We had the most wonderful photoshoot and practice yesterday with the marvelous people of Detritus! There was a LOT of blush involved, but hey – what could be a better way to start a new project than by stroking each other’s faces gently? STILL IN OUR SHADE, our collaboration with these amazing Baroque musicians and dancer Tero Hytönen is to take place in Helsinki on November 20, 2016, so save the date, Sweethearts!
Pictures by Juha Reunanen.
Filed under Inspiration, News, Still in your shade
Today is our last Film Noir evening at Ravintola Pastis, and what a time we’ve had there this year! This has been a wonderful experience which has included all of our favourite things in life – great music, fabulous food and fantastic people. Once more, with so many feelings! See it on Facebook.
Filed under Is This Casablanca?, Live performances, News
Dear broads and bos, Welcome to Casablanca!
The album release party for Is This Casablanca? is getting close, and the release date is set for 6th of February, 2015. The album will be available as a CD or a digital download from our Bandcamp page and through iTunes, Spotify and Deezer. In Finland the CD can be bought from the few independent record stores still left in Helsinki, starting from the end of February. You can also get it from one of our shows, signed and doodled on by the whole mob. For international orders of the CD, please contact us via e-mail, contact[at]cafedeabejas.com.
Here are a few tracks from the new album for you to savor, Sweethearts. The first one is called Go Gently, a song on the chanson side of things. The second, Zaza, gives a feel for our penchant for all things cabaret. Please enjoy responsibly, and take a look at the photos below to really get in the mood!
The delightful Armi Von Vep.
-Jere
Filed under Is This Casablanca?, Music
As you may know by now, we’re in the middle of making our second album.
As with the first one, we have a crowd funding campaign going on. And! Just a couple of hours ago our goal at Mesenaatti.me was reached (and exceeded)! Thank you, thank you, darlings, for pre-ordering and letting us know, that the album is expected! And thanks to everyone who shared the campaign at Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and even by word of mouth, we could not have done this without you!
So as a very small token of gratitude for the absolutely overwhelming results with the Mesenaatti campaign here are some wallpapers we made of the upcoming album’s artwork. There’s a desktop wallpaper (1920x1080p), and a few different mobile wallpapers (480×800), mainly because iOS7 uses a parallax effect and won’t align wallpapers as intended. So we recommend you use the last of these three images for iPhones with iOS7 installed.
We think we’ll go have a glass of bubbly now!
-Jere & Laura
Desktop background 1920x1080p. ©Café de Abejas 2014
Mobile background 480x800p. ©Café de Abejas 2014
Background for iPhones with iOS7, 480x800p. ©Café de Abejas 2014
Filed under Mesenaatti.me, News
The Finnish flyer for our premiere at Savoy-teatteri in May.
Short and sweet, here’s what: We’re making a show! It’s premiering in May at the Savoy Theater in Helsinki! It’s going to have an entr’acte! It’s called KAMMERKABARETT!
It’s going to be romantic, and funny, and sad, and slightly surreal, and beautiful. We’re getting a trapeze, and veils, and hats and stop-motion videos onstage, and it’s all magical and fun and challenging and serious work. There are some new faces doing new things – like Noora Palotie, our Muse and my long-lost sister (that’s her up there in the hoop), her sweetheart Roy Boswell who’s in charge of technical affairs I understand very little about, his friend Luca Sirviö who designs the lighting, and Vera Schneider who has already measured the entire band for some lovely gowns and vested handsomeness.
We could not be more excited. Me and Jere are constantly at work – bouncing ideas off one another and everyone around us. For my part, I’m starting to worry: Am I going to have any friends at the end of Spring? Everytime I see anyone, all my news are related to the promo video we’re planning to make, the technical difficulties our video art is facing, and how happy I am about my new KAMMERKABARETT family. I thought album making was immersive, but this is a whole new deep.
Anyway, we’re soon posting pictures of our pre-production, everyone in the Helsinki area come and see our premiere at Savoy-teatteri on the 21st of May! You can buy tickets here at Lippupalvelu.
Oh, and by the way: We have been increasingly active on Twitter and Instagram lately (I finally updated my iPhone), go follow us at the links!
Love,
– Laura
Filed under KAMMERKABARETT, Live performances, News
Thank you Berlin! What a great trip full of great people, wonderful audiences and uplifting experiences! We had luck on our side, too, for in spite of the weather forecast predicting a huge thunderstorm for the night of our Amphitheater concert, there was just a light spray of rain. For the first time, we presented the original Dowson poem as an intro for Cynara!, and it felt just great onstage. Now we are burning to make our show even more lush with poems, stories and theatrical elements as well as some new songs. It will be a productive winter.
Time for some Berlin travel tips! For truly great American cocktail classics in suitably austere surroundings, we recommend the Redwood bar. Also, we adored the quirky museum Designpanoptikum – surreales Museum für industrielle Objekte, it’s definitely worth a visit!
We have no words to describe what a pleasure this trip was, but fortunately we have plenty of pictures. Here are some of them, see more on our Facebook! It might be that we’re returning to Berlin sooner than expected, but shhh – it’s still in the making. In the meantime, we’re working hard on the visuals of a music video of a very special song – we try to make it as vivid and rich as possible, so stay tuned!
– Laura & Jere
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