NEWS

  • Two-Song Tuesday Set Line-Ups — 14 March 2023

    SET 1
    Pan Chimzee
    David Adojan
    Francamente
    Sophia
    Camilla

    SET 2
    Anirudh
    Daniel Almeida
    Alicia Shaneen
    Jack Pedder
    Hannah Kelly

    SET 3
    David Hirst
    Venior
    aMaRo
    Nati

    NO MAYBE LIST TONIGHT MY FRIENDS
    SORRY
    TRY AGAIN NEXT WEEK
    WE <3 YOU

  • DIESE WOCHE: 14. – 19. MÄRZ


    Di, 14. März Two Song Tuesday
    Mi, 15. März Life is Great
    Do, 16. März Nebbia Hoppe Borges TRIO
    Fr, 17. März Melt Trio

    Sa, 18. März Nieva/Bondarev/Ginsburg/Michel
    So, 19. März Matching Outfits (music video release show)⎢Ruth Mac


    ……Concerts: Minimum 10€ // Solidarity 20€ 
    ………All of this income goes 100% to the musicians of each night

    …………More info below

    Di, 14. März
    Two Song Tuesday

    ///// TWO-SONG TUESDAY /////
    [sign up 19:00 // start 20:00]

    Calling all songwriters!
    Calling all composers and instrumentalists and synth wizards!
    Calling all poets and writers and storytellers!

    Do you have new solo or duo material to present? Join us for Donau115’s regular open stage series, Two-Song Tuesday.
    Your set may include TWO SONGS or last TEN MINUTES, WHICHEVER IS SHORTER (e.g. two seven-minute songs = NO, three two-minute songs = NO).

    “How do I get booked?”
    – The bar staff tell you how to sign up, starting at 7pm.
    – The first performer will begin at 20:00
    – NO SOUNDCHECKS. Be ready. Slip on, blow minds, slip off. Setup is 90 seconds. Sets are no longer than 10 minutes. THERE IS A STOPWATCH TO ENSURE THIS. If your set goes beyond 10 minutes, the stopwatch goes off in the middle of your song. (The alarm sound is in the key of C#, FYI.)
    – The host will call you to the stage in a random order. You may not reserve a specific time slot.
    – We let as many people play as possible. There is usually time for 12 performers. Some weeks more, some weeks less.

    “What can I play?”
    – This is entirely up to you, but DO NOT PLAY THE SAME SONG OVER AND OVER EVERY WEEK. THIS IS BORING. TRY NEW THINGS.
    – Out of respect for our neighbours:
    — you may NOT use loud percussion and loud bass-heavy signals into the PA.
    — you are welcome to use our backline, which includes a piano, two generic vocal microphones, a guitar cable directly into our PA, and a small amplifier.
    — DON’T COUNT ON US HAVING ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE FEW THINGS LISTED ABOVE. COME PREPARED.

    FURTHER QUESTIONS?
    info@donau115.de


    _______


    Mi, 15. März 
    Life is Great


    Asger Nissen – Alto Sax
    Johannes Mann – Guitar
    Thorbjørn Stefansson – Bass
    Johannes Koch – Drums

    Trying to recreate the feeling of his teenage indie/postrock years, Johannes Koch put together a group of musicians to navigate between naive simplicity, rhythmic complexity and energetic improvisation.
    While abstracting the compositions, the band never looses their passion for the song and the melody.

    https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCkAdLM6_zGHFIaSmU2Zpq-A


    _______


    Do, 16. März 
    Nebbia Hoppe Borges TRIO


    Camila Nebbia tenor sax
    Lisa Hoppe double bass
    Sofia Borges drums

    Nebbia Hoppe Borges TRIO creates a personal sonic world performing their own compositions and exploring also the combination with free improvised music.

    https://camilanebbia.com/
    http://lisa-hoppe.com/
    https://sofiaborges.com/

    _______


    Fr, 17. März 
    Melt Trio


    Peter Meyer – Guitar
    Bernhard Meyer – Bass
    Moritz Baumgärtner – Drums

    Two times nominated for DEUTSCHER JAZZPREIS 2023!

