Nadja (CAN), Leaver & Shrine Live in Sofia

       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. Their music has been described as ambient doom, dreamsludge, metalgaze, combining the textures of shoegaze and ambient music with the heaviness and volume of metal and noise. Nadja have released recordings for labels as Alien8 Recordings, Hydrahead Records, Important Records, Essence Music and their own Broken Spine Productions. In addition, Mr. Baker is active as a solo musician, writer and with different group projects. The band now resides in Berlin, Germany.

  

     Leaver are drone duo from Sofia, with members Angel Simitchiev and Daniel Donchov. They describe their music as 'piano and guitar based minimalism meets voices and drone'. Influenced by poetry and voice, they like to drown their sound into delay, reverb and overdrive effects. Leaver have toured UK in 2016, which resulted in a collaboration EP with the blues-bard Tim Holehouse, named  'Before The Fire'. Their debut album, 'Head Home', was released in 2016 to critical acclaim.

 

    Shrine is the project of Hristo Gospodinov, born of his interest in esoteric music and the desire to express his understandings in life in non-verbal way. Starting in 2003 and heavy influenced by the dark ambient scene, today Shrine has no strict genre limits. His interests lie in mixing nature sounds with machine sounds and other artificial things into processed ambient sound. The album 'Ordeal 26.04.86' is dedicated to the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster.

 
   The gig, again, will happen on 1st March (Thursday) at club Live & Loud , Sofia - tickets can still be purchased here. 

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