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 Warhaus is the solo moniker and alter ego of Maarten Devoldere, frontman of the Belgian rock band Balthazar. Unveiling the project in 2016, Devoldere explained that it came about when members of Balthazar decided to take some time to focus on their own work. Off the back of Balthazar’s third album, Thin Walls, Devoldere retreated into his own creative space and tried to figure out the sound for his own solo effort. After some time experimenting and spending five months on a tug boat borrowed from a friend that allowed him "time to think," he eventually came up with what would be Warhaus' overall sonic palette after having finished writing the first single, "The Good Lie," with his girlfriend and vocalist of Soldier’s Heart, Sylvie Kreusch. Finishing nine more songs, he had enough material for a full-length album and decided to name the record We Fucked a Flame Into Being, inspired by a quote in the novel Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. Lawrence. Describing it as a piece of work that ended a period in his life as he approached his thirties, the effort was released in early September of 2016. It received widespread acclaim, garnering comparisons to the moody, atmospheric work of Leonard Cohen and Tom Waits, and the brooding romanticism of Serge Gainsbourg. Warhaus followed with a European tour to promote the record that lasted into early 2017. Tickets
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19:00 | Where We are Not. Letters of Hegumenia Serafima |
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 Letters of Mother Seraphima. Anton Batagov will present piano cycle with excerpts from the letters of Mother Seraphima, an abbess of the Novo-Diveevo Convent (Natalia Janson). This composition can in a sense be regarded as a continuation of "Selected Letters of Sergei Rachmaninoff", a piano cycle written after visiting Rachmaninoff’s grave. The starting point for the new piano cycle was as strong an impression, also in the US and also Russia-related: visiting the Novo-Diveevo Convent and Cemetery. It is a Russian Orthodox convent, and about seven thousand people are buried in the cemeter y – mainly those who left Russia after the 1917 revolution, and their families. Between the parts of the piano cycle, Anton Bagtagov will be reading excerpts from the letters of Natalia Janson (1895 – 1988). After the death of her husband, Mikhail Alekseevich Janson (1887 – 1953) – biologist, teacher, religious writer and social activist – Natalia Janson became ordained under the name of Mother Seraphima. In the last years of her life she was the Mother Superior of the Novo-Diveevo Convent. Anton Batagov is one of the most influential Russian composers and performers of our time. The post-Cagean philosophy of Batagov's projects eliminates any boundaries between "performance" and "composition" by viewing all existing musical practices—from ancient rituals to rock and pop culture and advanced computer technologies—as potential elements of performance and composition. More info
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