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| Photo by Juliane Schütz |
The 9th A L’ARME! Festival kicked off Wednesday night at Zenner in Berlin’s Treptower Park. An open air event with DJs and drums, the event is a nod to normal, helping to welcome live events back, which tepidly have begun popping up throughout the city (and will hopefully continue… Daumen sind gedrückt.)
After the opening event, the festival heads back to its familiar stomping grounds, Radialsystem, an arts center build from a 19th century water pumping station, across the river in the Friedrichshain neighborhood.
The program for Vol. IX is an ever adventurous mix of experimental music, leaning towards electronics and avant-garde jazz. Including (in no special order or selection criteria) Lotte Anker, Stephen O’Malley, Lucy Railton and Kit Downes, among many others. The Free Jazz Blog cannot be there in person this time around, but we’ve made arrangements to give you an impression of the event through photos. We’ll be updating the images here throughout the weekend, so check back!
By the way, A L’ARME! 2020, postponed, moved, and finally rendered audience-less, took place as a series of professionally filmed performance videos, which have been popping up on social media and can be seen here.
– Paul Acquaro
Wednesday, July 28th
Treptower Park, Berlin
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| Anika. Photo by Juliane Schütz |
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| ARA. Photo by Juliane Schütz |
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| Anika & ARA. Photo by Juliane Schütz |
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| hÄK/Danzeisen, Bernd Norbert Würtz and Phillip Danzeisen. Photo by Juliane Schütz |
Thursday, July 29th
Radialsystem, Berlin
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| A L’ARME curator Louis Rastig |
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| Marcela Lucatelli. Photo by Juliane Schütz |
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| Skultura: Nick Dunston, Ayse Cansu Tanrikulu, Eldar Tsalikov, and Liz Kosack. Photo by Juliane Schütz |
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| Genevieve Murphy & Andy Moor. Photo by Juliane Schütz |
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| Genevieve Murphy & Andy Moor. Photo by Juliane Schütz |
Friday, July 30th
Radialsystem
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| Lucy Railton & Kit Downes. Photo by Juliane Schütz |
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| Terrie Ex & Peter Zegveld. Photo by Juliane Schütz |
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| Julien Desprez & Farida Amadou. Photo by Juliane Schütz |
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| Lapsus Lumine Plays Moondog Project. Photo by Juliane Schütz |
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| Lapsus Lumine Plays Moondog Project. Photo by Juliane Schütz |
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| Lapsus Lumine Plays Moondog Project. Photo by Juliane Schütz |
Saturday, July 31
Radialsystem
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| Zbigniew Chojnacki. Photo by Juliane Schütz. |
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| Unstumm – Supercritical Fluid. Photo by Juliane Schütz. |
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| Lotte Anker and Mattias Bauer. Photo by Juliane Schütz. |
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| Karkhana. Photo by Juliane Schütz. |
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| Kali Malone Presents “Does Spring Hide Its Joy” Featuring Lucy Railton And Stephen O’malley. Photo by Juliane Schütz. |
