It's a drones world
The trio D-Drone presents itself again with powerful sounds between rhythm, breathing, sound and silence. After the successful Full Moon and Gong sessions at the Maschinenhaus in Berlin's Kulturbrauerei, we now enter a pop-cultural sound laboratory with "Pure & Simple" to experience the subtle overtones and undertones and to integrate them into different sound melanges. The musicians around ALEJANDRO BLAU are opening up to a broader audience, a little further away from the traditional esoteric image that is still associated with the sound of the didgeridoo
ALEJANDRO BLAU, ANGELICA PAULIC and SÖREN BIRKE shift from silence into a colorful sound spectrum of didgeridoo, Jew's harp, accordion, steel lounge drum, harmonica and duduk
In his didgeridoo playing, the exceptional musician Aljandro Blau combines meditation with circular breathing. For thousands of years, the Australian Aborigines have associated their genesis with the typical sound of the didgeridoo. Powerful, meditative and rhythmic at the same time, the deep primal sound shows its infinite facets. In the musical quartet D-Drone tells sound stories and lets colors resound
A concert journey that invites the visitor to listen and meditate in equal measure. Or simply let it sink into sound images.
Biography Alejandro Blau
Alejandro Blau aka D-Drone was born in Guatemala. He has been researching, playing and living the drone, the distinctive sound of the Australian aboriginal didgeridoo, for over 25 years. Thus, Alejandro Blau combines Central American roots with circular breathing. He has already presented his high-energy playing between rhythm, breathing and Zen as far away as Cambodia. D-Drone experiments with wave, sound and breath expression across genres. The Berliner Blau interprets, composes and plays sound stories with the Ur-Ton and lets the infinite timbres of this instrument vibrate audibly with his overtone-rich playing.
A few years ago he initiated and directed the Europe-wide known DREAMTIME Festival where he presented the knowledge and diverse styles of the didgeridoo to the general public over a decade with Australian Aboriginals and the most famous players in the world at that time. He uses his interest and research in vibration and sound to delve more finely into the encounter and relationship between human, feeling and body knowledge as a music therapist. As a student of Zen, he combines sound and silence to add depth to his playing. Breath rhythm as an inner expression of being alive is his credo
Cast list
ALEJANDRO BLAU didgeridoo
ANGELICA PAULIC accordion, steal drum
SÖREN BIRKE harmonica, duduk, jaw harp