Sasha Perera

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Oren Gerlitz and Sasha Perera as Jahcoozi 2010 at a festival at Mirow

Sasha Perera , also Mother Perera , (* 1979 in London ) is a British musician living in Berlin . She is the singer, MC, composer and lyricist of Jahcoozi and released four albums with this band. She also works as a DJ under the name Mother Perera and plays Future-Bass , UK Garage a . a. on.

Life

Sasha Perera was born in London and grew up there. Her parents migrated from Sri Lanka to Great Britain in the 1970s to avoid the civil war between Tamils and Sinhalese . Perera spent most of her childhood with her family in London, but for a few years in Singapore and temporarily in Malaysia. Accordingly, she attended school in Wimbledon and Singapore . She played guitar and trumpet as a child. Musically, it was shaped by the pirate stations that were very present in London in the 1990s , the Notting Hill Carnival and Jamaican culture as well as the dub music associated with it . For her, influential artists are Lee Scratch Perry , Horace Andy , Mad Professor and Mad Scientist as well as Massive Attack , Smith & Mighty , Roni Size , the Berlin musician Pole , the dub-tech label Rhythm & Sound and the Neue Deutsche Welle . She found the production methods of King Tubby , King Jammy and Joe Meek interesting .

Perera came to Cologne in 1999 via the Erasmus program to study a semester abroad. She finished her studies in German and European Political Science in 2000. During her stay abroad in Germany, she also traveled to Berlin. Perera decided in September 2000 to move there instead of returning to London, as living and renting were cheaper in Berlin. She still lives there today.

Sasha Perera attracts attention again and again with her extraordinary stage outfit, which shaped the style of Berlin's club culture ( alien queen style ). She enjoys cycling and, as a cosmopolitan person, travels a lot.

Sasha Perera performing with Jahcoozi (bottom center) at a festival near Mirow, 2008

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Perera worked as a singer on several electronic sound systems. In 2002, Sasha Perera, Robot Koch and the ex- Tel Aviv Oren Gerlitz met, who began to form the band Jahcoozi. Their first appearance took place in the Berlin squatters ' bar "Eimer". Jahcoozi's fame increased more and more in the Berlin underground scene.

All Jahcoozi texts are written by Perera. They complain and a. Sexism and racism (e.g. in Asian Bride Magazine ) and technocratic capitalism ( Dot Com Bust ).

Jahcoozi's track Fish caught the attention of John Peel , who characterized Jahcoozi's music as "beautiful and surreal pop music from the future" (English "beautiful and surreal pop music from the future"). Perera had performances with Jahcoozi all over Europe, Africa, Asia, America, z. B. in cities like Shanghai, Seoul, Manila and Beijing or at the Mutek Festival in Montreal. They achieved corresponding notoriety.

Parallel to Jahcoozi, Perera worked musically with Modeselektor , the Teichmann brothers and a. together.

Event organization

Sasha Perera has been organizing parties under the Grimetime and Boombox labels since 2004 , to which she invited style- setting grime and dubstep artists from Great Britain. Co-organizers of Grimetime are Christian Fussenegger, the owner of the WMF Club Gerriet Shultz, the filmmaker Heidi Frankl, Jan Ramesh-Schoening and the graphic designer Frederik Frede. The Grimetime events, along with the Revolution No. 5 of the Sick Girls and the Substance parties in Berghain set the style for the now established Berlin bass music scene.

DJing

She works as a DJ under the name Mother Perera and plays a mix of Future-Bass , 2 Step , UK Garage , Ghetto Tech , Post- Dubstep , Deep Techno , Deep House , Ragga , Wonky and IDM .

She toured as a DJ a. a. in India.

International networking projects for women musicians

In 2010 Sasha Perera took part together with the Teichmann brothers, Modeselektor and the two other Jahcoozi members as well as local musicians in Nairobi such as Just A Band, Abbas Kubaff, Nazizi, Ukoo Flani, Michel Ongaru, Radi, Lon Jon, Kimya and others. a. at the international musician network project BLNRB in Kenya . Musicians from these two countries played music together and made studio recordings. When discussing texts, Sasha Perera made sure to avoid sexist statements analogous to American hip hop, which is a role model for Kenyan MCs. The BLNRB crew opened the Worldtronics Festival with a performance in the House of World Cultures in Berlin on December 1st, 2010 and played on December 3rd, 2010 in Cologne. In August 2011, the album BLNRB - Welcome To The Madhouse , the result of the networking workshop, was released on Outthere Records.

In 2012 Sasha Perera was involved in the South Asian Soundscapades project to network South Asian and German electronic musicians. In addition to Mother Perera, there were monikers from New Delhi , Asvajit from Colombo , Sandunes from Mumbai , the Teichmann brothers , Taman Noor from Kabul and Berlin. The participating artists performed on two evenings in June 2013 at Kater Holzig in Berlin and at a festival north of Berlin.

Perera Elsewhere

In 2013 she released solo material under the name Perera Elsewhere , namely the single Bizarre . Gonjasufi is the guest musician on the Everlast album . Bizarre stylistically describes the further development of the sounds of the 1990s trip-hop . The album contains experimental futuristic lo-fi - ambient with acoustic sounds and textures.

