naked in the zoo
naked in the zoo
Genres: noise, experimental, noise rock
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About naked in the zoo
naked in the zoo are experimental noise duo Teresa Riemann and Ruben Tenenbaum. Teresa Riemann and Ruben Tenenbaum met first at a festival in Copenhagen in 2015. In 2016 they were paired for a joint improvised set by the curators of the „multimars“ Festival in Marseille. Sparks flew, a band was formed, consisting of two musicians that manage to sound like four. Their debut was a self titled live CD on PIS records. “I am a duo person” admits Teresa Riemann, who has played in various constellations on the Berlin experimental/noise turf. Among other tasks, she has replaced Asja Skrinik (now PΞB) as a vocalist in Balg. Solo, she has mostly performed as a pianist/keyboardist/vocalist until she began to make her energetic solo performances on drums and vocals a priority in 2021. She has since then honed her skills at her cubist trademark style of drumming and simultaneously making up songs. This instinctive tendency to instant composing went into her ongoing musical relationship with French violinist Ruben Tenenbaum who was, until then, mostly immersed in classical Turkish music - which is to say that sudden changes in time signature don’t scare him. He is now active between composed and improvised, classical Turkish and contemporary experimental worlds, with bands like Kemik Trio (with Vincent Posty and Anıl Eraslan), White trash Kabuki, Ottoman doom trio Ezel as well as ensembles such as Taş Plak Kumpnyası, Mehtap, Zografi, and Tevazu. With Naked in the Zoo, Ruben unleashes the beast that is slumbering in his instrument, entering zones that only few fellow fiddlers have explored. Billy Bang, Leroy Jenkins, and King Crimson’s David Cross come to mind. His vocal contributions form the occasional response to Teresa’s calls, which, along with the pouncing beats and the string textures add up to the illusion of a weirdly familiar, yet unheard form of unhinged, freely floating rock concert.
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