The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble 2025-08-29 Berlin, Lido (Set1 of the night)

FINALLY! The long awaited reunion show of the beloved Doomjazz - Darkjazz ensemble(s). Sold out Lido, which is a nice old theatre in nothern Kreuzberg, I'd assume we had around 600 people in the audience. When talking to people outside, many travelled quite some distances to see KDE again.

Very attentative audience, beautiful sound, I was just a bit irritated by the surprisingly loud hiss of the airco and the reckless bar staff, rushing glass bottles in and out all the time. Both not really audible on the recording, still not appropiate for a LIVE MUSIC VENUE.

I used a new recorder, the tiny tiny Zoom HR1 XLR and am pleasantly surprised how much easier it is to tape with this device.
Just press record, set the hold- bar (to block the keys), put it in the pocket and all done. 32bit float with automated levelling.
Oh these pleasant modern times :-) combined with the divine dpa4018 this is pure headphone pleasure again!

Setlist FM even has the setlist ready (assumingly by the band themselves), I hope to have tracked correctly.

01 The Nothing Changes
02 Embers
03 Celladoor
04 Sirocco
05 Symmetry of 6's
06 Seneca
07 Pearls for Swine

Second set of the night was The Mount Fuji Doomjazz Corporation. Also recorded, comes up next.

Go and buy their fantastic releases of cool, athmospheric, dark, ambient, noisy jazz, played somewhere in the back of a demolished speakeasy-bar of a junkyard.