Festival Editions

CTM 2017 Finale I

Heimathafen Neukölln, Karl-Marx-Str. 141, 12043 Berlin Map
Tickets: 22 €
Feb

05

Sun
21:00 23:00

CTM joins forces with Red Bull Music Academy to close its 18th edition on sonically divergent notes. For a third year in a row, the two partners have collaboratively assembled two back-to-back events, starting at Heimathafen Neukölln.

The latest project by Kevin Martin aka The Bug, whose appearance at CTM 2015 left a speechless, shell-shocked Berghain audience in its wake, is a collaborative face-off with Dylan Carlson of the legendary Seattle drone metal band Earth. These two sonic maximalists will engage in an aptly-matched, epic musical battle between subterranean guitar drones and structure-rattling electronics. While Martin’s work in dub, industrial hip hop and dancehall engages with the politics of contemporary urban landscapes, Carlson’s artistic trajectory flows through dark Americana.

Opening for The Bug vs. Dylan Carlson of Earth will be Polish guitarist and composer Jakub Ziołek (of T’ien Lai), whose one-man project Stara Rzeka (“Old River”) is similarly imaginative in its references to the dark underbelly of cultural heritage. Named after a small village in the heart of Poland's beautiful Tuchola Forest region, the project infuses black metal with krautrock and psychedelic folk to reflect on the historical and contemporary relationship between human civilisation and nature — a relationship defined by both joy and profound loss.

 


Presented with Red Bull Music Academy. Stara Rzeka is also presented with the SHAPE platform, which is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.

ARTISTS

The Bug[UK]

Kevin Martin aka The Bug is a prolific British musician and record producer known for his full-scale mastery of sonic intensity. For over two decades, Martin has commandeered a multiverse of projects including the monstrous jazz maelstroms of God, the menacing, lead-heavy beats of Techno Animal, the feverish dreams of King Midas Sound, and the dread-infused dancehall of The Bug.

Stara Rzeka[PL]

As Stara Rzeka, prolific Polish experimentalist Jakub Ziołek creates multi-layered, exploratory suites of psychedelia, folk music, black metal and drone. Currently based in Bydgoszcz, Ziołek is not only an active figure in Poland's thriving experimental music scene—he has also been key in bringing that scene to life. 

Dylan Carlson[US]

Like many of the most important figures to emerge in the foggier, drearier strains of grunge, metal, and post-rock, Dylan Carlson is a Seattle native. Carlson founded the ambient metal band Earth, which first achieved a surge of recognition with its release Earth 2 on Sub Pop in the early nineties.

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