Last bands for After Robustfest vol.III

Hey Everybody!

Less than a month left before the festival.

And we Remind you that pre-order for the tickets will lasts till 15th of September.

So you have 3 days to safe some money for falafel/beer/merch/whatever you want.

If you buy festival+afterparty ticket you will get a special package that includes :

- Robust pin or magnet

- Robust Sticker

- Tokens for a free beer on the After Robust Party

- Map with information: how to get to the "Secret Cave"

-info Book

Follow this link to pre-order festival or festival+afterparty ticket :

http://www.concert.ua/eventpage/robustfest_vol_III 

Please welcome last bands for the Afterpary :

TURNAROUND

Poster by xNinja (Kiev, UA)

Turnaround is a Heavy Blues-Rock/Progressive Rock trio from Kiev, UA

At the head of the Kyiv trio, performing heavy blues-rock with a strong influence of early British progressive, is the irrepressible Max Tovstyj, a permanent member of many bands (Crawls) whose material recorded live at his studio, Broken Bricks. Being a native tradition of the "golden" age hippies, Turnaround reflect the musical eclecticism that glorious time: next to the typical blues standard may attend a 10-minute art-rock suite, and tricked arrangements compensated rock and roll feeling. After the release of their debut album and EP Turnaround is now ready to begin recording their second full-length, promising to go deep into the progressive jungle.

http://vk.com/turnaround_band

http://vk.com/brokenbricks 

 http://turnaround-band.com/

http://brokenbricks-records.com/ 

DROP SUM

Poster by Mila "Hopeless" (Moscow, RU)

Drop Sum is Taras Yakobchuk (Kiev, Ukraine). Yes, that’s right – from air. Microphone noise, room air static and manipulations with its properties led to the creation of a tiny program, that extracts harmonics from ambience noise. Furthermore, these harmonics are used to build the chords in pure intonation. Skipping technical details, let’s just say that the process of creating such music is generally identical to the listening process. John Cage clearly demonstrated that any noise can be music if it has a listener. Therefore, music is just a matter of a starting point in your system of values.

If you’re looking for the right place to play this music, it is likely that it will be the majestic dome of a giant telescope, or the pavilion of the mission control center on a space station from the future. Distinctly futuristic landscape, with smooth architectural forms in bright colors. Idyllic picture of a bright future, with no place for imperfection. 

(Text by http://piedpaper.blogspot.com)

http://vk.com/dropsum

http://dropsum.bandcamp.com/

Riot Season news & Mainliner UK tour

GUNSLINGERS 

'Massacre-Rock Deviant Inquisitors' (LP)

release info:

If you really ever fancied getting some true menacing power juice wherein nothing is to gaze at with hygienico-aseptic envy, it should be then heavily recommended that you experiment these Deviationist french 'garçons', supreme Heads Extraordinaires of San Pedro Ville and whose futuristic morality & vision led to the founding of the mysterious outfit GUNSLINGERS ** MASSACRE-ROCK DEVIANT INQUISITORS. Nobody's ever really known about what has to be considered as the accurate band name—are both groups of words switchable or only one ?

Such sharp connection between the terms would indeed almost make us define the band as being such as to require battling with the fluids of naming mayhem by use of avant-garde non-sense with relentless precision. Hey Slingers, come here a minute! make your way forward to have us now explore further into the insanity orbit of yours

Freakin' weirdos, this 3rd sonic missive (following 'No More Invention' & 'Manifesto Zero') is a frantic outburst of unsubmissive tonal hallucination that reaches to the Parapet of acid proto-psych'punk and fully generatorized under the cunted mark of 'alchemical free-form' ; such immediate perilous activator of the jubilant excitation underlying the phantasmatic primitive mind. Its dynamics is infernal, shiny & oily, sudden & impulsive, serpentine & excavated, opaque white & translucent crimson combined within an aboriginal fire's luminescence.

