PRESS RELEASE 27.05.09

The tickets for the December event, Dark Bombastic Evening went on sale, the price being 85 lei, approximately 20 euros. These can be purchased from our official distributors. Bands attending: CASCADEUR (DE), TriORE (DE/SE), :OF THE WAND & THE MOON: (DK), TRIARII (DE), ROME (LU), ORDO ROSARIUS EQUILIBRIO (SE) and SPIRITUAL FRONT (IT). 

Due to popular demand, we have uploaded one track belonging to each one of the participating bands. More details here.

A week after the event went public, fans from all over Europe have showed interest in coming to Bucharest on the 12th of December! Ticket bookings have been received from Bulgaria, Serbia, Portugal, Spain, Italy, Hungary, Germany, Sweden, Greece and Turkey!

Event: Dark Bombastic Evening
Organizers: Kogaionon & DonisArt, www.kogaionon.com, www.donisart.ro
Venue: Hala de Muzica, 475 Mihai Bravu Street, Bucharest, www.halademuzica.ro
Entry time: 19.00
Tickets: Diverta Shops, www.ticketpoint.ro, Titus (Bestial), www.beautyofpain.ro
Price: 85 lei
Details/Contact: kogaiononmagazine@gmail.com.

As well as that, a few more audio snippets have been added onto the web, belonging to the bands participating at the other Special Evening organised by Kogaionon and DonisArt, Ethereal Ambient Evening, an event that will take place on the 12th of September in Brasov, having guests the bands ARCANA, DER BLAUE REITER and NARSILION. More details here.

The tickets to this event have been on sale for about a month now and the price of a ticket is 50 lei, approximately 12 euros, until the day of the event. It is quite likely that this particular event will be the last one held in the elegant theatre hall of Reduta, after a number of 5 other Special Evenings held during 2008!

Event: Ethereal Ambient Evening
Venue: Centrul Cultural Reduta, Str. Apollonia Hirschner 8, Brasov.
Organizers: Kogaionon & DonisArt, www.kogaionon.com, www.donisart.ro
Entry time: 19.00
Tickets: Diverta, www.ticketpoint.ro, www.beautyofpain.ro, Titus (Bestial)
Price: 50 lei (60 lei on the day)
Details/Contact: kogaiononmagazine@gmail.com

Keep close! More surprises to follow!

SHINING is the band I have been longing to see live for quite some time!

To be more precise, since their fifth album hit me full on about two years ago, it is since then that “Halmstad” continues to be one of my favourite releases from the new Black Metal scene.
With a healthy degree of caution (not to call it fear), I tried to make sure that a Romanian concert with the Swedes will be different from what has been taking place abroad, meaning that the theatrical side of the show to be dominated by the musical side, simply in order to avoid conflicts of sorts.

I heard a lot about Niklas Kvarforth (this is his full name, no pseudonyms), I wrote about him a lot and have seen quite a bit of footage with him, I have friends in bands that have told me that this character is not normal for this world… but all these aspects have managed to provoke me, rather than anything else.
And so... having learned that the band is coming to Romania in August, but in a part of the country that will most likely be out of reach for many (north – west), I have decided to invite them to Brasov, to a Black Metal Special Evening, alongside another band, INDIAN FALL. If it has turned out to be good or not, pleasant or shocking, interesting or disgusting, everybody is free to believe whatever they want. Perhaps I have lost some KOGAIONON fans, or gained and kept others… Time will tell!
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A half full hall, an apathetic audience, shy, ‘hidden’, confused, not so knowledgeable but open to see something different within a local scene that is full of events but lacking substance…
Two bands that have only one thing in common, the record label Trisol, one playing a Martial Industrial that reminds of DEATH IN JUNE, the most difficult to play 100% live due to the samples present on the background of the sound, and the other one more Pop, superficially catalogued as NeoFolk, a band that can put up quite a show… especially if it has an audience to match…

An elegant venue, intimate, comfortable, with chairs that seem to induce the desire to sleep, more than the want to see/live with maximum intensity, lights less than hospitable, a frozen blue alternating with a strong red, a setting that mixed scattered newspapers, hats, bags and collages that were trying to construct something feminine… with or without soul… Nevertheless, one could somewhat feel a warm atmosphere floating around the room, an overall friendly attitude, of unconditioned relaxation, one could even say… a familial feel…
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A new Special Evening, organised by Kogaionon and DonisArt, took place on the 15th of November, in the same city and same location where ARCANA, ICE AGES or ATARAXIA have previously performed.

