Joe Hertenstein's XCountry Bungalow

with Eliad Wagner & Kellen Mills

featuring Dafna Naphtali & Daisy Payero

grafic scores by Benjamin Bacon
 

Cross Country Bungalow

- our house reaches from the SouthWest to the NorthEast, the country's (or the world's) diagonal;

like a headless snake our music has no beginning and no end.

Please consider moving in, there's plenty of room. Or is being alone at home something that scares you?

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booking: joehertenstein@gmx.de

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Moers 2024 concert reviews:

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"Later, on the main stage in the hall, we see the spectacle: Joe Hertenstein's XCountry Bungalow, a creative crossover of electronic music, rock-hard drums with the musical leader of the project Hertenstein and a live performance from a white tent shaped like a rectangular column. The dancer moves violently to the improvised music and is visible as a moving shadow on the tent canvas through a variety of lighting effects. The music comes to a climax at the end when she frees herself from the white tent. An extraordinary display."

- Wouter Schenk  https://writteninmusic.com/

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"And again, the atmosphere in this hall changed drastically with German drummer Joe Hertenstein's project XCountry Bungalow, featuring Dafna Naphtali on live processing and voice, Eliad Wagner on modular synths, bassist Kellen Mills, and performer Daisy Payero locked in the so-called tiny bungalow. This hyper-active, hyper-sonic set delivered what it promised with endless waves of nervous energy that demanded full surrender."

- Eyal Hareuveni  https://www.freejazzblog.org/

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"German drummer Joe Hertenstein’s XCountry Bungalow, which also included Dafna Naphtali’s live processing, Eliad Wagner’s modular synthesizer and Kellen Mills’ bass, came up with some intriguing textures when it played at the same venue later that night.

This was especially true when irregular drum patters or backbeats were contrasted with strident metallic textures from the electronics and strained vocalizing from Naphtali. However the spotlight was literally on American performance artist Daisy Payero. She was the focal point from within a back-lit cloth-walled box in which she gyrated, danced, and emphasized hand motions and other pantomime movements. Her exaggerated or grotesque gestures were so otherworldly and weird as to be fascinating and frightening in equal measure."

- Ken Waxman  https://www.jazzword.com/

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"Joe Hertenstein was recently caught at the Moers Festival with his new project XCountry Bungalow unhinging everything and driving it through the roof of the Festspielhalle together with a shadow box that seemed to be lolling along – an almost overwhelming moment of medial, creative and musical reappraisal or rather transformation of the world – into a different world – this different world is a world of his own, Joe's Otherworld."

- Clemens Verhooven https://verhoovensjazz.net/

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