Psychic Liberation Night: Horse Lords + Audrey Chen & Nick Klein

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Psychic Liberation (PL) is a label founded in 2013, originally run with Miguel Alvariño under the name Primitive Languages as a cassette and record store project in New York City. Since 2019, Nick Klein has operated it solo from the EU under the title Psychic Liberation. 

The concert series of the same name takes place in the Kuppelhalle with changing guests.


Horse Lords
Horse Lords were founded in Baltimore 2010; they evolved from the experimental collective Teeth Mountain and began as a trio with Sam Haberman (drums), Owen Gardner (guitar) and Max Eilbacher (bass), soon adding alto saxophonist Andrew Bernstein.

Though Horse Lords grew out of the fertile Baltimore noise and leftfield rock scene, their approach is more omnivorous. Across sixteen years of frequent touring, Horse Lords have released ten studio, live, and collaboration albums in addition to a split EP with fellow Baltimoreans Lower Dens. For RVNG’s FRKWYS series, the band collaborated with Berlin-based composer Arnold Dreyblatt.

Since 2021, three of the four members have been living in Germany, which opened up new artistic possibilities – for example at Moers Festival, where, in an expanded lineup, they also performed music by Julius Eastman. The band observes “We are always trying to balance working within the limitations of the quartet and pushing beyond them."

For their second album on RVNG Intl., Demand To Be Taken To Heaven Alive!, the Horse Lords expanded their lineup to include Madison Greenstone (bass clarinet), Weston Olencki (trombone), and vocalists Nina Guo and Evelyn Saylor. The album features twelve new compositions.

The title is a reference to a line in a poem by Russian Futurist writer Vladimir Myakovsky. The band also references Bauhaus weaver Anni Albers, Islamic geometric patterns, the Dutch avant-garde group Maciunas Ensemble, as well as composers and writers Tom Johnson, Henry Flynt, and Catherine Christer Hennix. Musically, their range spans from Roscoe Holcomb and James Brown to the Kuwaiti-Bahraini Sawt, as well as electronic composers like Maryanne Amacher and Jaap Vink.
 

Audrey Chen & Nick Klein
The work of Audrey Chen and Nick Klein is that of catalytic improvisation exercises in sound at its extreme counterpoints, playing with through lines between organic and inorganic sonic material and dynamics. Chen and Klein have performed in various venues such as Amsterdam's OCCII, Berlin's Volksbühne Roter Salon, and Gothenburg's Folkteater. In 2026, the duo are slated for LP releases coming out through United States imprint Enmossed, as well as Sweden's IDEAL Recordings.
 

Wednesday, November 18
Betonhalle
Doors: 7 pm / Start: 8 pm
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