    Through many concerts together over the last years the Melt Trio has grown together to a unit, almost to a musical organism. From their great palette of ways of expression they unerringly and pointedly chose the right tone colors at the right time. Collaborations with Jan Bang, Tony Malaby, John Hollenbeck, Jim Black or Theo Bleckmann have further matured the three personalities.
    Quieter moments live from the nuances and the finely intertwined parts that continuously intensify and grow more acute or at other times are interspersed with abrupt expressions flashing up.

    The dynamics are wide, but seldom happen suddenly; instead they slowly swell up and down again. The individual pieces are reminiscent of a meandering river, at times contemplative, at other times whirled by rapids. The Melt Trio creates meditative as well as nearly ecstatic moods.

    Arcs of suspense develop because the music is always moving forward within the composition, as opposed to the very common turning in circles.

    http://www.melttrio.com
    https://funinthechurch.bandcamp.com/album/consumer
    https://youtu.be/9bhr_J5BYdw

    _______

    Sa, 18. März 
    Nieva/Bondarev/Ginsburg/Michel


    Roberto Nieva – sax (ES)
    Dima Bondarev – tr (UA)
    Josh Ginsburg – b (USA)
    Marc Michel – dr (FR)

    Saxophonist, composer and bandleader Roberto Nieva, was born in Ávila, Spain. Throughout his career he has worked and shared the stage with musicians such as Sullivan Fortner, Guillermo Klein, Tineke Postma, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Kris Davis, Jorge Rossy, Cuong Vu, Ingrid Laubrock, Becca Stevens, Linda May Han Oh, Miguel Zenon, Chris Cheek, Larry Grenadier, Pedro Martins and so on.
    He is regularly in the Madrid’s music scene where he has worked with musicians such as Bob Sands, Bobby Martinez, Miguel Blanco, Juanma Barroso, Jorge Vistel, Maikel Vistel, Reiner Elizarde “Negron”, Luis Guerra , Big Band Ap, CMQ Big Band or The Resistance Jazz Ensemble.

    Born in 1984 in Ukraine, Dima Bondarev began playing the trumpet at the age of 9. Since 2013 Dima has been based in Berlin where he undertook both Bachelor and Master studies at the Jazz Institut Berlin (JIB) with Gerard Presencer, Tom Arthurs and Sebastian Studnitzky, as well as John Hollenbeck, Greg Cohen, Geoffrey De Masure, Julia Hulsmann, Tino Derado, Guilherme Castro and Javier Reyes.

    In 2021 he got a year Scholarship program from Jazzcampus Basel (CH) called Focusyear, where Dima improved his knowledge under his mentors Ambrose Akinmusire and Alex Sipiagin, and regularly performed with well-known jazz artists.
    Along his professional carriere Dima has collaborated with Aaron Parks, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Larry Grenadier, Logan Richardson, Coung Vu, Kris Davis, Lionel Loueke, Jorge Rossy, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Elena Pinderhughes, Greg Cohen, Doug Weiss, Joey Baron, Conrad Herwig, Steve Turre, Nels Cline, Jim Black, NDR Big Band, Brussel Jazz Orchestra, Guillermo Klein, Josh Ginsburg, Wanja Slavin, Elias Stemeseder, Ingrid Laubrock, and many others. All while developing his own band, and recording his debut album I’m Wondering (Unit Records, 2017).

    Bassist and bandleader Josh Ginsburg is a regular fixture on the world’s concert stages and jazz clubs. His music has been described as “vigorously fresh” (Irish Times) and “reveal(ing) itself in gradually unfolding layers” (JazzTimes); his most recent album as a leader, “”Zembla Variations”, was chosen as an Album of the Year by the New York City Jazz Record. Josh’s bass playing, Financial Times (London) writes, is “a rock of counterpoint, funk and swing”

    In the past few years, Josh has toured internationally with bands led by Kurt Rosenwinkel, David Friedman, Jeremy Pelt, E.J. Strickland, George Colligan, Jure Pukl, Logan Richardson, Diego Piñera, Tino Derado, and Aruán Ortiz, among others. As a first call New York musician he performed regularly with countless influential musicians.

    Marc Michel. Born in the Puy en Velay (France) in October, 1986, he begins the drums with 10 years old, leading in parallel studies of classic percussions, writing and chamber music, disciplines in which he will obtain numerous prices of academies (Clermont-Ferrand, Lyon – where he meets the future EYM trio – and Paris).

