Klangbuhne Guricht at the Lunar Cabaret and Full Moon Cafe, through February 25
Quite the opposite. Klangbuhne Guricht may look like parodies of German angst-ridden pretension, with their black clothing, disheveled hair, severe expressions, and austere aesthetic. But the group transforms an exhausted form–spoken text alongside free-form jazz–into a cunning, continually surprising sonic adventure. Last weekend they performed the world premiere of That’s What I Feared, based on a story by Jorge Luis Borges. This weekend they’ll conclude with an older work, Different Pieces of Furniture, incorporating three texts by French absurdist Jean Tardieu.
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Klangbuhne Guricht’s appearance at the Lunar Cabaret inaugurates a series of international exchanges between Chicago and Germany. Next month, the Lunar’s O’Reilly and Jenny Magnus will travel to Berlin to perform three original works. In September, several Chicago percussionists will link up with the Middle German Saxophone Quartet, of which Anklam and Born are members, for an appearance at the renowned Hallische Musiktage festival in Berlin. They also plan to perform at the Lunar in the spring of 1997. With the recent demise of the Chicago International Theater Festival, such edgy transatlantic cross-fertilizations are more urgently needed than ever.