GR's 6-string visionary electric monster is an insurgent bottomless creature whose arousing & provoking distorted deployment shoots at everything that DOESN'T move or doesn't get right into the accidental flow's subtlety ; then vertiginous riffage & master anti-riffage (laden with urgent electrifying fuzz-wha) merge savagely into one another : the kind of shamanic rapture that gets you triply high as Matthieu Canaguier's Thunderbass & Antoine Hadjioannou's Prophetic Beats expand massively into a psychotic fierce drive all the way, spreading pulsating emanations like scorching comets, and meeting in ethereal pathways with GR's venomous disenchanted-&-no-less-magnetizing voice which pours down arguments like swirls of traumatized sputum. In one word, these Slingers serve you another authentically twisted self-confessed disaster, a 2-part fearsome exploration that will, once again, make your eyes bleed.

http://riotseason.bigcartel.com/product/gunslingers-massacre-rock-deviant-inquisitors-vinyl-12

http://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/massacre-rock-deviant-inquisitors

New Riot Season Tee

"Tis summertime and it's time for a new RS t-shirt design. This time i've gone for a local theme, an old school Black Country skyline and a revamped RS logo. The image/design is aged to look worn in, you can view it in the images tab

Printed on brown/chocolate coloured Gildan soft style shirts with white and gold front print.

For those that don't know, the Black Country is the area of middle England where I live. It's named after the thick black smoke that polluted the air back in the old days from all the industrial factories etc"

http://riotseason.bigcartel.com/product/riot-season-black-country-t-shirt-2013-brown

 Mainliner UK tour 

 

 

the dates are as follows :

KAWABATA MAKOTO’S MAINLINER First Tour Of The UK & Ireland September 2013

19 Liverpool - The Blade Factory

20 Cork - Clonakilty Guitar Festival. West Cork

21 Dublin – The Grand Social

22 Limerick – Bourke’s Bar

23 Glasgow - The 13th Note

24 Newcastle Upon Tyne - Think Tank @ Hoults Yard

25 Hebden Bridge - Trades Club

26 Birmingham - The Flapper (w/ Dethscalator)

27 Bristol – Thekla

28 Brighton – The Green Door Store

29 London - Corsica Studios (w/ Dethscalator)

Stream both Mainliner's albums here:

https://soundcloud.com/riotseason/sets/mainliner-2013 

http://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/revelation-space-2 

http://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/album/mellow-out-2013-repress

ACID MOTHERS TEMPLE Birmingham The Flapper October 13th 2013

 

http://riotseasonrecords.bandcamp.com/merch/acid-mothers-temple-birmingham-the-flapper-october-13th-2013 

Buy tickets & LPs here:

http://riotseason.bigcartel.com/

http://riotseason.com/

Magnolia - 2013 - Tänk Själv (Review)

Сегодняшний день пройдет под знаком Магнолии - культового шведского коллектива и его четвёртого по счёту творения - долгожданного альбома Tank Sjalv. Чем порадовал или разочаровал этот новый материал? Давайте разбираться.

Альбом состоит из 11 композиций и представляет собой шикарное продолжение музыкальной линии коллектива - да, друзья, перед нами всё та же неувядающая стилистика 70-х, мелодичного гитарного прогрессивного хард-рока с безукоризненным звучанием и отличным построением композиций. Встречает нас - инструментальная Duel Med Djavulen - неторопливая и уверенная вещица с отличными гитарными соло. За ней появляется тяжёлая кавалерия в виде Mr.Harding - жёсткого ритмичного боевичка с приятным припевом. А дальше - добро пожаловать - Idag Sa Bad Du Mig Att Dra слушается уже помягче и полиричнее, не забывая при этом держать хороший ритм. Совершенно другая картина происходит в Ovantat Finbesok - почти джазовом гитарном джеме, стремительном,безмолвном и красивом одновременно, как будто бы парни всегда исполняли такую музыку.

Однако уже следующая за ней Svara Mig возвращает нас к истокам - мы снова качаем головой в такт и отрываемся от земли ближе к концу композиции. Andrum - опять разворот на 360 градусов, молчаливая лирическая, загадочная и немного удивляющая вопросом - а что дальше? А дальше - одноимённая Tank Sjalv проносится мимо Вас на шикарном мощном байке и хитро подмигивает, поднимая столб пыли, из которой проступает Jag Finns Har, плавно и вкрадчиво шепча-а почему бы тебе забыться? Откинься и закрой глаза-я всё сделаю сама! Полёт в нирвану весьма резко обрывает вероломный Dit Vi Gar - фуззовый грув сбивает остатки морока и вновь мы на ногах! А тут как тут Rotterna Gar Djupt - вновь джем,на этот более жёсткий и триповый. И вот она ,последняя композиция Gudinna - красивый боевитый манифест с шикарными соло и логической концовкой. Прослушав альбом целиком и собрав мысли воедино наиболее отстрыми остаются два вопроса - ПОЧЕМУ я не знаю ШВЕДСКИЙ и почему я ДО СИХ ПОР ТАК И НЕ ВЫУЧИЛ ШВЕДСКИЙ? И вопросы эти надо решать немедленно,а как? Для начала - послушать ещё раз!!!!!!

