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Fifth year in a row, Croatia's best little festival Indirekt is digging deep
into your emotions whilst revealing some of the 'best kept' musical secrets
in Europe. The team behind Indirekt Music&Art Festival started their
search in 2013. and since has brought over 50 acts both music and arts
in Umag, a little town on the western coast of Istria. The goal is to
connect with the region as well as to create a network for all you indie
souls out there. With that in mind, let's dig in into this years line up!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZtAbWabMN8
Jakob Kobal 22 year old songwriter from Slovenia plays emotional indie
folk songs in English with wide range of influences from Kings of
Convinience and Syd Barret to Ben Howard and Jeff Buckley. After his
teenager punk band split up, he started playing acoustic guitar attempting
to convey his thoughts and his perspective on the world through his lyrics
and music which brought him remarkable media attention and a
participation on Eurosonic Noordeslaag festival in Groningen. His show
promises to be an intimate and enchanting happening.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QfhAoWqAmA
Sofie From Seattle is a dark pop project made of musicians from Serbian
americana scene. They are friends who store songs made at gatherings
between rehearsals, jobs, finals, film developments, upon missed buses,
getting pink slips and at rowing and swimming adventures. Mingling
together on a vacation they wrote the first single and released the EP soon
after. Sofie is now a four piece all female band. In correspondence with
their dreamy, acoustic, focused on vocals music, they don't perform so
often. When they do they make sure it's an intimate atmosphere, trying
to preserve the moment from which everything arise from. That's once
in a lifetime opportunity to hear them live in an intimate atmosphere on
Indirekt festival.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcRu40sQ_n8
Cari Cari are Stephanie and Alexander, energetic indie/blues rock duo
basd in Vienna (Austria). They started as a side project, but gained succes
like showing up in a Shameless soundtrack, twice! You can hear
synthesizer, seductive guitar joined with southern drum beats, australian
didgeridu and jaw harp, they are singing on turns and getting along
together in harmony. They are promoting their first EP Amerippindunkler
in Umag along with some new songs. The Kills fans will be delighted.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBo_fMkdTrY
Mile Me Deaf is a trippy pop collective from Vienna. It's kind of a solo
project because most of the songs are written and recorded by
multiinstrumentalst and a producer Wolfgang Mst (Sex Jams, Killed By 9v
Batteries, Melt Downer) in his living room. Wolfgang played the guitar
until he broke his finger. His urge to play forced him to find another way of
making music. He layed his hands on a sampler and fell in love with the
possibillities the instrument offered. Thanks to that misfortune we have a
chance to enjoy his latest album Alien Age which seems influenced by
numerous bands like Tame Impala, Foxygen, Flaming Lips and some older
bands because of the numerous samples and Kevin Parkerish vocal.
In live performance they are accompannied by a band and a psychoactive
VJ. If you never got the chance to see MGMT live, I'm sure this
experimental noise pop band will sattisfy your needs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk_jxha1ETo
This is not all more music and arts acts are soon to be announced.
Indirekt festival is going to be held from 1st 4th June 2017, at Kamp Veli
Joe in Savudrija, Umag. Picture this: a pine wood forest, close to the see,
with a light breeze brushing your cheek...need we say more?
P.S. Be careful! Indirekt festival contains oxytocin and can cause a serious
case of LOVE.