TRAVELERT: Krakow Concert and Event Alerts

FORTIFIED is a new cycle of concerts organized by Krakow music collective Loose Wire. it presents the newest independent alternative and experimental rock bands. During every edition new bands will be presented, from Krakow, Europe and around the world.

Loose Wire Presents:

Father Issues (PL) – folk music
Peter J. Birch (PL) – songwriter and singer
New Century Classics (US/IT/UK/PL) – international post-rock group
Teddy Jr. (NL/UK/PL) – amazing folk/grunge/balkan mix
Eluktrick (US/PL) – eclectic, energetic, electric

F O R T I F I E D
V o l u m e 1

October 7, 2011
Forty Kleparz (check on the map how to get there)
ul. Kamienna 2-4, Kraków
Start: 20:00
FREE Entrance!!!!

A bit late because it’s the last day of the Festival but you still have a chance to get the ticekts and enjoy:

Steve Reich

Aphex Twin

Adrian Utley (Portishead)

Will Gregory (Goldfrapp)

Leszek Mozdżer

Envee

Pianohooligan

Full programme and more info you can find here

Tickets:

ZONE 1 (flat, standing):
99 PLN – regular ticket
66 PLN – discount ticket

ZONE 2 (grandstand, numbered seats):
149 PLN – regular ticket
99 PLN – discount ticket

Where? Nowa Huta, Hala ocynkowni Arcelor Mittal

Starts 9pm.

Highly talented Edwin Moes from Holland will perform in Cafe Szafe 14 of July, starts from 7 pm (probably 7:30- 8pm).

Good folk/pop/country mix, nice place, good atmosphere, no tickets and cold beer. What else do you need Thursday evening? (Maybe dinner at Travellers before;)

Cafe Szafe

ul. Felicjanek 10

Teddy Jr  myspace page

Blood Brothers are from Iceland. If this makes you think you know what their music must sound like, then probably you are mostly correct.

Their first record was called “Glacial Landscapes, Religion, Oppression and Alcohol.” I think that is pretty representative. It was produced by Valgeir Sigurösson who has also produced for Björk and Bonnie Prince Billie. This should also give you some idea of what kind of music to expect.

There are six of them. You can watch them tonight (Wednesday, 2 February) at Kraków’s Klub Re starting at 20.00 for a mere measely 35 PLN. That’s nothing, people! The music will warm you up and give you something to cry into your pillow about when you wake up freezing alone in your bed at 2 in the morning.

It’s not warm enough at your place?

You can increase your blood pressure by going to Cuban feast in Kawiarnia Naukowa on Saturday evening.

Cuban movies, photos, music, food, drinks and light!

Starts at 8pm

Free entrance

Kawiarnia Naukowa

Have already started with a Saturday concert in Kino Kijów – “The Dark Side” from Hitchcock’s “Psycho” conducted by icelander Daniel Bjarnason. Never before Unsound Festival had so many video and film artists. Main theme of this year edition is “HORROR- pleasure of fear and unease”.

Check their full program here.

Pink Freud is one of the most original voices in modern jazz and not only. Energetic, spontanius, improvized music.

On Wednsday (13th of October)  they will performe in Rozrywki Trzy new opened club on Mikołajska street, this place suppose to be a new Beautiful Dog (Piekny Pies).

Skład:
Wojtek Mazolewski – bass
Adam Baron – trąbka
Tomek Duda – saxofon
Jerzy Rogiewicz – perkusja