(Review by Dron)

Magnolia's Bio:

The life of Magnolia started in the town of Åmål in Sweden 1994 when Ronny Eriksson started to write his own music. Inspired by the music from the late sixties and the early seventies he recorded his first songs on a Fostex 4-track portable studio. The project was called MAGNOLIA after an old BLUE CHEER-song, "Magnolia caboze babyfinger". Ronny played the bass, guitar, keyboards and sung and the drums was played by Anders "Heda" Hedström. The debut album , "MAGNOLIA" (Trans 021/Transubstans Records), was recorded between 2003 and 2006 (two recording sessions) in Love Tholin’s "Drop out analogue studio" in Åmål. Love who also plays guitar with Jack Vreeswijk (son of the famous Swedish artist Cornelis Vreeswijk) plays guitar on the song "Resa utan slut" (Endless journey). The drums are played by Anders Hedström and Ronny’s younger brother Tomas Eriksson. On the folk music inspired song "Dalsländsk Polska" Carl-Fredrik Eriksson is playing trombone.

Second album, "FALSKA VÄGAR" (Trans 038/Transubstans Records), is recorded between late 2007 and early 2008 in the same recording studio as the first album.
In 2010, they released their third effort ”STEG FÖR STEG”, once again on the Transubstans label,
and now they return with the eagerly awaited ”TÄNK SJÄLV”!

The music of MAGNOLIA contains lots of improvisations and have the roots in the bluesbased progressive rock music a la CREAM, NOVEMBER, WEST,BRUCE AND LAING, HIGHWAY ROBBERY, MOUNTAIN and their likes. The lyrics are all sung in Swedish for the right feel! Hope you enjoy the world of MAGNOLIA!



Interview with Magnolia in Swedish:

http://alltformusik.se/artiklar/25

listen 1 awesome track from "Tänk Själv" here :

https://soundcloud.com/transubstans-records/magnolia-t-nk-sj-lv

https://myspace.com/magnoliarock

http://www.transubstans.com/

https://www.facebook.com/transubstans

http://recordheaven.net/

Art As Catharsis news:

2 bands that worth to be mentioned on Robustfellow :

 

Snakes Get Bad Press - Residues

 

 

‘Residues’ is a seething mass of pounding drums, tortured screams and dissonance -- at times jarring and complex, at others subdued or incredibly catchy. The EP from this Sydney four-piece brings to mind forward-thinking hardcore from IDYLLS, Refused, Daughters, Gaza, The Chariot, and Robotosaurus

Featuring members of Totally Unicorn, Slowly Building Weapons, Jackals and Nobody Knew They Were Robots -- and with production handled by Tim 'The Wyzzarde' Carr at 301 Studios (Dumbsaint, We Lost the Sea, Adrift for Days, Matt Corby, The Herd, Fat Guy Wears Mystic Wolf Shirt) -- it’s no wonder why ‘Residues’ is sure to hit some punk top 10 lists this year.

‘Residues’ is out Friday 20 September on Art As Catharsis Records. The whole album is available now for streaming and download on Bandcamp.

 

http://www.artascatharsis.bandcamp.com/album/residues

 

Jackals - Dronepunk

 

Welcome to Jackals' Dronepunk; a mix of sludge-infused punk and doom-laden hardcore from Sydney noisemakers Jackals. 

 

'Dronepunk' is filled with intense, negative vibes for fans of Gaza, Botch, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Trap Them and Cursed. 