In spite of another event held on the same day but in a different city – Bucharest, an approximate number of 200 people still managed to gather up in the elegant Reduta hall.

Coming from all over the country but from Bulgaria, Ukraine and Serbia as well, the fans started arriving around 5pm. With a more varied range of items, the merchandising stalls (T-shirts, CD’s or magazines) attracted the public’s interest instantly – especially the stand of the bands that were going on stage.
With a half an hour delay over the initially scheduled time, CASCADEUR stepped on stage. Axel Menzer, the mentor of this project, has an expressive voice, very sober, managing to pleasantly surprise the audience.
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The 20th of September went by as well... A Ritual Mediterranean evening in its true sense! Perhaps boring through the lack of dynamism for some, perhaps attractive and even fulminating for those who knew what they for in for. ATARAXIA performed a show like no one else could perform, in an exceptional way and with an incredible sense of giving. The tracks enjoyed some fair acoustics for a theatre hall, the Visual concept was molded after the bands wishes and requests, the abundance of decoration elements found on stage managing to match the resonance of Francescas’ voice and the concept approached by the band.

The fact that the four of them have presented in Brasov both new and old tracks proves that the band prepared enormously to transform a typical concert into a truly Special Evening. The imposing feminine voice resided above it all, Vittorios’ masterly guitar created an unique Mediterranean aura, Giovannis’ keyboard gave the sound, in a very balanced manner, that bombastic sort of atmosphere, while Riccardos’ percussion, a bit timid and less present (unfortunately) managed to often change, in a dynamic manner, a rhythm that stubbornly decided to stay slow, but in the same time mysterious, full of pagan aromas.
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ICE AGES came and went… A sort of an avant-garde concert, a niche sound not easily digestible, not the easiest to assimilate… or even to listen…

Even the projections were pretty tangled up and abstract… in a décor that tried its best to illustrate the complex atmosphere of the ICE AGES music… There were about 150 spectators, a lot of them wanting just to see Richard Lederer aka Protector, the Richard from SUMMONING or DIE VERBANNTEN KINDER EVAS rather than ICE AGES.

But, and this was no secret to anyone, his live appearances are extremely rare, his last ones have happened some 5 years ago, in an unique show over in Switzerland. And now, the opportunity arose once again, and the ones interested took full advantage of it…
We had about 90 minutes of Cold Dark Electronic, with a computerized music, with a voice that used two different distortion effects, with less melody and rhythm but a lot more internal dynamic… there were also a few little synchronisation issues, unwanted but they happened nevertheless… probably due to the lack of experience of live performances, but with a decent sound, a fair one for this sort of music.
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Back over 10 years ago I was craving to see ARCANA live! I loved the first two albums and I felt the strong desire to do a subjective review and an official interview! Well, my dream came through in the evening of 19th of April, as a true MAGIC EVENING happened!

But everything started on April 18th, when I first met them all at the airport. Yes, five persons as normal as you can imagine, very friendly and communicative since our maiden contact. The most "Metal" of them was Peter, wearing a coat on which you could see BATHORY and seemingly POSSESSED or VENOM. Later on, I was about to see Mattias with a CELTIC FROST T-shirt, so a long talk started, technically divagating over and over again on Old True Metal theme.
Our ride to Brasov was a perfectly normal one, as we laughed, spin a lot of stories and listen to all sorts of music in the car. We spent that evening on a traditional restaurant, where palinca had a role of its own, aside the classic beers and wine. I obstinate into explaining to Peter that vodka is not the sole strong drink and this turned obviously clear on both our faces the next day. It was a hard night, indeed...
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