All About Jazz: Ostrava Days 2025
Publikováno: 7.1.2026
Close to the beginning of this moderne music festival in the old coal-mining capital of Czechia, its Minimarathon Of Electronic Music is an inevitable highlight of each edition. Lordy knows what a full-on marathon would be like, but this mini-version is substantial enough, spanning 2pm until 1am. Often itinerant, this time it rears its tape-heads up in a new venue (new since the preceding 2023 Ostrava Days edition), another converted coal-mining building, now known as Futureum, blessed with multi-levelled brick chambers, dusty and undeveloped, for hardcore subterranean authenticity. The audience had to squat on stone steps, with limited sightlines, although some punters ended up with lucky plastic chairs. This was a good sacrifice for hearing now-time electronic or electroacoustic sounds, in what might be described as one of their natural environments. As multiple spaces were used to facilitate the ongoing performance schedule, there was a modern ground floor room, next to the venue's café, which offered a more conventional location, complete with surrounding windows. The long day featured 13 performances, with a later into-the-night after-programme fringe.
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