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Body Moving

Text: Dima Chakarova Photographs: Maks Richter, Regina Brocke, Melanie Chartreux — Thu 24 Sep 2009 0:00:00 EEST

Reservoir Videos

by Anelia Alexandrova, photos Valentin Danevski for Angel Kotsev Studio — Thu 24 Sep 2009 0:00:00 EEST

Material Boy

Text: Alexander Velichkov Photographs: Valentin Danevski for Studio Angel Kotsev — Thu 17 Sep 2009 0:00:00 EEST

You will recognize Nikolai Sardamov after his materials – he is so bold he makes jewellery out of recycled rubber, latex and even sugar. It is provocation time again – Nikolai became a part of the Clothes: Presented project at Ivan Asen 22.

Free Style

text Borislav Banev, photos Valentin Danevski for Angel Kotzev Studio — Thu 10 Sep 2009 0:00:00 EEST

Bobo is something like the light side of our hip hop stage - positive, calm and fresh, without any sign of money-cars-women philosophy. Music is his only expression and he will open the first Grolsch Block Party in Bulgaria together with DVD.

Gray's Anatahomy

text Ivan Hadjivelikov, photos by Universal Music Group/Virginia Records — Thu 03 Sep 2009 0:00:00 EEST

We have never even dreamed of seeing Macy Gray twice in one night - first singing at the NPC and after DJing in Yalta Club. But as the nice books say, miracles happen nine out of ten times.

Celtic motifs

by Dima Chakarova, photos Valentin Danevski for Angel Kotsev studio — Thu 27 Aug 2009 0:00:00 EEST

Photographer Ivo Hadjimishev is great and this is no news. Member of the Royal Socity of Photopraphy for life, Mr. Hadjimishev has something very uncommon today - style. It was high time we talked with him.

Freezing Effect

text Dima Chakarova — Thu 20 Aug 2009 0:00:00 EEST

An art space opened not long ago with the promise to allow new and independent authors to show their works. Behind the fridge project are Ivana Nencheva and Natalia Todorova, who met 5-6 years ago in the Academy of Arts and discovered their common taste in glass as a material. After a trip to France they plunge into the furious waters of independent modern art.

HIgh Spirits

text Dima Chakarova, photos by Valentin Danevski for Angel Kotsev Studio — Thu 20 Aug 2009 0:00:00 EEST

We cast an eye on actress Gergana Pletniova since she played the baby in her favourite band Ostava' s video clip. Then we found out that in fact she plays on stage and even wins prizes - at the beginning of August 2009 she won the Bulgarian Cinema Award for support part in Military Correspondent.

Cubism

text Veronika Hadjieva, photos by Valentin Danevski for Angel Kotzev Studio — Thu 13 Aug 2009 0:00:00 EEST

Hypercube are four guys from Sofia who do not want to be a cliche and play a wonderful mix of alternative, drum'n'bass and electronics. Looks like their efforts are paying back - the organizers of Spirit of Burgas invited them for a second time on the Jack Daniel's stage. So we asked some more details from the band's guitar players - Ilia and Asen.

Swedish Steel

text Ivan Hadjivelikov — Thu 06 Aug 2009 0:00:00 EEST

18 years ago the angry young men from Stockholm named Clawfinger were the only ones to make rap metal - so powerful that they took two Swedish Grammys and headed on tour with Anthrax, Alice in Chains and Faith No More. We aksed vocalist Zak Tell a few things about the crossing point between metal and hip hop and who is the biggest enemy of modern music today.

Usual Suspects

text Ivan Hadjivelikov — Thu 30 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EEST

We are convinced that along with mojito and Monty Python, Fun Lovin Criminals' music is one of the coolest things on the planet. So we called Hugh Morgan - the band's vocalist and guitar player and started asking him about cocktails, Hemingway, drummers and the pending FLC live at the Spirit of Burgas.

Beautiful Noise

by Ana Vucheva — Thu 23 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EEST

There is hardly a person on the planet who has not poured coffee from the pot, singing N.O.H.A.'s track Tu cafe. Of course, the band has other cool tracks and after you heard them in Sofia, now you will have the possibility to see them four more times at the coast - in Varna, Nessebar, Sozopol and Lozenetz. So we contacted the band's vocalist MC Chevy for some more details

Single Copy

text Dima Chakarova — Thu 23 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EEST

We asked who is that girl who makes medusa-shaped brooches and medical tube necklaces with pearls. We received the answers from Neva Balnikova herself. In short, Neva is one of a kind.

On the Road

text Dima Chakarova, photo by Silvia Valentino Karabashlieva — Thu 16 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EEST

Zahari Karabashliev's name became well-known around his first novel 18% Grey, which was such a hit that it went through three editions. In June he came back from sunny California to show us the collection of stories A Short History of Plane.

Festival Lady

text Ivan Hadjivelikov, photos by Ilian Rujin — Thu 09 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EEST

Two years ago the attractive Londoner Nikki Wright-McNeill establishes Global Publicity, a company for promoting and marketing and since then incessantly conquers Old and New Europe - mainly with nice festival music. We met her for a couple of minutes at the B'estfest in Bucharest - enough time for a few questions.

Revelation 17:7

text Nikolai Vasilev — Thu 09 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EEST

Called the Bulgarian Dead Can Dance or Isihia's successors, Irfan are undoubtedly a bright stream of light on our scene. These days Irfan are recording their third album and preparing for a concert in The Red House on 17 July. Kalin Iordanov, one of the band's ideologists, warned us that the line-up will be unusual.

Refined Player

text Dima Chakarova, photos Mina Anhela Ignatova — Thu 02 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EEST

Desi Bojkova is the little motor that moves successfully the machine called Totally Erected, but usually remains backstage, because she’s the person that is occupied with the boring details and the accounts. At the moment Desi is engaged with all the actual events around Totally Romantic Bar nearby Varna, the fashion studio in Sofia and the agency for events and in her mind there are new projects too. Total madness!

Electrochacra

text Anelia Aleksandrova, photos by Valentin Danevski for Angel Kotzev Studio — Thu 02 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EEST

The first association which jumps out in our minds when the name 1000 names is mentioned is Bulgarian electronic music for export. Behind the artistic nicknames Cassio Blaster and 99 Mistakes are hidden Margo and Niko - two Bulgarian producers and DJs.

The Godfather 3

text Anelia Aleksandrova — Thu 25 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EEST

The Man-Machine from Bronx is coming to Bulgaria for the third time. If you have not seen before Rahzel, the biggest beatboxer in the world, this time you have no excuse. Because of him now beatbox, the fifth element of hip hop, is a separate art form.

The Cynic

text Ivan Hadjivelikov, photos by Season of Mist — Thu 18 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EEST

We have not event tried to define precisely Cynic's music - since 1987 the American combo has experimented with everything from thrash metal to saturated death metal with absolutely free improvisations. It is strange that Cynic are so famous right now - in 2008 they won applause with Traced in Air and now they are on tour with Dream Theater. Just ten days before their concert in Kavarna, vocalist Paul Masvidal told us a few things about playing in front of 20 000 people and the beauty of life as a whole.