about
antenne Yo records is an independent music label or music organisa:on from Essen / Germany, founded by
violinist and composer Yoshino 107 aka Joachim Schaefer.
The aim is to release ‘abgefahrenes Zeug / wicked stuff’ - new music from the fields of world music, jazz,
ambient music and new wave.
The label's principle and hearTelt mission is to track down undiscovered ar:sts from different world and sound
spaces in order to accompany and support them from the composi:on to the finished sound carrier (digital &
analogue).
The focus is always on a kind of sensi:ve and musical contras:ng of different sound spaces or musical styles, so
that new music can ul:mately emerge.
releases
Artist: Yoshino107
Titel: DIALOGUES
Catalogue No.: aYo 101
Release date: 03. May 2024 (CD & Tape) & 16. May 2025 (Vinyl)
In February 2024, Yoshino107 recorded his composi:ons for violin solo in the incredibly good-sounding rooms
of Essen's Erlöserkirche - solo and with guests:
Stephanie Bosch (Bansouri), Azad Çiçek (Baglama), ESTE (Banjo & Electronics), Simon Cama2a (Percussion).
DIALOGUES is available on CD, limited Vinyl and limited (50 copies) and hand-numbered casse2e.
Yoshino107 about his music:
I play self-composed music with my violin, which is rooted in the Bach tradi:on, but moves in structures similar
to those of minimal music (Steve Reich) and is inspired by the Swiss Zen Jazz musician Nik Bärtsch and the
Düsseldorf neo-classicist Hauschka. I want to give a music that, beyond free jazz and free improvisa:on, always
seeks a form, is beau:ful in sound, medita:ve and evolves in dialogue with the audience and itself. The
audience should feel comfortable and par:cipate in the music and the process.
Prof. Dr. Jens Schröter about DIALOGUES:
Yoshino107 doesn't just play the violin. And he doesn't just play with his guests. He also uses the looper as a
musical instrument. Small sound atoms are recorded, repeated and modified live in the process of playing. This
leads to unpredictable feedback from Yoshino107 with himself - and with his guests. The result is a dense
mosaic of repe::on and difference, a texture of con:nuous modula:on in which the melodies are woven. The
music between the music - with this beau:ful term Yoshino107 has aptly described his sound prac:ce. The
surfaces of the looped passages are very carefully sampled, in ever new a2empts. You are hypno:cally drawn
into the meshwork.
Artist: Yoshino107
Titel: DIALOGUES
Catalogue No.: aYo 101
Release date: 03. May 2024 (CD & Tape) & 16. May 2025 (Vinyl)
In February 2024, Yoshino107 recorded his composi:ons for violin solo in the incredibly good-sounding rooms
of Essen's Erlöserkirche - solo and with guests:
Stephanie Bosch (Bansouri), Azad Çiçek (Baglama), ESTE (Banjo & Electronics), Simon Cama2a (Percussion).
DIALOGUES is available on CD, limited Vinyl and limited (50 copies) and hand-numbered casse2e.
Yoshino107 about his music:
I play self-composed music with my violin, which is rooted in the Bach tradi:on, but moves in structures similar
to those of minimal music (Steve Reich) and is inspired by the Swiss Zen Jazz musician Nik Bärtsch and the
Düsseldorf neo-classicist Hauschka. I want to give a music that, beyond free jazz and free improvisa:on, always
seeks a form, is beau:ful in sound, medita:ve and evolves in dialogue with the audience and itself. The
audience should feel comfortable and par:cipate in the music and the process.
Prof. Dr. Jens Schröter about DIALOGUES:
Yoshino107 doesn't just play the violin. And he doesn't just play with his guests. He also uses the looper as a
musical instrument. Small sound atoms are recorded, repeated and modified live in the process of playing. This
leads to unpredictable feedback from Yoshino107 with himself - and with his guests. The result is a dense
mosaic of repe::on and difference, a texture of con:nuous modula:on in which the melodies are woven. The
music between the music - with this beau:ful term Yoshino107 has aptly described his sound prac:ce. The
surfaces of the looped passages are very carefully sampled, in ever new a2empts. You are hypno:cally drawn
into the meshwork.
