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MAMA PRESENTS: Dieter Meier at The Jazz Cafe

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Time 20:00
Date 16/09/14
Price £18.5
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Routine-hater and artist Dieter Meier is 69 and releasing his first solo album. Expect electro-acoustic moments, post-punk escapades and even a chanson or two.

Be it performance art, his work with YELLO, or his winery: Dieter Meier dislikes routine, which we ordinarily call day-to-day-life. Consistently, his solo debut is called “OUT OF CHAOS”, a reference to chaos itself; to the possibility that, at least theoretically, everything is achievable anytime.

It all started on a reading tour accompanying the film Touch Yello – when Dieter Meier, inspired by his long term Berlin friend and colleague Marcus Herold, brought along a handful of newly written songs and performed them with Jazz-violinist Tobias Preisig and guitarist Nicolas Rüttimann.

Meier, who (apart from two exceptions in London and New York) never performed live with YELLO at all, soon fancied the live situation and went on writing new pieces. Herold called Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds-drummer Thomas Wydler, pianist Ephrem Lüchinger joined up, and shortly after, newer versions of OUT OF CHAOS songs found their way to the stage, such as the well reputed Montreux Festival and the Volksbühne, Berlin.

In summer 2013, Meier eventually found an open minded, experimental producer trio in Berlin: Nackt (Warren Suicide, Apparat Band et al.), Ben Lauber (Apparat Band et al.), and electro pioneer T.Raumschmiere, all of them big fans of Meier’s work, teamed up with the first generation Out-Of-Chaos-band at Chez Chérie Studios in Neukölln to arrange, re-arrange, discuss, discard, research, jam and eventually record in a series of sessions which are now an album. What a chaos! OUT OF CHAOS!

 

 

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COMPETITION: Win 1x pair of tickets to attend Dieter Mieier at the Jazz Cafe, at 19:00 on Tuesday 16th of September. To enter the competition, send an email to bojana@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ box. The winner will be randomly selected.

Q: Conceptual artist and musician, Mieier also briefly represented Switzerland in which sport:

A: 1) Golf 2) Cricket 3) Curling

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