Name: vibra by umbra in saundc(k)laudovci <3
Duration: 3 min 9 s
Description: treći put plesno! i crtež. third time dancing! the drawing too. - halbstar i umbra

saundc(k)laudovci <3

Belgrade based artist Marija Balubdžić @umbra-balubdzic worked on an awesome mix for Free City Radio, who writes:

"This mix showcases four artists whose experimental electronic works resonate with the undercurrents of the city of Belgrade (Serbia), using field recordings, tape manipulation, analog pulsing, extreme digital sample deformation, as well as noisy beats."

Tracklist:
1 Marko Paunović @markopaunovic - Vazduh (vatrazemljavazduhsvetlostvoda, no label, 2021)
2 Marija Šumarac @marija-sumarac - Waves (VA - Anthology Of Post Industrial Music From Balkan Region, @unexplained_sounds_group, 2020)
3 Springboard @springboardtx - Abzu (to be released for Peng Audio in 2021)
4 Zhe Pechorin @zhe-pechorin - там, нет границ (Boundary Lessons, Etang Brulant, 2021)

Belgrade-based musician Marija Balubdžić performs mainly under the alias Umbra. Through sound intervention and poetic experiment atop a multi-channel looper, she confronts voice and synthesizers, drifting between noise and melodic idioms. As a member of Efemerne Konfesije, a drag collective in Belgrade, she is developing the character of the virtuoso pianist Fritz Klein. As the author of the monthly radio show Zvuk Ispod on Radio Belgrade 3, Balubdžić presents fellow experimental electronic music artists that she has encountered through her tours. For the Zvuk Ispod show, she draws inspiration from the fancy of yet another of her characters - DJ Krem, a music selector and promoter.

Accompanying photo by Marija Balubdžić

DJ Krem - A short Belgrade free city radio mix

Next up! 
Very happy to say @superskin is up for no.38 of the pod. 
The Austrian artist & musician serves up 75 minutes of left-field sonics, with the odd dance floor heater sprinkled in.
A real enjoyable listen this one, we also caught up with Superskin for a little chat, read below >

AM: It’s tough to much at the mo, but what have you been doing recently?

My recent past involved quite a lot of moving but now i even have my new music studio room which i am very happy about.
 
AM: We loved your album on Czaszka records last year, what was the process for it & was it a long time in the making?

 Thank you, I'm glad to hear that. As mostly with my albums the process was to pick a few of my existing songs that i had created over the latest period to try to outline the album and sort of find the mood. That usually involves a lot of shuffling around but eventually there will be key tracks in key positions. And from that point on the narrative of the album or the timing is sort of essential for me. At this point i usually end up with a few empty slots so to speak that i try to fill with tracks that fit into the context.
 It took longer than usually but mostly because i re-recorded several songs when i wasn't happy with the sound of the take. And then there was the dilemma of imitating a certain spontaneity of the previous take.

AM: Where & how did you record the mix & what was the idea behind it?

 I recorded the mix at home with ableton. The idea behind it was on one hand to make a wide ranging mix of music that roughly inspired the Superskin project and on the other hand to try to capture a certain sensibility and attitude in an eclectic mix.
 
AM: Whats next for ya in 2021?

Getting on with makin music in my new place.

AM Podcast #38 - Superskin

treći put plesno! i crtež. third time dancing! the drawing too. - halbstar i umbra

vibra

Umbra live from U10
24 - 02 - 2022
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country: serbia
released: 20 october 2022
style: experimental, ambient, weird pop
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@umbra-balubdzic

MURK podcast #94 by Umbra (RS)

Another Minor Adjustments takeover with artists from Germany, California and Serbia. Tune in and sink into the mix

DJ Krem [Minor Adjustments Show] [06.03.2023]

New EP coming out soon on Етикета 4 / Label 4

Production - Ivna Ji
Mastering - Zarkoff at Sensorium studio


Laax EP OUT! July 20 2108

Get it on Bandcamp digital or postcard with QR code https://ivnaji.bandcamp.com/album/laax-ep-4-label-4

Laax

Mystical Mesz_One (@tanovi) releases an EP on @NoWayRec. Monument premieres the title track, remixed by French @Hydrangeamusic. The release is out on September 30th.

