Kisling, Lolina, SALARY
10/02/2024
Roter Salon, Volksbühne Berlin

Kisling’s composition method, highly informed by digital processing, and meant for contemporary DJ equipment, subtracts and morphs live recorded flute samples by Ilja Gussarov into concrete snippets that propose a „new real“. Kisling arranges and distorts her tunes on a set of Pioneer CDJs, enriching this musical experience with the immediacy and spontaneity of mixing techniques. This gives way to an imaginative material that scrutinizes the limits and promise of music.

Lolina is an electronic and digital musician, also known for her past projects as Inga Copeland and as a member of the band Hype Williams. Her self-released solo albums include “Because I’m Worth It” (2014), “Live in Paris” (2015), “The Smoke” (2018), “Who is Experimental Music” and “Live in Geneva” (2019). Releases on Lolinaʼs label Relaxin Records (est. 2022) include her last album “Face The Music”; a collaboration with Brandon Juhans “L4b”; “Follow Your Nature” by great area (2022); and “Higher Powers”, the first and last Inga Copeland album (2013/2023). For her live show, Lolina will perform as Geneva Heat & Paris Hell, two characters from her project “Unrecognisable”.

SALARY lives and works in Berlin with previous releases on Plot Toy.

Kisling

Geneva Heat

Paris Hell

SALARY

Honour, LA Timpa
11/11/2023
Roter Salon, Volksbühne Berlin

LA Timpa is an artist and musician, currently based in London. He was born in Lagos, Nigeria, before emigrating to Toronto, Canada at the age of 6. LA Timpa has released music on o___O?, Halcyon Veil, and Slow Release, and most recently, Time of Marcker, out now via Vulgarteen. He has scored music for Y-3, Burberry and Marine Serre. Timpa has worked with Space Afrika, Tricky, and Lol K, and has frequently collaborated with Klein and Kathryn Tompkins (video and animation). Timpa’s DJ roots are showcased in his mix contributions to NTS, Rinse FM, and The Lot.

There’s not much we can say about Honour that makes complete sense. They may or may not have grown up in the US, making beats with a cousin who sang in a church band; they might have toured as a roadie with platinum-selling R&B outfit Pretty Ricky before acing regional videogame tournaments and moving to NYC. They could have sold their life story to children’s book author C.S. Adler and signed to Violator management; and maybe they ended up stationed in London, working as a runner on music promos. But however plausible it is, the breadcrumb trail provides us with a detailed cultural framework for the artist and their work.
Interview with Honour, photos taken at Volksbühne.

Honour

LA Timpa

Love to Marlene Engel and Marlene Kager