Tickets für Šumski (kraut-afro-cartoon-noise-pop from Croatia) + Marmalsana (free improv/experimental, Berlin) 18.11.24 in Berlin, Schokoladen

Šumski (kraut-afro-cartoon-noise-pop from Croatia)
https://sumski.bandcamp.com/album/kolobari
https://youtu.be/HuVnpmNG2kM

Šumski is one of the most well-known alternative bands in Croatia. Founded in Zagreb in 1991, from the very start they were noted to be one of the most unusual acts appearing on the scene. With their performance and inspiration falling well outside of the popular genre brackets of the day, Šumski created their own musical landscape, full of experiments and unexpected arrangements, within which kraut rock, world music, psychedelia, new wave, animation soundtracks, noise, avant-pop and electronics all take up their place equally. Their 'sound without borders' is akin to Can, Faust, Blurt, Captain Beefheart but also the movies of Jacques Tati and the books of Blaise Cendrars.

Besides playing in Šumski, all the band members also form part of the Zagreb scene in other ways, through playing in other bands (Peach Pit, Cul-de-Sac, Haustor, Jinx, Stampedo, Zli bubnjari, Brujači/Buzzers, Uzrujan, Franz Kafka Ensemble) and the bassist Kornel manages the cult club Močvara and runs the label Kekere Aquarium.

"Sounds like it would get people from a bunch of different music backgrounds to dance together."
Gerard Van Herk (Deja Voodoo)

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Marmalsana is a trio that brings together Burkhard Beins (percussion), Maurice Louca (acoustic quarter-tone guitar), and Tony Elieh (acoustic bass guitar).
https://rupturedthelabel.bandcamp.com/album/marmalsana
https://www.burkhardbeins.de/groups/marmalsana.html

Based in Berlin and active in the free improv and experimental scenes of the city, Beins, Elieh, and Louca have spent the last decade or so developing various projects with local and international musicians. Marmalsana is their first collaboration, one for which they decided to forego amplification and rely on the use of acoustic instruments only, employing extended techniques and objects to produce soundscapes of drones, textures, melodies, and polyrhythms.

The resulting album fuses different influences: Elieh having moved to Berlin from Beirut and Louca from Cairo, both musicians developed new techniques inspired by the musical richness and encounters that Berlin offers to artists. As for Beins, he is one of the founders of the Echtzeitmusik movement, a lasting influence on many musicians and experimental scenes around the world.

Marmalsana reflects these backgrounds, styles, and influences, fueled by the expertise and experience of each musician. They succeed in merging their individual contributions...