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Barbara Kalaschnikoff/Lakalash

1977, New York.

Based in Madrid, Spain.

I studied Psychology, Sound Engineering & Recording Arts, and also Business Administration. Got interested in the  20th century’s Music and Literature and it’s relationship  with pure sound and emotion.

Thus getting inspired by Edgar Varese  (Poeme  Electronique),  John  Cage  (experimental music and its  creation  process),  Djuna  Barnes  (decadence), Brian Eno (ambient), Alva Noto (audio‐visual  art) and Edna st Vincent Millay (poetry).

Started off by emulation books and texts thus creating soundscapes (e.g. 'Djuna', 'Love Letter') using computer generated elements and addin my own voice as a character in these soundscapes.

In the collaborations based in the exploration of Presence vs Abscence ('Au Bord de Mer', 'Live1M'), I started using sound in a symbolic way as indicator of a body or a void, then went on to add pieces of discarded recordings and investigating on th ethereal presence of recording errors.

Biographical soundscapes based on the process of death, love and loneliness (e.g. 'Carmen'), trivial daily life moments (e.g. The Bystanders, where i compose around field recordings.

Some of the mentioned pieces have been exposed in Tate Britain: 'Victim Showcase' 2004 (London); Musac: 'Constelaciones, Carmela García' 2007 (León); Círculo de Bellas Artes: 4-hour weekly radio show 'Opium Sessions' 2003-2008 (Madrid). 

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbara Lalakash, or simply Lakalash (NYC, 1977).  This Spaniard with Russian origins has experimented with ambient, broken beat, drum & bass, glitch as well as grooves and house music with soulful vocals. Her compositions have been heard in the Tate Modern in London, in the spanish Musac museum, in the London Film Festival, and also the London Fashion Week. In addition she has shared booth with a wide range of underground mould-breaking artists ranging from Luke Abbott, Simbad, Dj Lord (Public Enemy), Teebee, Matthias Heilbronn, A Sides, etc. While her dj gigs are there to flirt with more stable rhythms and dancefloor institutions, her main love as well as her background is in experimenting with different kind of sounds and rhythms; a quest to find music not heard yet and apply it to the night. The soundtrack of Barbara Kalaschnikoff, has been heard in London, NYC, Paris, Berlin, Lisbon and Madrid, among other places.  Welcome to “The Mixes”.

Her forte is subtleness.  A biography that has sponged up folk music, jazz and soul from a large geographical span, and then applied it to the School of Minimalism, which she discovered while becoming a Sound Engineer. Fashion Week catwalks and after-parties in London, Paris and Madrid; also, a 4 year-long radio show in Madrid became an open vessel to her musical and emotional world. Welcome to “The Opium Sessions”.

Barbara is getting into production. Isolated as well as collaborating with artists for soundscaping is a way for her to paint the landscapes of one’s interior and staring at the museum-visitor in the face with an ever-evolving sonic integrity. There’s also some piss-taking in it all.   Welcome to “The Edits”.

To envision a whole life of subtleties, of love, darkness, violence, delicate as the world we live in has become Barbara’s challenge in sound.  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Barbara Kalaschnikoff aka Lakalash nació en Nueva York bien nutrida de sus raíces rusas desde el inicio. Comenzó a pinchar allá por el ’98, en el Este de Londres (the end, fabric, cargo,93 feet east, vibe, herbal, plastic people, 333, etc), llevando su musica a berlín, parís, nueva york, lisboa y bogotá. Su carrera de ingeniería de sonido en Madrid la ha llevado a exponer obra en el museo Musac de León, el Art Basel y diseñar sonido para cortometrajes presentados en el London Film Festival, así como crear ambientes musicales para pasarelas de moda en lugares como el Tate Modern de Londres. 

En su selección musical encontraremos sensualidad, alma y profundidad que conducirán a la pista de baile hacia terrenos refinados repletos de baile y soul. Lakalash se maneja con soltura tanto en los ritmos negros que se alimentan de jazz y contundencia como en el house y minimal más envolvente o los ásperos latigazos de drum´n bass.

No en vano ha compartido residencias y aventuras musicales con gente como Simbad (Raw Fusion/Brownswood) con el que hace ya muchos años creó en Londres la todavía activa sesión "Je Ne Sais Quoi" en el mítico Vibe Bar de Brick Lane. Ha participado en interFACE junto con Electriclane (Fabric), una de las primeras radios por internet del Reino Unido, y también ha sido corresponsable de Dialsoul, emisora pionera en recuperar la mejor y más actual música negra para el dial de Madrid. También ha colaborado pinchando en noches del colectivo Dark Archives (dj muerto, pitch, focus y oscar mulero) y de Border Community (luke abbot) en éstos últimos años.

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