Brueder Selke
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Biografía
- cello & piano/ electronicBorn in East Berlin, the poly-instrumental composer & curator duo Brueder Selke is considered an insider's tip among music lovers. From Mary Anne Hobbs to like-minded colleagues, there's hardly anyone who hasn't come to appreciate the subtle experimental, yet accessible releases and performances of Sebastian on cello and Daniel on piano. Until now, the two of them have acted hidden under their alias CEEYS to come to terms with their childhood in East Berlin's Plattenbau. With this past behind the Berlin Wall, collaborations have become an essential element in the work of the two, which is why they have been developing their own concert formats since 2017. Their annual hand-picked Q3Ambientfest has found a home in the Filmstadt Potsdam. In fall 2021, the second part of a dilogy with Musikhaus and reworks to their double LP Hausmusik of 2020 was released, gathering well-known and emerging guests and friends such as Simon Goff, Thor Harris, David Allred, Midori Hirano, Arnold Kasar, Hoshiko Yamane, Mara Simpson, Marina Baranova, Pascal Schumacher & Ben Lukas Boysen. The idea of exchange also determined their debut at the Ambient Festival: a reciprocal broadcast shaped an evening with performances by Hauschka, Alvin Lucier's The Ever Present Orchestra, Ausklang and the Brueder Selke. "It’s an extraordinary piece of music. It’s the work of two brothers, Sebastian on cello and Daniel on piano. I saw them premiere tracks from their new album at a gig that I went to in Berlin. This is a project which is written about the buildings that surrounded them in their childhood, growing up on the streets of East Berlin." Mary Anne Hobbs, BBC Radio 6 Music "Hausmusik is an album by the Selke brothers – Sebastian on cello and Daniel on piano. On tracks such as Fallen they create metronomic, Nyman-ish miniatures that sound as if they’ve been plotted on graph paper; tracks like Reunion see them jabber rhythmically, with Sebastian playing pizzicato; elsewhere they explore texture – creaking strings, bashed wood, triple stopping – over minimal one-chord drones with a horror-movie intensity." John Lewis, The Guardian "The intimacy of CEEYS', Brueder Selke music is miraculously placed in the creative hands of a musical and carefully grown circle of friends with the album Musikhaus. As a result, the reworks sound new and multifaceted on the one hand and comfortingly familiar on the other!" Axel Sandig, ByteFM "The music of CEEYS is indefinable as the melodies, the atmosphere and the dream are magically blended together! It is a pure pleasure to listen to." Philippe Baudouin, Radio France (Paris)̸The Grunewald Church Session Concrete Fields Wænde Q3A Hiddensee QP Hausmusik Zero Crossing Musikhaus
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