Easterndaze
Easterndaze is a project that explores and highlights new music from Central and Eastern Europe through a variety of channels including radio shows (London's Resonance FM, the Východiska show on Czech public radio station Radio Wave, [Habitat.fm] netradio), concerts, music releases and a blog.
Easterndaze aims to explore the current political and social status quo in some of the countries of the region through the eyes of those most vulnerable to social change - young artists who are still under the radar.
Easterndaze aims not only to raise awareness of up-and-coming - mainly experimental and electronic - artists in the West, but more importantly to increase the conspicuously low level of information and cooperation between Eastern European art scenes. [1]
The project was initiated in 2009 by Lucia Udvardyová and Peter Gonda. The associated label Baba Vanga was launched in 2013.
Contents
Events
- Easterndazed: DIY Music Topographies, Higgs Field, Budapest, Apr-Jun 2015. [2]
- Festival
Archive
- City reports (blog)
Banská Bystrica, Bratislava, Bucharest, Arad, Cluj, Gdansk, Krakow (plus), Timisoara, Warsaw (plus).
- Countries (blog)
Czech Republic, Hungary, Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia.
Literature
- Kasia Jaroch, "Muzycy z Europy Wschodniej nie gęsi", Krytyka Polityczna, 8 Jan 2020. (Polish)
- Thomas Venker, "Easterndaze x Berlin 2021 – Interview with Lucia Udvardyova & Natalie Gravenor. “Our modus operandi remains non-hierarchical and non-institutionalized”", Kaput, 17 Feb 2021.
