HALMA (HH) + Special Guests: TAVARE | Berlin Show @ Neue Zukunft

In the organizer's words:

Saturday 31.05.2025
New Future / Berlin

Live:
HALMA (Hamburg)
-- Slowcore/Postrock/Electronica --

+ Special Guests:
TAVARE feat. Aidan Baker (Berlin)

Admission: 7 pm

Founded in 2000, HALMA quickly abandoned conventional song structures to follow loop-like, electronica-inspired paths. With a classic rock line-up (guitars, bass, drums), the band develops its music from improvisations: In the flow of playing, musical themes emerge that form the building blocks for the composition of later songs. Halma transfer mechanisms of electronic music into an analog band structure.

Andreas Voß - baritone guitar
Gundi Voigt - bass
Fiona McKenzie - drums, percussion
Thorsten Carstens - guitars

Recordings:
- Container verloren und gesunken (CD, self-published, 2000)
- Minifield (CD, self-published, 2002)
- Back To Pascal (Vinyl & CD, Sunday Service, 2006)
- Broad Peak (Vinyl & CD, Sunday Service, 2008)
- Dissolved Solids (Vinyl & CD, Sunday Service, 2011)
- Granular (LP & CD, Kapitän Platte, 2015)
- The Ground (LP/CD/Download, Kapitän Platte, 2019)
- Driving By Numbers (LP/Download/CD, Kapitän Platte, 2024)

Film music:
"The Other Boy" (Director: Volker Einrauch, D: Andrea Sawatzki, Barbara Auer, Christian Berkel)
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_andere_Junge

https://www.halma-music.com

TAVARE began playing together in Berlin in 2020, making stripped-down, minimal music - slow, fragmentary songs with sparse vocal lines and harmonies - evoking both a retro '90s slowcore sound and contemporary pop forms and structures. The trio released a debut 7", Ghosts, in November 2024 on the UK label Champion Version and will release their full-length album, Too Small To Be So High, in spring 2025 with God Unknown Records.

The trio consists of Aidan Baker, originally from Canada but based in Berlin for over a decade, who makes music ranging from ambient/experimental to post-rock to drone-jazz, both solo and with various groups, mostly notably the dreamsludge duo Nadja; Tristen Bakker, also from Canada, who makes soft-noise, prog, ambient and punk music as a solo artist and with groups such as VROUW! and Otolitos; and Angela Muñoz, a musician, dancer and performer from Spain, who plays with several groups including nunofyrbeeswax, VROUW! and (also with Aidan) Hypnodrone Ensemble.

https://www.instagram.com/tavaretrio