Sounds of home

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Sounds of home
General information
place Kulturforum Berlin (2003-2006)
genre World music
organizer Christoph Borkowsky Akbar ( Piranha Records )
Period 1988-2006
Previous venues
1988-2002 Tempodrom Berlin

Heimatklänge was a Berlin World Music - Festival , which took place from 1988 to 2006 every summer. It started in 1988 as part of the European Capital of Culture program . From 1988 to 2002 the venues were the respective locations of the Tempodrom , from 2003 to 2006 the Kulturforum Berlin .

history

The name for the festival should probably play with and provoke the word Heimat , which is not necessarily positive in Germany . From 1988 to 2001, the festival management and selection of the acts was in the hands of the head of the Berlin record label “piranha”, Christoph Borkowsky Akbar . This label also produced - incompletely - sampler CDs with live recordings of the concerts under the respective festival motto.

Beginning in 1988 with a Southeast European, Maghrebian and Middle Eastern “all-round blow”, the festival from 1989 onwards with its mottos was thematically devoted to the various geographical and musical regions. In 1988 each artist played in one evening, and entry was free.

In the following year, the concept was slightly changed: the slogan “free and outside” referred to the fact that Wednesday to Saturday free concerts took place next to the circus tent (in the tent when it rains). Groups, bands, orchestras and artists that were previously unknown in Germany performed here who were superstars or at least very successful in their home countries. On Sunday, the concert was followed by interviews with the artists who provided background information on music, instruments, culture and artists and from the moderators of the SFB - resp. RBB program Radio Multikulti . Over the next seven weeks, the concerts followed suit with those of other groups.

It was part of the essence of this series of festivals that the visitors were given a condensed impression of which music styles by which acts prevailed in the regions presented. These were the Middle East (“Orient de luxe” 1989), southern Africa (“2Beat Apartheid” 1990), India (“Music Mahal” 1991), the Caribbean (“Carnevale Caribe” 1992), West Africa (“No Make Palaver "1993), the Balkans (" Odyssey "1994), the former colonies of Portugal (" LusoMania "1995), the Indian Ocean (" Sindbads Reise "1996), Cuba (" CubaniSíMo "1997), Louisiana (" Deep South " 1998), Central America (“Humboldts Reise” 1999), Brazil (“Brasil 500” 2000), Africa and America (“Soul 2 Soul” 2001). Other mottos, whose regional reference is not always clear, were “Heiratsklänge” 2002, “Gypsi” 2003, “Bands of New York” 2004, “Copa Americana” 2005 and “World Club” 2006. The concerts also made the common cultural roots in different regions of the world revealed. So that the basis of the voodoo practiced in Haiti was to have come there with the slaves who were forcibly shipped from today's Benin to the Caribbean.

Since the event received less and less funding from the Berlin Senate in the course of the 1990s, the motto changed over time to “almost free and outside”. With the relocation of the Tempodrom to the new venue due to the completion of the new Chancellery , Heimatklänge also had to look for a new venue. The event took place in the meantime at the Ostbahnhof , from 2003 on at the Kulturforum Berlin . In the meantime it had to be adapted to the circumstances again and again. In 2003 it only took five days.

With the parades and the break with the “free and outdoors” tradition, the festival lost more and more audiences. In 2006, the festival was based on the public viewing of the soccer World Cup, with the respective international bands performing between the games. Since June 23, 2006, all other concerts have been canceled because the eighteen-year-old festival and its organizers of “Piranha-events” could no longer bear the financial risk and the debts that had accrued to date.

At its peak, the event, which ran over the seven weeks of summer, drew up to 4,000 visitors per evening or 100,000 visitors per year. In 2003, 10,000 visitors came over five days.

