Care in the community recordings curate a night of idiosyncratic solo music performance. Neo-Dadaist composer Felix Kubin, one of electronic music’s most dynamic and versatile performers, is joined by Ergo Phizmiz and Pete Um. DJ support from Nick Name (WFMU)

Supported by I-D.A Projects


FELIX KUBIN

Felix Kubin will be performing solo on the Korg MS20 monosynth that he’s been using since 1980. His most recent album, “Zemsta Plutona”, was co-released last November with ZickZack, the legendary experimental music label of Alfred Hilsburg. Hilsburg had helped Kubin perform as a youth in the 80s and Kubin says of the album, “there are some pieces or sound elements that are also referring to what I did as a teenager - this German underground New Wave music of that time” (FACT). Kubin’s precocity is documented in the 2002 release of “The Tetchy Teenage Tapes of Felix Kubin 1981-85” covering his years from eleven to fifteen. Although Kubin was not released during the period, as Hilsburg had intended, “the teenage tapes insert him retrospectively into the history of the Neue Deutsche Welle, the West German post-punk phenomenon that exploded with groups like Der Plan” (Momus writing in WIRE,2011).



Felix Kubin’s diverse body of work includes futuristic pop, Hörspiele (radio plays), electroacoustic music, works for chamber orchestra and music for film and theatre productions. He began recording and performing experimental electronic pop music at the age of 12 in the duo “Die Egozentrischen 2” and began performing at Punk and New Wave festivals when he was 14. In the 1990s he turned to electroacoustic noise music and formed “Klangkrieg” with Tim Buhre. From 1992-1994 he co-organised artistic political interventions with the Dada-Communist Party KED and the “Liedertafel Margot Honecker” singing group whose notorious actions received wide media coverage. In 1998 Kubin started to produce futuristic pop music and launched the independent record label Gagarin Records. In the last 20 years, he has released a diverse array of albums and played over 100 International music festivals, presented lecture performances and given workshops with themes such as "Futuristische Küchenmusik" (Futuristic Kitchen Music) and "Autogenes Karaoke" (Autogenetic Karaoke). In 2010, the UK music magazine WIRE featured Felix Kubin on the cover. In 2012 the Deutsche Akademie der Darstellenden Künste (German Academy for the Performing Arts) awarded his radio play "Orphée Mécanique " best radio play of the year.

www.felixkubin.com




ERGO PHIZMIZ

In contrast to Kubin’s electronic sound Phizmiz will perform mostly acoustic interpretations of songs from his distinctly pastoral third album, The Peacock, for which this event is the London tour date. Phizmiz has been described as “the missing link between Viv Stanshall and Robert Wyatt” (Uncut) and his live performance encompasses a broad range of textures with instruments such as zither, harmonium, accordion or Portuguese guitar or just wood block and voice.

Like Kubin, “Renaissance man” (Wire) Ergo Phizmiz is a prolific musical polymath. Recent highlights include: scoring an independent film premiering at this year’s Tribeca Film Festival, becoming resident composer with commissioning body Sound & Music and The Opera Group and writing a suite of songs for voice and piano for German National Radio.

www.ergophizmiz.net




PETE UM

Cambridge based master of the miniature electro-acoustic song-poem, a form he has more or less invented and crystallised himself, his work displays a sardonic wit combined with a healthy misanthropy in micro-collages of voice, instruments, samples, and electronics.

www.peteum.bandcamp.com


NICK NAME (DJ)
Nick began collecting vinyl and DJing during the pre-Acid warehouse party days around West London. In the 90s after a hiatus he developed an eclectic mix style, uncommon at the time, and was booked for the alternative rooms by countless leading promotions and venues. By the end of the decade he began making trips to New York to support bands at venues like Bowery Ballroom or play in his own right at exclusive venues such as APT or events such as Patti Smith’s New Year’s Eve party. He now moves between London and New York with care in the community recordings, screens new music for, and has a weekly show on, WFMU ,America’s longest running free-form radio station.

www.wfmu.org/playlists/NN