YAIR KARELIC MUSIC
ELECTRIC KASHMIR
YAIR KARELIC & ARTIOM ORDIYANTS © 2021–2023
[Soundfiles]
Electric Kashmir is a band formed by guitar player and composer Yair Karelic and violinist Artiom Ordiyants. The pieces are instrumental and an exploration of the unique alchemy that is created between two instruments far from each other in sound and tradition. The two musicians common ground is their classical upbringing and their curiosity for all genres. The compositions are many times helped with loops and patterns coming out of the computer and other times are strictly an instrumental musical duo.
We strongly connect and relate to the utopia that the live music performance encompass. The live performance as an uncontaminated place in which self expression and ideas are fully accepted.
Here you will hear the contrast between distorted rock sounds, classical harmonies and orientalisms which comes from our places of origin and musical curiosity.
TAXIDI
OLIVER
SWEET GOODBY
OBJECTS IN SOUND
YAIR KARELIC & GINA MELOSI © 2023
[Soundfiles]
TALKING HEADS
YAIR KARELIC © 2021–2022
[Soundfiles]
Alan Bennett wrote these monologues for the BBC between 1988 and 1998. Evocative of his childhood in a province of England between the 1940s and 1950s, Bennett explains that he soon learned a valuable lesson: life is what happens somewhere else. There is something in these monologues that strikes me as disturbing. It escapes me why what is disturbing is often fascinating. But it is so. It seems to me that Bennett's lucidity is introduced into the human soul in the same way that a laparoscope is inserted into the human body. Bennett looks at his characters as equals. Not out of grief but out of compassion. Not out of judgment but out of empathy. And, the truth is, I like them. The protagonists of these three monologues never tell the full story. They only recount their point of view, possibly unfair to the other characters they are talking about. And they do it from their wisdom, from their madness, from their pain. And, above all, from his unhappiness. Because Bennett’s protagonists are trapped, very trapped. We could say that they are a bit simple, a bit common, a bit old-fashioned and also essentially British. Or, rather, English. Yes. This is true. But we all know that it doesn't matter where we are from or what ideology we have or what education we have received. The human soul is essentially one. A few years ago I told Moses Maicas about Bennett’s monologues and we tried to start the project. With the unfortunate death of Maicas, the project came to a halt. Later, Montse Prat and I decided to start it again and got the complicity of two actresses and directors, Lurdes Barba and Imma Colomer. The idea was to make three monologues and have each lead to another. So, Lourdes would go to Imma, Imma would go to me, and I would go to Lourdes. The TNC really liked the idea and, together with the translator Anna Soler Horta, the artist Julio Vaquero, who has done the set design, and the rest of the team that accompanies us, we are ready to give voice to these speakers .
– Lina Lambert
Contributed by
Author
Alan Bennett
Translation
Anna Soler Horta
Direction
Lurdes Barba, Imma Colomer, Lina Lambert
Performers
CELIA (“The hand of God”)
Imma ColomerSUSAN (“A bed among the lentils”):
Lina Lambert ROSEMARY (“Nights in the gardens of Spain”): Lurdes Barba
Assistant director
Marta Margarit
Lighting design
Dani Gené
Scenography
Julio Vaquero
Musical composition
Yair Karelic
Violin
Artiom Ordiyants
Artistic production design
Montserrat Prat
Executive production (Escenapart)
Judit Ferrer
Producer Escenapart
Promo photos
Gerard Lázaro
Photographs and video show
Pere Elias and Bernat Reynés
I
IIA
IIA / B
III
IIIB
IIIC
TANZSTÜCK OHNE DICH
YAIR KARELIC © 2021–2022
[Soundfiles]
Talking Heads is a series of monologues that Alan Bennett originally wrote for the BBC (the first six episodes aired in 1988, and the next six, ten years later, in 1998). These monologues - performed by leading actors and actresses such as Penelpe Wilton, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, among others - became very popular and moved to radio and theater (the premiere in England took place January 1992 at the Comedy Theater, London).
While the pieces address a variety of issues, there are some recurring themes, such as death, illness, loneliness, and guilt. Fusing comedy and tragedy with diabolical skill, Alan Bennett constructs a mosaic of domestic stories about human fragility in an environment reminiscent of the author’s native Leeds.
Bennett portrays with a very British humor a series of insignificant characters - especially women - who express themselves in a colloquial language full of hilarious popular twists. But between the tone of the words and what is really said through them, there is a gap through which emotion slips and the tragedy of a futureless existence is creepily revealed, which, in order not to deliver. -the vertigo of emptiness and create the illusion of life, they talk non-stop.
