7.6. 2024. at 21:00 courtyard of Pogon Jedinstvo and Močvara club, Trnjanska struga 34
ŽEN, concert
Progressive indie rock band ŽEN started in 2010 in Zagreb where they’ve found their creative home at the AKC Medika squat. Their debut I onda je sve počelo (2013) released under queer feminist label Unrecords from Vienna and sophomore album Jantar (2015) released as collaboration between Unrecords and French independent label Vox Project, made them one of the most salient guitar bands of the ex-YU region. In 2017 they joined Slovenian Moonlee Records and in November 2017 their third album Sunčani ljudi has been released. ŽEN have performed at many major European festivals (Europavox, Colours of Ostrava, Tallinn Music Week, INmusic, Welcome to the Village…) and clubs from the Baltic to the Balkans. In 2020 they have released compilation album Blender with remixes of their songs made by various music producers. Their music was used in few regional movies and TV series, the latest they made a song for the movie Nun of your business. Their fourth studio album Ciklus will be released in May 2024. Album is announced with three released singles Uroni u san, Krizantema, and just latest NEDAMISE, released in February 2024. ŽEN playfully dissects gender stereotypes and connects the boundaries of audio and visual art, evoking journeys through vocal harmonization submerged in a progressive symbiosis of guitar, bass, drums and synths. If we were to try to define them by genre, the closest we would get is a complex form of indie-rock, informed by various style and genre characteristics ranging from post-rock to shoegaze, math-rock, vintage synthwave and experimental electronics.
“This is a perfect modern pop post-rock, math-rock, prog-indie, synthwave – very well thought out and hypnotic to watch and listen to… ŽEN are a beautiful misty treasure and a real find!” (Louder Than War)
