Druga godba at CD

Back to the roots of urban music for a brighter future

The 35th Druga Godba festival will feature 16 concerts by artists from 11 countries and four continents across seven venues in Slovenia’s two largest towns. We will be joined by fast- rising London soul-Afrobeat collective Kokoroko, a group of Ukrainian purveyors of pagan rhythms with Slavic soul called DakhaBrakha, a gender-challenging artist from the heart of Brazil in Liniker e os Caramelows, the eclectic, cataclysmic rock virtuoso guitarist YonatanGat backed by the sounds of the American indigenous tradition, the new-old urban rhythms of South Africa’s Soweto with BCUC, and many others.

Druga Godba at Cankar Centre 

Wednesday 22 May / Cankar Centre 

17:00: Štih Hall: Shane Latimer Solo (Ireland)
Man or machine? It’s probably both if we’re talking about Shane Latimer, one of the most important figures in contemporary Irish experimental music. Aside from curating improvisational and experimental music across the Irish capital and at the famed Bottlenote festival, Shane plays, composes and improvises on the six-, seven- and eight-string guitar. His most recent work occupies that fertile space between nature and technology, using software and electronic processing to harvest the shimmering sounds of his guitar.
Shane Latimer, guitar, synthesiser

20:30: Klub CD: Maciej Obara Quartet (Poland)
Maciej Obara and Dominik Wania were part of Tomasz Stańko’s legendary quartet for a long time, and assumed the leading role in Polish jazz after Stańko’s death. The man himself described Maciej Obara as ‘a great musician whose music is strong, mature, deep and full of charm and beauty’. Maciej has, in the past, got two of the world’s best drummers, Nasheet Waits and Gard Nilssen, to play live with him, so he was definitely wide of the mark when he named his new album Unloved. It’s his first for the ECM label and has been met with huge acclaim, so this promises to be a Druga Godba jazz concert for the ages. 
Maciej Obara, alto sax; Dominik Wania, piano; Max Mucha, double bass; Michał Miśkiewicz, drums

22:00: Klub CD: The Brother Moves On ft. Bowrain ( South Africa/Slovenia)

TBMO are a South African performing arts, music and spoken word collective whose inspirations range from rock, Xhosa funk, dub metal and hyper-rhythmic psychedelic rock, to astro-, Afro- and free jazz. They were joined at last year’s festival, and at the very last minute, by Slovenian pianist Bowrain – and it was such a hit, they then went on to collaborate in the studio. Come and find out what they’ve been up to since you last saw them.
Siyabonga Mthembu, vocals; Zelizwe Mthembu, guitar, vocals; Ayanda Zaleklie, bass, vocals; Simphiwe Tshabala, drums, vocals; Tine Grgurevič (Bowrain), piano, keyboards

Daily ticket: EUR 15, 10*
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Thursday 23 May / Cankar Centre
 

Štih Hall: iT: Another Crying Game (Slovenia) 
Crying Games is perhaps Irena Tomažin Zagoričnik’s most recognisable piece and one she last presented at Druga Godba in 2012, where it met with a rapturous response. Another Crying Game, performed under the ‘iT’ moniker, continues and extends that earlier project, playing the music off against fragments of text and song lyrics, and interweaving voice, melody, monologue, dialogue, recordings, and loops that are cancelled by noise or refined in isolation. Another world premiere for this year’s festival.
Irena Tomažin Zagoričnik, vocals, loops

Tickets: EUR 22, 18*
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Festival pass: EUR 46