Tickets: 25pln

Starts: 8pm

Rozrywki Trzy

Mikołajska 3

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

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

5-10th May

>>Concert, Student’s festiwal; Alternative Music on Juwenalia

The hedonous end of the semester drunkfest that is Juwenalia for many years has been incredibly predictable.  The same pop stars, same bands, the same, the same hangovers with just the student population changing slightly from year to year.  Well… things have changed a bit.  From last year the people that bring you the Niepokorni series in Zaczek have developed an alternative program for those of you out there looking for something different, perhaps strange, maybe even new during the Juwe festivities.  Juwe-Niepokorni 2009 will feature Dick 4 Dick, Pustki, New Century Classics, and Please the Trees.  For anyone in the know about alternative music scene, this is a suptuos meal of alternative bands spanning all kinds of genres, nationalities and styles.  Dick 4 Dick will bring the crazy electro pageantry; Pustki will bring the elaborately delicate and beautifully raw indie rock; NCC will unload a boatload of orchestral and intricate post-rock; Please the Trees comes straight out of the Czech forest and rocks the alt country and modern rock.  Newcomers Pchełki and The Recycling Center will also be featured and show the crowd what the next generation thinks about Alternative music.  So if you’re gonna drink beer out of a plastic cup for 5 days why night do it at the most interesting and inovative concert of Juwe 2009.

Where: Open Stage at Klub Żaczek ; Al. 3 Maja 5

30 apr (thur)

>>Simeon Lenoir World Trans System, concert, start:20:00
World Trans System has been founded in 2006 by Simeon Lenoir, Casey Crosby and Kris Bodzon in Krakow Polska. This international band began to play in the clubs of the cultural capital of Poland who is actually one of the most creative laboratory in Europe.WTS answered to the wish of its artist to be a progressive and creative band, working mostly around the univers of improvisation.Its members use to travel and to live in large eventail of country and culture.This background makes the sound of WTS and its unique colour in music. Mixing world folk influences, rock sound and trance atmospheries, World Trans System is one of the most progressive, creative and underground band actually on the music scene. A way to the future….. (from their myspace)
where: Eszeweria, Józefa St (Krzazimierz)

9th May,

>>Concert; Jazzanova

German DJ’s and Producers playing acid jazz, soul & broken beat. Sounds alright yeah? You better believe it!  These cats have been packing dance floors like nobody’s business for the last decade and have created a trademark style that many DJ’s the world over try and imitate. Hot beats. Frequent Jazzanova collaborator Clara Hill will also perform in Pauza and will handily fill the roll of acid Jazz Diva for the night. Supporting will be joined by up and coming british b-boy Ben Westbeech. Ben has been dabbling in modern Hip Hop and soul despite being a classically trained celloist. The whole concert will be VJ’ed by local lighting jedi – Temporary Space Design. These ambience gurus are certain to set the right chilled out but bumpin soul vibe.  So come down to Pauza and dig some deep cuts. Jazzanova – Nova Jazza.

Where: Pauza; Floriańska 18 (basement) start: 22.00

3rd May

>>Concert; The Hilliard Ensemble and Jan Garbarek

Anyone remember the Gregorian Chant craze that swept the world in the mid 1990′s…. yeah… that was weird.  Despite being a bit archaic and absurdly abstract, some of the chants and chanters that released albums were actually um quite fantastic (in a hypnotic meditative kind of way).  One of the best albums recorded during the medieval musical opportunism was Officium (ECM 1993) by British medieval vocal quartet The Hilliard Ensemble and Norwegian jazz saxophonist Jan Garbarek.  Even though the mix sounds potentially catastrophic the album turned out to be the legendary Jazz label’s most successful album in their history and turned the unlikely collaboration into a global sensation.  They toured extensively on the success and in 1999 recorded a follow up album and then Garbarek returned to his packed schedule as a premier Jazz sideman, bandleader, and new age music guru… and the Hilliard men… well.. kept getting medieval.  Now, 16 years after their breakthrough album Garbarek and the Ensemble are once again joining forces and touring the globe. They are presenting a mix of new material and hits (can you call a chant a hit?) from their two studio albums.

So, if it’s been far too long since you got your Gregorian Chant fix… grab the scented candles, a frock and get to the church on time!

