“A crisis of humanity threatens to destroy the very foundations of life on Earth. Tim Ra and Jens Strüver answer with a radically human vision: a cosmic humanity that transcends its limitations through empathy and love. In the city of the Wall and the Love Parade, they have created music for a world without borders—music that expands the human into the cosmic, and in the cosmic rediscovers its own humanity. Drawing deeply from the musical legacy of the twentieth century, Ra & Strüver fuse jazz, classical, exotica, and cinematic avant-garde into soundworlds that feel both grounded and transcendent—familiar, yet strangely displaced. Airy and transparent in its instrumentation, carried by relaxed grooves that often leave the drums behind entirely, the album opens a view into the cosmos—not as escape, but as an invitation to understand the collapse of our old systems as a necessary new beginning. Here, Strüver’s encyclopedic musical knowledge and vast archive meet Ra’s finesse with sequencers, hardware, and artificial intelligence. Over months of sessions—using meticulously designed text prompts, analog outboard gear, and painstaking sound design on the computer—the two artists shaped ethereal acoustic visions for a world that overcomes division and celebrates plurality. Side A moves lightly and dance-like through the universe: from the shimmering dawn of Vénus Matinée with its Mancini echoes, to the hypnotic pulse of Pulsar—an interstellar bolero that unfurls with temperament and culminates in galactic ecstasy via mariachi trumpets—into a dizzying labyrinth of stars, before Planet Off Course tips the journey into playful unpredictability. Credits: Judit Hideg & Tim Ra

Then the elegant Saturn Soirée invites you to cruise between the rings of the gas giant. Side B turns deeper and darker. Darkstar and Nebula breathe—with choral voices—the misty nostalgia of grand orchestral sci-fi soundtracks, tracing a line from Gustav Holst through Bernard Herrmann into the present, before Water of Life gathers everything into a weightless sweetness. It is here that Ra and Strüver’s human vision condenses: even in darkness, it is the sound of family that speaks of a shared future. Tim Ra & Jens Strüver—the Cosmic Couriers—pour the sweet nectar of an unfamiliar universe that has, in truth, always been our home. This music offers a counter-vision to hatred, division, and destruction: elegant, hypnotic, timeless—and a promise that a world without walls is not only imaginable, but within reach”. (Lovelab)

laut Eventtext “songs about all kinds of spirits in settings provided by the Plunderphonics of PHONOPSHERE, Vinyl Junkies with interests covering a wide spectrum of recorded sound including Jazz, Minimalism, so called „Ethnic Musics“, Avantgarde & Experimental”.

Donnerstag, 28.11.2023
Beginn 19 Uhr
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10247 Berlin

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