Category Archives: 2014

Klimt is the solo project of Antoni Budziński, guitarist of “Saluminesia” from Sopot (here you can listen to their song about the Polish habit of drinking „tea with lemon“). Nomen est omen for Klimt’s first album from 2008 “Autumn Shades of Melancholy” (Jesienne odcienie melancholii): his post-rock opens up lots of space for emotions and…

The music video “Няма Беларусі / Njama Belarusi” (engl. “There is no Belarus”) by the band “Рэха / Recha” (engl. “Echo”; the “ch” is an “Ach”-sound, so please don’t pronounce it “Retscha”) was shot in a district close to Pastawy, a rural region in the northwest of Belarus close to the Lithuanian border. In this…

Korben Dallas are a Slovak band from Bratislava. Not the most famous one (yet?) but they are slowly getting more recognition from music critics (they won quite a few awards, including the best concert band) as well as from their fans. That is probably due to their pleasing music with poetic lyrics. Named after the…

Extravagance has a name: Friedrich Liechtenstein. A multi-talented actor, singer and showmaster, this years’ pop-phenomenon Friedrich Liechtenstein fascinates both, artsy critics as well as the yellow press of Germany. His popularity results less from his theatre or television parts but more so from the viral sucess of a grocery-chains’ commercial: The song/commercial “Supergeil” gathered more…

When we presented these guys with a jazzy and mystic instrumental on December 20th last year, Simon wrote us that he saw the band in a barn in Dresden and that they could easily change their tune. Today we’ll present you this sort of crazy tune from the musicians from Lublin, Warszawa and Bialystok. Although…

The Kafka Band is part of the comic project “Das Schloss“ (“The Castle“) which unites literature, fine arts and music. Center of the project is the comic adaption of Kafka’s incomplete novel “The Castle”, created by US-American cartoonist David Zane Mairowitz and Czech artist Jaromir99. One part of the band are the author Jaroslav Rudiš…

When The Notwist have been our guests at the first musical adventcalender in 2009 https://gfpsfreiburg.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/gfps-hitparade/ with Pick Up the Phone, the musicians were already quite well known internationally. Even today, the band might be one of Bavaria’s biggest export hits. It was founded by the Acher Brothers (Markus Acher, voice and guitar/ Micha Acher, bass)…

“Nie zgubię się w tłumie” (I won’t get lost in the crowd) by the Polish band Pustki is like one of those countless weekdays when you get up too early and have to go to work: every day the same way, the same people, and always that crowd through which one has to find his…

Now, the season for cruising through the sunny landscape is over. Nevertheless the song “In Aufruhr” (In rage) could become an evergreen and that matches the days of the Christmas tree quiet well. The two rappers Umse and Megaloh aren’t complete unknowns in the rap scene anymore. Fortunately, they also get fame beyond the subculture.…

Walls divide, which often hurts people. But walls can also encounter a territory or a room and give people a feeling of safety and privacy. Walls very often make people curious about what’s going on behind them. But we’re not here to give a phenomenology of walls, thus listen yourself, what’s behind the walls today.…

Floex is still new to our calendar. Tomáš Dvořák, a Czech composer, multimedia artist and producer from Prague, is the head of this project. With his music he combines electronic and acoustic elements in a special atmospheric way. The clip from “Gone feat. Never Sol” is almost untypical for a Czech video. The film director…

The Polish countryside – hard work on the farm, a life with animals and the catholic church. But this soundtrack has almost nothing in common with Polish folk music. Instead, it sounds more like some of the new Polish electro-pop bands like Kamp ((part of the musical adventcalendar 2013) and The Dumplings. The three heroes…

Krambambula’s style can be described as pop rock with which their texts parody phenomena of post-Soviet society (hits like “Guests” or “Tourists”). The band’s name comes from an old belarusian alcoholic drink that is served with strong brew of honey and herbs – the Krambambula. With song titles dedicated to alcoholic drinky like Chianti, Absynth…

That beat is just awesome. We thought. And quickly added this groovy clash of musical galaxies to this year’s musical adventcalendar. The Stettin’ saxophonist Kazana is usually at home in the jazz-area, the percussionist José Manuel Albán Juarez in all sorts of areas of the Polish music scene from Free Jazz to Hip Hop, whereas…

Punk mixed into Jazz and a Schubert-interpretation on the same album as a Kraftwerk-cover. Can this work out? The piano trio [em] celebrates it on its latest album from 2012. The trio, which found together in 2002, consists of Eva Krause (double bass), Eric Schaefer (drum kit) and Michael Wollny (piano). While all of them…

This is a little mysterious band originally coming from the town of Krnov (which is located in the mountains in north Silesia, by the borders with Poland): nowadays only the leader Ivan Gajdoš is living there, the other members (Lukáš Novotný, Matouš Godík) live in Prague. The first album called Bingriwingri (this word doesn´t mean…

We don’t think there’s much to add about Lyapis if you have been a follower of the musical adventcalendar – after all, the probably most famous belarusian band was part of our adventcalendar almost every year. On top of that, Lyapis also won the voting with their song Princess in 2012. With today’s goodie we’re…

Here they are again, the 10-people hip hop-brass-band from Munich. After having been awarded the 3. place in MAK 2012 for the summer song “Liebe” this is is a little more thoughtful release from the Red Album (2013) – nevertheless including a funny idea for the video clip. Since (and because of, naturally) being mentioned…

Our little Santa Claus goody is, so they say themselves, an extraordinary band! They exist already since 1998 and were formed from students of the Jedličkův ústav. They have found a solid place in the Czech „šoubyznys“. The extraordinary aspect of their meeting lies in the place, or rather in the circumstances – the Jedličkův…

Ljavon Volski is well known outside of Belarus. As a founder of such bands as N.R.M. or Mroja he was also part of past editions of our musical advent calendar, for example here. He is one of the most popular and influential personalities of Belarusian culture, singing only in Belarusian. The start of his career…

Honig, the German word for honey, doesn’t point to the dreams of Pu the bear, it’s rather the surname of the leader of an indie pop band coming from Düsseldorf. In 2006, after hobby musician Stefan Honig had quit his job as kindergarten educator, he founded his band Honig, with which he published recently, eight…

Today, our goodie addresses mostly to young people and to all of those, who always wanted to get in touch with the Polish alphabet. In this video, every letter introduces a word that begins with that very same letter. The mentioned music video is part of a campaign called “Ojczysty – dodaj do ulubionych“ which…

This year’s second musical goody is rather a regular in our calendar: Wohnout. After Ó, gramofón in 2009 and Modlitba pro hříšníky in 2013, this year’s Svaz českých bohémů comes with the usual comical mixture of energy and irony. The topic, however, is a little more serious: Memories of a long night out with friends…

Traditionally the musical advent calendar begins with its journey in Belarus. It fits well with the fact, that there are still some leaves on the trees, as the first song deals with autumn. However, isn’t it rather a song about spring? At least one can say that it is a fabulous reference to the temporal…