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PROGRESS Festival of Russian Alternative Music, Performance and
Video Art.
30/11 >> 06/12
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Vooruit Geluid Festival, the annual music festival at
Vooruit Gent, focuses for this edition on the Russian alternative scene.
Progress: the name contains a retro touch, but it also means
progression. The festival is retrospective as well as it looks ahead. Some
groups – alternative rockbands as ZGA and Auktyon – are still underground as
they were in the Soviet period. Others – the female punkrock of Iva Nova and
the accordeonphenomena Evelina Petrova for instance – have crossed Russian
borders and have become internationally accepted musicians. That exactly is
some of the characteristics of Vooruit
Geluid: the original mix between rock, jazz and contemporary, and aspects from
the traditional music scene.
Welcome to a festival that introduces you in speed to
Russian culture – music, video art, literature, politics and vodka of course!
Thursday 1 December
19:00
Opening of the video installation exhibition
Work of famous and young
Russian video-artists.
Including: Blue Noses / Siberian Tetris / Olga Chenryshova / Ljudmila Gorlova /
Dmitri Gutov / Viktor Alimpiev / Vika Begalskaya / Blue Soup / David
Ter-Oganyan / ESCAPE / Anja Zaitseva
20:00 Theater Hall
Alexei Aigui
& Ensemble 4’33
Live Music to the silent movie ‘ Dom Na
Troubnoi’ of Boris Barnet (1928)
EUR 10 (vvk) / 12
MINIMAL MUSIC – SILENT MOVIE
Alexei Aigui is a young Russian composer that writes post minimalist music (building
on the repertoire of Michael Nyman, Philip Glass,…). He has already assembled a
great repertoire and has released several cd’s. He is often asked to write
music for films, theatre and dance. For the Progress Festival Aigui and
Ensemble 4’33 will accompany a magnificent silent movie of Boris Barnet: Dom Na
Troubnoi (The House on the Troubnaja Square-1928)
22:00 Ball Room
Volkov Trio feat. Sergej Starostin
EUR
10 (vvk) / 12
Jazz / Impro / RUSSIAN FOLK
Bass player Vladimir Volkov
is one the most prolific jazz musicians and composers on the Russian scene.
Together with guitarist Slava Kurashov and drummer Dennis Sladkevitch he has a
power full trio. Intense music where lyrical moments and fierce improvisation
come together. The Volkov trio will have Sergej Starostin – the clarinet player
and renewer of the traditional music – as a special guest..
23:00 Café
Fotomoto
Free entrance
ElektroPop
Fotomoto were the favorites of charismatic BBC
producer John Peel. The quartet is a curious Russian mix of Stereolab, Depeche
Mode and Serge Gainsbourg. With a great vocalist Olya Volodina. Just re-released Fotomodel (by CPH-sound, Denm.)
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Friday 2 December
20:00 Theater hall
UNORTHODOX CHANTS
An evening in three parts, in collaboration with
Contemporary Music Network UK
EUR 12 (vvk) / 15
STRAVINSKY REVISITED
POKROVSKI
ENSEMBLE (vocal ensemble) – PEASANT SONGS
-Traditional Russian wedding songs
-Stravinsky Pribaoutki (Peasant Songs)
-Raskatov Songs of the Frozen Lands
-Stravinsky Tableau IV from Les Noces
Includes film footage by Sergei Starostin
EVELINA PETROVA (vocal-accordion)
Songs from her album Year’s Cycle
PokrovskI Ensemble & Opus
Posth (string ensemble led by Tatiana
Grindenko)
playing
Vladimir Martinov’s Night in Galicia
Lying somewhere
between folk, orchestra, avant garde and downright weird, Night in Galicia is
one of those fascinating little discs to review. It challenges every musical
convention, it challenges any concept of idiom or style, and most of all, it
challenges this listener.”
22:30 Ball room
Evelina Petrova (accor) and
Bert Van Laethem (violin)- creation
EUR 8 (vvk) / 10
RUSSIAN-BELGIAN NEW-FOLK
Evelina Petrova is a virtuoso accordionist and
vocalist of extraordinary range and versatility. A rising star of Russian new
folk, she first came to prominence as a member of trumpeter Vyacheslav
Gayvoronski’s quintet and her solo songs are heavily influenced by jazz and
improvised music. Her album Year’s Cycle, featuring astounding vocal
interpretations of Russian folk songs, has already caused a stir in the music
press but you have to see and hear her live to experience the vital force of
her music.
Petrova wrote a songbook for accordion and violin. She
worked on this oeuvre with Flemish violin player Bert Van Laethem (trained in
classical and folk repertoire). Evelina has visited Vooruit for short
residencies and Bert has gone to Petersburg to work with Evelina. It has been a
very intense process.
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Saturday 3 December
20:00 Dome Hall
Alexander Petlura
EUR 8 (red) / 10
Performance
This Ukrainin-Moscow artist Alexander Petlura makes
theaterical collages in which he displays arte facts of the soviet era and tell
every day life stories. The performance features inhabitants of Brussels and
Gent.
Collaboration between Kaaitheater (Brussels) and
Vooruit (Gent).
20:00 Theater HALL
ZGA
EUR 10 (vvk) / 12
POST-INDUSTRIAL
BALLROOM
ZGA’s abstract instrumental music could be seen as an aural
description of everyday Soviet or post-Soviet life. The sound is dominated by
cold metal, and its logic seems mostly absurd, at least initially. Founded in
1984, ZGA is Russia’s oldest experimental music group. The only remaining
original member Nick Sudnick started to build the instruments he calls
zgamoniums 15 years ago.
21:30 Ball Room
Auktyon
ALTERNATIVE ROCK
Auktyon is a
legendary alternative rock band of charismatic singer Leonid Fjodorov . The band is popular in Russia and in some countries
in Europe, but has never played in Belgium!
23:00 Café
Iva Nova
Free entrance
Punkrockfolk
All female band that make an original blend of punk
rock and traditional music. They call it Extreme girl’s folkore.