Artist: Yoshino107
Titel: DIALOGUES
Catalogue No.: aYo 101
Release date: 03. May 2024 (CD & Tape) & 16. May 2025 (Vinyl)
In February 2024, Yoshino107 recorded his composi:ons for violin solo in the incredibly good-sounding rooms
of Essen's Erlöserkirche - solo and with guests:
Stephanie Bosch (Bansouri), Azad Çiçek (Baglama), ESTE (Banjo & Electronics), Simon Cama2a (Percussion).
DIALOGUES is available on CD, limited Vinyl and limited (50 copies) and hand-numbered casse2e.
Yoshino107 about his music:
I play self-composed music with my violin, which is rooted in the Bach tradi:on, but moves in structures similar
to those of minimal music (Steve Reich) and is inspired by the Swiss Zen Jazz musician Nik Bärtsch and the
Düsseldorf neo-classicist Hauschka. I want to give a music that, beyond free jazz and free improvisa:on, always
seeks a form, is beau:ful in sound, medita:ve and evolves in dialogue with the audience and itself. The
audience should feel comfortable and par:cipate in the music and the process.
Prof. Dr. Jens Schröter about DIALOGUES:
Yoshino107 doesn't just play the violin. And he doesn't just play with his guests. He also uses the looper as a
musical instrument. Small sound atoms are recorded, repeated and modified live in the process of playing. This
leads to unpredictable feedback from Yoshino107 with himself - and with his guests. The result is a dense
mosaic of repe::on and difference, a texture of con:nuous modula:on in which the melodies are woven. The
music between the music - with this beau:ful term Yoshino107 has aptly described his sound prac:ce. The
surfaces of the looped passages are very carefully sampled, in ever new a2empts. You are hypno:cally drawn
into the meshwork.
artists & concepts
AK AKASH
ESSEN: 21.06.2025 / Fête de la Musique / Vinyl-Lounge / 18h
AK AKASH is the classical singer Abdul Khalid from Bangladesh. He started singing when he was in religion school. In November 2014 his classical vocal educa:on began in the class of Obydullah Tarek. Later he changed over to Indira Gandhi Cultural Centre (IGCC) and learned there Hindustani Classical Music from Guruji Srii Santosh Kumar Mishra & Guruma Sree Swagata Mukherjee. He moved to Germany in autumn 2024 to build a life and a musical career. He met violinist and composer Yoshino 107 on plaTorm 10 at Duisburg Central Sta:on at the beginning of 2025 and they quickly began making music together and wri:ng their own songs. AK AKASH sings Muslim, tradi:onal and own songs in Bengali and Hindi. In the composi:ons and arrangements that he creates together with Yoshino, his refreshingly life-affirming and some:mes enraptured singing moves between the tradi:ons of Bangladesh and the New Wave-like sound and song structures of Western Europe.
Yoshino 107
ESSEN: 21.06.2025 / Fête de la Musique / Vinyl-Lounge / 15h
WEIMAR: 07.06.2025 / Künstlergarten / 11h
Yoshino107 is the Essen-based violinist and composer Joachim Schaefer. In the 80s, he drummed on a cheap
drum kit in the punk band SACCHARINE SMILE. When the drums broke down, he played violin, accordion and
the remains of the junk drums in the folk-punk band MARILYN’S ARMY in the 90s.
Auer studying violin at the Hochschule für Musik & Tanz Köln (1991 - 1996), he produced and released
electronic Dance Music (LORENZO, GUSH COLLECTIVE) on the Dortmund label Drau Recordings between 1998
and 2006. He toured Europe as a DJ and performer of club music (WMF Berlin, Atomic Café Munich, Rex Club
Paris). In 2004 he founded the band FESTLAND with Thomas Geier, in which he plays violin and sings. With
FESTLAND he travelled the world and played at the invita:on of the Goethe Ins:tutes in Paris, Kazakhstan and
Kyrgyzstan, among others. Since autumn 2021, Yoshino107 has been composing pieces for solo violin.