Tag: LOM

Easterndazed: DIY Music Topographies @ OFF Biennale Budapest

From April 17 to June 12, 2015 we have tried to encapsulate what we have been doing in the last five years through a gallery exhibition and a series of events, which aimed to highlight the thriving DIY culture that has flourished in this region. Dozens of excellent music videos, which - with a dose of inherent irony - employ and subvert the cliches of “Eastern topography” - the concrete blocks (ghettos, right?), the ostentatious display of consumer goods, and the lo-fi aesthetic (more by necessity than choice) were displayed in the pristine white cube gallery space Higgs Field in the centre off Budapest as part of the two-month OFF Biennále Budapest, which was basically a statement against the current political status quo in Hungary.

Published June, 2015

Jonáš Gruska: From creating to listening, from PCB to walks

In the past, we’ve written about Gruska on Easterndaze in connection with his project Binmatu, his label LOM or the festival ZVŮK. This interview focuses exclusively on Gruska’s active work and thinking about field recordings.

Published April, 2015

Easterndaze 2014 mixtape

2014 has been great for music. Many new musicians, albums, labels came to life, presenting adventurous and uncompromising music.

Published December, 2014

Daniel Kordík / Tobiáš Potočný – INDPORT (LOM, 2014)

LOM has started a new series called „Fields“ and right off the bat, its first release offers two Slovak musicians, both of them members of the Urbsounds collective, one of the first Slovak experimental labels with punk flavoured ethics. Daniel Kordík (also one half on rhytmic noise duo Jamka) has previously released field recording album covering sounds of Syria.

Published November, 2014

Amen Tma: Messages from another place

Amen Tma is a project of Danky & Acidmilk. The ideas, sounds, atmospheres and thought processes on the album Insect Phonetics Research had been growing for three years.

Published November, 2014

Amen Tma – Insect Phonetics Research (LOM10, 2014)

It took almost two years to finish this album and rumours circulating in the Bratislava scene regarding Amen Tma (which roughly translates as Amen Darkness) were hidden under a veil of mystery. Apart from a couple of live performances and singles put out quite a long time ago, Amen Tma remained silent working on their debut release entitled Insect Phonetics Research.

Published October, 2014

The rituals of the ZVŮK festival

ZVŮK has launched its journey across Bratislava urbanism in September 2013. It was then that Jonáš Gruska, the head of the Slovak label LOM which gathers artists from various corners of experimental music, chose the spot under the bridge Apollo in the capital for his event.

Published September, 2014

The Blank Stare II – Jonáš Gruska, БРАДА, STS

The Blank Stare is a “project focused on mapping the Slovak experimental music scene through series of documentary movies”. Technically, the second episode easily beats the first one.

Published August, 2014

2013 in Slovak music by Samčo, brat dážďoviek

Samčo, brat dážďoviek is a Slovak musician and an enigma, with an affinity for subversion of national identities and all sorts of ideology recontextualisations. He is also an expert in obscure music, check out his article about the Czech and Slovak Bandzone scene here.

Published January, 2014

Východiska Xmas mix

Every week on Wednesday Czech Radio’s Wave station, we try to present a project, label, in a short interview format. Our show Východiska (you can check the archive of the show here) aims to map the latest happenings on the independent music scene in Central and Eastern Europe.

Published December, 2013

Traveling around Sun, Slavic and Surreal: Jonáš Gruska – Солнце

Jonáš Gruska is a Bratislava-based sound artist working under several guises - for instance the audiovisual project Binmatu, mastering engineer and label owner. His many activities revolve around sound - its physicalities, propensities and possibilities.

Published December, 2013

Turbo-Americanism, Thatcher and the Quits: An interview with András Cséfalvay

András Cséfalvay is a visual artist and musician from Slovakia. Winner of the Oskar Cepan prize for emerging artist, Cséfalvay has also been increasingly active on the music scene, recording gentle, fragile and bona fide sentimental songs in his bedroom.

Published November, 2013

Daniel Kordík’s Syria

Field recordings have been used and abused in music and sonic art forever, but it’s the method of processing and juxtaposition, which causes the effect. Syria is by default a rewarding sonic source for any zealous field recorder, buzzing with sounds and boasting with an enviable musical history.

Published October, 2013

Extraterrestrial: Jonáš Gruska – CAA#9

Jonáš Gruska is an Institute of Sonology graduate, runs the LOM label and creates music under the Binmatu alias. His latest release comes courtesy of the Russian label Cyland Audio Archive on polycarbonate squares.

Published August, 2013

New videos – Lutto Lento, RSS Boys, Andras Csefalvay, Sillyconductor

Lutto Lento Another Polish project belongs to the boss of the idiosyncratic Sangoplasmo label, the tape imprint that has carved its niche over the few years of its existence with quirky, outthere sounds by local as well as international artists, including Ensemble Economique or Decimus. Lubomir, Sangoplasmo’s heart and soul, also produces music, under the guise Lutto Lento.

Published August, 2013

Bratislava annual report 12-13

When I moved here from Brno in May 2012, I was shocked when I saw my new hood. In contrast with nice, though little abandoned, but still cozy and almost 150-year-old flat I lived in before, here I was facing the grim reality of my post-communist borough, packed with cars, Nazis and other disliked aspects of my life.

Published February, 2013

Jonáš Gruska: Nocturnal oscillations for one

Jonáš Gruska is the man behind the fledgling LOM imprint, a platform for all kinds of outthere sounds, digital noise and unhindered experimentation. Following their split release /read our review here/, a “high-frequency” trading music, Jonáš delivers his “Nočné oscilácie pre jedného” /“Nocturnal oscillations for one”/, a mellow analogue journey conducted in the studios of the Royal Conservatory in The Hague, where Gruska studies.

Published December, 2012