In 2016 the event hosted such musicians from Poland as Cosovel, Hatti Vatti, Lass, Mateusz Franczak, Manoid, Night Marks Electric Trio, Pola Rise and Rosa Vertov. Night Marks Electric Trio played at the festival opening on 30th September at MUV Hall. Besides Polish artists and managers, the organizers of Spring Break Festival – Tomasz Waśko and Łukasz Minta from Go Ahead were invited as delegates, continuing the exchange between Polish and Korean professionals.
Started in 2012, Zandari Festa quickly established itself as South Korea's largest music showcase festival. The annual event takes place in Seoul's Hongdae area, the epicentre of youth culture in South Korea and ground zero for the country's indie music scene. Each fall, Zandari Festa brings together acts and music industry professionals from around the world for concerts and conferences at a number of unique venues around Hongdae. One wristband allows festival-goers access to all of Zandari Festa's shows.
Along with showcasing established acts and exciting up-and-comers from South Korea's burgeoning indie scene, with each passing year Zandari Festa has placed a greater emphasis on becoming a truly global event. At 2012's inaugural Zandari Festa, acts from two other countries traveled to Seoul to perform. The 2016 event featured artists from 18 different countries and two special branded showcases, the Sound City Takeover at Zandari Festa British Night and the Esprit Français French Night, that highlighted some of the top emerging talents from both countries. By attracting more international talent, Zandari Festa has been able to expose audiences to a wider range of musical talent and has helped build bridges that have allowed for Korean and overseas artists and Korean and overseas music companies and festivals to better communicate, work together, and learn from each other.
Cosovel
Cosovel's music is described as alternative pop, electronic, and indie-folk. The lyrics are Slovenian-English and Slovenian-Polish translations of poems by Srecko Kosovel – a modernist, expressionist and dadaist poet from the early 20th century. The avant-garde and constructivist qualities found in Kosovel's poems are reflected in Cosovel's mode of work – the translations are not literal and an open-minded approach to the unique Slovene's poetry is signified by her name, a portmanteau of Cooperation with Kosovel. Cosovel also performed at MU:Con conference on 8th October at SangSang Madang at 8 pm.
Hatti Vatti
Since 2009, vinyl releases for English, Irish and Polish labels have marked this Polish producer apart for his cinematic take on bass-driven electronic music. His last release – Worship Nothing LP (2014) – sees Hatti Vatti's artistic journey culminate into a single, coherent vision, a vision that is simultaneously spacious and deeply intimate. HV was promoting his last solo album with performances in Poland, Germany, Lithuania, Latvia, Czech Republic, Belarus, Belgium, Greenland and twice in Japan. He's working with regarded polish musicians in other projects: HV/NOON, Nanook of the North and FFRANCIS.
Lass
Lass is the pseudonym of Kasia Klimczyk, a Polish woman who composes, sings, produces and writes lyrics. She is distinguished by authenticity, diversity and uncompromised consistency in realization of her vision. Lass played dozens of concerts in New York, Poland and Lithuania. Her concerts are accompanied by a special hypnotic ritual, where enigmatic energy is strongly reflected, it is good to feel it, and hard to define and organize. In addition to a sensory feast of sythpop sounds, the visual aspects play an important role. All these elements consistently lead to observe the unprecedented, sensitive and intriguing still indefinable interior of Lass.
Mateusz Franczak
Multi-instrumentalist, improviser, cultural studies graduate. Co-founder and participant of many interdisciplinary artistic projects (music, lm, literary practice) and workshops (i. a. SIM – The School for Improvisational Music, NY, USA). Has performed at many important festivals, i.a. JazzFest Berlin, c/o pop Festival, Tzadik Festival Poznan, Narracje – Festival of Artistic Visual Installations, New Tradition – Polish Radio Folk Festival, O Festival, Open’er Festival - to name a few.
Manoid
Manoid is a producer who transfers the sound of nature into synthetic sounds. He changes emotions into sine waves. Already played as such festivals as Soundrive Festival, Karkle Live Music Beach, SWINE DAYS 2016, Chlodna25, Freedom, Loftas, Asymmetry Festival.
Night Marks Electric Trio
Night Marks Electric Trio is a Poland-based trio blurring the boundaries between hip-hop, soul, jazz, and the freshest electronic music. Over the last three years, jazz music graduates Marek Pędziwiatr (keys, vocals) and Adam Kabaciński (bass, keys) have been joined by the production chops of Spisek Jednego (Piotr Skorupski) in creating their unique sound. This talented trio's impressive live skills have been showcased in performances on a number of TV perfomances and at some of the largest festivals in Poland including Weekender and Opener. NMET were played by Gilles Peterson and Lefto - their music has no boundaries...
Pola Rise
Pola Rise is an artist finding herself in electronic music. On stage she is accompanied by Manoid. Her soft voice perfectly matches the sound and takes the listeners into a fascinating journey with every note. Together, they created a sophisticated combination of two opposite elements, despite their difference of characters. What binds Manoid and Pola Rise together are their mutual inspirations and fascinations.
Rosa Vertov
They may be four young girls from Warsaw, but they don't get an easy pass for being a 'girl band.' Though they just appeared on the scene, Rosa Vertov will surprise you with their attitude and original vision. But don't take our word for it: dive into the straightforward yet disturbing songs on their debut EP, released in September 2015 and Obssesive Thinking SP released in April 2016. Look out for their Long Play any day now.