Tickets für GELBART (exp pop, rec release!) & SAIKO RYUSUI 04.02.26 in Berlin, Schokoladen

kitchen leg records & little league shows prsnt:

GELBART / exp-pop, album release!
gelbart.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/gelbart.gelbart

& SAIKO RYUSUI / exp, bln
/ saikoryusui.bandcamp.com /

live at Schokoladen. doors 19:00, concert starts 20:00 Uhr. presale tickets available at --> vvk.link/47tcyc0

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With TK-745, Berlin-based multi-instrumentalist Adi Gelbart dives into a raw, guitar-driven sound world, full of psych-garage energy and synth weirdness. The album comes less than a year after his previous release, Liquids & Flesh, and features new works alongside pieces he has been performing live for 15 years, now recorded for the first time.

The title comes from the Grundig TK-745, a budget 1970s reel-to-reel tape machine Gelbart used for drums, drum machines, and other elements. Dutch consumer-grade plastic mics from the same era, along with basic tape effects, rounded out the DIY setup, leaving the sound dirty and beautiful.

The core of TK-745 is guitar-driven, with echoes of pre-Brian-Eno Devo, the raw psych energy of Thee Ohsees, and hints of Link Wray. Beyond the guitars, the album explores more overt textures, like on The Egg, which evokes Krzysztof Komeda’s soundtrack work, or the ending section of Crawl Into Your Cloud, where Gelbart multi-tracks an entire orchestra by himself.

This new entry in Gelbart’s catalog is different and yet unmistakably Gelbart — bold, unpredictable, and deliciously surreal.

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Saiko Ryusui is a Berlin-based musician & artist who is known in the local DIY underground music scene as the drummer of universal pop group Brabrabra.