We look forward to special guests from Chicago and Dusseldorf

SAM PREKOP / JOHN McENTIRE (The Sea and Cake / Chicago)

Just a few years ago, John McEntire and Sam Prekop, in addition to their longstanding and legendary activities with The Sea and Cake, Tortoise or the Soma Studio in Chicago, have begun a new collaboration centered around a fully electronic exchange.

The duo’s music holds an impressive balance between control and spontaneity and seamlessly transcends abstraction and discord in passages of blissful harmonious accord.

With just a small set of modular synthesizers and electronic drums, all songs have a sense of forward movement with ever-changing rhythmic impulses. So they combine the musical spirit of the Chicago Post Rock with the love of improvisation.

The mesmerizing live sets by McEntire and Prekop bring the interplay of live drum beats and analog sequencers into accessible listening experiences without sacrificing the experimental heritage of their instruments.

The new mapstation album Present Unmetrics is also presented, as is a split 10 “with McEntire and Prekop, which is only available on this tour.

Sam Prekop was part of the exhibition “You are in my wave” with his photographs in 2017 and his music was the soundtrack to David Hartt’s video work. Now Sam will be playing live in the Lothringer13 for the first time.

MAPSTATION (TAL / Düsseldorf)

Düsseldorf musician Stefan Schneider is founding member of Kreidler and to rococo rot. After a decade of pioneering collaboration with Joachim Rödelius (Cluster, Harmonia), Bill Wells, Katharina Grosse and Jochen Irmler (Faust), Schneider returns with his solo project Mapstation. With PRESENT UNMETRICS, his first album for ten years, on his own label TAL, Schneider articulates non-standard tunings and bass-sunken arpeggios to convey a sense of open incompleteness.

Admission 13.- € / only box office