Platzhirsch präsentiert: Drahla (UK) & Das Kinn im Stapeltor

In the organizer's words:

Last year, Drahla made their long-awaited comeback with their impressive second album "angeltape". Not only was it interesting for the Leeds-based art-rock experimenters, but it also opens up a fascinating world for the audience to explore with the same curiosity that characterized the songwriting process. The tendency to eschew conventional melodic structures and allow for uncertainty in their latest material gives fans an unfiltered insight into the challenging transitional phase the band found themselves in following the release of their critically acclaimed debut "Useless Coordinates" in 2019.

"angeltape" is an altogether more introspective and abstract exploration of the self. "The core is out of whack, I'm sure / If you feel too distant for your own words," Brown intones in "Lip Sync", an early glimpse into Drahla's extraordinary artistic development.

With his first full-length album "Ruinenkampf" on the Hamburg-based
Hamburg quality label Bureau B, Das Kinn embarks on a musical
parforce ride through the ruins of our time.
Using kickboxing phonetics and an electronic armada, it leads us through
haunting soundscapes somewhere between DAF, the Kosmische Kurieren and Frankfurt's
Kosmische Kurieren and Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel.

Beats on full blast. Bones rattle. The organ plays.
Warm synthlines played by cold hands.
A saxophone ponders the after.
Hymns for the demolition.
Music for a solemn demise.

For almost two decades now, sound activist Toben Piel has been sending out
different constellations, tapping signs and signal sounds from the catacombs
catacombs around the Frankfurt bank towers.
As part of the music performance duo Les Trucs, as co-operator of the tape
label MMODEMM and with works for theater and radio.
His latest prank "Ruinenkampf" will be released on 02.05.2025 via Bureau B.