Makunouchi Bento – Swimé (cover art)
Check the wonderful cover-art for Makunouchi Bento’s upcoming record Swimé. Its out 8.
Published August, 2010
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Author: Easterndaze
Timisoara / exit
The last stop in Romania was Timisoara in the Banat region of the country located in the vicinity of Serbo-Hungarian border. Arriving by a train from Arad we were accompanied by Dyslex, with whom we planed to record an interview on the train.
Published August, 2010
city reports
Photos from Romania developed & scanned. Check them at our Ipernity.
Published August, 2010
Arad
After a brief stop in the Transylvanian hub Cluj, we headed to the Hungarian-Romanian border, the picturesque town Arad. After checking into the wonderfully tacky B&B, we headed to KF, the city’s only spatiu alternativ.
Published August, 2010
Arhiva 7
A multidisciplinary project, the Arhiva 7 platform brought together a graphic studio, a black-and-white zine Almanahul, a netlabel and a netradio. The now defunct project aimed to showcase young Romanian artists from various fields - music, graphic design or DIY publishing.
Published July, 2010
The Cluj Factory
After spending some quality time - no pun intended - in Bucharest and meeting all the incredibly driven local culture operators, festival organizers, experimental music afficionados, label heads, producers, angry old men and plethora of stray dogs, we reluctantly had to bid farewell to this wonderfully deranged city and head to northwest to Cluj-Napoca, Romania’s major creative hub. Most of the contemporary Romanian visual artists are either based or spent a formative period of their lives in this Transylvanian hotspot, the fourth largest city in the country.
Published July, 2010
100 to watch
Leaving Bucharest by train to Cluj we had almost 10 hours to read through the project 100 TO WATCH that we briefly mentioned in a former post, and which included in its jury/creative team the journalist and dj Tom Wilson and designer Milos Jovanovic. Being the “directory of 100 most talented artists in Romania today” it was published in October 2009 and should be taken as a insider guide for everyone interested in young and contemporary Romanian arts scene.
Published July, 2010
leizaboy
Leizaboy is a DJ and producer from Timisoara. His first EP was out in July 2009 on High Definition and contains the track Alarm Serenade.
Published July, 2010
nukekubi
Whilst speaking to Victor Popescu aka Brazda lui Novac and Daniel Stanciu known as Minus, they both dropped the name Selfmademusic of Arad. Listen to this collaboration with Makounochi Bento, two guys whom we will hopefully meet in a few days in Timisoara: makunouchi bento - nukekubi (feat.
Published July, 2010
rapture
Check out this video by Vali Chincisan: Urban Tree from vcn on Vimeo. Vali also collaborated on other projects with Makunouchi Bento, Brazda lui Novac and others.
Published July, 2010