MNMT Premiere: Mesz One – 19HZ (Hydrangea Remix)

Ne-On

Buy / Acquista

Eona

Alan Backdrop - Nebula

Podcast no. 87 for @oramicspl platform by @umbra-balubdzic
www.oramics.pl

This a recording of a live performance of a Belgrade-based musician Marija Balubdžić who performs mainly under alias Umbra. Through experimental research of improvisation and composition atop a multi-channel looper she confronts the voice with synthesizers. Her accent is on sound interventions and poetic experiment, ranging from noise to melodic idioms. As the author of the radio show Zvuk Ispod, Balubdžić is presenting works of impressionable experimental electronic music scenes and artists that she encountered through tours. It airs monthly on Radio Belgrade 3 as a  special edition of the Imaginarni pejzaži show.  
Marija Balubdžić has been working individually, and as a part of various  collectives since year 2000.

ORAMICS 087: Umbra

Alan Backdrop - Lexton

radioCona: Storyscapes SE 
FM exhibition
18. - 23. Jan. 2020
daily from on exactly the time of the night
88.8 MHz and www.radiocona.si
curator Manja Ristić

Listening to the wounded nature, listening to oneself, archiving social realities & creating new ones – with the senses awaken by sound.  

radioCona:Storyscape SE  as a radio open for new sound related practices (with the focus on bioacoustics & artistic interventions in field recordings) will try to answer some of the questions about mnemopoetics of the Balkans and South Eastern Europe through the selection of artists from Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia, Macedonia, Greece, Bulgaria and Romania. radioCona program is again exploring unknown terrain, which has been intensely research by the curator of FM exhibition Manja Ristić.

More about the radioCona exhibition: http://www.radiocona.si/radiocona-krajine-pripovedijv/

radioCona podcast No. 1 – World nesting in her footsteps:

01) beeplip, Noise for Strings / 00:00:53
02) Marija Balubdžić Umbra, Posle / 00:22:24
03) Anamaria Pravicencu / Regina Ionescu, Mara’s Neck / 00:26:19
04) Manja Ristić, Dance of the Psychopomp / 00:36:09
05) Marija Šumarac, Walking / 00:48:52
06) Bojana Šaljić Podešva, vIDEN / 00:53:50
07) Teodora Stepančić, guitars streets resonances / 01:33:22
08) Jasna Jovićević, Gayatri mantra / 01:56:20
09) Robertina Šebjanič / beepblip / Manja Ristić, Sounds of the EarthSea / 02:00:47

http://www.radiocona.si/

radioCona podcast No. 1 – World nesting in her footsteps

This little set combines a variety of @crashsymbols releases from this year and the next several months, including tracks from our upcoming Dok-S Project cassette and a new split with sZARSz and Umbra. The mood eventually resolved into something a little darker, good for winter vibes and night-time listening. Wraps up with Part 1 of "Blood Turns Black," the B-Side composition from our most recent tape: Death of Natural Light, from Noah Anthony's Deuce Avenue project.

1. sZARSz @zzszarszss - "Benan-Danti"
2. Dok-S Project @doksproject - "630"
3. @ylangylang - "Motion"
4. Umbra @umbra-balubdzic - "Pli Tajm Bliz"
5. Flamingo Creatures - "Ohne Titel #1"
6. @man_rei - "Itch Itch"
7. @spliffjacksun - "By Night"
8. Nils Quak @nq_nhlsqaik - "Noire"
9. Deuce Avenue - "Blood Turns Black (Part 1)"

For broadcast on @radiockut on Free City Radio hosted by Stefan @spirodon Christoff

