THE SCENT OF PAPER & THE SOUND OF NOW — MAGAZINE RELEASE & CONCERT BY ZWEIKOMMASIEBEN AT ROTER SALON

Somehow, Berlin changed faster than I realized. For a long time, I was blind to the laments of the city. But at some point between Corona and the death of clubs, rent increases and mass influxes, Amazon delivery vans and residential parking debates, I noticed. One of the few places where time seems to stand still is the Volksbühne. If, like me, you seek solace in the safety of handmade culture, you’re likely to find it next Saturday (14.12.2024) in the soft light of the Roter Salon. Magazine release and concert are the occasion — launching #29 of Swiss music magazine zweikommasieben, dedicated to documenting contemporary music for more than ten years. The current issue, designed by Laurenz Brunner to be hypermodern yet strongly nostalgic, features texts, images, essays and interviews with artists such as Annea Lockwood, Yung Beef, Lonnie Holley, Golin, Moin, Poser, Tobias Koch and Alexander Bachzetsis. The diffuse band “Poser”, which is more a collective of artists pretending to be a band, and the Swiss artist Milyma, who released her album with the promising title “Only Lovers Left A Lie” this year, are invited to the live presentation of the magazine. It reads like the obsessive monologues of that one friend who still plays records and detests Spotify, right? That’s pretty much what it is. A bit like before, but with the new hot shit, without the algorithms — simply comforting. Oh, and for comfort at home, the magazine’s latest issue will be available to buy at a special price. Oh, the smell of freshly printed paper…

Text: Hilka Dirks / Photos: June Fischer, Kasia Kim Zacharko, Zweikommasieben

Roter Salon, Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, 10178 Berlin–Mitte; map
zweikommasieben #29 Concert & magazine release 14.12.2024 from 18h.

Get your ticket here.

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