Amek Collective Showcase in Protos Orofos, Thessaloniki

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Vague Voices

Evitceles

18/02 Protos Orofos

Thessaloniki, Greece

Photos by Nikola Kostov

 

Comfort Club #4

Comfort Club #4 is out today featuring archival interviews with Hiro Kone, Crosspolar, Demetrio Cecchitelli, Marie LeBlanc Flanagan, savmart, and exclusive conversations with Deni Omeragić, and the team behind Black Metal Rainbows. 

The zine also features guest pieces by Abby Lee Tee, Svetoslav Todorov - Author Page, Emilian Gatsov - Elbi and a photo essay by Niels Geybels who also did the cover photography. As always designed by Georgi Sharov. 

Limited to 104 copies.

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Amek Collective Showcase at Protos Orofos, Thessaloniki

We're going South for the first of hopefully many Amek Collective 15th anniversary showcases. On Feb 18 LATE, Vague Voices & @Evitceles are playing in Thessaloniki, Greece. Thanks to Protos Orofos for having us.

RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/563774722332513/

a-m_e|k p_97 NADJA (CAN), Uochi Toki (IT), Feedbacker & mother spit at Mixtape 5, B-Side on 03/09

Five years after their last show in Sofia Canadian drone gaze duo Nadja return to Sofia during their European tour with Uochi Toki. Sofia noise rock cult Feedbacker opens the show alongside noise ambient duo mother spit. See you there, we don't turn 15 every year. 

RSVP: https://facebook.com/events/2054925454701539

Poster by Nikola Kostov.

шумна неделя #13 Alex Zhang Hungtai w/ Rønja and Flying Person & Shentov, Simitchiev, Lukanov

Lending the шумна неделя event series to dear friends Alarma Punk Jazz & Indioteque for a very special Sunday evening on March 5. Alex Zhang Hungtai is returning to Sofia with support from our very own drone trio Shentov, Simitchiev, Lukanov plus a collab set by Rønja and Flying Person. Score a ticket here.

RSVP here: https://facebook.com/events/854484015668918

a-m_e|k p_96 Vestimir Markov (solo debut) & Dayin (album release) at Koncept Space 23.01

We're done hibernating. On January 23 start the year-long celebrations of our 15th anniversary with a Monday ambient show featuring a debut live by Vestimir Markow, a former metalhead gone full-on solo guitar and synths, and an extended set by Dayin, a punk gone harsh ambient, dropping his third full-length album. It's a free donation show. Bring your friends.

RSVP here: https://facebook.com/events/570264621622766/

amek066 Petkov/Borzeszkowski "Lachrymorph" CS

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To create their first collaborative full-length “Lachrymorph”, guitarist Petar Petkov and drummer Bartosz Borzeszkowski embarked on a journey to the Unknown – both physically and creatively. Having successfully collaborated in the studio (check out “Scape I", released in "Vanishing Standards II"), the artists felt the need to dig deeper into their mutual audial explorations, which curiously enough stem from their quite different musical backgrounds with Petkov coming from the world of classical guitar and Borzeszkowski - from the field of jazz. 

 In “Lachrymorph”, Petkov and Borzeszkowski don’t hold preliminary discussions to lead the music the desired way, they do not map their explorations but rely on intuition. Creating in a small cottage in the deep forests of Cassubia, Poland, they seem to have not only opened their own worlds to one another's contributions, but have left the door wide open for all that lurked around to further nuance and deepen their sound. Scattered across the pieces are field recordings, captured during the duo’s walks in the surrounding areas, that further flesh out the world surrounding Petkov and Borzeszkowski's creative process. 

“Lachrymorph” is a varied listen, more of a collection of musical snapshots than a narrative-driven experience. Some tracks (“I”, “IV”, “VII”) are deep and captivating soundscape works that make you lose a sense of the actual instruments that went into their creation. Others(“V” and “VI”) are more straightforward and act as a sort of wake-up call, not letting you disintegrate entirely in the hazy musical territories of the record. Most of the music, however, inhabits the intriguing zone between these two polarities, neither direct nor surreal, like glimpses from one world to another.

Music by Petar Petkov and Bartosz Borzeszkowski
Recorded and mixed by Bartosz Borzeszkowski
Mastered by Michał Jan Ciesielski
Design and artwork by Kamil Frąckiewicz (@szklanymózg)

Photos by Petar Petkov

a-m_e|k p_95 Шумна неделя #12: Shentov, Simitchiev, Lukanov; Bogdan Simeonov, savmart at Koncept Space

 

RSVP here: https://facebook.com/events/826147388623730/

Dayin, Musical Statues, krallar live at Fabrika Avtonomia (gallery)

 

Dayin

Musical Statues

krāllār

Photos above by Silvana Ilieva.

Dayin

Musical Statues

krāllār

Photos above by Zlatina Tochkova.

Dayin

Musical Statues

krāllār

Photos above by Ivan Shentov & Silvana Ilieva.

Fabrika Avtonomia, Sofia

08/11/2022