The show we propose presents three of the monologues included in Talking Heads, all of them performed by women: "The hand of God", "A Bed Among The Lentils" and "Nigths in the gardens of Spain".
BAR72
ALIENS
DARK ALLEY
DEMONS
IT'S HAPPENING
JJ
WAIT
EXCUSE ME I WAS DREAMING I
SLOW ROOM I
PIRI
OUT OF THESE WALLS
CITY AT DARK
YAIR KARELIC & LAURA LANDERGOTT © 2017–2019
[Soundfiles]
after the stormy "Hunt Like Lions" EP (released November 2017 on 8mm music) City At Dark (ex-RÁN) are now releasing their debut album via their new label home Snowhite Records (Zoot Woman, The Sounds, Oum Shatt). The Berlin-based duo continues their artistic and currently unique pop design.
The duo - consisting of the Viennese artist Laura Landergott (Ja, Panik) and the composer / guitarist Yair Karelic (Mystical Communication Service) from Tel Aviv - along with their playful brilliance and lascivious black-and-white aesthetics constantly captivates the listener. Their unique, musical broadcast consists of a signature sound, including deliberately reduced beat and track arrangements, the numerous atmospheric sound layers, as well as the overflowing guitar virtuosity. Anyone who has experienced the two live, as recently at the Reeperbahn and Fusion Festival, knows about the ensnaring interplay of an unequal yet perfectly harmonizing outfit, who instinctively threaten to lose themselves in the depths of their songs and lyrics with an almost amorous passion. Always at the limit, ready to experiment. They now celebrate their musical vision in ten songs. Here urban pop meets contemporary postpunk, dark wave meets psychedelic rock. The band's debut-album was produced together with Dirk Feistel (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) in Studio X in Berlin.x
“Album of the Month December 2019” – VISIONS
“Das City At Dark Debütalbum ist das Symbol für wahre, aber vor allem atmosphärische Kunst.” – Neølyd
“Berliner Düster-Punk, das klingt zunächst nach einer Drohung und das ist es irgendwie auch ... kann sich dann aber doch wieder bestens sehen und hören lassen.” – Spex.de
“Gelungen!” – Sonic Seducer
“8 Stars” – OX
“Angetrieben von nervösen Post-Punk-Einschlägen entfalten die beiden einen Mix aus Art-Pop und Dark Wave, dem man sich nur schwer entziehen kann.” – ByteFM
“City At Dark ist anders, unerwartet und fesselnd – für alle.” – Art Noir
„Die Arrangements sind leidenschaftlich, reduziert und atmosphärisch, die Lyrics präsent und aussagestark. Eine laszive Schwarzweiß-Ästhetik bringt die passende optische Komponente ins Spiel, die das Künstlergespann City At Dark konzeptionell komplettiert.“ – VOLT
“8.5 Sterne” – Eclipsed
„City At Dark laden mit laszivem Art-Noir-Pop zu düsteren Nächten ein.“ – Kulturnews
“Berlin Duo City At Dark are conjuring shadows from within in their high contrast, smokey, seedy, noir-esque track Trash” – Postpunk.com
„City At Dark vermischen Elemente aus Indie-Pop, Psychedelic-Rock und Elektro-Punk zu ihrem ganz eigenen Cocktail.“ – prettyinnoise.de
TIDAL WAVE
ONE BY ONE
GODDESS
TRASH
FREEWAY
DISASTROUS MISTRESS
WHAT YOU ARE
LUCID DREAMS
SO FAR
BELLY OF THE MOONLIGHT
SHAMBHU
YAIR KARELIC GUITARS FOR SHAMBHU LEROUX 2016
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The Shadow of Your Smile EP was released late 2016, and over the last few months Shambhu and Yair have been exhibiting their new work in small, atmospheric performances around Berlin. I was lucky enough to catch a few of these shows myself.
We talked about her partnership with Yair, and how they came to meet (apparently, they found each other through a Craigslist ad Shambhu had placed). He knew who I was, saw the advert and was like ‘yeahhh!’. We had one rehearsal and I was very surprised at how the music was like… just passing through the body of the guy. And I thought ‘okay, there is something very special here’. He is also channelling, also in a state of meditation when playing. I thought: this is a guy who I can definitely work with and go to where I wanna go with.
With Yair it’s a trip. It’s totally divine. I never thought that it could be possible. Actually I did believe it was possible, and that’s what I’ve been looking for. That kind of relationship. He’s someone who needs to play music every day, otherwise he gets a pain in the ass. Me too, I guess. You know me, I am always more or less depressed, but that’s the way I go through life. Our rehearsals are meditative, and afterwards we feel better.
