2015-Nov-25 Archívny Chlapec, James Harries, Živé Kvety / SNG Berlinka, Bratislava, SK

As other shows at Slovak National Gallery (and its great venue, Berlinka), this show was special.

It combined the songwriting powers of Slovak, Czech and UK musicians in a very organic way.

And lucky me with Nadja were there to bear witness. Now you can see it too.

First it started with Richard Vávra from Kúty, aka "Archívny chlapec", a very promising musician, who just released his first album album on Slnkorecords, called Zvery (Animals).

He is very humble and has a nice sense of humour


But he's also a haunting and powerful singer




Here he is supportin, James Harries, a songwriter currently residing in Prague:

You can see James Harries style and poetry in this piece of handwriting he left us that night

From 2015-11-25 Archívny chlapec, James Harries

And here is all that he played that night:

From 2015-11-25 Archívny chlapec, James Harries

And finally, here are Živé Kvety, an explosion of songwriting from Bratislava, that should not be a surprise to you here by now.

Here you can find the rest of the photos:

and the setlist

From 2015-11-25 Živé Kvety

2013-03-07 Longital & Stroon at SNG Naživo

Yet another magic night at the Slovak national Gallery from the cycle "SNG Alive", which Longital had already been part of at one of the very first installations in 2011, as it was featured on this very blog:

http://ondrejvosvete.blogspot.sk/2011/05/2011-04-14-magiclongital-at-sng.html

but the vibe last week was very different, see for yourself:

2013-03-07 Longital & Stroon at SNG Naživo (open picasa slideshow with captions;)

For one thing, Longital were not even supposed to be part of the evening, until a friend in their fellow band, Korben Dallas got sick on the day of the show. Fortunately, Dano, Shina, their acoustic set up and a new concert vibraphonist, Dalibor "Stroon" Kocian went in for the rescue. And they did so with an elegance of their own.
The acoustic performance sounded really unique in the newly opened "Berlinka" space - the acoustic guitar, voices, vibraphone and piano resonated together in the arcs on the ceiling, and stayed there like little clouds of tones.
The concert was part of the evening which was dedicated to blood, promoting the "Krv / Blood" exhibition.
It was preceeded by interesting and entertaining lectures on Elizabeth Bathory, the blood countess and blood sucking animals, especially bugs. It was quite an evening!


Here's also the trailer for the exhibition, which is on until March 31, 2013