Idealistic Festival Vol. 3 / Mayhem / Copenhagen

"Idealistic Festival" is a non-genre music festival and international art platform that brings together artists from Denmark and Poland. We present acoustic and electronic music, focusing on the fresh and original sound of the young generation from both countries. We are interested in the radical practice of seeking personal expression. Our programme showcases the breadth of the Baltic scene.
Live at Mayhem:
Anne Efternøler [DK]
Vera3 [DK]
RASP Lovers [PL]
Julek Ploski [PL]

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Doors 19.00 // Show 20.00
Tickets advance: 100 kr. + fee
Link: http://billetto.dk/.../idealistic-festival-vol-3-at...
Tickets door: 100 kr.
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The Danish part will take place in Copenhagen: on 22.10 at Stairway and 30.10 at Mayhem. Apart from noise-rockers BYEBYE Tsunami [IT/DK/LV] from Copenhagen, Maja Laura [PL] will be there to present her debut solo album. We will also hear contemporary composers of visionary electronic music from Poland: Aleksandra Słyż [PL], Galuschka [PL] and Julek Ploski [PL]. The line-up is completed with the experimental pop project Vera3 [DK], Anne Efternøler [DK] in an abstract solo trumpet concert and the punk-jazz quintet RASP Lovers [PL].
The Polish part of Idealistic Festival #3 will take place at Gdańsk’s Kolonia Artystów on 30.09-03.10.2021. On day one, contemporary classical music performed by oboist Aleksandra Panasik [PL] will be contrasted with the debut show of teenage trap group takeoutthetrash [PL]. Day two will have Rasmus Kjær [DK] present his tourist synthesizer music, after which the local electro-acoustic ensemble Bizarre Penguin [PL] will help us get to grips with the strangeness of being. Saturday marks the debut concert of Piotr Chęcki, wh0wh0 and Hatti Vatti’s new project – Hinode Tapes [PL]. Next up is ioulus [DK], Julia Becker’s solo endeavour: an innovative take at slow-pop and expression of intimate, private life. The Gdańsk part of the festival will end with the brittle, fragile and scary mix of robotic funk from Birthgiving Toad [DK] and young post-jazz ensemble bjkt [bojkot] [PL].
The festival was founded in 2019 on the initiative of two musicians: Kamil Piotrowicz (Kamil Piotrowicz Sextet, Wojtczak/Piotrowicz, LAWAAI, Howard Records) and Szymon Gąsiorek (Pimpono Ensemble, E/I, Czajka & Puchacz, Love & Beauty Music). During their studies at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, they observed a number of grassroots initiatives in their environment, which tried to promote uncompromising original music. These efforts often seemed lonely and their reach was rather limited, prompting Piotrowicz and Gąsiorek to create a platform that would unite them and strengthen the alternative, independent music scene. The aim of this international exchange is to broaden the impact of valuable, innovative music in the existing art environment of both countries. The festival’s core are concerts by Danish and local bands in Poland and the other way round – a showcase of Polish artists in Copenhagen backed with local projects from Denmark. As a result, Polish listeners can experience art created in Denmark and vice versa, in a process of mutual inspiration with the differences resulting from the cultural and geographic distance between Scandinavia and Central and Eastern Europe.

partners, sponsors:
Gdańsk
Co-financed by the City of Gdańsk, ZAiKS, Danish Ministry of Culture, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, JazzPuljen and JazzDanmark.
Copenhagen
With support from KODA Culture, Statens Kunstfond, JazzPuljen, Adam Mickiewicz Institute and Embassy of Poland in Copenhagen.