VROOOM #21

Are you in a festive mood or seeking refuge from it? The last VROOOM of the year will put you into that invigorating state of limbo before you surrender to the obligations. With: delicate solo guitar stuff from Xavier Dubois, bloodcurdling improv by Shackle and a drum/dance duet by the iDIOTS Philipp Ernsting and Charlotte Goesaert. All this will be chiseled into form by the impeccable music choice of DJ Ergo Phizmiz. Come, rejoice!

SATURDAY, DECEMBER 20
location: Klooster!
Hammerstraat 63, Rotterdam
doors/start: 20:30 / curfew: 01:00 / entrance: €6

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iDIOTS - CHARLOTTE GOESAERT & PHILIPP ERNSTING (nl)
Oddball duet between drummer Philipp Ernsting and dancer Charlotte Goesaert. Philipp's most excellent skills have impacted in the Rotterdam music scene and far beyond. The name Goesaert must ring a bell with some because of the collaborations with vocal artist / poet Joost Maaskant. With iDIOTS, Ernsting and Goesaert are trying to find their own physical language between punk-ish, poetic dance and off the meter percussion.

XAVIER DUBOIS (be)
Mr. Dubois from Namur started playing guitar in the nineties, secretly desiring to match Keith Richards' playing and songwriting. He then thankfully dropped this ambition to broaden his horizons, learning to play music bordering on jazz and other forms of experimental music. This led him to play with the cool Belgian noise rock band ULTRAPHALLUS and poet/writer/performer Vincent Tholomé. Xavier has become a fine solo guitarist, having carved out a very good reputation through many quality live shows.
http://xavierdubois.bandcamp.com/

SHACKLE (nl)
The duo Shackle = Anne La Berge (flute, electronics) and Robert van Heumen (laptop). At the heart of their duo performance is a self-designed digital cueing system which operates as a sometimes visible third member. Both prodding and reactive, the so-called Shackle system suggests musical directions and textures to play with and against. We imagine it a bit like a Doctor Who episode, with a Dalek commanding uncanny transitions that turn on a dime and long, spun-out tapestries of sound.
http://shackle.eu/

DJ ERGO PHIZMIZ (uk)
We welcome back Ergo Phizmiz; the composer, writer, collagist, radio-producer, home opera-maker, performer, and, for this special occassion disc jockey. Ergo's work has been received around the world to critical acclaim, but he somehow still seems to annoy some folks to the point of violence. That means good music!
http://www.ergophizmiz.net/

DEC 5: CHRIS IMLER / TULIP, DIE SINGENDE TULPE / HALLO WERNER CLAN

Continuation of the event series for original pop culture made on German soil. In previous years cult acts like PALAIS SCHAUMBURG, BODENSTÄNDIG 2000, DER PLAN and ECHOKRANK all found their way to 'Ein Abend In WORM'. And guess what, yes, this basically a Vrooom show, so be sure to check it out.

CHRIS IMLER
Chris Imler is a Berlin based performer with a stache fancier than Eroll Flynn's. He has worked with various musicians throughout the years (Peaches, Puppetmastaz, Driver & Driver, Jens Friebe, Oum Shatt, Die Türen, etc.), but recorded his solo debut 'Nervös' only just earlier this year after repeated requests from his current label Staatsakt. Nervös resonated with audiences and pretty much each self respecting German music magazine quickly publicized a headline article about Chris. The record's angular, infectious pop has been that significant, injecting a much needed dose of fun, eccentrism and spontaneity into Germany's musical landscape.

TULIP, DIE SINGENDE TULPE
The ultimate Hamburg scene insider tip. Tulip revolves around the persona of Holger Steen; the artist who doesn't have a homepage, presskit or booking agency. Steen doesn't need all this; once you've seen this 2+ meters tall man dressed up as a tulip, he'll be imprinted in your mind forever. In his solo incarnation, Tulip combines classic singing techniques and odd texts mixed up with accounts of his personal microcosm.

HALLO WERNER CLAN
Germany's weirdest hiphop duo? We saw Hallo Werner Clan aka Benni Bo and Miss Hawaii (the Tokyo-to-Hamburg expat) perform during a recent, rather flaccid cultural event in Hamburg, and the odd couple transformed the whole thing into a messed up party from the get-go. Hallo Werner's 'Wie-auch-immer-Hip-Hop' is a breath of fresh air; total trash Kult to be taken with a grain of salt, or two. Hallo Werner will DJ + perform live.

DJ's KLETSMEIER & TRAPATTONI
These two will play some great, known and lesser known teutonic tunes and more. After all: good 'German' music culture is also about lucidity, political consciousness and breaking the rules, and less about putting the 'B' of the Bratwurst into the music.

location: WORM - Boomgaardsstraat 71, Rotterdam
doors: 21:00 / start: 21:30 / entrance: €7 (presale: €6)

https://www.facebook.com/events/326283014220163/
http://www.worm.org/home/view/event/20601