TRAVELERT: Krakow Concert and Event Alerts

“Little is known,” writes a site dedicated to reviewing Japanese music, “about the mysterious trio that goes by the name of Mouse on the Keys.”

Here’s what we know:

• They have a cool minimal poster up around town
• Their music might be “experimental,” “hardocore,” “hip-hop,” and “somewhere between jazz and post-rock”
• Like so many bands in our modern day they have a MySpace page where you can listen to some of their music and see if your computer has a Japanese character set installed
• They are playing at Kraków’s Klub Re on March 8 at 20.00

See Isaiah “Ikey” Owens from The Mars Volta playing with Free Moral Agents on the 2nd of March at Klub Re in Krakow! You can read Spin’s short review of their record here, or check out a sample of their music here on YouTube or their MySpace page. 

The concert is 35 PLN in advance or 45 PLN at the door.

Doors open at 20.00.

No no no no . . . George Dorn won’t be screaming, but the band which is called “George Dorn Screams” will be performing.  Just to be clear.  Here’s what we know so far:  they’re built partly on guitars.  They bill themselves as a “band for late evening.”  They’re “post-rock” and they’re Polish.  The might be the forerunners of something called Serpentine Rock.  Their first record was called Snow Lovers Are Dancing.  This upcoming show is on Sunday, 22 November.  They’re at Klub Re (located at St. Krzyża Street #4) which is a place that usually attracts pretty good bands.  And the concert starts at 20.00.

11 Oct

>>Contemporary Noise Sextet, start at 20:00
The sextet was used to known as  Contemporary Noise Quintet. The band plays jazz, in this incarnation more open and space-full, more improvised than before. The band (as sextet) recorded recently the album “Unaffected Thought Flow” and will be promoting it during this show.

http://www.myspace.com/cnquintet

where: Klub re, Św. Krzyża St. 4 (old town)

7th Nov (Fri)

>>High Places and partly parallely Paramount Styles
High Places start at 19:30
High Places is band formed in 2006 in New York by Rob Baker and Mary Pearson. their music combines simply, catchy melodies with electronic, multilayer musical background
http://www.myspace.com/hellohighplaces
Paramount Styles start at 21
After a run of revered albums in the 1990s with Girls Against Boys, singer/guitarist Scott McCloud will released his first solo album under the name Paramount Styles. The album is called Failure American Style. McCloud got help on the Paramount Styles record from GVSB/Bellini drummer Alexis Fleisig, Psychedelic Furs’ (and now Guns N’ Roses’) guitarist Richard Fortus, singer Angela McCluskey, cellist Marlan Barry, and composer/pianist Paul Cantelon. The concert is part of the Paramount Styles European tour.
http://www.myspace.com/paramountstylesnyc
where: Klub Re, Sw. Krzyża St. 4 (old town area)

25th Nov

DEATH SENTENCE: PANDA! is Paul Costuros, Chris Dixon and Kim West – a trio of San Franciscan noise deliquents, featuring members of Crack: We Are Rock, T.I.T.S, Murder Murder and Total Shutdown.

They add a cartoonish sense of drama to the trad Bay Area post-punk sound, using nothing more than a flute, a pitchshifted clarinet, a drum kit and a whole lotta hollering. Their music draws heavily on traditional Chinese and Korean folk music, ragtime, New Orleans-style marching bands and good ol’ hardcore punk.
www.myspace.com/deathsentencepanda
where: klub Re, Św. Krzyża St. 4,  start at 20:00, tickets: 15 z

17th April,

>Concert at Club RE 2 bands will perform

Cheer-Accident – from Chicago US – the reviews say the this is a quality music itself, unfortunately not appreciated as it should be. Trying to finds some words to describe their music it might sound like: indie-prog-rock or distorted pop, but this description is not full, you have to check it yourself.
Cheer-Accident at MySpace

Houdini - they come from somewhere around Szczecin, Poland. Again it’s not easy to describe the genre it might be something between blues, country, indie, noise rock and free jazz.
Houdini at MySpace

Where: Klub RE, ul. Św. Krzyża 4, start 20:00, tickets 20-15PLN