Overview of the series of events including compilations

year motto region Venue Artist (selection) compilation Remarks
1988 All round Europe Tempodrom Berlin The Klezmatics , Les Misérables Braskana feat. Yanka Rubkina, 3 Mustaphas 3 , Flaco Jiménez , Vujicsics (feat.Marta Sebestyén ), Jova Stojiljkovic Duvacki Orkestar, Accordions Go Grazy. Vol. 1: Native Sounds from the Heart of Europe
1989 Orient de Luxe middle East Tempodrom Berlin Bellemou Messaoud , Sharkiat feat. Anoushka, Ali Hassan Kuban , Carte de Sijour, Taarab All Stars feat. Bi Kiduke Baraka, Abdel Aziz El Mubarak , Cheb Mazouzi, Sharkiat Vol. 2: Orient de Luxe
1990 2 beat apartheid Southern Africa Tempodrom Berlin Sipho Mabuse , Orchestra Marrabenta, Oliver Mtukudzi , Os Jovens do Prenda, The Soul Brothers, Stella Rambisai Chiweshe, Noise Khanyile Vol. 3: 2 Beat Apartheid
1991 Music Mahal India Tempodrom Berlin
1992 Carnevale carib Caribbean Tempodrom Berlin Mario Bauzá , Alfredo Guierrez, Franscisco Ulloa, Orquesta Cumbre, Victor Roque, Toto la Momposina, Rico, Rara Machine, Machel Montano Vol. 4: Carnevale Caribe
1993 No make palaver West Africa Tempodrom Berlin Zagazougou, Oumou Sangare , Eric Agyeman, Alhadji Chif Dr. Sikiru Ayinde Barrister feat. Africa's International Music Ambassadors, Le Super Rail Band of the Buffet Hotel de la Gare de Bamako, Baaba Maal feat. Daande Lenol, Stan Tohon feat. Le Tchink System. Vol. 5: No Make Palaver
1994 Odyssey Balkans Tempodrom Berlin Ferus Mustafov, Nikos Papazoglou , Yeni Türkü, Shlomo Bar & Habbreira Hativ'it, Orkestra Shqiponja de Tirana, 3 Mustaphas 3
1995 LusoMania - Transatlantica Portugal Tempodrom Berlin Margareth Menezes , Simentera & Agostinho de Pina, Waldemar Bastos , Oswaldinho & his Banda Som de Forró, Chico Science & Nação Zumbi, Maio Coope & Gumbezarte, Bonga Vol. 6: LusoMania - Transatlantica
1996 Sindbad's journey Indian Ocean Tempodrom Berlin
1997 CubaniSiMo Cuba Tempodrom Berlin Candido Fabré , Jesus Alemany's Cubanismo, Afro-Cuban All-Stars Vol. 7: CubaniSiMo
1998 Deep south Louisiana Tempodrom Berlin Steve Riley & the Mamou Playboys , Rockin Dopsie Jr. & The Zydeco Twisters, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown 10th anniversary
1999 Humboldt's journey Central America Tempodrom Berlin Desorden Público , Sin Palabras, Los de Abajo , Asere meet Totó la Momposina, Adriana Lucía , Son dé Mexico
2000 Brazil 500 Brazil Tempodrom at the Ostbahnhof Berlin Cabruêra , Cidade Negra , Funk'n Lata , Ilê Aiyê , Pinduca , Elba Ramalho , Velha Guarda da Mangueira Vol. 8: Sons da Terra - Brasil Allstars
2001 Soul 2 Soul Africa and America Tempodrom at the Ostbahnhof Berlin Sono de Villes, The Shrine Synchro System, Omar Sosa , Garifuna All Star Band, The Mahotella Queens Tribute to Fela Kuti, who died in 1997
2002 Marriage sounds Wedding music Tempodrom at the Ostbahnhof Berlin Boban Markovic Orkestar , Frank Londons Klezmer Brass Allstars, Achanak,

Orchestra Baobab , Hüsnü Senlendirici & Bergmali Tayfa

2003 Gypsi Gipsy music Kulturforum Berlin Mahala Raï Banda,

Jony Iliev, Boban Markovic , Tekameli, Ensemble Musafir

2004 Bands of New York new York Kulturforum Berlin Yuri Yunakov's Gypsy Fire, Boukman Eksperyans, Yerba Buena, Septeto Rodriguez, The Klezmatics , Antibalas Afrobeat Orchestra
2005 Copa Americana Latin America Kulturforum Berlin Silvério Pessoa, Neguinho da Beija-Flor, El Gran Silencio, Bejafondo Tango Club, Guaca
2006 World Club Live music from the countries participating in the 2006 World Cup Kulturforum Berlin African Dope Soundsystem, Banda de la María, Beat'n Blow , Berimbrown, Bonga, Brothers Keepers , Fanfare Ciocărlia , Freshlyground , Gangbé Brass Band, Ghetto Blaster, GlasBlasSing Quintett , Gocoo , Haydamaky, Hoven Droven, Jaipur Kawa Brass Band, Kal, Les Boukakes, Mangu, Meiway , Rundek & Cargo Orkestar, Darko, Shri, Shrine Synchro System & Atongo Zimba, Turner, Gecko, Vavamuffin Home sounds: World Club

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Heimatklänge - Piranha Records. In: Piranha Records. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .
  2. ↑ World music on site . In: The daily newspaper: taz . December 8, 2001, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 8 ( taz.de [accessed on May 22, 2019]).
  3. ↑ a b c d Harriet Dreier: "Heimatklänge" -Festival: A bit of Brazil to Berlin . In: Spiegel Online . August 10, 2000 ( spiegel.de [accessed May 22, 2019]).
  4. ^ A b Time of the Gypsies. In: Tagesspiegel. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Uwe Breitenborn, Thomas Düllo, Sören Birke: Gravitational field Pop: What can Pop do? What does the pop culture economy want? Constellations in Berlin and elsewhere . transcript Verlag, 2014, ISBN 978-3-8394-2451-3 , p. 41 ( google.de [accessed on May 22, 2019]).
  6. ↑ a b Andreas Becker: Suggestion: Deep South - The sounds of home for the 11th time in the Tempodrom . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 8, 1998, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 24 ( taz.de [accessed on May 22, 2019]).
  7. ↑ HeimatKklang 2004: Bands of New York. In: AVIVA-Berlin - Online magazine and information portal for women aviva-berlin.de, article from June 25, 2004. Accessed on May 1, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Andreas Becker: Around the world in seven crises . In: The daily newspaper: taz . July 9, 1994, ISSN  0931-9085 , p. 32 ( taz.de [accessed on May 22, 2019]).
  9. ↑ Humboldt's concert information. In: Latin America News. Retrieved on May 22, 2019 (German).
  10. ↑ Tom Mustroph: A round about Ja-Markt (new Germany). Retrieved May 22, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Maria Storm: Musical Heimatklänge Connecting Africa and America. In: NGO Online . Retrieved on May 22, 2019 (German).
  12. ↑ Sounds of home already start with the World Cup. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved May 22, 2019 .