    After having studied with great masters such as Sangoma Everett, Ari Hoenig, Clarence Penn, he is offered a grant in Master’s degree of jazz in the Royal Academy of Music in London. Over there he goes alongside and plays with, among others, Larry Goldings, Dave Holland, Will Vinson, Nikki Isles, John Taylor, John Hollenbeck in prestigious clubs of the city as Ronnie Scott, The The Vortex, Oliver’s etc. He also works since few years with big jazzmen of the French and international scenes as Jim Rotondi, Damon Brown, Zhenya Strigalev.

    He played (in particular with EYM trio) in tours which led him in Italy, Croatia, England (Queen Elisabeth hall), Spain, Switzerland, Germany and in the French clubs among which the Sunside, Le Baiser Salé, hot club in Lyon, l’Upercut in Marseilla etc.
    Distinguishing him by an impeccable technique, a big polyrhythmic ease, as well as by his musicality, he is also a composer, drawing his inspiration from the culture he met on his path. Multi-versatile, he also plays the guitar, the piano and the classic percussions.

    robertonieva.com
    dimabondarev.com
    joshginsburg.com
    eymtrio.com/EN/marc-michel/
    robertonieva.com
    dimabondarev.com

    _______

    So, 19. März 
    Matching Outfits (music video release show)⎢Ruth Mac



    Come down to Donau115 for two sets of live music from Matching Outfits and Ruth Mac, plus a screening of Matching Outfits’ new music video for the song ‘Sparkling’!!

    You may or may not recognise the black curtain in the photo, since the music video was partly filmed at Donau115, by director Giulio Rasi.

    MATCHING OUTFITS

    Twenty-two citrus fruits. A chain letter in Danish. A livestreamed funeral. With ultra-specific details and flashes of deadpan humor, Berlin lo-fi trio Matching Outfits relates tales of dissolving friendships, lost loved ones and insurmountable distances – between childhood and adulthood, summer and winter, Berlin and rural Sweden. At the heart of the project is singer and keyboardist Linnea Mårtensson, who merges wistful indie pop with a playful DIY ethos that’s further brought to the fore by bandmates Rachel Glassberg (drums/guitar) and Leah Corper (bass). Call-and-response vocals that convene into three-part harmonies, shout-along choruses, instrumental breakouts: whether on debut album Band Made Out Of Sand (Kitchen Leg Records) or in their live shows, you never really know what to expect.

    https://linktr.ee/matchingoutfits

    RUTH MAC

    Ruth Mac is a Berlin-based singer-songwriter originally hailing from the west coast of Ireland. Drawing influence in equal measure from the folkstresses of the seventies and contemporary indie-rock, Mac’s arresting and soulful vocals lie gracefully upon catchy hooks and lush textured guitars. Not quite rock, not quite soul nor folk, Mac finds her own sound somewhere at the intersection where she combines effortlessly delivered melodies with idiosyncratic lyrics steeped in sentimentality. On stage, she’s a captivating performer breathing new life into the music – be it in her stripped-back solo set up or with her full band, Mac’s debut EP “Living Room” was released last year on Beth Shalom Records. A four-track piece detailing the move from Ireland to Berlin, Living Room sold-out its limited pressing of 10” lathe vinyls and was followed by a string of release shows which saw Mac play throughout the UK, Ireland and Germany, as well as a slot supporting Hot Chip on their Freakout/Release tour.

    https://ruthmac.org 


    // // // // //

    OPENING HOURS:
    TUES-SUN 19:00 – ??
    We do NOT have a reservation system – show up early enough to get a seat! // // // // //

    We DO Accept Card Payments

    We do accept credit cards. If you’re out of cash, just tell our staff and we’ll run your card for you, no minimum, no fee. #DeutscheDigitalisierung

    ……However, paying with card is not an excuse to not tip!!!  #tipyourbarstaff
    We recommend always bringing cash for tip and the Eintritts-Kanne!

    Eintritts-Kanne + Support Donau115

    ENTRITTS-KANNE/CONCERT PAYMENT
    Please contribute 10 EURO to 20 EURO to the Eintritts-Kanne. We expect minimum 10€ per person or at best the 20€ solidarity contribution. All of this income goes to the musicians, making sure that each night’s musicians receive 100% of this hard-earned money.