Where: OO. Augustian Church;  ul. Augustiańska 7

22nd May

>>Concert; Appollo 440

Bring in the big beat electronica and watch the kids go mental… Legendary Liverpudlian Collecitve Apollo 440 (aka @440) are making their way to Studio Klub this may and they want you to know about it.  Since 1990 these lads have been making hits, remixes, film soundtracks, advertising jingles, video game cuts and even Liverpool F.C’s Official 2006 FA Cup song!  The founding members are brothers Trevor Gray and Howard Gray with fellow Liverpudlians NOKO and James Gardner.  The core group has stayed mostly the same and but they have had a steady flow of musical collaborators for their studio projects as well as their live shows.  Some of the group’s most notable remixes have been for the likes The group has scored dozens of commercial and club hits including „Ain’t talkin bout the Dub”, „Stop the Rock”, and ”Krupa”.  Some of their remixes (under the shield of Stealth Sonic Orchestra) have been for the likes of U2, Puff’a Daddy i Jimmie’go Page’a oraz Ennio Morricone… So yeah… these lads know how to twist some buttons you can say.  They are now touring in front of their forthcoming fifth album… But don’t you worry, they’ll be pumping plenty of their trademark big beat dancefloor anthems to knock the socks off your feet and make you jump out of your seat…

Where:  Klub Studio;  Budryka 4; start: 20.00 tickets  89/100 PLN

30th OCt (thru)

>>Nazzar(krk), concert, 19:00
Nazzar plays traditionally ‘klezmer’ music in their own arrangements with elements of Jewish, Balkan and Galician music. While reaching back to klezmer origins, they try to join traditional forms with spontaneous improvisation.
where:Musem Galicja, Dajwór St. 18 (Kazimierz), 40 zł

2 Oct (thur)

>>De Press, concert, start: 20:30
De Press is Polish-Norwegian group funded in 1980 by Andrzej Dziubek (in Norway known as Andrej Nebb), Jørn Kristensen and Ole Snortheim.Band joins punk rock with folk music of polish highlanders in Tatra Mountains. Their debut longplay Block to block afer years was called the best rock album published in Norway.
were: Club Piękny Pies, Sławkowska St. 6a (in a courtyard)

1 Oct (wed)

>>Sloan/Tokar/Trzaska/Hollander Quartet, concert, start:20:00
Howard Lee Sloan (USA) – piano
Mark Tokar (UKR) – bass
Mikołaj Trzaska (PL) – saxophones
Rick Hollander (USA) – drums
Lee Sloan – a pianist who steadfastly refuses to be labeled, boxed, categorized or pigeon-holed, Lee Sloan’s playing reflects an astonishing diversity of influences and a command of styles that flow in a virtual torrent of ideas and emotional intensity.
Mark Tokar graduated from Lviv Polytechnic University. Upon graduation he attended classical guitar classes at S.Lyudkevych Music College.
At the same time he starts to play double bass. During 2002-2004 he repeatedly participated in Krakow jazz workshops, directed by M. Parkinson (USA).
Mikołaj Trzaska – a composer, saxophone and bass clarinet player. Born in 1960 in Gdansk. He had begun study on Art Academy, but the fascination by jazz, especially John Coltrane and Ornette Coleman in 60s, made him quit Academy. He totally gives himself to jazz music from now on. Trzaska is a co-founder of a band called Miłość, one of the column of yass scene, leader of Łoskot. He has cooperated with Lester Bowie, Peter Brotzmann, Jochn Tchicai, Tomasz Stańko, Noel Akchote and Joe Giardullo; an author of dozens of records
Rick Hollander, born November 16, 1956 in Detroit, Michigan began studying the drums at the age of nine. He studied privately with Gene Stewart and Roy Brooks and later attended Oakland Community College for courses in music theory, piano and composition.
Hollander moved to New York City in 1979 and Europe in 1987./ after www.alchemia.com.pl/
where: Alchemia Club, corner of Estery St. andPlac Nowy, entrance:30/25

21 sep (sun)

>>Locksmith Isidore, concert, start:20:00
Two members of the group are already well known to Polish fans. Jason Stein, bass clarinet virtuoso, performed in Poland with Ken Vandermark’s Bridge 61; Jason Roebke with Fred Lonberg-Holm, Mike Reed and Jeb Bishop. Mike Pride, as the only one, had never been to Poland before but the jazz lovers had already a chance to listen to him with Tony Malaby and William Parker on the record called Scrambler. Locksmith Isidore’s debut (A Calculus Of Loss, Clean Feed label) still receives enthusiastic reviews in trade press. /after:www.alchemia.com.pl/
where: Alchemia Club, corner of Estery St and Plac Nowy (Kazimierz), entrance:20/25 zl