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Dance and music: Sven Kacirek’s new music video “Nutcracker/Pas De Deux”

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

Here is another new Sven Kacirek video Nutcracker/Pas De Deux again made and produced by the German video artist Agnieszka Krzeminska. As always I love the visuals which really match well with the soundtrack of the video.

For many years, my friend and music colleague Sven Kacirek has been closely collaborating with the choreographer Antje Pfundtner, whose next modern dance production, The Nutcracker, will premiere at Kampnagel in Hamburg, December 12, 2012.

Antje Pfundtner is one of Kacirek’s favorite modern dance choreographers. Previously he composed music for her two dance pieces “Res(e)t” and Tim Acy and Die Kandidaten.  For this occasion Kacirek  re-recorded and re-arranged Tschaikowsky ‘s composition Pas de Deux. The music is mostly electronic with some analog sounds in it. Very ambient, minimal and repetitive.

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CD review – Sven Kacirek’s twenty first century statement of downsizing profit paradigms and a swelling of sensual experience created in African community art!

Artist: Sven Kacirek
Title: The Kenya Sessions
Label: Pingipung
Cat.#: PINGIPUNG 20
Genre: contemporary roots music

CD review by Anika Lani

 

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Video feature: Sven Kacirek’s (Germany) new video!!

Text by Sohrab Saadat Ladjevardi

A new video by Sven Kacirek! The video for ” Paper Flowers ” (from his recent released album SVEN KACIREC, THE KENYA SESSIONS) with images of the Ali Khamed Orchestra in Kenya and Sven playing at his studio in Hamburg (Germany). Cool video: sound and images match very well!

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Sven’s album is nominated for this years prestigous German “Prize of the German Record Critics’ Award“!!

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