The experimental dream pop band from England, Northwest, will hold a concert on February 21 at the Cultural Center LAB in Novi Sad. Supporting will be the art-rock project Al Berkowitz (London) and the local ambient lo-fi duo Drimkraft and Ivan Čkonjević.
The program starts at 21:00. The price of the ticket is 200 dinars.
Northwest is currently considered one of the most promising art projects in the independent music scene. Their sound is defined as “nostalgic, new, experimental, sinematical, ethereal” and compared with the works of giants such as Portishead, Cocteau Twins, Debussy and Robert Wyatt.
Northwest was created at the end of 2015 when the multi-instrumentalist, composer and producer Ignacio Simón and visual artist and composer Mariuca García-Lomas moved from Spain to the United Kingdom. He spent this first couple of years on the new ground traveling through England and Scotland. Inspired by these journeys, they started working on their first album, written and recorded in less than a year, in isolation in a village near London. They paid media attention to their first singles (“Reflection”, “Wind” and “Look At Me”) that they recorded in their home studio and independently announced in early 2016, with minimal promotion. All three compositions are accompanied by effective and mysterious videos that are the author’s work of the singer Mariuce.
Northwest have been able to create an original and different atmosphere with their creativity: a unique blend of experimental jazz rhythms, mysterious and magical vocals, classical music, delicate production and nostalgic texts. Their forthcoming debut album, to be released in 2018, is one of the most anticipated albums in an independent music and art scene. The best proof of this fact are the two recently released singles, the beautiful compositions “Same Old Sky” and “Sun” which along with accompanying symetrical video presentations perfectly announce the sound and aesthetics of the first official Northwest plate.
http://thisisnorthwest.com/
https://www.facebook.com/thisisnorthwest/
https://thisisnorthwest.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/thisisnorthwest
Al Berkowitz is an art rock project led by composer and producer Ignacio Simón (Northwest). The composition was established in 2006 in Madrid and in addition to Ignacio, the full set includes Lorenzo Palomares (drum) and Santiago Estrada (bass guitar). So far they have released two studio albums, “Barely Nice” (2009) and “A Long Hereafter / Nothing Beyond” (2013), releases that won great reviews, especially in Spain, Austria and the UK. At the concert in Novi Sad Ignacio Simón will perform solo and perform several Al Berkowitz tracks on the acoustic guitar.
http://alberkowitz.com/
https://www.facebook.com/alberkowitz/
https://alberkowitzband.bandcamp.com/
“Drimkraft” is the lo-fi project of Igor Devic (one of the founders of the alternative composition of Hton). The essence of the concept is to print dream magazines and snorkelings through music. The central setting of this minimalist opus permeates night peripheral vision, slow pulsating hypnosis, and ambient electronics. At the end of 2017, the Drimkraft project is merging with an amateur artist and multi-instrumentalist Ivan Čkonjević, with whom he publishes the current issue of “Moonlighting”, as well as several self-initiated rescores for mostly forgotten silent films from the beginning of the last century. Drimkraft and Ivan Čkonjević are part of the unusual alternative label “Etiketa 4”, which promotes musicians through physical-virtual editions, postcard formats, on the back of which is the QR code for download link singles, EPs or albums.
https://soundcloud.com/etiketa4/drimkraft-i-ivan-chkoevi-mesecharee
https://soundcloud.com/dreamcraft-2
https://drimkraft.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/ivan-ckonjevic
https://ivanckonjevic.bandcamp.com/