Andreas Jourdan, my earlyer bands Rakete JR and Bluna, the sound of the organ in the church of the town in Transylvania where I grew up and listened to Bach.
Hello, my name is Ursula. SKIRT is my solo project. Ever since the release of the 7" single POPPIT SAND 2001 on vinyl, I compose on the computer. I discovered the sequencer as a great substitute for digital recording. The first two pieces that I composed this way have a distinct signature. Polyphonic sounds and gently held-back vocals. Pop melodies, however, dominate the songs, followed by unconventional arrangements as if the songs themselves had longing. A longing for traditional music and innovative song writing simultaneously. All my songs are abstract stories, that are drawn from fragments of an occurrence or extracted from a certain mood. They start with a simple theme, played on guitar or piano and build further melodies from there which layer upon each-other and are broken by off-beat drum rhythms. Sometimes there are also unexpected turns and breaks and new melodies lead to new sound-worlds.
The origin of the content of my work stems from my experiences and my different states reflecting those experiences, and it is directly tied to my surroundings. In my mind my songs are three demential structures. Everything intertwines, old fragments from my past in Romania with my current state and environment.
POPPIT SAND is a small town in Wales. We were once there in the
summer. We stayed at a youth-hostel, in a little house
with a baby blue bathtub and a view of the bay. In the
morning a soft mist enveloped the landscape and smudged all contours
and we believed we were in heaven. The sand was so soft that it felt
as if walking on clouds, but our feet were no longer on the ground,
we were afloat . . . in pastel
p!o!p kombinat berlin & Pop Assistants presents: The Lucksmiths
(AUS) A Smile and a Ribbon (SWE) The Ladybug Transistor (USA) - Gary Olson
live with members of the The Lucksmiths Uni & her Ukelele
(USA)
Sa, 11.07.2009 @ Bang Bang Club Berlin Doors: 20 h Cost: 10
€
. . . this is just to let you know that my brother Philipp is in town and we will play a Crazy for Jane show at the Down by the River Festival on Saturday. The line-up is amazing, check it out www.myspace.com/downbytheriverfestival. We are so excited to be a part of this. It all takes place at Bar25. We go on at 2:45 in the afternnon, yes early, and we would love to see you by daylight. And then we can see all those other bands together. What do you say? If you want to come out tonight for a festival warm-up . . . they are screening "Berlin Song" at the Ping Pong Bar on Glogauerstrasse 21 at 9:30 p.m. tonight (Friday) and afterwards Crazy for Jane and Tomi Simatupang will play some songs. Yeah. So lots of opportunities to hang out and conversation and listen to music and watch clouds and the Spree and dreams and there is a swing at Bar25 . . .
"An exquisite and imaginative London talent, Windmill combines star-gazing and
shoe-gazing without a hint of mediocre middle ground..." - BBC
"Freakoid Americana that sounds like a lost Mercury Rev or Grandaddy album. Not bad for a one-man
band from Newport Pagnell." - NME
"Timeless and Graceful. Tales of asthmatics and fashion houses, plastic pre-flight seats and boarding
lounges that you can't help returning to." - THE GUARDIAN
"[...] an impressive album of displacement anxiety with sonics to match. Think Mercury Rev making
a break up album." - THE INDEPENDENT
Einlass: 20:00 / Beginn 21:00
Tickets: 5€
NBI
Schönhauser Allee 36 (Kulturbrauerei)
D-10435 Berlin
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Das Artist-in-Residence-Stipendium beinhaltet einen mietfreien, zweiwöchigen Arbeitsaufenthalt im Schrank von Ruth Luxenhofer (Zeitpunkt nach Absprache).
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P.M.Monnagham, artist, Berlin.
hoi ursula. schön, dass du da warst und es dir so gut gefallen hat beim rant-konzert in der ec. hoffe, in der schweiz war's auch schön. würde mich freuen, dich auch beim release-abend meines neuen albums "some of the things we could be" begrüßen zu dürfen. in der electronic church am 19.06. viele grüße ausm wedding, torsten.
vielleicht passt's ja... r a n t im mai: 02.05. / Berlin / Miss Hecker 03.05. / Hamburg / Astra-Stube 05.05. / Leipzig / NBL 08.05. / Brussels / Halfenhalf 29.05. / Berlin / Electronic Church
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