I’ve worked with many different types of musicians, from ’60s to rockabilly, and Yair is more psychedelic… more where I stand now. It’s the drugs that I do now.
Shambhu’s not the only star in her incredible band. Her guitarist, Yair Karelic, is a guitar porn dream. His licks leave my inner 15 year old crying with air-guitar envy. He’s the perfect match for Shambhu’s soul and pure power. Last year Shambhu and Yair began a new project together, a stripped-down version of their sound using layered, precision guitar work from Yair and Shambhu’s voice front and centre; a more intimate and personal piece than the whisky swagger of the True Love Hearts.Shambhu Leroux, interview for Berlin Loves You ,
By Andrew Cottrill . January 19, 2017
FREHL
GET BACK SATAN
SHADOW OF YOUR SMLE
YOU GONNE MAKE CRY
MYSTICAL COMMUNICATION
MYSTICAL COMMUNICATION SERVICE © 2012–2013
[Soundfiles]
Mystical Communication Service are a Berlin-based music project fronted by the fictional Yanez Di Mompracem, backed by a collection of eccentric and well-travelled bandmates from all corners of the globe. The band is an amalgamation of wayward drifters and modern-day mystics, uniting to play their distinctive style of psychedelic and experimental rock.
Their sound oscillates between intricate blues-driven solos, creating a sense of ancient and emotive storytelling, and rhythmic explorations of unfamiliar yet alluring states of mind. Listening to Mystical Communication Service represents an enchanted excursion into a nomadic world, where the concepts of sanity and self-awareness fade away. The band creates an ethereal soundscape, leaving you adrift in a haze of desire and dream-like apparitions.
Their debut full-length LP – The Marvelous Space Adventures of John Blue follows its fictional protagonist on his own voyage of self-discovery and expanded consciousness. Moments of tender reflection and warmth like the track Silver are balanced with passages of psychedelic disorientation and trepidation such as The Trip. It’s a record that will leave you washed up on the shore of tomorrow with only blurred memories of a truly intense experience.
KAA
THE TRIP
LOST AT SEA
CORO
MISS MILLER
BEEFART
SILVER
ABOUT
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Yair Karelic was born in Israel in 1979.
After graduating in classical guitar and composition from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, he worked as personal assistant to Luca Francesconi. While still in Italy, he transcribed a number of Francesconi's works into their final layout for publication by BMG Music. In addition to band performances with electric guitar throughout Europe, he composed original soundtracks for plays by Sanchís Sinisterra, Xavier Albertí and Juan Diego. Yair's knowledge and experience merge in an exciting and complex way in his songwriting and music productions. He plays in several bands and is currently under contract with his new project, "City At Dark" with the label "Snowhite". "City At Dark" is represented by the Berlin based "DQ Agency".
In 2019 he took over the musical direction of the project "Ecotopia", a live radio play / rock'n'roll concert initiated by the "Center for Literature", together with band colleague Laura Landergott. Inspired by this stage work he came to his current project. Here he composes the music for a monodrama, based on a story he conceived, adapted by Lluïsa Cunillé, who was awarded the Spanish National Literature Prize in 2010. This performance will be directed by Xavier Albertí, the current artistic director of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya.
STUDIO
Paul Robeson STR. 22
10317 Berlin
CONTACT
mail@yairkarelicmusic.com
+49 176 27853279
YAIR KARELIC MUSIC
ELECTRIC KASHMIR
Electric Kashmir is a band formed by guitar player and composer Yair Karelic and violinist Artiom Ordiyants. The pieces are instrumental and an exploration of the unique alchemy that is created between two instruments far from each other in sound and tradition. The two musicians common ground is their classical upbringing and their curiosity for all genres. The compositions are many times helped with loops and patterns coming out of the computer and other times are strictly an instrumental musical duo.
We strongly connect and relate to the utopia that the live music performance encompass. The live performance as an uncontaminated place in which self expression and ideas are fully accepted.
Here you will hear the contrast between distorted rock sounds, classical harmonies and orientalisms which comes from our places of origin and musical curiosity.