Discography (without Jahcoozi )

  • 2005: Sasha Perera was selected by Modeselektor in the track Silicones from the album Hello Mom! featured on BPitch Control, she was involved as co-composer. (BPC 115)
  • since 2004 organization of the party series Grimetime and Boombox
  • 2007: The track Silicium appeared as a remix by Kid Kenobi on his album Kid Kenobi Sessions .
  • 2011: Album BLNRB - Welcome To The Madhouse , the result of an intercultural networking workshop, on Outthere Records
  • 2011: As Sascha Perera she was featured by Filur in the track The Maze from the album Faces , released by Sony Music .
  • 2013: Guest vocals on the album Where We Need No Map by Springintgut, released on the Pingipung label
  • 2013: as Perera Elsewhere Single Bizarre
  • 2013: as Perera Elsewhere EP Bizarre
  • 2013: as Perera Elsewhere album Everlast on the label FoFMusic
  • DJ-ing as Mother Perera
Sasha Perera with Jahcoozi on September 25th, 2008 at the Decibel Festival in Seattle in the Neumos Crystal Ball Reading Room

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DJ mixes by Mother Perera on the Jahcoozi website ( memento of the original from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 17 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jahcoozi.com
  2. ↑ a b c Artist entry "Jahcoozi" in: Website of Initiative Musik gGmbH
  3. ↑ a b c Friend of Style - Sasha Perera. ( Memento of the original from September 26, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Stylemag, October 18, 2010, accessed on September 18, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.stylemag-online.net
  4. ↑ Trex: Jahcoozi - Barefoot through Berlin. ( Memento of the original from September 27, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: carpe berlin, September 10, 2010, accessed on September 18, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.carpeberlin.com
  5. ↑ a b A Chat with Jahcoozi "The Barefoot Wanderer", Interview with Sasha Perera , in: IVoice, September 18, 2013, accessed on July 4, 2010
  6. ↑ carpe berlin: Sasha Perera from Jahcoozi about Berlin, interview with Sasha Perera , Youtube 18 May 2010, accessed on September 17, 2013
  7. ↑ carpe berlin: Sasha Perera from Jahcoozi about the Beginnings, Interview with Sasha Perera , Youtube 18 May 2010, accessed on September 17, 2013
  8. ↑ a b c Anthony Obst: Q4 - Perera Elsewhere. ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Red Bull Music Academy Radio Berlin, September 6, 2013, accessed on September 18, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rbmaradio.com
  9. ↑ Jahccozi, Artist Page on the CTM Festival website , accessed on September 18, 2013
  10. ↑ a b Website of Jahcoozi ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 18, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jahcoozi.com
  11. ↑ a b Aaron Frank: The Lost Soul Soul of Perera Elsewhere , in: Passion of the Weiss. September 17, 2013, accessed September 18, 2013
  12. ↑ Grimtime website ( Memento of the original from August 17, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.grimetime.de
  13. ↑ Steph Kretowicz: The Sick Girls' Alex Dröner on the Changing Sound of Berlin. In: Red Bull Music Academy magazine, September 17, 2013, accessed September 18, 2013
  14. ↑ Vivien Horst: Grime Time & Sick Girls. In: XLR8R, December 10, 2006, accessed September 18, 2013
  15. ↑ Mother Perera , in: Border Movement, Platform for Networking Electronic Musicians In South Asia and Germany, accessed on September 17, 2013
  16. ↑ Perera on mixcloud  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed September 17, 2013@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.mixcloud.com  
  17. ^ Sasha Perera (Jahcoozi) - Exclusive Interview , in: The Imported Goods. August 20, 2012, accessed September 17, 2013
  18. ↑ a b Selina Nowak: A month in the "Madhouse". The producer Andi Teichmann reports on his experiences with the German-Kenyan music project BLNRB. ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Interview, in: SPEX , July 19, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  19. ^ Walter W. Wacht: In the sign of global music reception. Jahcoozi, Gebrüder Teichmann & Modeselektor with Nairobi exchange. ( Memento of the original from September 21, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: SPEX, November 30, 2010, accessed September 17, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  20. ↑ Jahcoozi , in: Border Movement, platform for networking electronic musicians in South Asia and Germany, accessed on September 17, 2013
  21. ↑ carpeberlin: Sasha from Jahcoozi about their Africa Projekt, interview with Sasha Perera , Youtube, May 18, 2010, accessed on September 17, 2013
  22. ↑ Sanaya Ardeshir: Alice in Fusion Wonderland: South Asian Soundscapes in Berlin , July 7, 2013, accessed on September 18, 2013
  23. ↑ Mario Cotto: Perera Elsewhere: Artist You Should Know. In: KCRW Music Blog, September 10, 2013, accessed September 18, 2013
  24. ↑ Bella Cuts, Sean Moxie: Expatriarch Generations - Bella Cuts interviews Perera Elsewhere. In: Intro, September 12, 2014 ( Memento of the original from November 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.intro.de
  25. ↑ Modeselektor: "Hello Mom!" , In: Discogs
  26. ^ Sascha Kösch: BLNRB - Welcome To The Madhouse (Outhere Records / OH 019), record review , in: De: Bug, 23 August 2011
  27. ^ Filur: Faces , in: Discogs
  28. ↑ Sascha Kösch: Springintgut - Where We Need No Map (Pingipung), record review , in: De: Bug, May 4, 2013
  29. ↑ Layz Brow: New FoF Signing Perera Elsewhere Announces New Album - Stream “Bizarre” Now. August 13, 2013, in: FoFMusic website, accessed September 17, 2013
  30. ↑ Perera Elsewhere: "Bizarre", video by Hugo Holger Schneider, 2013 , Youtube, accessed on September 17, 2013
  31. ↑ Mother Perera's Tumblr page , accessed September 17, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Perera, Sasha
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mother Perera (stage name); Perera, S .; Perera, Sacha; Perera, Sascha; Perera, Sasha (stage name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Sri Lankan-British musician and DJ
DATE OF BIRTH 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH London