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The Pop Farm presents Bol Festival showcase will bring the best of Russia's biggest festival of independent music to the International Festival Forum
By IQ on 24 Sep 2019
Bol Festival is the biggest festival of independent music in Russia, based in Moscow and co-promoted by the Pop Farm concert agency and Russian indie music promoter Stefan Kazaryan.
Started five years ago as a one-day, one-stage event with ten acts on the line-up, this year’s edition grew to three days (5–7 July) and seven stages, hosting not only a great range of Russian musicians but also loads of international acts – the Good, the Bad and the Queen, Death Grips, Sophie, Warmduscher, Black Midi, Fontaines DC and Algiers – and a separate programme for modern theatre, a wide-reaching educational programme and a stand-up comedy stage.
At IFF, Pop Farm will present the highlights of the Russian acts from this year’s festival: emo-punk trio Pasosh, daring ironic experimentalists Inturist and electronic hip-hop duo with vibrant female vocals Aigel.
Pasosh is a Russian emo-punk band from Moscow, founded by Petar Martic and Kirill Gorodniy after playing in rap-duo Prigay Kiska. It currently consists of lead singer and bassist Petar Martic, guitarist Kirill Gorodniy and drummer Grisha Drach.
Starting in 2015, the band performed in small venues around Moscow and did a couple of tours. Today, Pasosh is the one of the biggest underground Russian bands, the symbol of youth and coming of age. Themes of their songs vary from parties, day-to-day life in Russia, freedom of mind and being a small man in a big world.
At IFF, Pop Farm will present the highlights of the Russian acts from this year’s Bol Festival
Inturist is the most unpredictable musical project in Moscow. It looks into the deep abyss of everyday life, takes out random items and gives them infernal properties –immersing you into a trance equal to daily machine work or to attempts to call the customer support of your bank; and deceives, as the weather forecast in the Russian Far East.
At the heart of Inturist’s approach are spontaneous creative solutions and improvisation collected in some semblance of a musical performance, viewed by visitors of festivals SKIF, Tallinn Music Week, BOL, Garnir, the parties of Arma 17 and many other impossibly trendy events.
Aigel is the poetry of Aigel Gaisina laid to the foundation of electronic hip hop of Ilya Baramia. It is sometimes hard, sometimes hypnotic, free from the most unpleasant genre cliches and generally contradicting mainstream hip hop.
In August Aigel released their third studio album, Eden – an autobiographical work, about home, written in continuous travel.
Pop Farm’s Bol Festival showcase takes place upstairs at the Lock Tavern on Wednesday 25 September, starting at 9pm. For more information, visit the International Festival Forum website or download the IFF 2019 app.
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