em guide with mappa on the fluid boundaries between fictional and real sound worlds
Jakub Juhás likes to listen to sounds that are easily overheard – from soundscapes in ponds to gradually disappearing Ukrainian folk songs. Ján Solčáni met the Slovakian mappa label runner and talked with him about peripheries, creating in Eastern Europe and doing things with love.
em guide cultivating tenderness through listening with warm winters ltd.
Warm Winters Ltd. is a great platform to discover experimental music (not only) from Eastern Europe. The label from Braitslava does not commit itself to genres, and yet the music is characterized by a certain tenderness. Label founder Adam Badí Donoval on his approach to curating and the challenges of running a label in Eastern Europe
em guide re-enchanted kingdoms
Folk music is strongly influenced by the region in which it originates: by its nature, its traditions, its craftsmanship. What does Slovakian folk music sound like today, and what perspectives on our globalized world does it offer? Author Michael Papcun presents four contemporary approaches ranging from experimental electronics to drone and metal. It becomes clear that Slovakian folk music is more of a concept than a sound.