Kraftwerk Re:werk

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Charles Hazlewood, a man with light skin tone wearing a white suit, leaps in the air as he conducts the string section of Paraorchestra on stage at WOMAD festival. Behind the musicians, spotlights and an LED screen cast vivid purple & yellow light across the scene.

About Kraftwerk Re:werk

Kraftwerk Re:werk is a vivid maximalist remix of the pioneering electronic group’s iconic album Trans Europe Express. 

Commissioned by Simple Things Festival where it premiered in 2017, this is not simply Kraftwerk with added orchestral parts – Paraorchestra members and composers Lloyd Coleman and Charlotte Harding draw on an arsenal of symphonic and electronic instrumentation and diverse influences to create a ferocious hybrid, turning the orchestra into a giant synthesizer in which sounds are crushed, filtered and distorted into something entirely new and exhilarating. 

Kraftwerk Re:werk has won plaudits from audiences and critics alike for the way it celebrates the brilliance of Kraftwerk's original whilst simultaneously embodying the same future-facing spirit that courses through Trans Europe Express.

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Number of performers

38 musicians

Upcoming dates

Saturday 29 August - Bristol - Forwards Festival

If you’re interested in booking it for your venue or event then we’d love to talk – get in touch with us.

Previous dates

July 2019 - WOMAD Festival 

November 2018 - Brighton - Brighton Dome 

November 2018 - Bristol - Marble Factory

November 2018 - Basingstoke - The Anvil

October 2017 - Bristol - Bristol Beacon (premiered as part of Simple Things Festival)

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"The arrangements are bold: the melody from Trans-Europe Express rings out of a dizzy whirl of sound, while Autobahn’s smooth pootle is chaotically recast as Mad Max’s morning commute."

the Guardian

Image gallery

  • A large crowd watches Paraorchestra players perform on stage, their figures silhouetted in purple light.
  • The woodwind section of Paraorchestra playing their instruments on stage illuminated in vivid pink light
  • Around two dozen Paraorchestra musicians, all wearing white, perform on a stage illuminated in swirling blue-green light.
  • Approximately twenty Paaorchestra musicians perform to a large audience in a concert hall on a stage illuminated with vivid red spotlights
  • The string section of Paraorchestra, all wearing white, perform as a conductor gestures in front of them on a stage illuminated in purple
  • Charles Hazlewood, a man in his fifties wearing a silver suit, faces the Paraorchestra musicians as he conducts, hands held aloft
  • A female singer with red hair a light skin tone wearing all white stands up straight as she prepares to sing, semi-silhouetted against a large video screen
  • Paraorchestra perform on a large stage illuminated by blue, orange and yellow spotlights. In the foreground the silhouetted heads of a large audience are visible, along with the glowing controls of the sound desk.

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