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Sorry for x-posting- <br>
Hope to see you tonight at this Great concert.<br>
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Tonight at NK @ 21:30 Concert<br>
Elsenstr. 52 2HH 2Etage 12059 Berlin<br>
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.nkprojekt.de">www.nkprojekt.de</a><br>
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Entrance 6-8 € donation U decide!<br>
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The Observatory with Colin Hacklander on drums / The Realistic Micro
Dwarf: The Duo of Burkhard Beins & Clayton Thomas
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The Observatory are an independent avant rock band and an
experimental music group based in Singapore, consisting largely of
alumni from significant 1990s Singaporean bands.
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Founded in 2001, the group’s main tenet is to push individual and
collective boundaries farther. The goal isn’t just about creating
music that contains universal themes or writing about life from a
distinctly Singaporean perspective. It’s about breaking down
inhibition, convention and the mechanical way of commercial
music-making.
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The group draws inspiration from their Southeast Asian roots and an
unavoidable post-colonial musical diet. The Observatory fuse
unconventional structures, Asian rhythms, bold arrangements,
improvisation, thought and expression, while borrowing from random
music styles to stir up a potent concoction of emotionally powerful
extremes, disturbed and angry on one end, haunting and melancholic
on the other.
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The heart and soul of The Observatory is in its constant
reinvention. With each release, the members have persisted in their
experimental take on the song form. This frequently takes their
music to the outer limits, creating a rich musical repertoire that’s
texturally complex in a sonic tour de force of songs that are
viscerally emotional and splintering in its bleakness. A study in
delusion, insanity and obsession, <b class="moz-txt-star"><span
class="moz-txt-tag">*</span>Catacombs<span class="moz-txt-tag">*</span></b>,
their latest album, provokes and inspires in a deeply enigmatic way.
Even at its coldest and most abstract, it is human to the core.
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Album Music Trailer:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://vimeo.com/39565111">http://vimeo.com/39565111</a>
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“Out of The Furrow” (Excerpt):
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/41332165">https://vimeo.com/41332165</a>
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“Anger & Futility” (Live Studio Performance):
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://vimeo.com/42916298">https://vimeo.com/42916298</a>
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$$Colin Hacklander$$ is a self-taught drummer/percussionist and
artist who tours, organizes events, and works with various artist
organizations in Berlin, Minneapolis, NYC and now in Den Haag. See
Mica Moca, NK, Salon Bruit, OpenSound, GH, Tacheles Kunsthaus,
Dystopia, Minneapolis Free Music Society, Capillary Action,
Contemporary Music Workshop, The Sound Gallery, Consortium of
Symphonic Transients, and also Institute of Sonology… Shared bills
with Lightning Bolt, Wolf Eyes, Deerhoof, Joke Lanz, Japanther, Jim
Black, toured with Charles Hayward, performed with Doudou N’diaye
Rose, performed under James Dillon. Currently performing/developing
solo set with drums/electronics as GOOD GOD…
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="http://www.goodgod.biz">www.goodgod.biz</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://soundcloud.com/goodgodd">http://soundcloud.com/goodgodd</a>
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“The Realistic Micro Dwarf”
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Duo Synthesizer Project of Clayton Thomas & Burkhard Beins –
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.soundcloud.com/clayton-thomas">www.soundcloud.com/clayton-thomas</a>
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<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="http://www.burkhardbeins.de">www.burkhardbeins.de</a>
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