Wolf Eyes

presented by silent green + Digital in Berlin

"Do you like heavy opinions? Well, here we go. Wolf Eyes is the best and most important band since 1996. Don't hesitate to discuss but you already know you're wrong. During the last two years Wolf Eyes recorded and collaborated with a few friends and released those tunes on super limited formats. Difficult Messages collects all tracks and proves my point from the beginning. Electronic mutant jazz, noisy, rhythmic and wobbly. Zone out, this is the soundtrack." To the Knife

Wolf Eyes is an American experimental music group from Detroit, Michigan, formed in 1996 by Nate Young. Currently a duo, Wolf Eyes is one of the best known representatives of contemporary noise music. In the 20 years of its existence, the group has released 297 recordings. On May 26, 2022, the group will release Dreams in Splattered Lines through Disciples, a label belonging to Warp, celebrating 25 years as a band. The album combines 25 years of Wolf Eyes' DIY electronics with the avant-garde sensibility of Fluxus and the granite of dreary Midwestern life. The result is a surreal dreamscape of disorienting sonic collages, where hits turn into terrariums of sonic flora and decimated fauna, and continues some of the ideas explored on the collaboration album Presents Difficult Messages. As if sprung from a fever dream, 1960s surrealists meet alien electronic blues musicians in a mysterious underworld. The air is thick with white noise from the car radio, crackling and hissing like a poisonous elixir, and spoken word poetry transmissions in the form of absurd and cryptic phrases. Each corroded acoustic environment is a microcosm of chaos honed with razor-sharp precision. Be swept away by a whirlwind of thirteen disorienting narratives, each an unpredictable journey through subterranean worlds, a sonic trip of reality folded in on itself.

As co-founder Nate Young tells us about the making of the record, "This record was recorded after we finished our residency at the New York Public Library in early 2022. We spent a lot of time in New York during the residency, but because of Covid, we had limited access to the library's archives. We spent 4-5 hours in the library and then went to museums. The MET exhibition Surrealism Beyond Borders was a big influence on this record. The Chicago Surrealists' spoken word poetry performed by musicians was inspiring and affirming. "While surrealism could often produce poetic and even humorous works, it was also used as a much more serious weapon in the fight for political, social and personal freedom, by many more artists around the world."

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Monday, October 30
silent green Kuppelhalle
Admission: 7 pm / Start: 8 pm

A concert of silent green Kulturproduktionen in cooperation with Digital in Berlin