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Her Absence Fill the World – Inside, Outside

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It is a rebel. It is a crisis. It is a sad resistance.

KUBI
  • Can you describe the main components of your aesthetics you have been constructing through your music? What kind of artistic, cultural, and social inputs have fed your music so far and constructed “Her Absence Fiil the World”?

Kubi: For me, “Her Absence Fill the World” is an intuitive outpouring gathering whole our past experiences, attempts, failures and orientations. It is a project merging our diverse transnational roots, aesthetics and ideologies.

It is a rebel. It is a crisis. It is a sad resistance.

Sascha: There’s nothing I would add since this is so beautifully said. Maybe that I like the idea that it is somehow shaped by all my past selves. I can discover so many memories of myself in the music which comes out – sometimes I’m surprised. Also because I don’t always want them to be part. I don’t know if this is about shame. It’s really intimate and makes me sometimes feel vulnerable when passed identities of mine come to light – and since we make music together it’s sometimes really hard to discuss them and for them to be seen. But I feel it is important to accept also parts of ourselves we don’t like. I do not mean to like them and to feel positive about them. But to build the strength not to hide them because they’re part of the mosaic we call identity.

Photo Credit: Emrah Özdemir
  • How is your journey going so far? What have you found on the way? 

Sascha: In my opinion our journey is going like the best journeys are – a journey to Ithaka. I found a lot of joy, a lot of pain. Some pride and insecurities and I don’t know where exactly this will lead to. For me it feels like growing constantly and of course that is not always a good feeling. But somehow we try to release our emotions to music and for that the result is always precious for me. 

  • It seems you benefit and use inputs from many genres. How do you prefer to address your music in terms of genres?

Sascha: I would address our music generally as post-punk. It’s not that easy, I feel we’re still shaping our style – or maybe it is just shaped by itself depending of what comes out of us. But I can identify mostly with that. I guess the real categorization to a genre can just be made after we produced everything we’ll ever produce. 

Photo Credit: Emrah Özdemir
  • Why now?

If Not Now – Tracy Chapman

If not now, then when?

If not today,

Then, why make your promises?

A love declared for days to come,

Is as good as none.

You can wait ’til morning comes.

You can wait for the new day.

You can wait and lose this heart.

You can wait and soon be sorry.

If not now, then when?

If not today,

Then, why make your promises?

A love declared for days to come,

Is as good as none.

Now love’s the only thing that’s free.

We must take it where it’s found.

Pretty soon it may be costly.

‘Cause if not now, then when?

If not…

  • What do you expect to find in the future?

We are constantly playing with ideas. There are some couple of tunes that we feel like sharing yet we don’t know if we go with singles or shares as a whole in a label.

Interview by Tevfik Hürkan Urhan 

Solo Pájaros: “Birds Die, You Remember the Flight!”

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From the depths of the heart, with brutal honesty, comes the sound of this volatile band. Inspired by the sublime flight of the bird, the music of “Solo Pájaros” brings to the stage the powerful joy of living. Their lyrics describe the sadness that often haunts the human walk with the desire to turn it into poetry capable of raising wings in every curious listener. If we were to let his music be carried away by the wind, it would have no certain whereabouts, but would travel without a flight plan, trying to reach all the places in the world. It would treat the small as something big. The darkness of the moon as the brightness of the sun. And the inevitable death as a flash of life.

Initially three of the band members (Trini, Alex and Jan) started playing at the beginning of 2014. Singing in constant movement in the trains of Berlin, Madrid and Barcelona. Two years later two new important musicians (Antonella and Uaio) joined the band. From there the constellation that nowadays conforms the band would be aligned. Two women and three men. Five musicians. Three strings. Two percussions. And five voices.

They give their musical support in various solidarity events. They toured festivals in Hungary and Germany. In the middle of 2016 Trini and Alex leave the band and two new members join; Sebastián Yaniez first playing electric guitar and charango. A year later Sebastián Rosales joins on drums, where the band changes the sound of the cajon for that of a drum kit. They record and mix their songs between the walls of their rooms. They film their own video clips. They write their own songs. They are not afraid to feel the fall in order to find the flight.

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Her Absence Fill the World – EP Launch (Gazino Berlin Session)

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After releasing our EP “Part-Time Punk” on Detriti Records, we feel more motivated than ever to play our music, make new tunes, and vibe with you people. So, we would like to have a tiny session with you to celebrate our EP.

While hoping to play for you in smokey, trashy bars and clubs, this time we invite you to a tiny online session in our Gazino in Wassertorstrasse, Berlin.

We would love to pass our warmest thanks to Kor for mastering our sound. Big thanks also go to Dolmus Magazine and NCOUNTERS for supporting us in this event. Without any of them, this event would not be possible.