Yeah it was a nice gig. Far better than the one last year where one stage was for whitch house or whatever that style is and another was a mix of drone/ambient and noise. It was nice talking and drinking, etc. with guests. All in all, top notch. Apart from the thing that the beer was good and it was good to talk, there was some music.
The first day - I've still not found a person who would say that the first day was more interesting than the second one or at least interesting. So it was spent mainly for beers.
Danil Akimov - quite average noise generator worship. I think there were two sound layers, one oscillating u-y-u-y and another doing some sort of low hum. Not very bad, but nothing interesting.
WOUTER JASPERS + VJ STAN STENCIL - for me personally this was the weakest performance of the whole fest. Even the boys on their BMXs in skate park were doing more interesting stuff. I guess too much art for me.
Sala was quite good. It started from water sounds, field recordings etc. and ended in some sort of post rock or something like that, composition. It was decent and best that evening already.
Sovijus - years ago it was ambient and after some sort of hiatus, returned as an outlet for various weirder sounds of Munius. Lately it's been some sort of jazz/rock improvisations or something like that, but I've heard better performances of theirs.
Girnų Giesmės - as one could expect, was the best that evening. Solid drone going from peak to more silent parts through the time of performance. Anyways, visuals were weird and it seemed that it was not his, but someone the guy's who was responsible for the lights so I think no video would've done better than just random stuff. Anyways, best.
Jigu55 - This was too weird for me. The woman with the wizard hat, whiping, noise, singing, etc. Or maybe I was just a little too drunk to enjoy the freakiness.
Bottle of tequila at home was good though in the morning I was sorry for consuming it. It sounded like the danger of vomit all the next day.
Anyways. The second day.
Pogrom. I think it's good not to play live very often. There was lots of time to prepare and i'm pretty ok with how it came though not everything was 100%. Lack of feedback on stage, failing mic from time to time and overall next time if I'm going to perform in mask, I'll have to rehears in it for a couple of times. Because playing with the cracked ear drum and earbuds inside the mask filters the sound very much.
Jaakko Vanhala I thought somehow about the term like dancing with metal sheets or something like that. Very good cut up noise and nice view on stage. It seemed that Jaakko was really dancing with these metal sheets, microphones, etc. Great.
Oorchach did a really good performance, but I guess it would be a surprise if he did bad one. Somewhat ritualistic loops, drones and overall very good atmosphere, rising at the very end of performance.
Maaaa I'm always afraid to misspell this title and write too little A letters in it. Great harsh noise. Intense, loud and oppressing. Perfect.
Grunt - no surprise they were the best that evening. Solid compositions, solid videos, solid looking men on stage etc. As for vocals, I doubt they were too loud. A few people in local forums wrote that vocals were too silent or that Oorchach's or pogrom vocals were too silent. I think mostly it had to do with the place in hall where the people were standing. From where I was standing, it seemed perfect. Not far from sound engineer. Jaakko's part could've been a little louder, but I thought about this just after the show so I guess this means that the whole performance was top notch.
There was one guy who said he never saw his wife so amazed by any PE band as it was for Grunt. Also someone said that one guy fainted during pogrom performance. Overall everyone is very satisfied with the gig and how it went out.
cheers and until next time
L.