hosts international stars grooving and jamming including the 1st southerner. and lithuanian punk rocker samas tells us how the fall of the berlin wall changed his life. the 1st my guest is composer rob missouri he's getting ready to perform at the jazz fest here in berlin he's got 3 new albums out that he really is just an artist welcome to ours and culture pleasure to be here in a moment i want to look at a clip of some of your visual arts because you're also a visual artist and before we do i'm curious to know if you have the same goals in both of these practices the visual art i mean music absolutely i mean i make make our music the music stuff is all about resonance the work is also about a resonance for creating a life force a spirituality that. has a possible the really to give somebody else energy as well as well as myself so

it's all about energy ok let's take a look this is from an exhibition you did in france is called constellation scores . ok so that was a 3 d. lithograph collage obviously look different with the glasses that you had on and it would take you were reading it like a music score very much into the graphic score in a graphic score tradition so it's something i enjoy to do it with for this particular set of works the 3 d. there's been so much done with print work and let the graffiti in these things i

was trying to figure out a way to pull pull the stuff off the wall without doing the actually pulling it off the wall with theme in your one theme in your work is this idea of synesthesia of the right senses bleeding into each other can you hear your pictures i mean the usually i don't have i don't have the show but i've been working for years through the mel that you've lived in brazil for 7 years while you were there you added some rain forest sounds in general is that you also add in a lot of computer sounds to the dimensions let's have another story wasn't you playing with a group called the south paolo underground. so

you lived in sao paolo you've lived in chicago for the last years there you've been living and a small isolated town in the texas desert is called marfa and this is not your average texas town is it not it is the town basically you know that was the military for a while when the war was over. behavior and disrepair and one of my favorite artists of all time donald judd a writer falls into the minimalist category of artists i guess for some people here he had a vision of having permanent installation of his works like. minded works so his r. and b. are from there really pulled me into this small town and i played a chicago underground do a show there 10 years ago and just fell in love with the place now your new albums are just brought out a trilogy of new albums called the marfa trilogy how does living in a place like marfa texas in the middle of nowhere i think the nearest airport is 3

hours away how does that influence your work in these albums but what's so dynamic about the area not only is it in the middle of the desert close to the mexican border. it's the dynamic of the town itself with with the artists. visually literature poetry books. of film it's a very dynamic community this way and it's always somebody coming to town a residency form out or something else and or showing something that's just fascinating and very briefly i believe you're starting you're trying to start up more of a music scene there since there's such a big visual arts you know we're going to few things that we started thing called the desert and crips which we did last year and that's one of the one of the new releases for this year this year we did desert encrypts 2 which included our chad teller on drums fantastic drummer from the chicago underground and yonsei warner from here in berlin and rosa barber a visual artist from here been very thanks so much for coming on the show rob

nazareth here marfa trilogy just out fantastic. and going to concerts can be electrifying but sometimes you just want to stay in the comfort of your own home wouldn't it be nice if you just curl up on your couch and have the concert come to you well that is what d.-w. night curves is all about musicians chant chatting and jamming in a setting so intimate you might think they're in your own living room it's going into season 3 this weekend and here's a little preview. hello affleck's this is you love all speaking welcome to the show with. my. face back for a 3rd series night cruise from the spink house brings together german and international stars for a one off musical encounters in the season coming at us violinist lindsey stirling east german legends city for a mesmerizing version i don't. know

the highlights british pop stars right said fred german songstress nicole for an unusual rendition of eurovision song contest where now. some guests are not famous as singers who do that best selling this warm friendship saying had a voice like this. are . too much.

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especially those who've lived under oppressive regimes in the days leading up to the 30th anniversary of the fall of the berlin wall we're hearing stories from artists who were there today we're going to hear from the lithuanian punk rocker some of us who happened to be visiting east berlin on that night november the 9th 1989 we know right from the. with world just around the big mess so many people this. shouting something we go from the to the from the bus and asking people what's happened what's what's this is miss. and they told us they did. broken the walls broken they will free free. for 41 years germany it was a divided country from 1061 until 1909 a war even split into the western part was part of democratic west germany the east

the poppy going to communist east germany. other eastern bloc countries weren't free either the soviet union had forcibly alex the baltic states. by the late 1980 s. opposition to the soviet occupation was growing. and his band. for lithuanian independence and they were in berlin when the. this was the symbol. is was a symbol for the us we can do it to. the wrong fix was founded in 1987 the lyrics of the songs often criticized the soviet occupation taking artistic liberties they didn't actually have. made illegal. you need.

to be. ok. you must go to the soviet army. had to interrupt getting his degree and served for 2 years in the soviet army by the time he returned to lithuania the restructuring perestroika. people enjoyed more freedom in 1908 the music festival was held in the palace of concerts and. performed here. the fall of the berlin wall strengthened the fight for independence in the baltic states of estonia latvia and lithuania this struggle came to be known as the singing revolution at the lithuanian parliament barricade and the museum full of photos service reminders of that critical era.

in 1990. 6 independence. the following january the soviets sent in troops they seized this press house for instance 14 civilians were killed. when russian troops is coming here i remember the tanks. and the soldiers and people standing and we play here and there who brought you see. and try to keep this from that this building free. in the end the people prevailed and lithuania got its independence. all my life i want to be our artist and when the the the walls broken the berlin wall is broken and singing the revolution comes and becomes the we're free now i feel. exactly 11 theel i can't speak what i want i can see what i want.

that was just part of our series about the fall of the berlin wall and for more stories about how different artists experience that historic event check out d w or euro max on you tube now from me and all the crew here in berlin thank you so much for watching take care of yourself how great we can. get.

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