TRAVELERT: Krakow Concert and Event Alerts

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As every week Ptasiek invites you to free jam sesion.

Kazimierz, Dajwór 3

Starts 9pm

Stary Port, as Krakow’s oldest (and only) “sailor bar” is a good place most of the year to hear old sailor songs sung by old sailors. In late February, though (for thirty years now!) there is a sailing song (or Shanty) festival. This year it takes place from 22 to 27 February, with concerts in Stary Port itself and also at as other venues.

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.

Tonight at the Manggha center at 21.00 you can see this band and hear their stormy, brooding sound. The band is called the Contemporary Noise Quintet — they are polish but well known beyond this country.

Tricky (from Massive Attack, and of course other things) will be in Kraków on Friday, 5 November. The show starts at 20.00 Tickets are 120 PLN the day of the concert because, yes, Tricky is well-known. The concert will be at Fabryka Club in Podgórze, on ul. Zabłocie number 23. He has been here before — at least once, in 2008. It seems that November is Tricky’s preferred time of the year to visit Kraków.

Sound like a name, but it’s a band performing on Józefa (in Eszeweria) on Thursday evening. French, polish and canadian mixture of temperaments playing as they describe “retro -circus-folk”.

Intensive, introspective music, fast and energetic.

Eszeweria

Józefa St 9

From my source: no admission

Starts: 8pm

Sunday is a last day of Unsound Festival. Closing party this year in Pauza – six hours of various music from making everybody happy Last.fm Dj team mixing indie, post-punk, disco, electro or fusion funky (The Phantom) through heavy – hitting sounds represented by Norwegian producer Melkeveinen.

21:00 Last.fm DJ team

22:30 Zeppy Zep 

22:30 The Phantom

00:00 Beatbully

00:00 Melkeveien

01:30 Jackmaster

01:30 Deadboy

Urbatronika is a series of events dedicated to balkan and tropical sounds put in eclectic urban environment of modern dance music.

Tonight in Fabryka Club Balkatronika - dj’s and producers collective  form Berlin, they play heavy electro rhythms dip in balkan beat and  boundless gypsy energy.

Samples of what they play:

www.myspace.com/balkantronikaproductions
www.soundcloud.com/balkantronika

support: Funklore DeeJay (krk)  www.myspace.com/funkloreregional
wizuale: EleKTro mOOn Vision (krk) www.myspace.com/elektro_moon

Klub Fabryka

Zabłocie 23

Starts: 10 pm

Tickets: 5pl

As every Wednesday Ptasiek invite to Jam Session.

Sometimes quiet and smooth, sometimes crazy and energetic, always satisfying.

Kazimierz, Dajwór 3, check on the map.

Free entrance, starts 9pm

Another initiative  of Alter Art music agency

Three music stages: Main Stage, Coke Stage, Burn Stage and bends like:

The Chemical Brothers, MUSE, 30 Second To Mars, Plastic vs. Pono, N.E.R.D, The Big Pink

Here you can check full program of the Festival

In case you will get tired go to Coke Clinic – recreation tent, where you can take some rest or even receive a massage

Tickets: one day   – 115 pln

two days – 200 pln

First concert starts at 4:30 p.m.

Place: Museum of Aviation- Airport (Muzeum Lonictwa – Lotnisko) and link with info how to get there

If you are in the mood for listening JAZZZZ we can recommend to concerts for today, both related to Summer Jazz Festival at Piwnica pod Baranami

One in Harris Piano Jazz Bar :

PGR & SAGIT Silberman – P.G.R. is a recent project of Grzegorz Rogala, insprated with jewish ortodox musik and  polish folk

S. Silberman – sax
G. Rogala – trombone
Ł. Borowiecki – bass
M.Bryndal – drums

Starts at 9:30 pm, Tickets 20 pln

Rynek Główny 28, check the map

or  Studnitzky Trio of  Herzog Records

in Auditorium of Radio Kraków

al. Słowackiego 22

Starts 7pm , Tickets 40pln regular, 20pln reduced

Tomorrow (10th of August)  in the afternoon hours (from 4 p.m) in the hearth of the city Krakow absolutely for free good music will be played:

The Complainer & The Complainers  – electronic

Czesław Śpiewa – great personality of polish music stage

Iowa Super Soccer – mix of indie rock and acoustic pop

Biff – crazy pop rock songs

Concert organized by city Katowice taking part in a competition for 2016 European Capital of the Culture

Rynek Główny

near City Hall – lonely tower on the western side of the Market

This week will play:

Prawatt and Mirna Ray,  as usual in Naukowa experimental, industrial and noisy.

Kawiarnia Naukowa

św. Jakuba 29-31

31-057 Kraków

Polska

You still didn’t organize yourself for the next week?

Maybe some life music while your clothes getting clean?

There is only one answer: Uda on tour in Frania Cafe on Thursday evening (29.07)

Uda music is something between spy jazz and insane avant-garde rock, less alternative tunes also included.

Why not to make your laundry surrealistic?

Starowiślna 26

Starts at 9 p. m.

No admission

Ramming Speed – “when something goes really freaking fast” thats one of the definitions from Urban Dictionary, as myspace claim they play thrash metal, crossover thrash, grindcore, boston metal

Świniopas -  silesian band from 2006,  mix of styles (hardcore, punk rock, trash metal) leading to classical crossover

Terrordome – polish band established in 2005, as they say they mix oldschool thrash metal with hardcore. They released two albums (2007 – Shit Fuck Kill, 2008 – Split It Out). You can find some similarities with Slayer, Municipal Waste ot Napalm Death

Why not to expirience new noise in…

Kawiarnia Naukowa

on Jakuba St 29-31

starts 7:30 p.m.

tickets: 10 PLN

Can we call their music “noisy?” Yes! Challenging, troubling even! The bundles of neurons which try to make sense of auditory impulses before sending them to your brain will be confused! Try them out for yourself, but grab hold of the desk first to steady yourself.  They’re from the US — Chapel Hill, North Carolina, where they formed in 1990. They carry the flag of the “math rock” people, I am told, but the band themselves dislike this category. They sound so weird you might at first think they’ve mistuned their guitars.

Wrap them around your face or maybe wear them as a hat on Tuesday, 1 May at 20.00 at Forty Kleparz. Ed Wood (the band, not the deceased filmmaker) is opening for them. Admission is 45 PLN, unless you plan ahead.

Yes, despite the name, catch them on Saturday, 21 May at 20.00 at Śródmiejski Ośrodek Kultury (located on Mikołajska street in the old city center, number 2). “The Sunday Sessions” are a local songwriting collective consisting of “seven or so” members from Ireland, South Africa, Poland, Scotland and Germany. After hiding away somewhere for a while to write songs, they have just recently emerged into public to perform music they describe as “folky-acoustic.” They are known to swap instruments and singing duties during their performances. A warm but lively evening is guaranteed. And since they’re a brand new band (but a good one) hurry to catch what will surely be one of their last free shows . . .