The Burn, Baby, Burn Tour / ...are not what they seem

»ein abend für & mit julee cruise, alex hacke uvm«

JULEE CRUISE, bekannt geworden durch den Twin Peaks-Soundtrack, wird gemeinsam mit Legenden des 80er-Jahre-Undergrounds, also ALEX HACKE (Einstürzende Neubauten), KID CONGO POWERS (Gun Club, Nick Cave, The Cramps), CHRIS HUGHES (Hugo Race, Rowland S. Howard, Once Upon A Time), KHAN und anderen Musikern, in der fluc_wanne auftreten.

Zu hören gibt es ein Potpourri von Klassikern der einzelnen Bandmitglieder und natürlich auch « Falling », jener Nummer mit der Cruise weltberühmt wurde.
Dem ist aber nicht genug, weil einen Stock höher, im fluc (café/bar) gibt es JULEE CRUISE zu Ehren einen CLUB D´HOMMAGE-TWIN PEAKS-Spezialabend, wo u.a. THE NOBODY`s FAULTS, RAMBO RAMBO RAMBO oder PAPERBIRD den TWIN PEAKS-Soundtrack (re-)interpretieren werden. Dass Mrs. CRUISE dem special nach getaner Arbeit in der « Wanne » beiwohnen wird, ist uns eine besondere Freude.

The Burn, Baby, Burn Tour 2011
Montag, 21. März

featuring

Khan, Kid Congo Powers, Alexander Hacke,
Danielle de Picciotto, Chris Hughes and Julee Cruise.

These legendary artists will be on the road in Europe together; presenting their new albums with an explosive show. Hours of hot-blooded beats, ethereal singing, surreal visuals and mesmerizing songs will be offered, the musicians not only performing their own work but collaborating on selected pieces chosen specifically for this project.

Khan
His career in music spans over 15 years, beginning with a period in New York during which he established his HQ at his own record shop Temple Records NYC and produced hundreds of records in a wide range of styles under at least 10 different names, including Bizz OD, El Turco Loco and 4E. Among his countless projects and collaborations were Kid & Khan (with Kid Congo Powers), Global Electronic Network/Khan & Walker (one half of Air Liquide) and Legally Jammin (with Little Annie). But he is best known as the co-founder of the decadent dance duo Captain Comatose who, along the way, became the pioneers of electronic disco-trash with hits like “$100” and “Up In Flames”. His raucous live performances feature an ever-changing roster of “living persona” that captivate the audience with camp, flamboyant drama and real-time action: the male hustler of from his debut 1-900-Get-Khan; the faceless, blond space invader; or the latest, a long-eared, gothic bunny from hell, gracing the stage in a tuxedo. He is the electronic blues traveler as modern-day entertainer, MC and host, here to enthrall us with seamy tales, torch songs, twisted romance and his own observations about life and love.

Kid Congo Powers
Powers is a second generation Mexican American. After traveling to London and New York City he returned to L.A. and in 1979 met Jeffrey Lee Pierce. Pierce taught him to play guitar using open tuning, and they formed ‘The Creeping Ritual’, which became The Gun Club. Powers left that group before their recording debut, instead joining New York-based band The Cramps in December 1980. He rejoined the Gun Club briefly in 1983, rejoining again between 1985 and 1988, when he again left to join Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds in Berlin, for several albums and associated tours. Powers has also played with The Divine Horsemen, The Angels of Light, Die Haut and The Fall. Most recently, Powers has collaborated with New York City guitarist Jack Martin on projects like The Pink Monkey Birds, Congo Norvell and Knoxville Girls.

Alexander Hacke & Danielle de Picciotto

Alexander Hacke is known as the bass player of Einstürzende Neubauten and main figure in Fatih Akins movie “Crossing the Bridge”. Besides collaborating in countless bands on the side he has also been composing film scores for two decades. The American born Danielle de Picciotto was singer of the “Space Cowboys” and Gudrun Gut´s “Ocean Club” and is an icon in Berlin´s creative underground and co-founder of the Love Parade together with Dr Motte. Her art and film projects are exhibited internationally.
Hacke/ de Piccciotto have been a huge influence on Berlins underground scene since the eighties and have been touring the world with their collaborations since 2000.
Their new album goes back to the basics. After deciding to give up their house in Berlin 2010 the couple is on the road in search of new horizons. Celebrating this restless nomadic lifestyle they decided to go back to classic songwriting, without sequencing or electronic processing. Concentrating purely on their instruments (guitar, autoharp, keyboards, drums) their songs can be performed on any stage and unplugged. Disregarding fashion, conventions or everyday standards, their lyrics speak of the world they are discovering: “Solitude”, “Magic” and “Freedom”. The brew Ballads, gypsy rolls, Italo Western piano tunes, heavy guitar riffs and Autoharp transports the audience into the world of the uncompromising explorer.
As in their previous projects (“Sanctuary”/”The History of Electricity”/ “Mountains of Madness” and the “The Ship of Fools”) new visuals by Danielle de Picciotto will accompany their performance, but this show´s spotlight is on the music composed conjointly by the artist couple.
The charismatic artist couple is accompanied by Chris Hughes(Fatale Shore) on the drums.

