DJ Raph is an electronic music producer/DJ. An old head in the city’s underground scene, he is constantly testing the boundaries of what’s acceptable on the dancefloor or in a mix. Sophia Bauer is a sound artist based in Cologne. She often creates installations with extensive, imaginative soundscapes exploring places and ideas wondering if sound can be a source of knowledge in and of itself. Their archive project soundofnairobi.net won the Sound of the Year Award 2020 in the category Sound Innovator.
Dislocate is our farewell track to a weird year. https://ramshagebruederteichmann.band… A deep and fragile improvisation between electric guitar, solina organ and live electronics. It is the first recording out of a couple of sessions by Ramsha & Gebrüder Teichmann.
‚Fieldlines‘ was an inter-traditional and inter-generational musical collaboration, that took place in Radjasthan, India as part of the Magnetic Fields Festival in December 2019. Fieldlines‘ was made possible with a Goethe-Institut Coproduction Fund grant and collaboration between Magnetic Fields Festival, Gebrüder Teichmann and their label Noland. The residency featured folk musicians Hakim Khan, Kultla Khan, Firoz Khan and folk singer Sumitra Devi alongside German producers and cultural activists Gebrüder Teichmann & their dad Uli, Kolkata-based sound artist Bidisha Das and translator Akshatha Shetty.
Robyn Schulkowsky: Percussion Gebrüder Teichmann: Live Electronic & Processing Ramsha Shakeel: Guitar, Digital Synthesis Recorded live at Resonanzraum Hamburg, 8.11.2019 Video: Pablo Lauf.
The project is funded by Musikfonds e.V. / Beauftragte der Bundesregierung für Kultur und Medien.
Fieldlines took place in December 2019 in Rajasthan, India.
The project was made possible through a Goethe-Institut Co-Production Fund grant, in collaboration with the Magnetic Fields Festival, the Teichmann brothers, and Noland.
Over the course of ten days, we worked with North Indian folk musicians and experimental musician Bidisha Das from Kolkata. The participants’ musical traditions and life realities differed greatly from one another. Verbal communication was limited, passing through three translations: from English to Hindi, and from Hindi to local dialects. This made the process of finding a shared musical language in such a short time especially fascinating.
For rehearsals and recordings, we set up a room in the palace and began making music together in the week leading up to the festival. During the festival itself, we opened this room to the public, allowing visitors to directly experience the process. By the time of the final performance on the festival’s main stage, connections had formed — not only with the audience but also with the festival’s local staff — and these relationships carried over into the onstage atmosphere, despite the formal setting.
The process was accompanied by mediator Akshata Shetty and documented by the Delhi-based film collective Elefant.
Musicians: Hakim Khan (kamaicha), Kultla Khan (dholak), Firoz Khan (khartal), Sumitra Devi (vocals, harmonium), Gebrüder Teichmann (live electronics), Uli Teichmann (wind instruments), Bidisha Das (sound objects). Mediator: Akshata Shetty. Video documentation: Elefant film collective, Delhi
DJ Raph is going to present a live version of his album Sarcred Groves and new material on the 21th at Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin as part of the Find The File Festival.
The festival features concerts with Femi Kuti & The Positive Force, Dur-Dur Band International, DJ Raph, Baba Commandant, Tellavision & Derya Yıldırım, DJ /rupture (a.k.a. Jace Clayton), Bernadette La Hengst, Stella Chiweshe, The Zonke Family & Stefan Franke, Aérea Negrot, Olith Ratego & Chor der Kulturen der Welt, Alan Bishop, Hayvanlar Alemi and many more.
talks with Jace Clayton, Diane Thram, Simon Reynolds, Cornelia Sollfrank and many more https://hkw.de/de/programm/projekte/2019/find_the_file/find_the_file_start.php
