A L’ARME! Festival Vol. X+I

International festival for avantgarde-jazz & vibrant experimental music since 2012

Concert Performance Festival

Das Visual des Festivals zeigt schwarze Schrift auf grau-weiß gestreiftem Hintergrund

Joy Guidry seitlich mit geschlossenen Augen vor rotem Hintergrund

© Nykelle Devivo

Claire Rousay lehnt an einer Hauswand, zündet sich eine Zigarette an und blickt dabei in die Kamera

Kassa Overall sitzt frontal in rot gekleidet und stützt seinen Kopf auf eine Hand

© Patrick O'Brien Smith

Tickets Tickets Tickets

Ticket Prices

Day ticket: 25 Euro (plus pre-sale fees) 

Festival pass (3 Days): 60 Euro (plus pre-sale fees) 

Ticket Prices

Day ticket: 25 Euro (plus pre-sale fees) 

Festival pass (3 Days): 60 Euro (plus pre-sale fees) 

Ticket Prices

Day ticket: 25 Euro (plus pre-sale fees) 

Festival pass (3 Days): 60 Euro (plus pre-sale fees) 

Festival Programme

Thur 10 08 2023 from 8pm – Day 1: Festival Opening
Edwin van der Heide
No Plexus
Downes / Narvesen / Ringa
Carl-Michael von Hausswolff
MoE feat. Mette Rasmussen & Veslemøy Narvesen

Fri 11 08 2023 from 8pm – Day 2:
Joy Guidry
Meat.Karaoke.Quality.Time
Claire Rousay
SUM
1 Above Minus Underground
DÄLEK

Sat 12 08 2023 from 8pm – Day 3:
Jasper Stadhouders
Rousay / Reidy
Thomas Ankersmit
Kassa Overall
Reve Parti

Welcome to a state of emergency: A L’ARME! Vol. X+I is a call to disobedience. A signal indicating it is time to face new challenges and leave our routines behind. In times of upheaval, the festival applies the anarchic character of jazz to other fields and genres. The three days at Radialsystem in Berlin will offer an interdisciplinary variety of protagonists, all taking part in an awakening that is centered not only around music, but also around art and performance.

The bridge from improvisation to noise all the way to hip-hop is an integral aspect of Vol. X+I. And Kassa Overall, celebrated as “one of modern jazz music’s most audacious futurists” by Pitchfork, is a perfect example. At Overall’s first performance in Berlin, he will be joined onstage by Tomoki Sanders, among others, who will be playing a saxophone that they inherited from their father, Pharoah Sanders. An artist who is equally at home in the worlds of jazz and hip-hop, Lukas Koenig, the initiator behind 1 Above Minus Underground, will be performing backed by Elvin Brandhi and Victoria Shen – two luminaries of noise music – as well as the tireless rap innovator Dälek.

Another highlight of the 11th edition will be the premiere of Joy Guidry's “Radical Acceptance”. Guidry’s sound remains impossible to pin down, somewhere between new music, soundscapes and free jazz – and that is precisely the point. Black, queer, and radical, Guidry smashes stereotypes and expectations. According to Süddeutsche Zeitung, the album “Radical Acceptance” is “one of the strongest statements that free music has made recently.”

At A L’ARME! Vol. X+I, these recent developments are also tied to historical breakthroughs. A common thread runs from Carl Michael von Hausswolff’s atonality to Thomas Ankersmit’s homage to the Serge Modular synthesizer all the way to the hyper-pop opera of No Plexus, which dismantles cliches about Generation Y. All strong statements that could stand alone, and yet when they are brought into a polyphonic dialogue at A L’ARME!, they become even more impactful. In this way, Vol. X+I remains true to A L’ARME!’s subversive impetus: to challenge, inspire, and open the audience’s eyes and ears.

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