On 12th May the Bulgarian label and booking collective Amek will celebrate its 10th anniversary, with big event at club Mixtape 5 and four new releases. The event will be hosted in the club's two rooms, featuring 10 live acts - starting with ate's guitar drones, OOHS!' cool kraut-pop, Trysth's sludge metal (last live performance for the band!), 2 collaborations - Valance Drakes (UK) & Ivan Shopov and Leaver & Tim Holehause (UK); also live performances from LATE, Evitceles, Mytrip, Cyberian and Conjecture (GR). The night will continue with an afterparty in the B-side, where the guys from Бетон crew, Climaxim (NL) and Ghost 303 will take care of your perceptions. Tickets on a regular price can still be found following this link, otherwise 20 BGN at the doors. The fe(a)st starts at 6PM.

1st of March will give the start of numerous events, connected with the Bulgarian label Amek Collective's 10th anniversary. The label has curated an impressive lineup, consisting of Canadian drone doom duo Nadja, Bulgarian sad droners Leaver and Bulgarian-born experimental/ dark ambient project Shrine.

Nadja formed in 2003 by multiinstrumentalist Aidan Baker and bassist Leah Buckareff.

This Saturday, 25th November, from 7PM Fabrika Avtonomia will host 'an industrial congress' under the moto 'We Live. You Sleep', featuring three artists from Sofia's underground scene. 

The main suspects or 'congressmen' are S.B.R., Adonai Atrophia and Cogwheel Crack. 

S.B.R. is one of the many projects by N.M. (Abandonment Label) - we have already presented him here as |14|, when he supported Dave Phillips at the Czech Center.

Last week Sofia has been the goal of visitation for London's fabulous Ola's Kool Kitchen. It couldn't get better, when Ola asked me if she can do a DJ set here, so that's how the 'Ola's Kool Kitchen Sofia Invasion' night at the Atelieto bar happened. But let's introduce her first a little bit.

Our fourth Guest Playlist is a result of the collaboration between the art collective behind the 'A Decorated Room With Invaded Ideas' project and Pavel Naydenov - musician & artist, currently residing in Vienna, Austria.

The long-term project consists of Eline Tsvetkova, Anastasija Pandilovska and Jacob Ehlrich, who met while studying fine arts at Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam.

In the last day of August (and maybe the Summer) Sofia's music lovers will be able to hear the British 

blues/ folk artist Tim Holehouse and the Bulgarian drone duo Leaver playing together live at Fabrika Avtonomia, supported by the lo-fi lullabies of  Maxim Mokdad. 

The gig will be also a release date for Mr. Holehouse & Leaver's new EP 'Before The Fire', coming out on a tape via Amek Collective.

Summer is going pretty well for the listeners of experimental/ noise music in Sofia - recently we watched the Japanese composer/ visual artist Tatsuru Arai, and now the favorite event Noisy Sunday is returning with its 7th edition on 30th July in Fabrika Avtonomia.

The concert will start with ate - a project of the Bulgarian classical guitarist Petar Petkov, who is exploring instrumental drone ambient through loop layering, building warm and introvert soundscapes.

Summer won't be boring for the fans of avant-garde electronic music in Sofia with the next concert, organized by Alarma Punk Jazz Fest and Amek - on 12th July at the Czech Center they will be delighted to hear the Japanese musician and composer Tatsuru Arai, supported by the Bulgarian duo 'Trohi'.

Tatsuru Arai has studied composition and multimedia art in Tokyo and Berlin.

This Friday, 9th June, get ready for a psychedelic experience in Mixtape 5, promised by the Finnish experimental-electronic band K-X-P and the Bulgarian psych-gazers Comasummer - thanks to the organizers from Indioteque. 

K-X-P describe themselves as an 'anti-band', as it's hard to put them into genre limitations: according to Pitchfork they play 'dark paranoid disco', or 'heavy cosmic psychedelia' (The Quietus).

Drone Day celebrates drone, experimental and ambient music annually in May. These celebrations are independently organized by volunteers all over the world, and for a second time Sofia will make no exception thanks to Amek and Abandonment labels. This year's event will take place at Fabrika Avtonomia on 27th May, Saturday.
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