While the full album drops Friday 20 September through Art As Catharsis Records, you can stream and download two tracks here: 

ttp://artascatharsis.bandcamp.com/album/dronepunk

http://www.facebook.com/snakesgetbadpress

http://www.facebook.com/jxckxlz

http://www.facebook.com/artascatharsisrecords



FUZZ MANTA - 2013 - The Stonewolf (Review)



     Сегодня мы приглашены датской группой Fuzz Manta в гости к Каменному Волку (Stonewolf) - новому таинственному и загадочному альбому. В альбом вошли 5 композиций, однако на самом деле их гораздо больше. В чём секрет,спросите Вы? А никакого секрета нет - просто заглавная композция альбома имеет продолжительность 34 минуты и в свою очередь подразделяется на 7 глав, каждая из которых имеет своё название,звучание,настроение и стилистический аромат! Да, мы помним по предыдущим альбомам,что ребята любят длинные композиции (вспомнить хотя бы 28-минутную Torke из альбома Vortex Memplex), но там она стояла в конце альбома. Здесь же всё наоборот - первая же вещь проводит в Вашем мозгу арт-подготовку и надо признать,очень качественную психоделическую зарядку!!!!! Дальше? Дальше - больше!!!

     Sooner Or Later - этакий софт стоунер с отличнейшим припевом и игривыми нотками вокалистки Foxey Lene,переходящий в середине композиции в красивый инструментал и обратно. My Baby In Vain - это шикарный боевик в стиле небезызвестных Clutch, просто без мистера Феллона! Затем следует Mindreader - среднетемповый выверенный хит высокой пробы с вылетом а астрал в лучших традициях Pink Floyd. Завершает альбом When I Sleep - не побоюсь этого слова ЭПИК - баллада, которая обрываясь достаточно быстро оставляет Вас наедине с тишиной. О, не, не надо тишины,только не сейчас!!!! И здесь на помощь приходят 2 бонус-трека - Land Of Sleep, композиция под которую точно не хочется уснуть и Marble Queen - грустная и пронзительная исповедь,приводящая в действие условный рефлекс - Я ХОЧУ УСЛЫШАТЬ ЭТО СНОВА!!!!!!

(Reviewed by Dron)

"Fuzz Manta play psychedelia infused hard rock. The quartet`s sound is essentially being coined by the voice of female singer Lene Kjær Hvillum who delivers the vocals with a charismatic, raw and expressiv-guttural quality. Calling their music heavy hippie hard rock, their influences range from Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple, Black Sabbath to comtemporary artists like Black Mountain."

https://www.facebook.com/fuzzmanta

www.fuzzmanta.com

www.kozmik-artifactz.com

www.bilocationrecords.bandcamp.com
www.facebook.com/bilocationrecords

After ROBUST Party

Ladies and Gentlemen !

Here is the Teaser for your pleasure :

And more info about Tickets Robust Afterparty :

Preorder starts 15th August and ends on 15th of September

Only 100 tickets are available by the price of 150 uah./15 Euro.

You can easily pay by VISA/MasterCard or WebMoney, 

by cash in payment terminals or courier with delivery. 

 Follow this this link for more info :

http://www.concert.ua/eventpage/robustfest_vol_III 

And we glad to say that Robustfest vol.III will be continued on the same night.

Please welcome :

After ROBUST Party

Line Up :

BOMG "Playing Polynseeds at it's entire"

Jam session together with  The Legendary Flower Punk

Mourning Glory Lounge

+ 2 more guests TBA

The capacity of the secret place for Afterpary is not so big.

But it's enough to accommodate whole robustcrew and festival's bands for the jam. 

And will have an exclusive offer for this event that will be limited to 30 tickets.

Festival ticket + Afrerparty = 300 uah./30 Euro 

(You will get the special bracelet together with map, where you will find the place for Afterparty)

Let's uncover some secret cards for the night :

 BOMG  

"Playing Polynseeds at it's entire"

(poster art by Viktor "Absurd" from Kiev)

Heaviest father/son collaboration in the world's history.

BOMG has appeared at Robustfest's stage in 2011

One year later all the band members moved to Kiev and opened  

EVERGREEN Rehearsal Room\Recording Studio

Their debut album "Polynseeds" that was released as a digital stuff on bandcamp in July 2013 deserves to be pressed on heavyweight vinyl for sure in the nearest future.

 "Polynseeds" was recorded and mixed on the EVERGREEN Studio.

It has extremely cool sound and concept.

