Abandoned premises of the former Kombiteks administrative building
Center for Contemporary Culture KRAK (Hamze Hume Street, Bihać) 
Concert: Saturday, September 3, 2022, at 9 pm

The performance of the Sarajevo-based music duo Basheskia & Edward EQ at the premises of former administrative building of Kombiteks textile factory is an attempt to aesthetically revitalize the abandoned industrial places through the sound poetics of electronic music. With almost two decades of presence on the stage, Basheskia & Edward EQ are considered pioneers of electronic music in Bosnia and Herzegovina and artists who affirmed its different direction. Two different artistic sensibilities – a drummer and an opera singer, gained experience through club gigs, collaboration with a number of other bands and work on numerous plays and films. Their recent album Seven Lessons with Mehmed Begić is the result of collaboration with the aforementioned poet and a sort of ambient marker of an individual's thoughtfulness in today's turmoil. The concert in the ruins of Kombiteks aims to revive its abandoned space at least for a moment, but also to bring attention to the spatial values of the former industrial heritage.

In their performances, Basheskia & Edward EQ merge live instrument performances – drums, guitars, synthesizers – with gentle recitals and opera voices, in English, Latin or Italian. The duo very skillfully includes sequences and rhythms, as well as abundant bass moments, thus forming electro-, rock- and trip-hop-arrangements enriched with widely placed epic forms. The Bihać performance is adapted to the spatial circumstances of the concert performance at the ruined premises of Kombiteks.

Basheskia & Edward EQ (Nedim Zlatar and Leonardo Šarić) are music producers who have so far released two albums for Gramofon (Sarajevo), as well as several remixes and compilations. They collaborated with the bands Vuneny, Sikter and Validna Legitimacija.

The concert organized by KRAK Center will be enriched by the participation of Sarajevo DJ Zlijay (Zlatko Duraković). With a specific sensibility, this DJ builds his artistic expression on the immediate experience of the African continent where he lived in the 1990s. With almost twenty years of experience as a DJ, experience as a radio promoter and producer, and dedication to sound and the search for the better and different, Zlijay is certainly one of the most prominent DJs from this area whose name stands for good sound and even better fun.

Basheskia & Edward EQ Live At KRAK Centar (03.09.2022.)

Zlijay (Zlatko Durakovic), with a specific sensibility, this DJ builds his artistic expression on the immediate experience of the African continent where he lived in the 1990s. With almost twenty years of experience as a DJ, experience as a radio promoter and producer, and dedication to sound and the search for the better and different, Zlijay is certainly one of the most prominent DJs from this area whose name stands for good sound and even better fun.

Zlijay - Live At KRAK Centar (03.09.2022.)

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