Artist:
Monika Werkstatt
Title:
M_Sessions – Reworks
Label:
Moabit Musik / Monika Enterprise
Cat#:
MOABIT23 / m98
Release Date:
22nd October 2021
Format:
download & streaming
Tracklist:
01.
I Will Be Your Only One
(Monika Werkstatt Version)
02.
Paradise
(Monika Werkstatt Version)
03.
Radiator
(Monika Werkstatt Version)
04.
Komm Darling Lass Uns Tanzen Gehen
(Monika Werkstatt Version)
05.
You You
(Monika Werkstatt Version)
06.
Schreiender Tag
(Monika Werkstatt Version)
07.
Geld
(Monika Werkstatt Version)
08.
Mother
(Monika Werkstatt Version)
09.
White Sky White Sea
(Monika Werkstatt Version)
10.
Herzschlag
(Monika Werkstatt Version)
11.
Zukunft
(Monika Werkstatt Version)
12.
Nite Time
(Monika Werkstatt Version)
13.
Mother
(Demo – Islaja’s Rough Vocal Mix Xtra)
14.
Herzschlag
(Monika Werkstatt Version GG’s Xtra)
15.
Can You Hear Me?
(Mommo G.’s Video Call Xtra)
Press Info:
M_SESSIONS – THE PROCESS
M_Sessions is offering a contemporary version of Mania D., Malaria and Matador’s music for the 40th anniversary plus the rare originals. Bringing the past into the now and into the future.
Monika Werkstatt seemed the perfect choice for new interpretations. Founded in 2015, comprising female electronic musicians and producers from the entourage of Monika Enterprise and Moabit Musik. The loose collective played dozens of improvised concerts around Europe and released a studio album and live recordings in everchanging artist constellations. The M_Sessions involved Pilocka Krach, Beate Bartel, Midori Hirano, Mommo G, Lucrecia Dalt, Antye Greie-Ripatti, Natalie Beridze, Annika Henderson and myself. Here the form of interpretation is focussing on keeping the freedom of their improvised work and adapting it to the collective appropriation of songs. I cannot imagine a better reinterpretation of the material with its real life ups and downs and with its enthusiasm.
The original core team of Beate Bartel, Bettina Köster, Manon P. Duursma and myself selected “Rare Originals” from the repertoire of the 3 bands where we saw special relevance and beauty – these tracks are on LP2. We rediscovered live tracks, living room recordings and demo versions from our times long gone. (G.Gut)
M_DOKUMENTE // THE BOOK – THE RECORDS – THE EXHIBITION
The project M_Dokumente focuses on the All Female bands Mania D., Malaria! and Matador in the West Berlin music and art scene of the late 1970s and 1980s. We celebrate this 40 years retrospetive with a big festival weekend from 21.-24.10.2021 at Silent Green from a explicitly female perspective.
The three bands around their members Beate Bartel, Bettina Köster and Gudrun Gut played concerts in different formations from 1979 on, released records and toured around the world. The self-determined appearance of the musicians was new, raised some eyebrows and was reflected both in the music and the lyrics, but also in their unique style and the genre-crossing approach of “more art in the music, more music in the art”. To this day, the bands are considered visionary, they shaped a new image of women in pop culture and are pioneers and role models for the still important and necessary emancipatory movement in the music industry. Far beyond the borders of Berlin.
3Ms
The three, reunited: Malaria, Matador and Mania D, unter einem Dach, but gutted, replaced with electronic hearts, new beats, new beasts, the time has changed, yet the politics, the problems, the heartache remains the same. 2021 sees the anniversary of the 3 M’s and therewith the production of an album of songs, covering a selection of the bands’ finest output, this time assembled by a new set of feminist misfits; producers, fangirls, instrumentalists, under the strict guidance of original members Gudrun Gut and Beate Bartel. M-Sessions features: AGF, Lucrecia Dalt, Sonae, Midori Hirano, Islaja, Natalie Beridze, Pilocka Krach, Annika Henderson (Anika), Lupe, Gudrun Gut and Beate Bartel. Beginning in West Berlin, in 1979, with the inception of Mania D, spawning Malaria! and later Matador; in a time when music was essential to movement, to escape, to space, to the scene and to the rebellion of the people; three bands stood for trial and error, trial and terror, anti- conformity, and anti-consumerism, for girl power and sticking it to the man, and for just doing whatever the hell they wanted. The three, their existence slightly staggered, with different members, different grudges, different heartbreaks, different instrumental expressions, were joined by a string of barbed wire, piecing pigeon hearts, within the playground that was the desolate ex-capital, now again capital, Berlin; a place where artists and freaks could run free amongst the wrinklies and army dodgers; no microscopes, no rules, no property developers.
(ANNIKA HENDERSON)
Snippets:
@ Bandcamp
Trailer:
Special:
Gudrun Gut – “MUTEKLIVE215”
Related Releases:
physical release “M_Sessions”
digital release “M_Sessions – Rare Originals”
Recommendations:
Gudrun Gut’s album “Moment”
Gudrun Gut’s “Moment Remixes” on Monika Enterprise
Gudrun Gut’s “Wildlife”
Barbara Morgenstern’s “Silence Sweater EP” on Monika Enterprise
Natalie Beridze’s “Mapping Debris” on Monika Enterprise
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