Australian double bass player of Polish origin, living in Berlin for many years. He composes, improvises, explores sound and time as a performer, composer, and organizer, both solo and in numerous collective projects.
Mike Majkowski is one of the most interesting musicians on the improvised scene. Over the years he has consistently built his radically minimalistic style based on drones, silence, and repetition. It is built by subtle colour changes over time, realized by means of purely acoustic double bass ("Why Is There Something Instead of Nothing?") or with the addition of electronics ("Days And Other Days"). Majkowski’s trance pieces, in which the musician utilizes different articulation techniques, reveal his instrumental mastery.

Mike Majkowski Live from bar O Tannenbaum [27.07.2021]

Artista plástico y tatuador. Curioso, contrera y cabron

Kӣr is the solo production epithet of Bane Jovančević, resident live
artist and program manager of Belgrade’s club Drug§tore. His first
release Imrali was on Creme Organization and second one
Mramorje was released on Yerevan Tapes.
By combining traditional and experimental influences in electro-acoustic music,
Kӣr creates the sound in which drone-navigated post-industrial logos
transgresses into a tribal mythos, in search for the traces of future. The clash of
synths and acoustics invoke an audio landscape of Byzantine sacral traditions
and Balkan folklore rhythms. Kӣr’s symbolic language (Dimiskija, Imrali,
Mramorje, Balčak) layers it up with an ancient temporality and its logic of being
that is not past but our own. The basic concept is to challenge conventional and
predominant rhythmic structures in music by juxtaposing traditional rhythms with
contemporary electronic sound design. The visual imaginary invoked in the
sound – that of a forest air, a river, a hum of birds – delivered through the
ruthlessness of the machine, insist on an active listening, to all the otherworldly
of this world. It is music that hypnotizes, contemplates and raves. And it always
dances.

ʇsɐǝq ǝƃɐʌɐs ǝɥʇ sǝɥʇoos ɔısnɯ

Mike Majkowski Live from bar O Tannenbaum [27.07.2021]

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