Hamburg kitchen sessions
Hamburger Küchensessions is a video blog , a concert series and CD project that offers both newcomers to the singer-songwriter scene and well-known artists a platform. The individual sessions are freely available on the Internet as a video. a. in a separate channel on YouTube , viewable. The project was initiated by Jens Pfeifer in 2010 and has been continuously developed since then. Around 330 artists were presented on the channel and over 9.4 million videos have been viewed so far.
profile
The center of the action is the kitchen in Pfeifer's private apartment in Hamburg, where the artists from the national and international singer-songwriter scene meet to play a video session. The artists play a set that is mostly rehearsed for the kitchen session , either without or in front of a selected audience. The performance is recorded by two cameras, one filming static, the other being guided by hand. The more than 320 guests since the beginning (as of December 2019) include Gisbert zu Knyphausen , Bela B. , Olli Schulz , Dota Kehr , Tom Liwa , Enno Bunger , Bonaparte (band) , Jan Plewka , Ingo Pohlmann , Stoppok , Bodo Wartke and tape recorder .
In addition to the videos, the resulting recordings will be published on (so far four) compilations that appeared on the established independent label hanseklang . In 2014 an 8 LP box was also released with a compilation of all previously published samplers . In addition, the sessions will be broadcast on the Berlin television station ALEX Berlin .
The project "Music Rooms in the Arab World", which has existed since June 2016, was created in collaboration with Goethe Institutes . The Goethe Institutes in the North Africa / Middle East region present live performances in private rooms. Those are organized live as small, local events with an audience in a private atmosphere in Alexandria, Beirut, Bethlehem, Baghdad, Gaza, Cairo, Khartoum, Ramallah or Tunis.
reception
Kai Butterweck from ntv.de commented in a review of the third Hamburg Kitchen Sessions Sampler: “Hamburg's Jens Pfeifer not only conjures up culinary delights in his home kitchen, but has also been moving the chairs between the oven and the worktop to meet artists for the past three years to offer the national singer / songwriter scene an unconventional platform for their skills. "
On August 14, 2013, the NDRInfo night club reported on the kitchen sessions in a one-hour broadcast. In addition to organizer Jens Pfeifer, guests included Olli Schulz and Plotzka.
In 2015 the video series was nominated for the Hamburg Music Prize HANS 2015 in the category of Hamburg's best imaging of the year . However, the book Recorded was awarded. Live in Hamburg's record stores by Nicolas Christitch and Katrin Vierkant .
Deutschlandradio Kultur broadcast a detailed report on the project "Music Spaces in the Arab World" on June 28, 2016 in the Tonart program, as did WDR on May 25, 2016.
In the television program of the NDR , in the program " Rund um den Michel ", information about the kitchen sessions was provided on November 3, 2019.
festival
With the artists of the Hamburg kitchen sessions, Pfeifer organizes smaller open-air concerts in the summer months under the name “go out!” And, since 2012, a larger festival in a music club once a year. Up until now, the venues were Uebel & Hazardous and Knust in Hamburg. He values an intimate atmosphere. The main aim is to present as many more or less well-known artists as possible to the public. Pfeifer relies on musical diversity.
Kristof Beuthner described his 2014 festival experience in the culture magazine Nillson as follows: “Musicians retreat to quiet, intimate places, reduce their art to the essentials, take pomp and fuss out and only allow a handful of people to watch: You could and can do better Do not stage the symbiosis of artist and art lover. "
Discography
- 2012: 40 Hamburg kitchen sessions (double CD; Hanseklang , distribution: Broken Silence )
- 2013: 40 Hamburg kitchen sessions # 2 (double CD; Hanseklang, distribution: Broken Silence)
- 2014: Hamburger Kitchen Sessions # 3 (CD; Galley sound products; Distribution: Broken Silence)
- 2014: Hundred Hamburg kitchen sessions (8 LP box, galley sound products, distribution: Broken Silence)
- 2015: Wuttke - Chronological was yesterday (CD, galley sound products, distribution: Broken Silence)
- 2017: Hamburg Kitchen Sessions # 4 (double CD; galley sound products; distribution: Broken Silence)
- 2018: Staring Girl - In one picture (LP + CD, galley sound products, distribution: Broken Silence)
- 2018: Frenzy Suhr - Request for silence (CD; Galley sound products; Distribution: Broken Silence)
- 2019: Christian Freimuth - Klipp & Hazard (CD; Galley sound products; Distribution: Broken Silence)
- 2019: Johnny Bob - Fjodor & the Watergiant (double CD; galley sound products; distribution: Broken Silence)
- 2019: Drebe - The moon has failed (LP; galley sound products; distribution: Broken Silence)
- 2019: Staring Girl - EP (CD; Galley sound products; Distribution: Broken Silence)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ YouTube channel information for Hamburg kitchen sessions. YouTube , accessed December 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Hamburg kitchen sessions. In: alex-berlin.de. Retrieved April 14, 2019 .
- ↑ Music rooms in the Arab world. Goethe-Institut , accessed on December 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Kai Butterweck: The finest from the cellar, kitchen and studio. In: entertainment. n-tv , December 1, 2014, accessed April 14, 2016 .
- ↑ Susanne Hasenjäger: Hamburg kitchen sessions at the NDRInfo night club. In: night club. NDR Info , August 14, 2013, accessed April 14, 2016 (YouTube Video).
- ↑ THE JURY'S TOP 4 AT A GLANCE. HANS - The Hamburg Music Prize , accessed on April 17, 2018 .
- ^ Kitchen concerts in Cairo. Deutschlandradio Kultur , accessed on August 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Kitchen session goes Cairo. WDR , accessed on August 21, 2016 .
- ↑ Hamburg "Kitchen Sessions". In: Around the Michel. NDR , November 3, 2019, accessed December 29, 2019 .
- ↑ Kitchen Sessions Festival Sounds between pots. Hinz & Kunzt , accessed on November 29, 2016 .
- ↑ M&R presents: 2nd Hamburg Kitchen Sessions Festival. Melody and rhythm , accessed November 29, 2016 .
- ↑ 3rd Hamburg Kitchen Sessions Festival. nachtagenten.de, accessed on November 29, 2016 .
- ↑ Sunday, October 11th. 4th Hamburg Kitchen Sessions Festival - Knust. hamburg.mitvergnuegen.com, accessed on November 29, 2016 .
- ↑ From the small kitchen to the big stage. Hamburg.de, accessed on November 29, 2016 .
- ↑ 6th HAMBURG KITCHEN SESSIONS FESTIVAL. knusthamburg.de, accessed on April 17, 2018 .
- ↑ Kristof Beuthner: In the kitchen with kale and click-click decker: Hamburger kitchen sessions # 3. In: nillson.de. January 6, 2015, accessed April 14, 2019 .