On June 8-11, the Katowice Culture Zone was filled with the Tauron New Music Festival. This year, over 40 artists from all over Poland and the world performed. The most modern rhythms resounded on five stages. The best thing about it all was that the vagaries of the weather did not stand in the way of great fun, because 4 out of 5 stages had roofs.
During the opening of the festival madness, on Thursday, Max Cooper performed and it was the only concert that took place that day at the seat of the National Polish Radio Orchestra. The Briton is a creator of alternative music, whose audiovisual show captured the hearts of the audience. The electronics in his performance are multidimensional – full of references to techno, ambient, IDM and classical music, but remaining in a dance and psychedelic dimension.
The most crowded day in terms of the number of artists and performances was Saturday, or rather Saturday evening and the whole night until the morning of the next day. This very long and abundant day was inaugurated by the Polish artist Błażej Król, who in 2020 was awarded the Fryderyk and joined the Men’s Play Orchestra. During the performance, he presented songs from his latest album “W każdym (polskim) domu”, including the single “Miałem już nie tańczyć”. In his music, Król is able to combine reflective, sometimes emotionally difficult lyrics with a danceable, psychedelic melody. The only thing the audience complained about during his performance – “Why is such a great Polish star playing so early?”
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Next, two Polish DJ duos Skalpel and Zima Stulecia played simultaneously on different stages. The first to perform were on the Tauron Music Hall stage, presenting their work based on jazz recordings from the 60s and 70s. “We didn’t expect you to want winter in the summer” – these were the words with which the young co-creators of Zima Stulecia announced their performance in a small amphitheater, which rather resembled a football made of LED rods. Their songs are perfectly reflected in the name of their duo, because it is difficult to clearly classify them and, generally speaking, they are melancholic sounds of electronic music.
At 9:00 p.m., one of the headliners began their set, Tangerine Dream, whose albums released on Virgin helped define what became known as the Berlin School of Electronic Music. Each of their performances ends with a live session, a real-time composition that can last from 20 minutes to two hours. At the same time, the outstanding pianist Joep Beving played his concert at the NOSPR. The class he displayed during his performance, which referred to ambient and neoclassical, required listeners to wear elegant evening wear rather than sweatshirts and jeans. But the clothing faux pas did not stop the several-meter-long queue outside the building to see and listen to the Dutch pianist for a moment.
After sunset, performances included Theon Cross, Sudan Archives, EABS meets Jaubi, Avtomat, Romare, Komfortrauschen, Röyksopp live, Hudson Mohawke and Animistic Beliefs.
The closing concerts of the music festival during Tauron Nowa Muzyka took place on Sunday at Jazbar Muchowiec.
Kateryna Shmorgun
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