Tickets für EDGING (post-punk, chicago) & JAZZ (post-punk, halle) 10.11.26 in Berlin, Schokoladen

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EDGING / post-punk, chicago
edging.bandcamp.com / instagram.com/edging.band

& JAZZ / post-punk, halle
turbodiscos.bandcamp.com/album/der-irrtum-hat-mal-wieder-gewonn

live at Schokoladen. doors 19.00, concert starts 20.00 Uhr. presale tickets available at --> https://vvk.link/4ipj6i8 [starts 30.06.]

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Punk rockers EDGING come armed with crushing riffs, searing sax, and unapologetic queer chaos. Their music encompasses the mess that is modern life, resulting in an eruption of sound and sweat that borders on a religious experience.

Edging is a Chicago five-piece that proves good sax and hardcore punk are a match made in basement. Since being on the cover of the Chicago reader they’ve evolved from a wild DIY secret into a polished, high-velocity force. Led by the magnetic screaming and yelping of vocalist Faith Callaway. The band’s sound is defined y searing sax, fuzzy riffs, and a rhythm section that sounds like it’s constantly trying to outrun itself.

Edging has shared the stage with Amyl and the Sniffers, Upchuck, Snooper, Les Savy Fav, Die Spitz, Lambrini Girls, Pigs x7, Lydia Lunch, and many more. They already released a couple of albums, “Good Sex Music” (2023) and “Concrete Cumming” (2024). Their third record, “Unload your Shame”, will be out on the 5th of june.

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JAZZ / »Jazz’ debut LP is a German homage to the absolute frustration people call life, while also showing paths out of total resignation. The whole ensemble of instruments sounds like an orchestrated funfair, constantly shifting between madness and joy. The variety of synths expels the paths of resignation and instead settles into your head like a screw. Warm and pumping, they move hand in hand with the playful, edgy drums.

The third song, “Reinfall,” already makes clear what is wrong all around you and drags you out of the present into the past … or is it the future already? While songs like “Hrvatska” denounce separation and strike against the way people treat each other, “Schmerz” is a sarcastic and groovy song for those who still have the power to feel pain. Whenever you think the structure is falling apart like a puzzle game, more than two hands appear to keep it all together. While the guitar functions like a pencil, highlighting sweet and sometimes dreamy melodies, more and more voices rise into a choir, all cheering to be alive.

The album ends with a chanson called “ein quäntchen Freud,” a beautiful ironic essence of what Jazz wants to express:

Even if all the complexity of this planet’s destiny crashes down on you like falling steel, you should still grab another person’s hand and ask for the next dance.« (Debbie Ober/Unter & Raphael Sternenhagel)

https://taz.de/Postpunkband-Jazz-aus-Halle/!6180443/