Urban + Aboriginal

1985 – 2004
Music and performance between Rock, Jazz, »ethnic« and »new« music, in the borderland of styles, cultures and between the arts

Freunde Guter Musik Berlin e.V. have presented their annual festival »Urbane Aboriginale« since 1985. With its shifting emphasis on different regions and themes, the festival has developed into a focal point for contemporary music and performance in Berlin. It presents soloists and ensembles who operate in the thickets between »new« and »ethnic« music, rock and jazz, and who cross boundaries between the arts: music and performance by big-city natives – the transgressors, troublemakers and trappers in the crossfire of cultures and styles. It’s not about trends, but about the urban and the aboriginal.  Both are experiencing transformations far from the beaten track and searching for individual solutions. Progressive urban-industrial cultural forms undergo dialectical, even ironic refractions, reverting to supposedly outdated modes, to the »primitive« and »alien«, the »archaic« and »anarchistic«, to »nature« and »ritual«. These experimental projects are juxtaposed with traditional styles of ethnic music that have developed outside the urban context, so that the hybrid forms of musical expression from the cities appear as if illuminated in relief.

Chronology

30.09. – 21.10.1985
URBANE ABORIGINALE
(New York/London/Köln/Berlin)
mit Fast Forward und Band, Elliott Sharp, Arnold Dreyblatt, C. Newman und Janet Smith

20.10. – 27.10.1986
ABORIGINAUX URBAINS  II
(Grenoble/Bordeaux/Paris)
mit Vivenza, Étant Donnés, Anne Gillis, Joelle Léandre, Tamia

29.09. – 06.10.1987
URBAN ABORIGINALS  III
(New York/Boston/Montreal/Berlin)
mit Rhys Chatham und Band, Robert Rutman’s Steel’ Cello Ensemble, Samm Bennett/Werner Durand, FAT

25.10. – 03.11.1988
URBANE ABORIGINELEN  IV (Holland)
mit Laurens Tan, Harry de Wit, F.F. Beckmans, Yntse Vugts, Maciunas-Ensemble, Greetje Bijma, Luc Houtkamp, Horst Rickels, Armeno und Marcel Alberts, LOOS

11.10. – 17.10.1989
URBANE ABORIGINALE  V.OKAL
mit Bubacar Jammeh, David Moss, Peter Hollinger, Sussan Deihim, Shelley Hirsch, David Weinstein, Greetje Bijma, Phil Minton

17.11. – 21.11.1990
URBANE ABORIGINALE LOKAL  VI
mit Audio Ballerinas/Benoît Maubrey, Menschen Machen Musik, Slawterhaus, Alliin Gäa, The 13th Tribe, Hilde Kappes, Hans Peter Kuhn, Frieder Butzmann und YoYo-TA, Hike Wehner, Via Lewandowski, Caspar Brötzmann Massaker

18.10. – 27.10.1991
URBANE ABORIGINALE  VII: OSTEUROPA
mit Tibor Szemzö, Dumitru Farcas Ensemble, Viktor Lois Ballast, János Zerkula und Regina Fikó, ZGA, Sainkho Namchalak, Michail Shukov, Mieczyslaw Litwinski, German Vinogradov, Natalya Pshenitchnikova

16.10. – 27.10.1992
URBANE ABORIGINALE  VIII: JAPAN
Charles, Yuko Katsumata, Toshimasa Furukawa, Shûichi Chino, Târi Itô, Chie Mukai, Ken.ichi Takeda, Mica Nozawa, Opera, Office Trip, Gôji Hamada, Seiji Shimoda, Keiji Haino, Akio Suzuki und Junko Wada, Motoharu Yoshizawa, Merzbow, Toki Doki Jidou

01.03. – 10.03.1994
URBANE ABORIGINALE  IX: MEDITERRAN
mit Txalaparta-Duo, Osso Exótico, Roberto Paci Dalò/Isabella Bordoni, Luigi Lai, Tenores di Bitti, Paulo Feliciano und Mimi, Koniec, Fatima Miranda, Llorenç Barber, Ensemble Val Resia

23.02. – 04.03.1995
URBAN ABORIGINAL  X: AUSTRALIEN
mit Jon Rose, The Machine For Making Sense, The Necks, Stelarc, Rainer Linz, Peril, Jo Truman, Stevie Wishart, Amanda Stewart, Caterina de Re, Louis Burdett, Satsuki Odamura, Warren Burt, Martin Wesley-Smith, Janawirri Yiparrka, Walangari Karntawarra, DJ Zeitgeist

23.03. – 31.03.1996
URBAN ABORIGINALS  XI: THE BRITISH AMBIENCE
mit Brian Eno, Max Eastley, Eddie Prevost, Robert Hampson, Stock, Hausen und Walkman, Philip Jeck, Sianed Jones, Bell Helicopter, :Zoviet*France:, AMM, Techno Animal, Scanner, Swarf, Kaffe Matthews, Die! Trip Computer, Die!, Hayley Newman

21.03.und 24.03.1998
URBAN ABORIGINAL  XII: POLAR I
mit Mieskuoro Huutajat, Reptilicus, Åsa Simma, Norman Charles, Charlie Morrow

03.10. – 22.10.1999
URBAN ABORIGINAL  XIII: POLAR II
mit Sainkho Namtchylak und Band, German Vinogradov und Vera Sajina,Henning Chrisitiansen, Bjørn Nørgaard, Christophe Charles, Wolfgang Müller und Ásta Ólafsdóttir, Eyvindur P. Eiríksson, Hermoine Zittlau-Horstdóttir, Birgir Örn Thoroddsen, Egill Sæbjörnsson, Eyvindur P. Eiríksson, ”Venus” Örn Jákup Dam Washington, Oskakórinn, Stilluppsteypa, Leif Elggren, MSCHarding, Kent Tankred, HAZARD, Anders P. Bongo, Angelit

16.09. – 01.10. 2000
URBAN ABORIGINAL  XIV: QUASI AMAZONIA
mit Madalena Bernardes, David Toop, Silvia Ocougne und Chico Mello, Livio Tragtenberg, Marcelo Brissac, Ricardo Arias, Omid Burgin, Werner Durand, Axel Dörner, Arik Hayut

15.11. – 17.11. 2002
URBAN ABORIGINAL  XV: CHINA
mit Xian An Guyue, Derek Bailey, Min Xiao-Fen, Li Chin Sung, Li Mingzhong, Xu Fengxia, Wu Wei, Fu Renchang

12.11. – 21.11. 2004
URBAN ABORIGINAL  XVI: Alte und neue Musik aus Korea
mit Kajin Hoesang, Kong Ho-jung-Quartet, Wang Ki-seok, Han Seung-seok, Yi A-mi, The Yeak Academy for Ancient Korean Music, Hwang Byung-ki, Ji Ae-ri, Yun In-suk, Kim Woong-sik, Park Chang-soo, Modern Art Sextet, Cardew Ensemble Berlin, Lee Ja-ram, Park Je-chun, Lere Yun-kyung, The Barton Workshop