    SUPPORT THE MUSICIANS PLAYING WITH DONAU115 MUSICIAN FUND
    The Donau115 Musician Fund boosts the Eintritts-Kanne when nightly collections are too low. Consider a monthly contribution to support economic stability for musicians who perform here. All contributors will receive an annual secret surprise, exclusively for contributors.

    This is how to contribute €:
    PAYPAL:
    donau115@gmail.com

    IBAN:
    Donau115 – Alt von Harbou Matheny GbR
    IBAN DE64100400000655707800

    Send us an email with the Subject: Solidarity ____
    (Include your email address in place of the ___ to receive information about the annual secret surprise.)

    WAS DEMNÄCHST PASSIERT
    Di, 21. März Two Song Tuesday
    Mi, 22. März Feu Marinho ⎢Sophie Sutton
    Do, 23. März Letters From Nowhere with Fabian Arends
    Fr, 24. März Thomas Hähnlein’s ‘Free Space’

    Sa, 25. März Colemans Colours
    So, 26. März Earthquake Relief Benefit Concert

  • Two-Song Tuesday Running Order – 7 March 2023

    SET 1
    Julieta
    Theodor Richard Emil
    James Michael Rogers
    Lady Bird Lad & Lady
    Piano Rivero
    Sarah Butler

    SET 2
    Antonie van Leeuwenhoek
    Nina
    Ernesto
    Tal Arditi
    Marius Leonard
    Jez Ritchie

    SET 3
    Neptune’s Dream
    Wieland Jubelt
    Jack Pedder
    Vero
    Hezron Chetty

    MAYBE
    Tasss
    Motz Art

  • DIESE WOCHE: 7. – 12. MÄRZ


    Di, 07. März Two Song Tuesday
    Mi, 08. März Alunni | Spallati | Yamani
    Do, 09. März Olga Amelchenko Quartet
    Fr, 10. März Just Another Foundry + Jonatan Uranes

    Sa, 11. März Tobias Christl & Valerie 3
    So, 12. März The Ansan


    ……Concerts: Minimum 10€ // Solidarity 20€ 
    ………All of this income goes 100% to the musicians of each night

    …………More info below

    Di, 07. März
    Two Song Tuesday

    ///// TWO-SONG TUESDAY /////
    [sign up 19:00 // start 20:00]

    Calling all songwriters!
    Calling all composers and instrumentalists and synth wizards!
    Calling all poets and writers and storytellers!

    Do you have new solo or duo material to present? Join us for Donau115’s regular open stage series, Two-Song Tuesday.
    Your set may include TWO SONGS or last TEN MINUTES, WHICHEVER IS SHORTER (e.g. two seven-minute songs = NO, three two-minute songs = NO).

    “How do I get booked?”
    – The bar staff tell you how to sign up, starting at 7pm.
    – The first performer will begin at 20:00
    – NO SOUNDCHECKS. Be ready. Slip on, blow minds, slip off. Setup is 90 seconds. Sets are no longer than 10 minutes. THERE IS A STOPWATCH TO ENSURE THIS. If your set goes beyond 10 minutes, the stopwatch goes off in the middle of your song. (The alarm sound is in the key of C#, FYI.)
    – The host will call you to the stage in a random order. You may not reserve a specific time slot.
    – We let as many people play as possible. There is usually time for 12 performers. Some weeks more, some weeks less.

    “What can I play?”
    – This is entirely up to you, but DO NOT PLAY THE SAME SONG OVER AND OVER EVERY WEEK. THIS IS BORING. TRY NEW THINGS.
    – Out of respect for our neighbours:
    — you may NOT use loud percussion and loud bass-heavy signals into the PA.
    — you are welcome to use our backline, which includes a piano, two generic vocal microphones, a guitar cable directly into our PA, and a small amplifier.
    — DON’T COUNT ON US HAVING ANYTHING OTHER THAN THE FEW THINGS LISTED ABOVE. COME PREPARED.

