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Križanke ticket includes concerts:
Saagara, Moving as a Giant, Altın Gün
Križanke
29 May 2025 at 19.30
Pre-sale (until 28 May): EUR 40, EUR 32*
On the day: EUR 45
*Under-25s and over-65s (limited number of tickets)
KRIŽANKEbuy me
Križanke ticket includes concerts:
Saagara, Moving as a Giant, Altın Gün
Carnatic or traditional South Indian repertoires are hardly new to Druga Godba, nor is the coming-together of musicians from that part of the world with some of the best jazz artists and improvisers that Europe has to offer. Cast your mind back, if you’re old enough, to the wonderful performance of that first name of Carnatic sax Kadri Gopalnath and his trio, which featured the legendary Evan Parker and lit up the stage in 2002. But where Parker was an accompanist, Wacław Zimpel is the main player. Hailing from Warsaw and described as a ‘musical chameleon’ by the New York Times, Zimpel works from a hugely varied musical palette, and has recorded and performed with luminaries such as Ken Vandermark, Hamid Drake, Joe McPhee and James Holden. With Holden he embarked on a series of folk-trance projects that sought to develop the vigorous electronic language he had started to create at the beginning of the last decade with the formation of Saagara.
Wacław Zimpel: clarinet, electronics – Giridhar Udupa: ghatam (percussion) – Aggu Baba: khanjira (percussion) – Raja: thavil (percussion) – Mysore N. Karthik: violin
‘Avenues for exploration that touch upon minimalism and drones, focusing on the power of rhythm’ The Quietus
A dozen or so years of collaboration have recently culminated in 3, a superb album that was released last autumn on tak:til, Glitterbeat’s sub-label, and made the Quietus Top 100 for 2024.
The ancient ritual of Carnatic music transports the listener from one state to another, to trance and to dance, and on to the intricate techniques, beats and syntheses that only electronic music can provide. It all unwinds in a cosmic dream state, an inspired and buzzy juxtaposition of rich Indian rhythms and pulsating electronic patterns.
Organisation: Druga Godba in collaboration with Kino Šiška.