Described by The New York Times as a “social conscience, multimedia collaborator, system builder, rhapsodist, historical thinker and multicultural gateway,” composer-pianist VIJAY IYER has carved out a unique path as an influential, prolific, shape-shifting presence in twenty-first-century music. He received a MacArthur Fellowship, a United States Artist Fellowship, and a Grammy nomination.

20.12.25: Parterre Bern (Haller Knaller)
26.12.25: Bar der toten Tiere (Lounge)

Past:
- Tanzfreunde/Schloss Wartenstein
- Lehrerzimmer Bern
- Holzmarkt Openair Berlin
- Garbicz Festival 2025
- The Island London
- Sous Soul Bern mit @Sexylazer
- Parterre Bern mit @ Nao
- Lorraine22/Wandelbar Daydance
- Garbicz 2024
- Tanz im 46
   Opening for @lakuti & @yorel-bern
- Songs of Gastarbeiter
- Children of Panacea - Moonshine
- www.ztanz.ch
- Kater Blau Berlin with "Wild Tomatoes"
- Coquillade France
- Organica - Opening for https://soundcloud.com/kermesselive
- Garbicz 2023 > www.garbiczfestival.com
- Duss im Schuss
- Kapitel Bollwerk
- Lorraine22
- Wonderfruit-Festival 2022 THA @polygon_live
- Turnhalle Bern - Afterparty Puts Marie
- Garbicz 2022
- P46 & Turnhalle Bern mit Esther Silex
- Club Lento, mit okuma & O/Y
- Radioshow @gdsfm
- Pampa-Closing-Openair, Holzmarkt 25, Berlin
- Augut KioskBar mit Daniel Imhof
- Garbicz Afterhour al Capitanos Terrazza
- Daydance, Rostgarten Thun
- Bergauf & Fernab Vol. II
- Flanieren im Bermuda/Kapitel Bollwerk
- Fratelli Sugo with @bonaparte at Cafe Mirò, Zürich
- Flanieren @kapitelbollwerkbern
- Discöchen @ Café Parterre, Bern
- Afterparty Baze im Duo mit Fabian M. Mueller, Provisorium46 Bern
- Afterparty @bonaparte & @tim-fite-2, Turnhalle Bern
- With @mich-szedlak @ RadioStationSiloClub, Bern
- RadioStationSiloClub, Bern
- Lounge, Turnhalle Bern
- Milde Brise, Daydance
- Garbicz Festival (@user-141487462), Polen
- Parkbar Schützenmatte Bern
- Cosmodrome @ Gurtenfestival Bern
- Rooftop-Bar8-Opening, Blindenheim Bern
- With Oxidix @ Provisorium46 Bern
- Club Lento with Contenance & Miles Away, Jikaro
- After FAELA! @ Turnhalle Bern
- With Nikosh @ Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- Splore Festival @ Crystal Palace - New Zealand
- Friends From Around The World Festival - New Zealand
- With Daniel Imhof @ Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- With Mich Szedlak @ Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- Club Lento Apéro-Openair @ Parkbar/Polarbar, Schützenmatte Bern
- Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- With Mich Szedlak @ Milde Brise/Tagestanz - NeustadtLab
- Garbicz Festival 2018
- With Mich Szedlak @ Gurten Festival 2018
- Brookly Bern
- Parkonia Bern
- With Mich Szedlak @ Opening Mondial Fribourgeois, Fribourg
- Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- With Mich Szedlak @ OBolles Bern
- Club Lento with Laschan Laschan DJ-Kollektiv @ Turnhalle Bern
- Kapitel Bern @ Flanieren/Osterfestival
- Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- With Mich Szedlak @ Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- Club Lento, w/ Sarah Kreis & Lukas Endhardt @ Turnhalle Bern
- With Oxidix @ Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- Opening for Mimi Love @ Provisorium 46, Bern
- Wonderfruit Festival (Thailand)
- Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- Kapitel Bern with Mich Szedlak
- Kater Blau (Berlin)with Mich Szedlak
- Afterparty Swiss Live Talents Music Marathon
- With Zike / Lounge @ Turnhalle Bern
- Reithalle Bern (Grosse Halle)with Mich Szedlak
- Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- Foodoo NeustadtLab Bern with Phil Pohlodek
- Parkbar NeustadtLab Bern with Mich Szedlak
- Pride Ouest Turnhalle Bern
- Lorrainefest @ Zeppelin-Bar Bern
- Stadtoase im Kocherpark Bern
- Parkbar NeustadtLab Bern with Mich Szedlak
- Garbicz Festival Polen
- Silent-Disco Parkonia Bern
- Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- Zeppelin-Bar Bern
- Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- Lounge Turnhalle Bern with Oxidix
- Intro for Stavroz/Viken Arman @ Turnhalle Bern
- Kater Blau Berlin
- Spiegelkiste, Cafeteria Reitschule Bern with Mich Szedlak
- Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- Intro Be Svendsen @ Turnhalle Bern
- Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- Tanznacht, Kairo Bern with Mich Szedlak
- Kater Blau Berlin @ Grand Blö
- Intro/Outro Acid Pauli @ Turnhalle Bern
- Friedas Büxe Zürich @ Kanton Garbicz
- Lounge Turnhalle Bern
- Spreespektakel, Holzmarkt Berlin
- Kater Blau Berlin @ Acidbogen with Mich Szedlak
- Golden Gate Berlin with Mich Szedlak