There is a good chance to catch BOMG alive and swallow an hour of pure Stoner/Doom!

http://bomg.bandcamp.com/ 

 http://vk.com/bomg.doom

EVERGREEN Rehearsal Room\Recording Studio 

 Jam session together with The Legendary Flower Punk

 

 (poster by Mila "Hopeless" from Moscow)

Here's another master for the Robust Afterparty.

Mr. Kamille of The Grand Astoria himself will show you some breathtaking trick.

The rest fellas from the main fest will be on the same rope as well.

 http://thelegendaryflowerpunk.bandcamp.com/

Stay tuned for 2 more guests for Afterparty and more Fest's details.

Robustfest vol.III - 4th announce

 Hey Ho.

And It's time uncover 2 more Robust cards !
And you  can check the Ticket Price in the bookmark above.

SOMALI YACHT CLUB

Just one more announcement before we uncover the name of our final participant. His look is dreadful, but his heart is kind – please welcome Mr. Somali, the honorable president of west-Ukrainian yacht club, who owns the secrets of deadly knives and sharp edges of all kinds. How many times have you tried to impress your friends with knife tricks? How many times have you failed at it? Each time you’ve tried? If yes, then Mr. Somali is someone who you should see, if not then you have even more reasons to see the Incredible Dwarf because what he will show you will make your adrenaline spill out of your body. But you don’t have to worry, he has never harmed anyone because he loves every living being and sees no difference between them.

Those of you, who have seen the Incredible Dwarf together with the mighty hobos from the Red Fang troupe this June, will be especially surprised because Mr. Somali prepared a specially program for our Robust Show –even sharper and more precise than before.

 http://vk.com/somaliyachtclub

http://somaliyachtclub.bandcamp.com/ 

THE MACHINE

 

Ladies and gentlemen we are ready to announce our final participant. Any precise and durable mechanism is always managed by a mastermind behind the curtains. No one sees him but he’s there, he holds threads to every piece of the mosaic and it is he who can control it or destroy it. Our Robust Show couldn’t happen without such mastermind whose invisible presence makes every atom of your being tremble. 

 

Now, please stand in AWE, because what you behold is The Machine. This incredible construction born from the genius of human mind is that background puppet master whose presence you’ve felt all along the way. First time in Eastern Europe this mind-boggling Machine will perform on the stage of our finest Robust Fest, first time in your life you will experience the unforgettable play with you mind. It’s going to be an extraordinary experience that will never leave your memory.

http://www.themachineweb.com/ 

 https://www.facebook.com/themachine.nl

http://themachineandsungrazersplit.bandcamp.com/ 

Please pay us a visit on the 12th of October in the Old Opera House in Kiev and share with us the amazing Robust Circus which will visit your town only once.

Peace, love and heaviness.

Stay Tuned for more Robust news !!!

Robustfest vol.III - 3rd announce

Ladies & Gentlemen, 

Please Welcome another two heroes on Robust Arena !

THE BRIMSTONE DAYS 

(Sweden)

Attention everyone! We’re close to announcing our drawing cards! But first, let’s look at those young artists, who have a lot of aces under their sleeves too. Please welcome one more beautiful lady on the robust stage – Mrs. Brimstone from Scandinavia! 

Her cheerfulness and open heart gives her the ability to speak with animals, but her real passion is birds. But don’t think about blood-chilling masterpiece of Mr. Hitchcock, it has nothing to do with our beautiful Mrs.Brimstone. Her love to birds is her single motivator, and she has almost reached perfection at it. Be sure to see her charming performance on the 12th of October at the third installation of Robustfest.

 https://www.facebook.com/thebrimstonedays

www.thebrimstonedays.com 

http://www.youtube.com/user/TheBrimstoneDays 

SATELLITE BEAVER

(Poland) 

We are glad to announce our fellow from Poland, the brother of Belzebong giant – amazingly flexible Beaver Man. He’s small, but surprising and believe it or not - he will make an impression you won’t be able to forget. He did numerous outrageous shows in different areas of Europe, but this time he will impress you with the new set he prepared specially for our circus. 

His exclusive performance for Robustfest, will make ladies faint and gentlemen boggle. As for children - if you want to bring them with you, you’d better change your mind because it’s not something that young eyes can stand. Come to the Robust circus to see the tricks you will remember for a lifetime, the tricks of the inimitable Beaver Man.

 http://satellitebeaver.bandcamp.com/

 https://www.facebook.com/SatelliteBeaver