LATIN RHYTHMS IN KUD

Last week we had an opportunity to party with the band called Cafe Mezclao. The group formed by musicians from different parts of the world, as their name suggests, filled the KUD's hall with warm and sexy Latin American rhythms, warming up the small crowd very fast. Salsa, bachata, cha-cha-cha and even reggaeton made the audience move in excitement. Moving hips, snuggling bodies and even a salsa professional or two gave the evening a real Latin seal. All together was run by the band through short stories, humour and great music. Only thing we could wish for are more people and of course to party until the morning!

 
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FIESTA LATINA WITH CAFE MEZCLAO

Are you ready to get down? Do your feet feel the need to move in the Latino beat? Are you a salsa, bachata, mambo, reggaeton lover? Don't miss the opportunity to dance the night away with Cafe Mezclao in KUD France Prešeren. Cafe Mezclao is a band composed of Cuban, Colombian and Slovenian musicians, playing a hot mix of Latin sounds, from traditional to modern, adding them a bit of their own soul and style. The guys say, they've closed themselves in the kitchen and started cooking, adding different ingridients and flavours, boiling it for a while, until they got the perfect mixture of pure energy and fun. So come join the party and get the taste of Cuba!

   

 Thursday, 17. 5. 2012 KUD FRANCE PREŠEREN 21:00, entrance 5€

GJ REPORT: PASSIONATE AND WILD WORLDLY SAVAGES

Not long ago we had an opportunity to listen to a young and passionate group called Worldly Savages, which made a short stop on their European tour at KUD France Prešeren. In spite of a very small audience that came to the concert, we witnessed an explosion of energy, good mood and expert musicians. The band showed us how they felt about our small numbers from the beginning. They poured all their raw energy, knowledge and creativity into their music, trying to ignite that sparkle in the audience which is so vital for an ending full of applause and repetitions. The mixture of wild punk rhythms and melodic folk music filled, the otherwise almost empty hall, with dancing and singing. The public loved their theatrically coloured concert, full of changing rhythms, dictated by the rhythm section, while the violin and the harmonium accompanied the gogolbordellolike voice of the singer Erik Mut. We would especially like to mention the violin player Ula Donnelly, who spiced up the already very emotional performance with bursts of pure creativity and finished off with a practically destroyed bow. We don't dare to imagine how the evening would finish in a hall full of people. Anyway, against all warnings we did get infected with good mood and our inner beast went home fulfilled!

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GJ REPORT: ELECTRIC NAUSEOUS

 

The first among the Gipsy Jungle's Francetov spring trio was a duet formed for the occasion by a tech-mixed-media artist Marko Batista Sko and a saxophone player Andrej Vernik Vero presenting their project Electric Nauseous. An experimental and a one time only performance in which they showed us their more anarchic and original side, creating an electronic charged atmosphere intertwined with the experimental use of the saxophone. The musicians let their creativity lose with the help of different methods, like the saxophone-formed percussion in the intro, the jazzy follow-up while Marko, among other things, slowly poured sand on the sensors, reminding us of the soft scratching sound of an old vinyl record. In the last theme they created a sort of pyramid like effect, producing simultaneous live recordings of the saxophone, adding them to new recordings, reproducing them again, recording and adding again and so on... The audience was well entertained while enjoying this innovative and different way of pure musical investigation and development!

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WORLDLY SAVAGES (GB) ARE ON THEIR WAY!

A very special kind of savages will take over KUD France Prešeren next Wednesday (25th of April). Worldly Savages (GB) are comig to town and they are bringing their contageous blend of folk-punk energy with ethno music spiciness with them. They describe it as wild music with a strong message: fight boring post-modernity! Who wouldn't agree with that. And what better way to fight it, than with music. The alpha beast of the heard is Erik Mut, a Canadian of German, Slavic and Celtic roots. His songs often criticize today's materialism, and emphasis the desire to bring joy out of the sadness and celebrate life as it is, despite everything. So beware - listening to Worldly Savages can easily lure you into an uncontrolled dancing and attract a permanent smile on your face. Highly contageous!




Wednesday, 25. 4. KUD France Prešeren 21:00, entrance: 5€ pre-sale, 7€ concert day

GIPSY NIGHT - DOUBLE EDITION

The weekend in Maribor will be Gipsy flavoured. Fun begins today at the 11am, when more than 80 Roma musicians from Serbia, Macedonia, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovenia are gonna walk through the streets of European capital of culture and of course play on the way. The party will continue at approximately 20 venues in the evening. On Saturday evening four excellent groups will occupy ŠTUK. Roma rockers Kal (Serbia), Bojan Ristić Brass Band (Serbia), Besh O Drom (Hungary) which combines not only the various Balkan and Oriental music, but also traditional and urban grooves, and group Šukar (Slovenia) will perform. Dance group Balerima will be the ice-breaker on the dancefloor.



Saturday, 14. 4. Štuk, Maribor 21:00 entrance: 8, 10 €

MARKO BATISTA & ANDREJ VERNIK: ELECTRIC NAUSEOUS

The spring brings a trio of concerts you don't wanna miss! Yes, we are talking about Francetov spring trio, which will present three very different, but also very interesting genres of music. Marko Batista Sko and Andrej Vernik Vero will be breaking the ice with their project Electric nauseous. Marko Batista is a tech-mixed-media artist, sound researcher, video experimentalist and AV performer, who focuses on themes such as displaced sound-scapes, video transformation processes, networking data, collaboration, linking concepts, hybrid spaces, politics of art and other fields of contemporary media art. His works have been presented at numerous festivals (Ars Eletronica, International Istanbul Biennial, Viennabiennale...). Andrej Vernik is an excellent tenor saxophone player, also a member of Blue Train Duo, which we heard live in KUD France Prešeren last year. Electric nauseous brings four electro-acoustic compositions, which combine electronically generated soundscapes and experimental use of saxophone resonance spectrum.



Thursday, 12. 4. 2012 KUD France Prešeren 21:00, Free entrance!

BALKAN BEAT BOX IS COMING TO TRIESTE

Balkan Beat Box - old acquaintance of Slovenian audience - is coming to Trieste in mid-April. Get ready for an electrified show with the Balkan and Arab influences. The band will present the material from it's latest edition - album Give. Saxophonist Ori Kaplan described it as "smaller, more introverted" album, while vocalist Tomer Yosef says it's their "most hardcore album ever." What does this mean in practice? More electronic basis, sharper sound and more politically involved texts, inspired by events of the last year, from Arab Spring to Occupy Wall St. and everything in between.



Sunday, 15. 4. Teatro Miela, Trieste 221:30, entrance: 15 €

GUČA NA KRASU WINTER EDITION

It smells like spring, but the nights are still winter cold. That's why Winter edition of Guča na Krasu will raise the temperature on Saturday. The first announced date was blown away by strong wind, but this time the forecast is Balkan rhythms lovers friendly. What to expect? Appearance of Magnifico and Turbolenza and Macedonian brass band Kočani Orkestar. There will also be two tents with DJ sets. One with (not really worth mentioning) turbo folk rhythms. The second on the other hand will ensure much more quality entertainment with the Balkanbeat Trieste Team (DJ Stoner and DJ Cocodub). Zoom, zoom, zoom in Briščiki ;)



Saturday, 3. 3. Briščiki na Krasu 21:00, admission 8€