ÉTER: Ambient Shepherd, Les Halles, Shakali
We warmly invite you to A4 for an ambient music event organised by Richard Hronský, a student of the Department of Photography and New Media, who will also perform there under a pseudonym.
- A4 – Space for Contemporary Culture, Karpatská 2, 811 05 Bratislava
- admission 5/10 €
Annotation
One might mention past lives, intergalactic passages, hallucinations, or clinical death – all of these are certainly key words, yet they still fall short of naming the specific essence: an ancient tapestry with an introduction to the contemplation of an all-species and supra-species character welcomes to Bratislava a trio of well-known ambient weavers.
Shakali
(FIN/CZ) arrives with the freshly released album Toinen Luonto on the Not Not Fun label. Simo Hakalisto, based in Brno, is an archaeologist of playful ambient with a multi-instrumental scope, exploring the limits of unpredictability in human and machine expression. Polyrhythmic elements, fragments of melodic ornaments, repeating structures – all essentially connected to reflections on the natural. He has also released music on the well-known Bratislava/Eastern European label LOM.
Les Halles
(FR), the renowned Strasbourg jeweller of the sense of listening, Baptiste Martin, joins Shakali on their June EU tour, which begins in Bratislava. Baptiste’s work has represented a consistent crossing of the boundaries of suggestive ambient journeys since 2012. His wistful “sample-based” compositions include Pan flutes, ethereal field recordings, and celestial keyboards. Such a fusion is the key to the gateway beyond the so-called limits of time and space.
Ambient Shepherd
(SK), the persistent local enthusiast Richard Hronský, quietly joins the pair of his secretly favourite musicians under a pseudonym. His “Záhorie” songs of a lamenting nature for double fujara, based on shimmering ornamentation and manual wind loops, were collected while running through the hills of the Greek Zagorochoria and the Záhorie Carpathians. He keeps all of them beyond the reach of the internet or reproduction, which makes his live performances authentic situations of dialogue between ears and hearts.