Umbra & sZARSz

Crash Symbols - Free City Radio mix

Umbra is performed by Marija Balubdžić. 
Umbra is a songstress colliding tenebrous sounds and poetic temptation with electronics, unbinding chants saturated in noise, chords, and pulses.
Umbra performances
 Dim (May 2022), Belgrade
 jedním tahem (April 2022), Zlín, “I Poo poo on Your Juju” Antimother tour
 Karnola (April 2022), Hranice, “I Poo poo on Your Juju” Antimother tour
 15 minute (April 2022), Olomouc, “I Poo poo on Your Juju” Antimother tour
 "Unfold in Unknown Waters", Lili Agg & Veronika Romhány’s exhibition opening at U10 (February 2022), Belgrade
 Punctum Krasovka (November 2021), Prague
 Kino Šiška (July 2021), Ljubljana
 SAJETA Festival (July 2021), Tolmin
 United We Stream Balkan / Drugstore (February 2021) STREAM, recorded at Dim, Belgrade
 SaAJETA Festival (December 2020) STREAM, recorded at the Jewish municipality in Belgrade
 CH25 (December 2019), Warsaw
 BAZAR (December 2019), Katowice
 Rhiz (December 2019), Vienna
 Noise n’ Roses (November 2019), Budapest
 Port/Starboard at Klub 20/44 (September 2019), Belgrade
 KUBE (September 2019), Ålesund
 Dim, with Milana Zarić and Luka Ivanović (August 2019), Belgrade
 Kvaka 22 (July 2019), Belgrade
 Pohoda festival (July 2019), Trencin
 Live Soundtrack at CZKD (April 2019), Belgrade
 Belgrade Fashion Week – Vesna Kračanović (April 2019)
 Kišobran at Drugstore (April 2019), Belgrade
 Bioskop Balkan (March 2019), Belgrade
 Grillx (March 2019), Vienna
 Dim (February 2019), Belgrade
 Kvaka 22 (January 2019), Belgrade
 Dorćol platz (January 2019), Belgrade
 MeetFactory (November 2018), Prague
 Kulturfabrik (November 2018), Hildesheim
 Insomnia festival (October 2018), Tromso
 Rhiz (October 2018), Vienna
 Rokolektiv festival (September 2018), Bucharest
 AU (June 2018), Vienna
 Revolution festival (May 2018), Timisoara
 Klub 20/44 (April 2018), Belgrade
 Ljubimac (March 2018), Belgrade
 Fabrika (March 2018), Novi Sad
 Fidbek (March 2018), Niš
 Celeste (January 2018), Vienna
 Klub Lúč (November 2017), Trencin
 SÄGEZAHN at SCHAUSPIELHAUS (November 2017), Vienna
 Les Belles de Nuit (October 2017), Zurich
 Velak Gala – Garnisongasse 7 (October 2017), Vienna
 Sausaler Kunstbiennale (September 2017), Steiermark
 Seanaps festival – Westwerk (September 2017), Leipzig
 Wrong – Punctum Krasova (September 2017), Prague
 Escape festival (August 2017), Hvar island
 Klub Vikend (August 2017), Kovačica
 Popfest – Club Roxy (July 2017), Vienna
 Baustellenbeschallung 8 – (June 2017), Vienna
 AU (April 2017), Vienna
 Brut (February 2017), Vienna
 Studio 11 (December 2016), Subotica
 Galerie Hraničář (November 2016), Ústí nad Labem
 Novo Doba Festival, Imago CUK (September 2016), Belgrade
 Air (August 2016), Antwerp
 Kvaka 22 (May 2016), Belgrade
 Metelkova (May 2016), Ljubljana
 Rhiz (May 2016), Vienna
 Tunnel (January 2016), Novi Sad
 Drugstore (January 2016), Belgrade
 DKSG (Culture Home Students’ City) (January 2016), Belgrade
 Matrijaršija (January 2016), Belgrade
 Last Christmas (December 2015), Vienna
 Drugstore (November 2015), Belgrade
 Quarter (November 2015), Novi Sad
 CK13 (November 2015), Novi Sad
 Bioskop Zvezda, Kino Pleme (November 2015), Belgrade
 AU (October 2015), Vienna
 MDW, admission exam (October 2015), Vienna
 Plus Plus Plus (+++) Festival (July 2015) Jelica, Serbia
 Zweitbester (March 2015), Vienna

Petar Vakić was born in Novi Sad, grown and raised in Ruma where he showed interest in early teens for alternative music and was for a time playing guitar with alternative hardcore band Duo De La Muerte. Studied (and graduated in) applied photography (graphical engineering and design) and showed a great interest and enthusiasm for electronic music in his 20's, going to minimal techno and house parties, raves, organizing events and started to produce his own music about 2013. influenced by a lot of electronic acts and artists as well as the other music engraved in him.
After releasing albums for Abstract World Records (Ambient Series 003) and Quiet Strength Records (From Mold to Medicine) he became sort of an outlaw with his self released stuff with some of the albums which were praised by Popscotch and Issue magazine. His sound constantly evolves and is engraved in experimenting and further designing everything he can put his hands on insisting on hardware instruments, guitar pedals and processors. 
He had DJ sets at the beginning but later focused on live performing and made it on Live Soundtrack events held in Belgrade, Serbia as well as one time in Ruma.  
From 2019. he collaborates with Aca N. in project CoPhones where they jam the night after night with hardware, experimenting with sound and exploring all kinds of modulation available to them making their own kind of raw, industrial fueled electro punk.

write: rageblanche@protonmail.com
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