A concludere l'edizione di quest'anno dell'incredibile International Summer Festival di Amburgo (Germania) - proprio alla vigilia di lavori di demolizione e ristrutturazione della storica sede del Kampnagel che si annunciano lunghi e impegnativi - è stata domenica scorsa un'applauditissima rilettura integrale del celebre quarto album dei Faust, offerta da una versione del gruppo diversa da simili occasioni anche recenti: c'erano stavolta Jean-Hervé Péron con la figlia Jeanne-Marie Varain, Amaury Cambuzat, Pierre Chevalier, Johannes Huth, Julia Brüssel, Bart Maris e Chris Cutler. Ve n'è qualche traccia sul web, mista a indicazioni su come partecipare all'asta per acquisire qualche reperto significativo e simbolico - tra arredi, strutture, foto, allestimenti site-specific e mille altre testimonianze ci sono cose di Pina Bausch e Joseph Beuys, per esempio - prima dell'arrivo delle ruspe.

The International Summer Festival Hamburg takes place for three weeks each August at Kampnagel and selected places in the city of Hamburg. Since its beginning in the mid 80s, the festival has held a position as one of the big European festivals, presenting theatre, dance, visual arts, performance, music and theory from all over the world. András Siebold has been Artistic Director of the festival since 2013, whose programme focuses on the entanglement of pop culture and avantgarde and the interdisciplinary expansion of genre boundaries. Invited artists stand out due to their interest and engagement in the present and radical aesthetic approaches. An essential feature of the festival is the high proportion of world premieres and co-productions, which are realized within a worldwide network of partners. In recent years, the International Summer Festival Kampnagel has become a globally acclaimed platform for the latest productions of contemporary dance pieces. Internationally renowned groups and artists develop works at Kampnagel that represent the future of contemporary dance and subsequently appear on major stages around the world. Each year the festival invites or produces about 50 different works that attract up to 50.000 visitors from Hamburg and abroad.

https://www.facebook.com/kampnagel
https://kampnagel.de/en/summerfestival

Warrick Sony, ovvero Kalahari Surfers, affida a Bandcamp - in seconda battuta, avendo riscontrato qualche problema con l'abituale piattaforma di pubblicazioni - uno dei suoi manufatti audio più recenti, Substack Issue #1, realizzato grazie all'ubiquo software di artificiosa intelligenza Suno in modo tale da evidenziarne incidentalmente le altissime (e pericolose) potenzialità trasformativo-manipolatorie: Roasted Baby Vegetables e Upright Position, due duetti casalinghi con il figlio - e la moglie di là al telefono a dettare una ricetta - che incuriosiscono e un po' impensieriscono.

https://kalaharisurfer.bandcamp.com/substack-issue-1

Qualche difficoltà a reperire gli album di Bing Selfish c'è sempre stata, anche prima di Brexit e ora di PPWR: alcune copie su supporto fisico tuttavia si possono trovare ancora, in particolare di The Art Of Selfishness (2004) e Last of the Bohemians (2007), offerte in questi giorni tramite Bandcamp.

To level a charge of Bitterness against Bing Selfish would be essentially to miss the life affirming point of the man's work, so filled is it with love and unadulterated joy. It would also be asking for a stream of bile to be directed against one of such a strength as to require an unexpectedly long stay at a Belgian sanatorium. So let's not go there. After bumping into Brian Wilson in a self-help bookshop, Bing was lifted from a trough of despond to new heights of Selfishness. Pondering the state of the Artist in this Overweight Society, Bing opened the Door to the Future in an almost Psycho-Cyberkinetic kind of way and now everyone can freely share in the Art of Selfishness. 

https://bingselfish.bandcamp.com/the-art-of-selfishness

Grizzled, desperate and hoarse from decades of abuse, but with his shirts still washed and ironed, Bing is back with a dubiously legal version of his legendary MTV 'unplugged' debacle. Confounding the critics who said his sybaritic lifestyle would see him under the ground by the age of 35, Bing manages here to get through 12 new songs that make Huysman's Des Esseintes look like a brickie. The iniquities of modern life are not shirked, weary good advice is given, obscure topics are pointlessly aired as if they mattered. A national treasure (and therefore resident in Spain) Bing just won't give up. 

https://bingselfish.bandcamp.com/last-of-the-bohemians