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#MUSIC
Brazilian-German-Electro-Pop
Have you heard of Dillon? You should! If you’ve ever fancied what is often described as electro-pop, this Berlin-based Brazilian will steal your heart. This is how Mike Diver described her 2011 ‘This Silence Kills’ album:
‘Young, attractive, active in the bustling Berlin electro scene, signed to the always interesting Bpitch Control: Dillon, born Dominique Dillon de Byington, has a great deal going for her before a single second of this debut album is heard. But expectations – beginning and ending with techno, given the label in question’s pedigree – are dashed by a collection which confounds with a beguiling sound somewhere between muted electronica, chamber-pop and torch songs. Imagine Lykke Li lost in the shadows of Fever Ray’s haunted house, or Hanne Hukkelberg pained by a heart crumbling to dust: that enveloping atmosphere in mind, it’s somewhere close to what this disc offers.’
This Wednesday, see Dillon live at Warsaw’s Basen!
Where: Basen
Map: click to open
When: Wednesday, 14 May, 9pm
How much: 59 zł
Details: click here
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#PARTY
Dance like it’s 1989!
Poland broke away from the soviet block back in 1989 which means we’re celebrating 25 years since that happened. How about throwing a party on that occasion? But not a shirts-and-ties-and-politicians party, something that would bring back the memories of those born in late 70s/early 80s? Oh, and let’s call it: ’89 BADBITCHES!
If you remember Lambada, if you’d like to listen to what every Polish primary school pupil loved in early 1990s, don’t miss that party! It’s also your chance to take a sneak-peak into the Palace of Culture and Science as the event is hosted by Café Kulturalna located on its premises.
Where: Café Kulturalna
Map: click to open
When: Wednesday, 14 May, 10pm
How much: free
Details: click here
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#MUSEUM / #EXHIBITION
Typo-Polo
To get the joke in this exhibition’s name you have to realize what disco polo was. Well, that was one of the most popular types of music in Poland in 1990s. Think of countryside wedding songs arranged for keyboards and here it is! Disco polo bands sold hundreds of thousands cds (or cassettes, to be precise!) but they quite obviously remain a symbol of kitsch and bad music taste.
The exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art takes a look at a parallel phenomenon: home-made banners, posters and ads that were supposed to help emerging Polish entrepreneurs of the 1990s get through with their message in public space. As it’s easy to guess, the results were not works of typographic art.
Where: Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej (Museum of Contemporary Art)
Map: click to open
When: Tue-Sun, 12pm-8pm, until 15 June 2014
How much: free
Details: click here
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Travel back to the 1990s in Poland or listen to some cutting-edge electro-pop. This is Wednesday in Warsaw! (photo from artmuseum.pl)