After 12 years Manuel Göttsching & his band ASHRA are performing in Berlin! Harald Grosskopf,
Steve Baltes and Manuel Göttsching look forward to see you on June 8, 2012 at 8 PM
at the Ufa Fabrik! See the official flyer in German and in English.
More information about locations, ticket reservation etc. in German.
For infos in English check out here.
As Manuel's concert at the transmediale
on February 4, 2012 was completely sold out, don't hesitate and order now! Tickets are available for the price of 20 €, reduced for 16 €.
Ticket infos:
Berlin public can purchase tickets directly in the ufaFabrik and the relevant pre-sale locations.
Nationwide, tickets can be purchased by bank transfer with subsequent post.
International guests can make a reservation by phone or mail, tickets are available at the venue on concert night
(phone: +49-30-755030, e-mail: vorbestellung@ufafabrik.de).
The Madrid concert
After Manuel's great concert at "Festival Electrónica en Abril"
in Madrid on April 12, 2012 where he performed E2-E4 for the 5th time ever, please find some clips filmed by fans:
No. 1 and
No. 2.
You can also see Manuel on Spanish TV as well as in Spanish famous radio programmes:
At Atmósfera - Manuel Göttsching y Filastine - 15/04/12 - on RTVE, Radio 3, starting at 9'48.
And here are some photographs
and an mp3 file.
But there are also great articles:
El Mundo, an interview with MG on the day of the concert,
El Mundo announces the concert on April 10, 2012,
El País writes a one page article about E2-E4 on Sunday, 8th April 2012,
Bigtimers announces the concert, as well as Playground Mag and Rock de Lux.
Red Bull Academy Radio Show presents:
Manuel Göttsching - Fireside Chat
Manuel Göttsching speaks with Alexander Kipke from online magazine Metal Trails. Enjoy!
Christian Wheeldon, an author from the North of England is writing on Manuel’s biography:
It is possible to follow his work in this blogspot, which also includes a lot of interesting news!
Manuel's first solo album Inventions for Electric Guitar (1974) is out, remastered by maestro!
On Sunday, 19th February, 2012 Manuel spoke with Thomas Edlinger from Austrian radio FM4/ORF about how he created this album but also about "E2-E4"
- both titles re-released on Manuel's label MG.ART.
Listen to it on the programme "Im Sumpf". There you also can listen to 3 exclusive excerpts from Manuel's recent concert with Joshua Light Show at this year's transmediale at HKW in Berlin, on February 4, 2012 - Enjoy!
The first ever live concert of this composition for 4 electric guitars took place in September 2010 at the Metamorphose Festival in Japan, with Elliott Sharp, Steve Hillage, Zhong Shouwang and Manuel Göttsching performing. You can watch the track PLURALIS, filmed and emissioned by Japanese Music TV - thank you, Terutado Murao!
E2-E4 30th anniversary CD:
The 30th anniversary edition is finally available all over the world, but also at our shop.
For E2-E4's 30th birthday a very limited DVD-CD-set of the first live concert of E2-E4 ever is also available in our shop. The concert took place for the album's 25th anniversary at Mt. Fuji in Japan.
E2-E4 Live in Japan
was released with a detailed booklet in English & Japanese and with bonus material. Check out the video clip.
In March, 2005, E2-E4
was performed by the renown contemporary Zeitkratzer ensemble and Manuel Göttsching on classic guitar at the Volksbühne Berlin. Check out the video trailer.
The CD is available in our shop. The concert is planned to be released as a DVD-CD set with a nice booklet and bonus material.
- For it's very birthday on December 12, 2011, THE WIRE dedicated the cover story of its December issue to the 30th anniversary of this groundbreaking album. The author Keith Molinč also features Manuel's legendary bands Ash Ra Tempel/Ashra. By the way, how do you like Manuel as a Chess figure?
To read the article please click on the cover.
- Alain Patrick from Brasil interviewes Manuel about E2-E4's for its 30. anniversary in his Electronic Standards.
- And Juan from Barcelona dedicates a block to E2-E4.
- Alexis Waltz congratulates in Süddeutsche Zeitung.
SEVEN UP and Manuel Göttsching in the French daily newspaper Libération
It was Summer '72 when Manuel's band Ash Ra Tempel & Timothy Leary met on a farm in Switzerland to prepare the album Seven Up. Manuel tells about the meeting in the Summer Special of the French daily newspaper Libération.
In 2012, 40 years after the session, a documentary will trace what happened to all the artists with their dreams and hopes....
"Manuel Göttsching - Klassiker", a new music series on Radio Eins dedicated to Manuel's "Classics"
On Manuel’s birthday, September 9, Elektro Beats started a new section where Manuel in person presents his most famous albums. Below the links to each programme from the recent to the first one.
On April 25, 2012 in the 10th part of the series Manuel presented the album Starring Rosi.
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