    FURTHER QUESTIONS?
    info@donau115.de


    _______


    Mi, 08. März 
    Alunni | Spallati | Yamani


    Tarek Yamani: Piano,
    Igor Spallati: Bass,
    Ugo Alunni: Drums

    Afro-Arabic Jazz Conceptions is an exploration of classical Arabic music within the frameworks of Black American music, and vice versa.

    https://tarekyamani.com
    https://youtube.com/tarekyamani
    https://tarekyamani.bandcamp.com/ 


    _______


    Do, 09. März 
    Olga Amelchenko Quartet



    Olga Amelchenko – alto saxophone
    Enzo Carniel – piano
    Igor Spallati – double bass
    Jesus Vega – drums

    Created in November 2015, the Olga Amelchenko Quartet is an international band which brings together active musicians from Berlin and Paris jazz scenes. Crossing barriers and frontiers, they establish a vivid communication through music, and strive for a multicultural form of expression.

    The bands opens up a field of experimentation, through which the compositions of the young saxophonist blend her modern jazz influences with Folk and Rock.

    Olga’s first album “ Shaping Notions” was released in 2018, followed by “Live at loft” two years later, now releasing the third one “ Slaying The Dream” in March 2023 and presenting it at Donau 115 on the 09.03.2023.

    https://www.olga-amelchenko.com
    https://youtube.com/playlist…
    https://olgaamelchenko.bandcamp.com

    _______


    Fr, 10. März 
    Just Another Foundry + Jonatan Uranes 


    Jonas Engel – saxophone
    Florian Herzog – double bass
    Anthony Greminger – drums
    Jonatan Uranes – electronics, pedals

    After two released studio albums, various awards, over a hundred played concerts and tours worldwide, the progressive jazz band Just Another Foundry from Cologne is taking their work to the next level.

    Their upcoming album “”Compendium of Unease”” (release date 24.03.) is a synergy of mature acoustic trio sound and spectrum-expanding live electronic processing in an experimental and headstrong way. In cooperation with the musicians Marc Alberto (indie pop, sound art) from Amsterdam and Jonatan Uranes (noise, DIY artist) from Copenhagen, the band will be processed and alienated live in terms of colour, sound and space.

    Music from the big city and from their rural roots. Music that reflects the fire of a new generation.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTcu2gXcswc
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tizJjNVRUa4
    https://justanotherfoundry.de/


    _______

    Sa, 11. März 
    Tobias Christl & Valerie 3


    Tobias Christl (voc)
    Karin Peters (voc)
    Anna Borsdorf (voc)
    Clara Fabian (voc)
    Peter Meyer (guit)
    Dan Peter Sundland (b)
    Max Santner (dr)

    As a voice artist and all-round musician, Tobias Christl is songwriter, improviser, composer and initiator. His musical passion has given his vocal expression a wide horizon.

    This night is a premiere: Tobias invites 3 incredibly talented singers, named Anna Borsdorf, Clara Fabian and Karin Peters. They met recently singing a Jimi Hendrix Tribute Program together. In Donau 115 they’ll perform original songs by bands that Tobias is leading (HERBE SAHNE, WILDERN). And also some Dirty Projectors Favs will happen.

    On top the absolut fantastics Peter Meyer, Dan Peter Sundland and Max Santner will operate their instruments to serve the audience a warmhearted and very special concert-night.

    Tobias Christl
    http://www.tobias-christl.de/
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m2K21BSIL10&t=1026s

    Peter Meyer
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bhr_J5BYdw

    Dan Peter Sundland
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE7z0nICtTw

    _______

    So, 12. März 
    The Ansan




    Siamak Mir Sheibani Moghaddam – setar, voice
    Doron Furman – oud
    Vijay Kannan – bansuri
    Matan Goldstien – percussion
    Hans Bilger – double bass

    The Ansan is an ensemble connected through sound, language, culture, and deep friendship. The group is led by Siamak Mir Sheibani Moghaddam, an Iranian singer and instrumentalist who weaves Persian classical poems by Rumi, Hafez, and others into middle eastern-inflected acoustic music that keens, meditates, and erupts with joy.

    Moghaddam is joined by a globe-spanning group of improvisers, each expert in a different musical tradition. Israeli oudist Doron Furman is well versed in the melodic lyricism of Arabic maqams. Percussionist Matan Goldstien, also from Israel, brings a conservatory-trained ear for European classical percussion and a rich understanding of his homeland’s oblong grooves.