TAXIDI
OLIVER
SWEET GOODBY
YAIR KARELIC & ARTIOM ORDIYANTS © 2021–2023
OBJECTS IN SOUND
YAIR KARELIC & GINA MELOSI © 2023
TALKING HEADS
Alan Bennett wrote these monologues for the BBC between 1988 and 1998. Evocative of his childhood in a province of England between the 1940s and 1950s, Bennett explains that he soon learned a valuable lesson: life is what happens somewhere else. There is something in these monologues that strikes me as disturbing. It escapes me why what is disturbing is often fascinating. But it is so. It seems to me that Bennett's lucidity is introduced into the human soul in the same way that a laparoscope is inserted into the human body. Bennett looks at his characters as equals. Not out of grief but out of compassion. Not out of judgment but out of empathy. And, the truth is, I like them. The protagonists of these three monologues never tell the full story. They only recount their point of view, possibly unfair to the other characters they are talking about. And they do it from their wisdom, from their madness, from their pain. And, above all, from his unhappiness. Because Bennett’s protagonists are trapped, very trapped. We could say that they are a bit simple, a bit common, a bit old-fashioned and also essentially British. Or, rather, English. Yes. This is true. But we all know that it doesn't matter where we are from or what ideology we have or what education we have received. The human soul is essentially one. A few years ago I told Moses Maicas about Bennett’s monologues and we tried to start the project. With the unfortunate death of Maicas, the project came to a halt. Later, Montse Prat and I decided to start it again and got the complicity of two actresses and directors, Lurdes Barba and Imma Colomer. The idea was to make three monologues and have each lead to another. So, Lourdes would go to Imma, Imma would go to me, and I would go to Lourdes. The TNC really liked the idea and, together with the translator Anna Soler Horta, the artist Julio Vaquero, who has done the set design, and the rest of the team that accompanies us, we are ready to give voice to these speakers .
– Lina Lambert
I
II A
II A&B
III
III B
III C
YAIR KARELIC © 2021–2022
TANZSTÜCK OHNE DICH
Talking Heads is a series of monologues that Alan Bennett originally wrote for the BBC (the first six episodes aired in 1988, and the next six, ten years later, in 1998). These monologues - performed by leading actors and actresses such as Penelpe Wilton, Eileen Atkins and Maggie Smith, among others - became very popular and moved to radio and theater (the premiere in England took place January 1992 at the Comedy Theater, London).
While the pieces address a variety of issues, there are some recurring themes, such as death, illness, loneliness, and guilt. Fusing comedy and tragedy with diabolical skill, Alan Bennett constructs a mosaic of domestic stories about human fragility in an environment reminiscent of the author’s native Leeds.
Bennett portrays with a very British humor a series of insignificant characters - especially women - who express themselves in a colloquial language full of hilarious popular twists. But between the tone of the words and what is really said through them, there is a gap through which emotion slips and the tragedy of a futureless existence is creepily revealed, which, in order not to deliver. -the vertigo of emptiness and create the illusion of life, they talk non-stop.
The show we propose presents three of the monologues included in Talking Heads, all of them performed by women: "The hand of God", "A Bed Among The Lentils" and "Nigths in the gardens of Spain".
BAR72
ALIENS
DARK ALLEY
DEMONS
IT'S HAPPENING
JJ
WAIT
EXCUSE ME I WAS DREAMING I
SLOW ROOM I
PIRI
OUT OF THESE WALLS
YAIR KARELIC © 2021–2022
CITY AT DARK
after the stormy "Hunt Like Lions" EP (released November 2017 on 8mm music) City At Dark (ex-RÁN) are now releasing their debut album via their new label home Snowhite Records (Zoot Woman, The Sounds, Oum Shatt). The Berlin-based duo continues their artistic and currently unique pop design.
The duo - consisting of the Viennese artist Laura Landergott (Ja, Panik) and the composer / guitarist Yair Karelic (Mystical Communication Service) from Tel Aviv - along with their playful brilliance and lascivious black-and-white aesthetics constantly captivates the listener. Their unique, musical broadcast consists of a signature sound, including deliberately reduced beat and track arrangements, the numerous atmospheric sound layers, as well as the overflowing guitar virtuosity. Anyone who has experienced the two live, as recently at the Reeperbahn and Fusion Festival, knows about the ensnaring interplay of an unequal yet perfectly harmonizing outfit, who instinctively threaten to lose themselves in the depths of their songs and lyrics with an almost amorous passion. Always at the limit, ready to experiment. They now celebrate their musical vision in ten songs. Here urban pop meets contemporary postpunk, dark wave meets psychedelic rock. The band's debut-album was produced together with Dirk Feistel (Black Rebel Motorcycle Club) in Studio X in Berlin.x
TIDAL WAVE
ONE BY ONE
GODDESS
TRASH
FREEWAY
DISASTROUS MISTRESS
WHAT YOU ARE
LUCID DREAMS
SO FAR
BELLY OF THE MOONLIGHT
YAIR KARELIC & LAURA LANDERGOTT © 2017–2019
The Shadow of Your Smile EP was released late 2016, and over the last few months Shambhu and Yair have been exhibiting their new work in small, atmospheric performances around Berlin. I was lucky enough to catch a few of these shows myself.
