4th of August August 4, 9:00 p.m. PEARL Festival Club

Crazy sounds of Polish music!

The Snowman band was founded by musicians from Poznan, Poland, in 2002 and since then they have given over one hundred concerts in Poland and other European countries.

From the very beginning they’ve been attracting their fans with the music they created and with accompanying visualizations. Such terms as post rock, jazz, electronic, trans jazz, progressive rock, psychedelic, guitar alternative or experimental need to be used to describe the type of music they perform.

In 2009 they released their first album called ‘Lazy’ and were nominated for MATEUSZ Music Award, given out by Polish Radio Channel III, in the ‘Debut of the year‘ category. Lately they’ve released ‘Lumikulu’ album which is an experimental project created with children.

Film and theatre are intertwined with their music. They composed soundtracks to F. W. Murnau’s Nosferatu, R.Wiene’s Cabinet of Dr Caligari, Chaplin’s Gold Rush. Their music was used during Mouth to Mouth Republic Theatre shows (Driver, Cadillac, Alice 0-700…, The Embassy).

They are often associated and compared with Pink Floyd, Mogwai, Coldplay, Legendary Pink Dots, Dave Matthews Band and even with Janis Joplin or Norah Jones.

Michał Kowalonek – electric guitar, vocal, blanc noise
Adam Brzozowski – piano, noir noise
Paweł Postaremczak – tenor saxophone
Grzegorz Książkiewicz – bass 
Daniel Karpiński – drums

SILENT DISCO
4th of August, PEARL Festival Club
after the Snowman concert

You may be surprised when you see it. You can’t hear the music but still you see crowds of people dancing on the dance floor. Each person has wireless earphones and three channels to choose from.

Every night three DJs struggle to grab the attention of the audience. The dancers can change the music they’re dancing to or simply take the earphones off and start chatting with friends anytime they want.

Silent Disco is not only a musical event. For those who don’t take part in this soundless disco it’s an interesting visual experience. The participants are isolated from the rest of the world and are not affected by the events happening around them- in this way they co-create this specific performance.

The idea of Silent Disco came into being by accident. As the old saying goes: necessity is the mother of invention. In this case it was the need to continue the party after the ‘curfew’ has started. It’s difficult to determine who first hit on the idea to wear earphones and have a great time without disturbing your neighbors. Nevertheless it quickly attracted people who decided to publicise the idea and soon (at the beginning of the 21st century) 433 fm radio station was founded offering dance music and no jungles or talk radio programmes. In this way Silent Disco started to be popular in Belgium, Holland, France, Great Britain. The Glastonbury Festival in 2005, during which noise limits were forced by local authorities, was a breakthrough moment. The organizers of the festival decided to throw a silent disco for thousands of people who wanted to have fun in spite of the limitations. Since then all major English festivals seized on the idea and now it’s difficult to imagine any bigger event without a party of this kind.

Silent Disco by Snowman Band, Poznan.