a very aggressive alternative rock and close to what was heard in the 80. ¿You were aware that this change was to soften the contents of your songs?

Alex: Yes, and in fact we wanted because we were in no man's land with English. It's funny but when we played with groups always saw that we were the group had just cane and not marry well with people, you know? We were too sugarcane to where we wanted to be. And if we played with people we sounded too soft very sugarcane. Somehow we had to soften a bit our music, but there are songs that put enough cane.

Absolutely true. In fact, reviewing the record, I found some surprises. One is 'Ron Añejo', a song which oddly is the most relate to your previous "I". Was it coincidence that the theme llamaseis well?

Alex: Actually, it makes sense but not (laughs). The subject was born with a guitar riff that actually was the end of a song that sometimes we played in trials but never came to anything.
Oscar: One of the few songs, if not the single, which sounds like a Fender. And that note sound level is an outrage. For me it's one of my favorites of the album, who knows, maybe it ends up being the second single from the LP.

Of the themes of "The Sky Is Everywhere," which caught my attention most was 'The End of Any Story' basically because as the latter grows spend a lot.

Alex: When we were recording the subject knew that this would be the most different of the disc. It was little surprise. In fact much studio work back there.

Listening to him could not help thinking that the piece seemed to have been born from the simple rate at which it begins. Is that true?

Alex: That was, yes.
Oscar: And then the guitar riff became piano.

Another such is 'Vulcan'. One minute in length but all brown, with hardly a single moment to breathe.

Oscar: We usually do this on disks. If you notice, except the first that almost all are well, there's always one that sounds like a spit (laughs).
Alex: Actually in the second there was a song that had to be and did not put, do you remember?
Oscar: Yes, always try to do some songs super super short and direct, like 'The Young Dolores'. This song sounds just before 'Formentera' and is based on a little boat that went from Ibiza to Formentera. Let's say the intro is so cool and beautiful as the journey you live in the waves at the edge of the boat.

The case of 'Formentera' I found even unusual. He knew the friendship that unites you guys Sidonie, and in turn am also knowledgeable about the love they profess for the islands of the Balearics. Seeing this, how is this issue reminds me so much Sidonie?

Oscar: I tell you a secret: this song started to do with Jess Senra. In fact the voices work fully with it. Are you someone has told on that? (Laughs).

No, no! Pure deduction. Another thing that caught my attention: on this album have done a version of 'Dakota' by Stereophonics. Does the letter is equal to the original?

Oscar: It's the same but adapted. Literal, literal transcription could not be done.
Alex: Actually the original letter was a little ...
Oscar: ... ribbons (laughs)
Alex: Yeah, the lyrics are a little ridiculous. When we translate we were a little "ostia ... shit." We had to adapt a bit to make the thing quedase well.

What led you to take that item and not another?

Oscar: We had several versions made for years and one day we started playing this subject we liked them all equally. The idea was to play only live but in the end we thought putting it on the disk.
Alex: We wanted to serve us well to attract more people.
Oscar: A "MClanazo" I call.

And the last track you recorded it with Mürfila. The theme has a set of beautiful voices.

Oscar: Yes. For this time we wanted to include a female voice on the disc and as Mar's colleague and videos for us to throw miles with that idea. It had to be it yes or yes.
Alex: Actually when we entered the study and had not finished. We create it all in there.
Oscar: You have a very Simple Minds roll. In fact it is his voice that just the disk.

Favorite topics disk ¿?

Alex: It would be a couple. 'The Sky Is Everywhere "and" Ron Añejo'.
Oscar: And 'This Town'.
Alex: Well, actually we were working two years in 'City of the East'. At one point I think no longer wanted to do it. But the end came. It was just easier to do what we did. We gave too many turns and it was much easier than that.
Oscar: Now to compose very complicate us. And then we go into the studio and we begin to remove things.

Do you think that's because many years have you been working?

Oscar: No, basically because we want to complicate life (laughs).
Alex: Generally, yes.
Oscar: But there's always a touch of Monkey are unmistakable.

Interesting. And now, for this 2012, what plan / tour you have planned to do?

Oscar: We are currently programming everything. We plan to make the presentation in Barcelona, ​​then Madrid, Castellon ...
Alex: The idea is to Catalonia through the rooms and play in as many places as possible.
Oscar: I go to the Grammy as well.

With Mono you never know. Will come, now!

Concert poster by Paul Gardner

After the last two designers had a penchant for strong colors, Paul Gardner, who is traveling under the name Flora Fauna in the network, it rather dark, muted colors. I try through the arrangement of the posters to show in the gallery that he knows very different styles, drawing, land use, arrangement, and I can not say that one of the three styles / series I liked it worse, if the rather painted, the "technical "or the three Wilcoplakate. Interesting way, again, what bands do the designers themselves. I would hang up now three or four-poster Wilco, if I had the space, even though I really do not like the music.

Please also check out the posters in his shop necessarily, there are some very nice pieces, but unfortunately not as images are includable here.

"Celtic Footprints" tour - Loreena McKennitt at the Philharmonic

Loreena McKennitt live in April 2012 in Munich 14.04.2012 PhilharmonieAm can Folklore friends in the Munich Philharmonic with a fairy harp experience in search of clues, because the Canadian artist Loreena McKennitt reflects on her "Celtic Footprints" tour to the traditional folklore of Ireland , Scotland and England. For more than two decades exploring the Ausnahmeinterpretin with traditional songs and classics, the various aspects of Celtic music. Seemingly effortlessly combines instrumental and vocal perfection and emotion into a sound outfit that enchants the listener. With their latest album "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" went back to the fascinating interpreter of the earliest inspirations of her career. In her performances and recordings interprets the passionate globetrotter their poems and short stories set to music with crystal-clear soprano voice, while she stands out as an instrumentalist on harp, piano and bandoneon. She will be accompanied, as always, a select ensemble of absolute top musicians.

The repertoire can be found, along with newer songs, of course, many classics of Loreena McKennitt. 13 albums including the extensive work of the bard now. Worldwide it has sold 14 million CDs, more than 1.6 million of them in Germany. An astonishing triumph of musical poetry. "My songs are composed like a mosaic whose pieces one by one be gathered and fitted. They are memories and experiences, which explains to teach his audience happy, "Loreena McKennitt. In "The Wind that Shakes the Barley" she felt a pull back to their own information to their own roots. "With the perspective of time and experience to feel the familiar things you loved and still loves it." Loreena McKennitt has recorded a CD with long time musical companions and outstanding instrumentalists. She feels the album as a return to simple, centuries-old music with which she gave her 1985 debut record "Elemental".

Loreena McKennitt live in April 2012 in Munich PhilharmonieLoreena McKennitt, daughter of a wholesaler in Canada Manitoba, would actually be to vet. But she decided to leave school for music. She borrowed from family seed money, bought the book "How To Make Your Own Record" and marched straight into a recording studio. After two days they came out with a finished record, which she sold in pubs, clubs and on the road. The early 80's they hired as a composer, singer and actress famed for the Canadian Shakespeare Festival in Stratford / Ontario. It was the launching pad for an international career.

As a musical ambassador, she represented Canada on a variety of cultural events throughout the world, wrote film scores and performed at festivals. In 1985 she produced her first album with her savings and started her own record label. As one of the few truly independent artists, she has since decided solely on song selection, production, design and distribution of their material. By breathed new life into ancient texts, is Loreena McKennitt made a name as a folk singer. Traditional folk ballads, it gives freshness and immediacy.
Come and visit Loreena McKennitt "Celtic Footprints" Walk on the 14/04/2012 at the Philharmonie in Munich. The team from Munich Blog wishes much fun.