This week’s feature is for a band called Canned Applause from Germany. It started as a 4 member band somewhere between Hamburg and Berlin, but at the moment is a solo project based out of Jena. The ‘einzel’ band member is Wieland Mikolajczyk. He describes canned applause as a journey with a quest for Polyphony and Harmony.
As for the music, what I heard sounds very promising, especially the new track ‘Run Oh My Heart’, which has a strong bass, catchy vibe, easy vocals, great lyrics and a lilting melody:
More songs are available at the band’s soundcloud page or on their website. Additionally, you can follow the band on facebook. All the songs are legitimately downloadable for no extra cost except your time and love. As with all matters of the heart: The possibilities are endless, hic!
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Karan Khurana
Karan Khurana ( Born in 1982, Mumbai, India) makes photos and mixed media artworks. By using popular themes such as pointlessness, old monuments and nightlife, Khurana creates intense personal moments by means of rules and omissions, acceptance and refusal, luring the viewer round and round in circles.
His photos don’t reference recognisable form. The results are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multifaceted. By applying abstraction, he touches various overlapping themes and strategies. Several reoccurring subject matter can be recognised, such as the relation with popular culture and media, working with repetition, provocation and the investigation of the process of expectations.
His works are saturated with obviousness, mental inertia, clichés and bad jokes. They question the coerciveness that is derived from the more profound meaning and the superficial aesthetic appearance of an image. By parodying mass media by exaggerating certain formal aspects inherent to our contemporary society, he makes works that can be seen as self-portraits. Sometimes they appear idiosyncratic and quirky, at other times, they seem typical by-products of consumer-oriented superabundance and marketing.
His works often refer to pop and mass culture. Using written and drawn symbols, a world where light-heartedness rules and where rules are undermined is created.
Karan Khurana currently lives and works in Berlin, Germany!
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