Ethno-electronic pre-party "Empty Hills"

Official pre-party electronic music festival "Empty Hills" in this year's Festival City Zen place, 17 April in the club "Olympics-80." Be Festival City Zen - a unique event for Moscow: rarely on the same stage at the same time you will see so many famous projects at the interface of electronic and ethnic music and even "non-local" origin is. List of participants Samosad arch opens its permanent - for 10 years - Director Alexander Ulaevym - a unique multi-instrumentalist, equally proficient as a wing, and an analog synthesizer. Experiments with sound led her to create her unique style, are increasingly recognized as dub, ethno-electronic designs, captured in the organic in the rough ground of the Russian North. Since 2007 Samosad Bend headlining the electronic unit of the Festival "Empty Hills". At the local music label Sketis 7 albums, the work on the new material. Ole Luke veterans etnopsihodeliki St. Petersburg, in Moscow for the first time carried out after a long break in the new line-up. For more than 15 years of the legendary project in its arsenal - the numerous tours in Europe and performances at festivals such as Sziget, working with the legend of the German kraut-rock scene of Faust (the band released their studio Klangbad four albums). Their music - a subtle blend of electronic beats and live instruments - ethnic tabla and darbuka for bassoon and elektrokontrabasa. It intertwined ethnic motifs - Russian, Tuva, Central Asia, India, South American Indians melody. Atlantida - project of Sergey Zyazina (former drummer Ole Lukkoye) and Alexandra Sokolova (in the past - the founder and voice of "Coast"). Musicians themselves define their style as cyber-folk. The group has a powerful sound, based on Indian melodies in combination with an electronic psychedelic, electric drive and the sound of the various ethnic instruments. Diggadgy - still a rare guest in Moscow stages (sometimes they can Shanti Club, which recently held to be heard a presentation of her new album Soundation), despite being one of the great discoveries of the festival "Empty Hills" in 2008. Much more they could in his homeland and clubs Glavfish Lipetsk and Shanti in Goa where they were residents are heard. Recorded on the material of traditional Indian music band tracks in a variety of genres - from breakbeat and jungle dub and ambient. In addition to the traditional electric and bass guitar and drums, the speeches of the project stopped playing the sarod and sitar. Your track record of working with the group-7RASA (recording the album "Illusion Maya"), performance at the festival, "Survivor" (consisting of the Rhine, which won). "Non-Moscow" origin groups - a fact unintentionally. However, it's hard not its similarity to the City Zen Festival "Empty Hills", whose organizers are remarkable not only favorite artists raw scene, but also introduces students to the best of the new art of the region to meet with you in other circumstances Muscovites not so easy. By the way, the Festival City Zen - respect the official pre-party electronic scene "Hollow Hills" to be this summer, June 10 to 13 c. April 17, "The Olympic Games-80", 19.00.