Mūzikas festivāls 'Skaņu mežs 2025'

The group These New Puritans will perform in "Skaņu meža 2025", "lark tickets" are on sale

The most successful in terms of attendance 2018 experimental music festival "Skaņu mežs" announces the sale of "lark tickets" and the dates of the next edition. "Skaņu mežs 2025" will take place on October 3 and 4 in the cultural space "Hanzas Perons" (Hanzas Street 16A), and the British experimental rock group "These New Puritans" will perform on its second night. "Lark tickets" are available at www.bilesuserviss.lv until January 31 at a special price - 37 EUR.

Looking back at "Skaņu mežs 2024"

"Skaņu mežs 2024" experienced not only a record attendance, but also critical acclaim. The British magazine "The Wire" called it "perhaps the most important experimental music festival in the Baltic States" (this is the second time this media has written about "Skaņu mežu"), while the music criticism portal "The Quietus" wrote the following: "Bravely curated expanded a journey through radical sounds. [..] The key to the festival's success lies in the fact that its curators are not afraid to make rapid leaps across genre boundaries."

The Lithuanian culture media "Ore.lt" also called "Skaņu mežu" one of the best festivals in the region, while the Spanish fashion magazine "Metal" described it as "a key stop in the international experimental music scene" ".

"Sound Forest 2025"

"Sound Forest 2025" central concert evenings will take place on October 3 and 4 in the cultural space "Hanzas Perons" (Hanzas Street 16A). As the festival approaches, a free concert evening and a program of lectures and master classes will also be announced. "lark tickets" are available for next year's festival. The price applies to the first 100 tickets and is valid until January 31 or while tickets are available, but will later rise to EUR 55.

These New Puritans

The first announced guests of the festival are the British experimental rock group "These New Puritans", operated by twin brothers George and Jack Barnett (George, Jack Barnett). The band's name is borrowed from the song "New Puritan" by the legendary British band "The Fall". Through the four studio albums released so far, the band has gone beyond their original affiliation to post-punk and experimented with a wide variety of musical influences: from traditional Japanese music and trip-hop to minimalism and dreamy synthpop, which is why they are often described as genre-definable. "We are the last cult band", the brothers said in a 2020 interview with the media "The Quietus". To "Talk Talk" frontman Mark Hollis: "That's because Hollis, like Barnett, had chosen a deeply personal musical path, in general not being interested in commercial success."

The group "Skaņu meža" will present material from their fifth album, which will be released in 2025 by the indie music label "Domino". Combining four musicians who dynamically change instruments on stage, as well as video projections, the concert is conceived as a musically versatile and immersive experience.

Music criticism media "Pitchfork" rated the band's 2013 album "Field of Reeds" with 8.4 out of 10 points, described it as "strange and beautiful" and placed it in the "Best New Music" category .

These New Puritans' most recent record is 2019's Inside The Rose, which Pitchfork described as a space where "sound tells more than words, contemplation seems threatening and mystery is like an abstract door to new possibilities".

The known supporters of the festival are the State Culture Capital Fund, Riga City Council, the Ministry of Culture, the European Union-supported projects "tekhnė" and "SHAPE+", as well as "Valmiermuiža".

More information: www.skanumezs.lv

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