We talked about her partnership with Yair, and how they came to meet (apparently, they found each other through a Craigslist ad Shambhu had placed). He knew who I was, saw the advert and was like ‘yeahhh!’. We had one rehearsal and I was very surprised at how the music was like… just passing through the body of the guy. And I thought ‘okay, there is something very special here’. He is also channelling, also in a state of meditation when playing. I thought: this is a guy who I can definitely work with and go to where I wanna go with.
With Yair it’s a trip. It’s totally divine. I never thought that it could be possible. Actually I did believe it was possible, and that’s what I’ve been looking for. That kind of relationship. He’s someone who needs to play music every day, otherwise he gets a pain in the ass. Me too, I guess. You know me, I am always more or less depressed, but that’s the way I go through life. Our rehearsals are meditative, and afterwards we feel better.
I’ve worked with many different types of musicians, from ’60s to rockabilly, and Yair is more psychedelic… more where I stand now. It’s the drugs that I do now.
Shambhu’s not the only star in her incredible band. Her guitarist, Yair Karelic, is a guitar porn dream. His licks leave my inner 15 year old crying with air-guitar envy. He’s the perfect match for Shambhu’s soul and pure power. Last year Shambhu and Yair began a new project together, a stripped-down version of their sound using layered, precision guitar work from Yair and Shambhu’s voice front and centre; a more intimate and personal piece than the whisky swagger of the True Love Hearts.Shambhu Leroux, interview for Berlin Loves You ,
By Andrew Cottrill . January 19, 2017
FREHL
GET BACK SATAN
SHADOW OF YOUR SMLE
YOU GONNE MAKE CRY
YAIR KARELIC GUITARS FOR SHAMBHU LEROUX 2016
Mystical Communication Service are a Berlin-based music project fronted by the fictional Yanez Di Mompracem, backed by a collection of eccentric and well-travelled bandmates from all corners of the globe. The band is an amalgamation of wayward drifters and modern-day mystics, uniting to play their distinctive style of psychedelic and experimental rock.
Their sound oscillates between intricate blues-driven solos, creating a sense of ancient and emotive storytelling, and rhythmic explorations of unfamiliar yet alluring states of mind. Listening to Mystical Communication Service represents an enchanted excursion into a nomadic world, where the concepts of sanity and self-awareness fade away. The band creates an ethereal soundscape, leaving you adrift in a haze of desire and dream-like apparitions.
Their debut full-length LP – The Marvelous Space Adventures of John Blue follows its fictional protagonist on his own voyage of self-discovery and expanded consciousness. Moments of tender reflection and warmth like the track Silver are balanced with passages of psychedelic disorientation and trepidation such as The Trip. It’s a record that will leave you washed up on the shore of tomorrow with only blurred memories of a truly intense experience.
KAA
THE TRIP
LOST AT SEA
CORO
MISS MILLER
BEEFART
SILVER
MYSTICAL COMMUNICATION SERVICE © 2012–2013
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Yair Karelic © 2022 – All rights reserved!
Yair Karelic was born in Israel in 1979.
After graduating in classical guitar and composition from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, he worked as personal assistant to Luca Francesconi. While still in Italy, he transcribed a number of Francesconi's works into their final layout for publication by BMG Music. In addition to band performances with electric guitar throughout Europe, he composed original soundtracks for plays by Sanchís Sinisterra, Xavier Albertí and Juan Diego. Yair's knowledge and experience merge in an exciting and complex way in his songwriting and music productions. He plays in several bands and is currently under contract with his new project, "City At Dark" with the label "Snowhite". "City At Dark" is represented by the Berlin based "DQ Agency".
In 2019 he took over the musical direction of the project "Ecotopia", a live radio play / rock'n'roll concert initiated by the "Center for Literature", together with band colleague Laura Landergott. Inspired by this stage work he came to his current project. Here he composes the music for a monodrama, based on a story he conceived, adapted by Lluïsa Cunillé, who was awarded the Spanish National Literature Prize in 2010. This performance will be directed by Xavier Albertí, the current artistic director of the Teatre Nacional de Catalunya.
Paul Robeson Straße 22
10439 Berlin
CONTACT
mail@yairkarelicmusic.com
+49 176 27853279
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