Širom (Slovenia)
Enthusiastic Eunuch Presents
Širom
with special guests tba
Thursday 17th September
Arthur’s Blues & Jazz
Tickets via https://billetto.ie/e/sirom-slovenia-tickets-1892720
“Be brave and embrace this uneasy, intense album for the ages” – The Guardian (Folk Album Of The Month)
“Širom aren’t just drawing on the past as a way to look to the future, or using techniques employed in electronic music, or constructing playful narratives, or documenting the latest results of their improvisations, they’re doing all these things simultaneously” – The Quietus
The intertwining of diverse musical approaches and tools, histories of sounds and unbridled musical imagination and craftmanship is the expansive guiding principle of the Širom trio, whose members stem from the regions of Prekmurje, Tolminsko and Kras.
More than a dozen instruments can be found in the repertoire of Iztok Koren, Samo Kutin and Ana Kravanja and at least as many given musical forms that can be perceived as an inspiration behind the character of this new ensemble. However, in their practice as well as experiencing they remain anchored in their creative process to an extent that allows them to avoid merely reflecting existing patterns. What this generates in an original, stylistically homogeneous form of expression that oscillates between a wide array of folk sounds and contemporary acoustic rock-style meditations. The end result is grounded yet still mystical minimalism. Širom's music is contemplative, but can get harder when necessary, it is closer to being band- than chamber-like, to being street as opposed to urban in nature.
Each member of Širom also performs in a myriad of other bands and music projects, such as ŠKM banda, Hexenbrutal, Najoua, Samo Gromofon, and Horda grdih.
For You, This Eve, the Wolves Will Be Enchantingly Forsaken: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MIrJi8fUK9Q
Curls Upon the Neck, Ribs Upon the Mountain: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KTMpm9DlV0