Photo: Ken Werner
Two Bands on the 15th!
"Embark on a mystical journey, travel from the stomach to the little voices, reminiscent of a volcano on the brink of eruption."
Inutile Témoin- is Teresa Riemann and Amélie Legrand on cello, drums, electronics and voices.
French, German and English poetry with free improvisation to produce an energetic and abstract sound which delivers a deep and direct energy.
https://soundcloud.com/inutiletemoin/the-leaves-upon-the-street
photo: Amélie Blanc
Poetry, gracefulness and a bit of tragedy...
Pls listen: https://soundcloud.com/user-320950787
Aurélie Gravas & La Femme d'Ali:
Aurélie Gravas (vocals, guitar).
Luc van Lieshout ( trumpet),
Nicolas Thys ( double bass),
Enjoy!
Gerard Daval
Bios
Amélie Legrand
Amelie Legrand is a French cellist, singer and composer based in Berlin, Germany.
She is active within many different musical scenes, including noise rock, arabic music, free improvisation and film score composition.
She is dedicated to exploring the cello to its fullest potential and develop a form of expression which places the highest priority on the individuality of the performer and the spontaneity of each unique moment.
Her sound can be raw, noisy, minimalist or melodic. She uses her voice with electronics, working on poems between improvisation and rock and roll.
Amelie performs regularly on the European improvised experimental stage.
She collaborates with Adam Goodwin and Tatsumi Ryusui in the band Elmer Kussiac, which will release its first album in February 2018. They collaborate with various performers and artists such as Guillaume Cailleau, Britt Al-Busultan, Michyasu Furutani, Clara Bausch and Distruktur.
Amelie co-composed the music of the flm “In the Last Days of the City” by the Egyptian film maker Tamer El Said that was presented at the Berlinale 2016, more than 60 festivals and released now in 10 countries. She composed the music of the film “Les pieds sur terre” by Batiste Combret and Bertrand Hagenmuller that was released in French cinemas in 2017. She also composed the music of Rudar by Hanna Slak that will be released in Slovenia in September 2017. Amelie was one of the six composers selected on the program “Emergence Cinema” in 2016 in Paris.
AL was invited by the Bibliotheca of Alexandria in March 2017 to give a workshop called “Improvised music in filmscore composition”.
Amelie studied cello in France at the Conservatoire in Bordeaux with Laurence Dufour and Etienne Peclard.
amelielegrand.com
Teresa Riemann - Berlin
(*1988 in Dachau) lived and worked as performance-artist, musician (compositions /improvisations: drums, piano, voice), writer and psychologist since 2012 in Berlin.
Since 2010 she has been organizing and staging numerous concerts, readings and performances from Poland to Tunisia. She has been touring with various bands throughout Europe, and presented very intense solo or two-people performances on festivals, e.g. "Choufthouhonna", 2016, Tunis; "Queerfest" 2015, Poznan; "Zwischenraum Festival" 2015, Sotodo Berlin 2017, Onomatopoesietage Innsbruck 2017 (...) 2010 she has been co-founding the cultural space "Café Decentral" in Innsbruck, Austria.
Since 2012 she is part of the association XB-Liebig (Berlin), and has been curating various concerts, readings and interdisciplinary events.
Since 2017 January she is constantly on the road, living art and realizing projects to break the pullulating attitude of bystanding.
Sprung from the dark caves of the collective german subconsciousness, forging an outlet via the Berlin Noise scene, Berlin based musician, poetess and performance-artist Teresa Riemann explores, through her creative output, the darkness and even more-so the light, which can be found in the spaces we like to keep locked up far away from where anybody can see them.
After being taught how to play the piano in a classical way, excluding all passion from pure perfection, she started to evolve a genuine art of playing by learning the instruments by herself, starting with the electric guitar, later discovering drums.
From 2013 on she is active in different musical collaborations to be situated inside the broad field of new music that yet come with a raw energy and find themselves far from a hygienical tidiness of pure intellectualism.
She has played with various musicians in improvised music throughout Europe, mainly as a drummer with a strong voice. Apart from that, she developed her own compositions on piano with vocals.
In 2013 she recorded her first solo album "She has lost control again", partly composed, partly improvised, using guitars, voice and drums.
She has been part of various theatre projects, and in 2015 her play >punch me< was staged for the first time.
Since 2017 she's playing in ›Inutile Témoin‹ (Amélie Legrand - cello, voice / Teresa Riemann - drums, voice) and ›Naked in the Zoo‹ (Ruben Tenenbaum - violin / Teresa Riemann - drums, voice).
Every dogma is a coma would best describe her artistic approach.
