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The time of health, social and political tensions calls for (in)tense concerts! A well-targeted coincidence brings back to Ljubljana two dangerous axes of the current Russian musical avant-garde. Shortparis and Lucidvox, both with a new album and tour, will meet on our big stage in a conjoining of postpunk, noisy psychedelic subtlety, acoustic chanson, eroticism, revolution and spastic dance tunes.
Shortparis brought the international audience of the MENT Ljubljana festival to its feet in 2018, then packed and blew away our Komuna Hall a year later. Since then, despite unfavourable concert conditions around the world, they’ve consolidated their reputation internationally and established themselves as one of the best, if not the best, live acts from Russia. Their ritual performances, led by charismatic frontman Nikolai Komyagin, have garnered praise in all referential media the long way round from Kamchatka to Kaliningrad, fulfilling the dreams of connoisseurs and listeners who want to hear something startlingly new. Something that, through post-Laibach conceptual musical and semantic provocation, forms a completely unique musical aesthetic, unencumbered by linguistic, cultural or political boundaries. On their return to Šiška, we’re looking forward to a theatrical presentation of the Yablonny Sad album released last year, on which the ruins of pop, left behind by the pandemic, provided the building blocks for the band’s greatest masterpiece – so far.
That same MENT we also met Lucidvox, one of the most influential bands in the thriving Russian DIY scene, proving that psychedelic rock is not just the domain of bearded dudes from the West. The four Muscovite ladies dream up shamanic trips from the beauty of Russian folk music, hypnotic guitars, classical elegance and jazzy rhythms, with sobriety coming in the form of noisy riffs and punk attitude. The band performs regularly in Europe, from Pohoda and Desertfest to England and Budapest, and their Glitterbeat debut We Are, released in 2020, is the exact opposite of the bashful introduction suggested by its title. For many reviewers, it is one of the highlights of that rather dismal year, so it’s fitting that we treat ourselves to it live.
Tickets on sale online and at Eventim outlets.
BON21
Tickets can also be purchased with the BON21 voucher at the Kino Šiška box office from Monday to Friday between 3 and 8 PM or on the day of the event. You can read more about the requirements for using the voucher on the Financial Administration of the Republic of Slovenia website.
Organisation: Kino Šiška.
