Video snaps of Para Hybrid & Kargyraa Krew Gig

Two videos of the Gig in Odonien 12/2010, at the GKA-event.



Bijuti has a nice look (in spite of the bad youtube-quality), but the sound is not really good.



Mascara sounds a bit better and is fun to watch, but not as poetic as it is in my head.

It took the video recordings quiet long to reach me. When they finally arrived, I was not so thrilled with what I saw. For the audience, it must have been an interesting gig and we had fun on stage, but all in all this is not what I am after.

In the meantime, I have been looking in different directions how to improve that. I participated in a workshop on african vocal polyphony with Anita Daulne, did an electronic set with my band Blotch at the festival Zytanien and moved into my own music-studio...

Kargyraa Krew Video Clip

This video clip was produced as a promo for a gig in Odonien. We recorded the voices in about half an hour, then acted to it in front of the camera for about the same time. Editing the sound and video took about two evenings.
The basis for this is my composition "Gogokokoroko". This version demonstrates the power you can achieve with Kargyraa voices in combination with percussion and drums. I like this power, polyrhythmic ambiguity and polyphone voices are still to be added for the whole thing to be complete.

Proto Hybrid & Kargyraa Krew live in Odonien

Proto Hybrid & Kargyraa Krew rockin´ live in Odonien - photo by Anaid Namohl.
The crowd loved us, and we loved the crowd.

Thanks to the nice people of Gruppenkläranlage who organized this gig.

Proto Hybrid & Kargyraa Krew live photos

Anaid Namohl (http://www.flickr.com/photos/fraduhr/) has done some cool shots of Robodonien Festival 2010. Here are some amazing shot of the gig Proto Hybrid & Kargyraa Krew.

Proto Hybrid & Kargyraa Krew live at Robodonien 2010

The video shows impressions of Robodonien 2009 where we played with my band blotch - you hear my voice from our concert. The band is shown only briefly but you can watch the dancer who supported our sounds.

2010 Robodonien will be the place for the first gig of the project presented in this blog:

Proto Hybrid & Kargyraa Krew

I think this is exactly the right place for the premier of this project and I´m looking forward to it!

Kargyraa Krew - Afrodonia Jam

Three jams based on parts of my Fake African Memories compositions Gogokokoroko, Spryh and Mascara - on stage at the Afrodonia Festival in Cologne.

The Kargyraa Krew: Kolja Simon, Martin Pässler & me, cajon played by Peter Halves. While the polyphonic subtleties I have in mind for the choir versions of my songs will take more time to be realized on stage, these singers instantly add power and liveliness with their performance which is great.



Our outfit was absolutely suitable to the weather.

In the process of forming on ensemble to play my compositions I noticed two paradoxical tendencies of mine:

- a strong interest in collective improvisation and a very collaborative approach towards the music - the whole ensemble pushing the music forward as one body, no ego trips, no vanity

- a strong interest in embodying some kind of freak diva, an alien being that stands out from everybody else




I guess a freak troup were everybody stands out from the others is the solution to this contradiction, and looking at us in these videos I think I´m on the right way...

Mascara with two Kargyraa voices

This is the first step to building a "Kargyraa Krew" to sing the compositions of my "Fake African Memories". Martin Pässler is doing a fascinatingly deep bass figure while I am singing two melody parts, which will be sung simultaniously as soon as we are three singers.