Channelled madness – the sound Dawn of Midi spent years shaping, culminating into their most mesmerising work yet

With Dysnomia, the Brooklyn-based group Dawn of Midi abandons improvisation in favour of composition, utilising sophisticated rhythmic structures from North and West African folk traditions to weave a sonic tapestry of trance-inducing grooves. From close up one may see only dots, but when stepping back an undulating image reveals itself. “We didn’t want to create anything cerebral,” says Belyamani, “we wanted something visceral, something that would awaken our instinctive dance impulses.”
Having met at California Institute of the Arts in Los Angeles in 2006, bassist Aakaash Israni, pianist Amino Belyamani and drummer Qasim Naqvi found their original rapport through late night tennis matches on the campus court. The chemistry they founded there eventually led them back indoors to improvise together; something they did in total darkness to deprive themselves of all their senses except the crucial one – their hearing.
The manner, by which a trio of solely acoustic instruments ends up sounding like electronic music, has to do with the unconventional ways the group play their instruments on Dysnomia. The record comes to life in the trio’s critically acclaimed live shows, a test of endurance and trust that involves performing their hand-looped acoustic minimalism note for note, just as the compositions were recorded. Dawn of Midi’s sets are as energetic and rhythmic as a seamlessly mixed DJ-set, mesmerising fans in the same way the group’s favourite experimental and electronic acts have for decades.
The album was recorded to 2-inch tape at Waterfront Studios in Hudson, New York - a former church that was purchased and transformed into an analogue recording playground by the great engineer Henry Hirsch. Once the band visited the studio and met Henry, an expert in analogue recording equipped with a vintage Helios console, 16 and 24-track tape machines and a superb collection of microphones, it was obvious they had to record there; it was miles ahead of anywhere else they had visited. Rusty Santos then mixed the album to make sure it would hit as hard as the group’s favourite electronic albums do in spite of it being entirely acoustic.
“We wanted to make a record that sounded both musically futuristic and sonically vintage,” explains Israni, “and since the album never saw a proper international release, it is very exciting to see what might happen when more people are exposed to it. And to be aligned with Erased Tapes, whose enthusiasm for the music they release has done a lot for exposing unique instrumental and electronic music, makes it that much more interesting.”

Dysnomia will be released worldwide on June 1st, 2015 through Erased Tapes – available on 2x LP, CD and Download.

drums,cymbals,chimes
gongs,brushes,chains
fahrradklingeln
improvisation,jazz,sounds
MUSIC!

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