    Dr. Vijay Kannan studied Hindustani singing in his native India before picking up the bansuri flutes that float and dart through Ansan’s compositions. And contrabassist Hans Bilger brings years of experience with the jazz and folk traditions of America.

    Das Ansan Ensemble ist ein Ensemble, die durch Klang, Sprache, Kultur und eine tiefe Freundschaft miteinander verbunden sind. Das Ensemble wird von Siamak Mir Sheibani Moghaddam geleitet, einem iranischen Sänger und Instrumentalisten, der klassische persische Gedichte von Rumi, Hafez und anderen Dichtern mit akustischer Musik mit orientalischem Einschlag verwebt. Die Musik, die dadurch entsteht, regt zum Nachdenken an und verströmt Freude. Moghaddam wird von vier Musikern begleitet, die Experten in unterschiedlichen musikalischen Traditionen sind.

    Der israelische Oud-Spieler Doron Furman ist mit der melodischen Lyrik der arabischen Maqams vertraut. Der ebenfalls aus Israel stammende Matan Goldstien bringt ein am Konservatorium geschultes Ohr für die klassische europäische Perkussion und ein umfassendes Verständnis für die lebendige Rhythmen seines Heimatlandes mit.

    Dr. Vijay Kannan studierte in seiner indischen Heimat Hindustani-Gesang, bevor er zu den Bansuri-Flöten griff, die durch Ansans Kompositionen schweben. Auch Kontrabassist Hans Bilger bringt jahrelange Erfahrung mit den Jazz- und Folk-Traditionen Amerikas mit.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6zIKYhQQZw…
    https://open.spotify.com/artist/1jvRCZhDTzdniiVwyLw6SF…



    // // // // //

    OPENING HOURS:
    TUES-SUN 19:00 – ??
    We do NOT have a reservation system – show up early enough to get a seat! // // // // //

    We DO Accept Card Payments

    We do accept credit cards. If you’re out of cash, just tell our staff and we’ll run your card for you, no minimum, no fee. #DeutscheDigitalisierung

    ……However, paying with card is not an excuse to not tip!!!  #tipyourbarstaff
    We recommend always bringing cash for tip and the Eintritts-Kanne!

    Eintritts-Kanne + Support Donau115

    ENTRITTS-KANNE/CONCERT PAYMENT
    Please contribute 10 EURO to 20 EURO to the Eintritts-Kanne. We expect minimum 10€ per person or at best the 20€ solidarity contribution. All of this income goes to the musicians, making sure that each night’s musicians receive 100% of this hard-earned money.

    SUPPORT THE MUSICIANS PLAYING WITH DONAU115 MUSICIAN FUND
    The Donau115 Musician Fund boosts the Eintritts-Kanne when nightly collections are too low. Consider a monthly contribution to support economic stability for musicians who perform here. All contributors will receive an annual secret surprise, exclusively for contributors.

    This is how to contribute €:
    PAYPAL:
    donau115@gmail.com

    IBAN:
    Donau115 – Alt von Harbou Matheny GbR
    IBAN DE64100400000655707800

    Send us an email with the Subject: Solidarity ____
    (Include your email address in place of the ___ to receive information about the annual secret surprise.)

    WAS DEMNÄCHST PASSIERT
    Di, 14. März Two Song Tuesday
    Mi, 15. März Life is Great
    Do, 16. März Nebbia Hoppe Borges TRIO
    Fr, 17. März Melt Trio

    Sa, 18. März Nieva/Bondarev/Ginsburg/Michel
    So, 19. März Matching Outfits (music video release show)⎢Ruth Mac

  • 2ST Running Order, 28 Feb. 2023

    SET 1
    Shannon
    David M
    Ben
    Pip Fluteman
    Jem Bosatta
    Duxius- Edyta and Andrii

    SET 2
    Michael Brinkworth
    Smore
    Ann
    Tomi and the Snail Trails
    Smore
    Fred

    SET 3
    Danon Hill
    Daniel Almeida
    David Karapetyan
    Mariel Denayer
    Jessy & Steffen

    EVERYONE ELSE IS A MAYBE