2010: Kai Fagaschinski

Top ten records of 2010:
TRIPTYKON - eparistera daimones, IRON MAIDEN - the final frontier, ALVA NOTO & BLIXA BARGELD - mimikry, DARKTHRONE - circle the weagons, LIZ ALLBEE - theseus vs., 1349 - demonoir, OVERKILL - ironbound, CHRIS ABRAHAMS - play scar, SODOM - in war and pieces, and JOANNA NEWSOM - have one on me.

Remarkable concerts I‘ve seen in 2010: OVERKILL @ SO36, Berlin (February), premiere of SVEN-ÅKE JOHANSSON‘s cardboard box symphony for an orchestra of 22 players @ Echtzeitmusiktage, Berlin (September), and KREATOR/EXODUS/DEATH ANGEL/SUICIDAL ANGELS @ Postbahnhof, Berlin (Dezember).

2010 highlights of my own shit: Luckily there happened quite a bit with my very favourite THE INTERNATIONAL NOTHING: 10th anniversary, release of our 2nd album Less Action, Less Excitement, Less Everything, two new compositions done and two hands full of concerts have been played. REBECCA did an extremely sharp reunion show after a five-years-hiatus at ausland, Berlin. The SPLITTER ORCHESTER - a Berlin-based, improvising 24-piece-band - rehearsed like crazy and did a quite impressive premiere show at the end of November in Berlin. Me and Burkhard Stangl could play a couple of shows performing our Sehnsuchts-Suite and it's always a pleasure to meet up with him.

best wishes,
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