Chris Hughes

Chris Hughes was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1968. He was a founding member of Once Upon A Time and also of Hugo Race & The True Spirit. Since arriving in Europe in 1989 he has played and recorded with Nina Hagen, Mick Harvey, Nikki Sudden, Ralf Goldkind, Rowland S. Howard, and many others.
His unique style of explosive yet well-anchored syncopations leaves its unmistakable mark on every project he is a part of. Hughes is currently working on his solo project Hughes Leisure Group, some tracks of which appear on the CD “Wet Dream” by Hugo Race & The True Spirit.
He was also a member of the Berlin-based Industrial-Ambient collective Snowcrash, and plays with the psychedelic garage band The Methylated Spirits.

Julee Cruise

In 1985, Badalamenti was composing the score for David Lynch’s Blue Velvet, as well as serving as the vocal coach for the film’s star, Isabella Rossellini. A key scene in Blue Velvet was intended to feature This Mortal Coil’s version of Song to the Siren by Tim Buckley, but when the rights to the song proved prohibitively expensive, it was suggested that Badalamenti compose a pop song in the same style, with lyrics written by Lynch. Because the song required a vocalist with a haunting, ethereal voice, Badalamenti recommended Julee Cruise, who had sung “like an angel” in a New York theater workshop that Badalamenti had produced. The result of their initial collaboration was “Mysteries of Love”, which figures prominently in Blue Velvet’s closing scenes.
Positive reaction to “Mysteries of Love” led Badalamenti and Lynch to write and produce additional songs for Cruise, most of which were featured in her debut album, Floating Into the Night. The album was released on 12 September 1989 by Warner Bros. Records, and charted on Billboard the following year. A moody, tightly structured collection of dream pop songs with lush, idiosyncratic orchestrations and intentionally retro lyrics, Floating Into the Night became a favorite of such musicians as Tim Booth, lead singer of the band James, and techno artist Moby, who would go on to collaborate with Cruise on the unreleased track “Drown Disco”. It also provided musical material for two of Lynch’s other projects. The first was Industrial Symphony No. 1, a dark, intentionally obscure performance piece in which Cruise performed while “floating” from a harness dozens of feet above a stage at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The second, more significant project was the soundtrack to Lynch’s Twin Peaks, for which Badalamenti composed the original score. The song “Falling”, which became the orchestral theme for the television series, caused a minor sensation, winning a Grammy at the 33rd Grammy Awards for Best Pop Instrumental[2]. The Twin Peaks soundtrack, featuring Cruise on the songs “Into the Night” and “The Nightingale” as well as on the vocal version of “Falling”, eventually became the best-selling television soundtrack of all time. Cruise made a number of appearances on Twin Peaks as a singer at a local bar, and was prominently featured in both the show’s landmark pilot episode and the episode where Laura Palmer’s murderer is revealed, as well as in 1992’s Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me. Cruise has also lent her vocals to works by a miscellaneous list of collaborators, mostly in Electronic music.
She provided vocals and lyrics to several of the songs on Wide Angle (1999), the debut album by Welsh electronic music group Hybrid, notably the epic nuskool breaks track “If I Survive”. Also in 1999, she performs on two songs on Don’t Panic! by DJ Silver.
She appeared on the albums 1-900-Get-Khan (1999) and No Comprendo (2001) by dance artist Khan (Can Oral), and also performed live several times with him. The lyrics for many of these songs, such as “Body Dump”, reflect Cruise’s own interest in true crime.
She appears on a number of tracks on both the 2003 album Dreams Top Rock and the 2007 album Monstrous Surplus by German post-rock act, Pluramon.
She was featured in a song by Supa Dj Dimitri (formerly of Deee-Lite) called “Space Oddity”.
More recently, Cruise has appeared as a guest vocalist on Sarcast While, the 2006 full-length album from the New York band, Time of Orchids, released on Tzadik Records. Her vocals also appear on five tracks on Kenneth Bager’s 2006 album Fragments From A Space Cadet.

externer link www.myspace.com/khanoffinland
externer link www.myspace.com/iamsinglerecords
externer link www.hitmansheel.de/
externer link www.danielledepicciotto.com/
externer link www.hacke.org/

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