Ilia Rogatchevski catches up with the Polish quartet’s front man to discuss Gdansk’s tumultuous history, the films of Werner Herzog and the importance of boredom to the creative process Trupa Trupa are an art rock band from Gdansk. Fusing elements of post-hardcore, no wave and… Read More
Daile Music House, Riga, LatviaPhoto: Busdriver by Artūrs Pavlovs. Based at the Daile Music House, a repurposed cinema in Riga’s central district, Skaņu Mežs displays a broad approach to curation. Now in its 16th edition the festival’s most accessible programme yet incorporates everything from contemporary… Read More
Kirill Serebrennikov (Director), Hype Film/Kinovista, 126 minsImage: Aleksander Kuznetsov as The Skeptik in Leto (Summer) “The Soviet rock musician must find the light inside of mankind. He must have an active role in society.” So says the director of the Leningrad Rock Club, Anna Aleksandrovna… Read More
Photo: Teo Yoo as Viktor Tsoi and Roma Zver as Mike Naumenko in Leto (Summer) Russian underground chronicler Artemy Troitsky talks to Ilia Rogatchevski about Leto, Kirill Serebrennikov’s new film documenting the 1980s Soviet rock scene. Artemy Troitsky is a Russian music journalist, cultural critic and… Read More
Block 336, London, UKPhoto: Tim Spooner by Dimitri Djuric Bastard Assignments is a collective of composer-performers that includes Timothy Cape, Edward Henderson, Caitlin Rowley and Josh Spear. Consisting of six performances that interrogate the remix and its role on the stage, the evening begins simply… Read More
The Old Church, London, UKPhoto: Luxul by Matteo Favero Dronica is a small-scale experimental music festival that produces around three editions annually. Now in its third year, the festival hosts workshops, installations and live performances in a modest Elizabethan church. Chosen for its intimate size… Read More
Iklectik, London, UK Atsuko Kamura aka Kamura Obscura opens her solo set with pizzicato vocalisations and wind-like sighing. These sounds are quickly looped and layered, becoming rhythmic tracks that guide her compositions. Kamura’s various voices combine to create an indeterminate libretto in which bird song,… Read More
Corsica Studios, London, UKThe dark and cavernous Corsica Studios is a worthwhile setting for a night themed on violence. Hailing from Oslo, the no wave stoner rock trio MoE opens the concert with bursts of angular guitar, irregular war-like rhythms and a low end so… Read More
Disintegration Loops Swedish duo Neutral dig repetition with their reel-to-reel version of blasted psychedelia. Photograph by Erik Gustafsson. In 1843, Søren Kierkegaard published Repetition, an essay on experimental psychology that argued for the importance of recurrent actions and events. The essay opens with the Danish… Read More
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