Detali Zvuku, Ukraine and the horror of bureaucracy

Just listen again to the excellent live recordings of the Detali Zvuku festival 2006/2007, and realising that this festival really must be one of the qualitatively best festivals for experimental sound.

While listening, I thought that it must be worth a journey and searched for announcements and found this:

At the beginning of September official city [of LVIV] didn’t solve not one general question from the list of agreements. We couldn’t start advertisement company in Ukraine, couldn’t choose company to deal with tech rider questions; we didn’t receive money for flight tickets for artists, not even talking about guarantees to pay fees in time. In fact all control on every organizational question up to the size of flier and quantity of posters was taken from us.

[festival page]

What a shame. Seriously, I really find this shocking.
I mean, it is already insane to not support such a great festival, but to additionally make them believe that there is support makes it even worse.

But, nevertheless, hear these excellent recordings of combos like “Kapital Band 1″, “Plesk” and many others here and here.

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