Baltic noise/experimental industrial = LITHUANIA / ESTONIA / LATVIA

Started by FreakAnimalFinland, February 18, 2013, 07:38:12 PM

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FreakAnimalFinland

Recently visiting Lithuania for second time, and seeing that many of the local bands were more impressive than the some foreigners, makes me wonder how many actually pay attention to stuff from Baltic countries?
I must admit I'm fairly clueless of what happens in Estonia and Latvia, but not sure if it's cluelessness, or simply that material of my taste doesn't really exist there?

Lithuania in other hand is entirely different case. Is it thanks to quite active gig organizers and labels, but country presents pretty solid offering of material what can be found from labels like Autarkeia or Terror for example.

Who? Where to hear samples? Youtube...

SALA

POGROM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27106jr07cw

GIRNU GIESMES
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDQMIQooDg4

BUDRUS
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5xyX1DSbbXw

BODY CARGO
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ciB1H6ck4k

Vidinė Ramybė

McKaras
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FT3NT1lLWuI

Oorchach
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npl_R9uktR4

MALDUR ATAI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0-PGMTmDl5I

and so on..
feel free to list more and comments as well!
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linxtyx

Quote from: FreakAnimalFinland on February 18, 2013, 07:38:12 PM
Vidinė Ramybė

nice live by Kiras > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ih5x8TcR7M

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NIEKIS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUgK9ZIdO9U

Daina Dieva

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMFsq355R1s

if we willing to add collabs and side projects then we must add :

LAPOT (Daina Dieva + Pogrom)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fA-j3mCrsFY (only Levas was playing live that time)

VOLKSMORG (Body Cargo + Pogrom)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT1UC6XBLgU (this one really drunk one)

HASSOKK (Body Cargo side-project)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0OySJGS_xA

Oro! Oro! (Girnų Giesmės side-project)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoM1qoJV8Vk

for now I can mention those.

tisbor

Vidine Ramybe recorded some of my favourite noise from the last few years.
Is Craniopagus still active?

HongKongGoolagong

I don't know if you would call PICHISMO from Kaunas, Lithuania noise/experimental or metal-influenced shitcore or 'outsider' art - or just insane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMvdt6baCE4

linxtyx

Quote from: tisbor on February 18, 2013, 08:54:34 PM
Vidine Ramybe recorded some of my favourite noise from the last few years.
Is Craniopagus still active?

New material of VR/HASSOKK coming out very soon on TeRRoR.

linxtyx

Quote from: HongKongGoolagong on February 18, 2013, 09:19:13 PM
I don't know if you would call PICHISMO from Kaunas, Lithuania noise/experimental or metal-influenced shitcore or 'outsider' art - or just insane.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMvdt6baCE4

Gleb (PICHISMO) must be called "everything-they-hate-in-one" kind of person.
Charismatic person..in special way(s).

HongKongGoolagong

Quote from: linxtyx on February 18, 2013, 09:53:47 PM
Gleb (PICHISMO) must be called "everything-they-hate-in-one" kind of person.
Charismatic person..in special way(s).

Leaving aside his weird art, Gleb simply as a person is very possibly the most unusual human being I've ever met. He was a great host for a bunch of us English guys a few years ago, but we are all still confused about what exactly happened the night we stayed at his place. We came to Lithuania for strangeness and excitement and with Glebo we found more than we could imagine!

linxtyx

Quote from: HongKongGoolagong on February 19, 2013, 12:59:49 AM
Quote from: linxtyx on February 18, 2013, 09:53:47 PM
Gleb (PICHISMO) must be called "everything-they-hate-in-one" kind of person.
Charismatic person..in special way(s).

Leaving aside his weird art, Gleb simply as a person is very possibly the most unusual human being I've ever met. He was a great host for a bunch of us English guys a few years ago, but we are all still confused about what exactly happened the night we stayed at his place. We came to Lithuania for strangeness and excitement and with Glebo we found more than we could imagine!

Hehe. That is Gleb.

Nil By Mouth

Quote from: tisbor on February 18, 2013, 08:54:34 PM
Vidine Ramybe recorded some of my favourite noise from the last few years.
Is Craniopagus still active?
Craniopagus is American. I think you are refeering to the Nbm tape entitled" lithuanian acceptance"

Levas

As for Lithuania, there has been and there still are quite a lot of ambient acts, especially with themes, related to paganism, ethnic culture etc. Just lately there started to appear more and more noise and similarly oriented bands. Autarkeia is of course the biggest and oldest industrial oriented label out here, but he has his own vision of label, sounds etc. that most Lithuanian projects simply don't fit. And more academic approach towards noise was always rather active here, but at the moment I'm simply too detached from that to say something meaningful. Anyways, the names that might ring a bell:

Akala:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ilfPHsfeAE - releases on Fin de sciecle, Pure etc.

Naj
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mWzGXamH8_s

Eimontas, Čiūta, etc.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bF9C__9Bc_Q

Arma/Brūzgynai

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_JhCjas_v2w

N!N!N!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtZ571rcT2E <-- nice gig on the roof

J. Milašius <-- in fact he was one of those indirect streams that attracted me to noise.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r383KIgQLqk

Ir visa tai kas yra gražu yra gražu
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=INtov0StRHo <--together with J. Milašius. This is the legendary avantgard/noise band in here and Baras (the guy with the beard) was truly the first true noiser in Lithuania, trading with M. Akita etc. while even Lash was still too young for his conspiracy theories etc. Sadly, his lifestyle led him to early death, but you can see total abuse of a guitar in this video and perhaps can imagine all else.

So here are mainly those that were not mentioned from Lithuania, but that are, in my opinion, important. I'll add more later as there was another "very small wave" of industrial/etc. related projects where people involved are not that old.

As for Latvians, I don't know almost anything apart from Sturm label.

Claustrum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAfLMhhUTY8

Rosewater
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StfyAXKfkqA

Traur Zot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5roanRnp4g

Autogen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dboUv_M0gg0

Barodarho
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDjeMr9oFdY

I'm pretty sure there are more of what I don't know. Well, Latvia leans more towards more "danceable" a la Haus Arafna style industrial than Lithuania.
And when we reach Estonia, I don't know any noise or even related bands from there..

Forgotten Sunrise
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMpN_lDHFcE

is the only thing that comes into mind. There are mostly EBM I think that are related somewhat to industiral. But Estonians have very strong metal scene so.. and then after Estonia when going from Lithuania we have Finland which is a phenomenon in their active and productive scene.

Levas

Ah, while listening to Forgotten Sunrise, here, check the version of In Heaven. Is it better than Haus Arafna's or not?

Forgotten Sunrise - In Heaven
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNW0K1fhH5A