GIANNI DRUID (Serbia)
Gianni Druid is an alchemist on a quixotic mission of erradicating musical taboos in the Balkans. The way the Greeks entered Troy using the Trojan Horse, Gianni enters urban venues and listeners’ ears through socially acceptable genres of krautrock, improv jazz or ambiental, only to subversively insert tons of samples and melodic lines from turbo folk stars and underground Gypsy icons…
Such hybrids sometimes employ only minimal changes, playing intentionally with the burden these sampled songs have in the collective mind; while sometimes the oxymoronic blends are mutated beyond recognition, with added layers of live instruments, chants, screams, grunts and singing in Serbian or Gypsy language…
https://soundcloud.com/giannidruid
THE CYCLIST CONSPIRACY, The (Anti) world orchestra (Serbia)
The Cyclist Conspiracy, The (Anti) world orchestra is the musical output of The Little Brothers dedicated to The Mysteries of The Last Age. Started as the informal project couple of years ago within the Society For The Development Of Alchemical Studies “Vasko Popa”, nowadays it is a musical troupe consisting of 10 male and female souls. The orchestra draws influences from various parts of the world, at the same time trying to avoid superficial, “new age” eclecticism and to direct its creative efforts towards the synthesis of the given elements. Wheter it’s Byzantine Empire or secret nomadic paths of the desert, smokey café crowded with manges and frivolous women or the steppe with the sky for shaman only, psychedelic or turkce rock, Middle or Far East, the journeys the cyclists taking are never the quest for the light of this world. Sometimes they appeared as symbolic quest for Constantinople, heart of the cycling Empire of Byzantium, but they are always the quest for the heart of only true light – Agape.
“. . . If we look at a simplified graphic representation of the bicycle, we can see that the device has an abundance of religious symbols; two wheels, two circles, symbolizing the two faulty infinities (time and space) connected by the true eternity of the Trinity, represented by the triangle of the frame. At the same time, when represented like this, the bicycle has the shape of metaphysical glasses with which it is possible to correct spiritual myopia. But that is not all. If we take a birds-eye perspective (which is the viewpoint of the Holy Ghost), the bicycle has the shape of a cross, where the handlebars are the crossbars of the cross. A man who rides a bicycle is, in fact, crucifying himself.”
(Svetislav Basara, The Cyclist Conspiracy, 214-215)
https://www.facebook.com/TheCyclistConspiracy
https://thecyclistconspiracy-trashmouth.bandcamp.com/album/mashallah-plan-virility-ep
https://soundcloud.com/the-cyclist-conspiracy
https://thecyclistconspiracy.bandcamp.com/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lwZ38A83nY
LENHART TAPES (Serbia)
One guy, 4 walkmans. Goat and sheep dialogues, muslim chanting, loops, e-bow instructions, turbo-folk anthems, language lessons, satanist rituals, heavy metal guitar for beginners…
https://lenhartapes.bandcamp.com/
https://soundcloud.com/lenhart-tapes