♚ LIVE VIDEOS :
♟ @ WAVES - Vienna
♝ @ MONKEY WEEK - Sevilla ♞ @ PERTUM TV - Bucharest
♛ @ KIOSK RADIO - Brussels
♚ @ BELGRADE - support for GusGus
♜ @ KIEZSALON - Berlin
♜ @ STEREOLETO - Sankt Petersburg
♛ @ CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM - Warsaw
♞ @ BYE BYE PANDEMIC PARTY - Bucharest
♞ @ CONTROL CLUB - Bucharest
♛ PRESS :
♛ “ROMANIAN DAFT PUNK” (Stereoleto)
♛ “AN ELECTRO JOURNEY TO THE TIME
OF THE GRANDMASTERS" (3vor12.nl)
♛ “DANCEFLOOR NOSTALGIA” (BBC.co.uk)
♛ “THE BEST KIND OF PLAYFUL
ELECTRONIC YOU’LL HEAR” (RollingStone.in)
♛ “BEST ROMANIAN ALBUM 2016” (Scena9.ro)
♛ “SUPERBES AMBIANCES PSYCHEDELIQUES” (Tsugi.fr)
♛ “WACKY BRILLIANCE” (Quietus.co.uk)
♛ “BEST ROMANIAN ALBUM OF ITS GENRE
IN THE LAST 30 YEARS” (Muzici&Faze.ro)
♛ “PIONEERING MUSIC,
ARTFULLY DELIVERED” (Gigwise.uk)
♛ “WITH THE FOLKLORE IN THE BLOOD” (LaNazione.it)
♛ “TANZEN OHNE LAPTOP” (Vice.de)
♝preCOVID TOUR 2019
27 Festivals + 31 Gigs
♚17.01 Eurosonic (NL) ♝19.01 Nijmegen @ Extrapool ♝22.02 Bratislava @ Nova Cvernovka ♝24.02 Ljublijana @ Kino Šiška ♝14.03 Nantes @ Stereolux ♚21.03 Bucharest @ MMB ♝29.03 Lyon @ Le Sucr ♝30.03 Basel @ Renee Bar ♝06.04 Paris @ Le 6 ♚17.04 Le Printemps de Bourges (FR) ♚09.05 Antistatic (BG) ♝11.05 Paris @ Les Grands Voisins ♚15.05 Tel Aviv @ ElectroVisio ♚16.05 Tel Aviv @ WhiteNight Event ♝20.05 Brussels @ Ancienne Belgique ♚13.06 Telekom Electronic Beats (RO) ♚09.06 Launmomentdat (RO) ♚28.06 Fusion (DE) ♚05.07 Azure (HU) ♚07.07 Stereoleto (RU) ♚16.07 Valkhof (NL)
♚18.07 Welcome to the Village (NL) ♚19.07 Electric Castle (RO)
♚02.08 Untold Festival (RO) ♚07.08 Anonimul (RO ♚15.08 Hviezdne Noci (SK) ♚16.08 Flaam (SK) ♝20.08 Budapest @ Szimpla
♚31.08 Fall in Love (RO) ♝14.09 St Tropez @ UltimateProvence
♝05.10 Rome @ Fanfulla Circolo Arci ♚10.10 Luxemburg @ CinEast
♚11.10 Bucharest @ Animest ♝12.10 Cologne @ Zum Scheuen Reh
♚17.10 Amsterdam Dance Event @ Pllek ♚19.10 Sibiu @ Astra Film
♚26.10 Chisinau @ Animest ♚30.10 Berlin @ Kiezsalon
♝02.11 Berlin @ Sisyphos ♝08.11 Marseille @ CocoVelten
♝14.11 Cluj @ Cinema Dacia ♚21.11 Milan @ Linecheck
♝23.11 Sofia @ Koncept Space ♝27.11 Rotterdam @WORM
♝28.11 Brussels @ Ancienne Belgique ♝29.11 Lille @ Amikal Sonic
♝13.12 Ljubljana @ Kino Siska aa♝14.12 Skofia Loka @ Pri Rdeči Ostrigi
♛ LIVE SHOW OPTIONS :
1) LIVE CONCERT
(live drums, live synths, performers/dancers)
♚ WAVES VIENNA, LIVE PERFORMANCE
♟ BELGRADE, AS SUPPORT ACT FOR GUS-GUS
2) MUSICAL CHESS
(live soundtrack for a game of chess played by the audience)
♛ WARSAW, CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM
♞ BUCHAREST, GOETHE INSTITUT
3) CINE-CONCERT:
(live soundtrack for a silent film projection)
♜ HAPPINESS (1934 - URSS)
♝ L'INHUMAINE (1924 - FRANCE)
4) DANCE PARTY
(live electronics+drum machine)
♚ BRUSSELS, KIOSK RADIO
♞ BUCHAREST, PERTUM TV
♞BIO
♚ One of Eastern Europe’s most exciting musical exports,
K not K (formally known as Karpov not Kasparov) makes optimistic-electronic music inspired by the game of chess.
♚During the past 8 years, the bandplayed in 38 out of 44 European countries on club or cultural stages, museums, art galleries but also for important festivals sharing the stage with great bands like GusGus, Underworld, AltinGun, Poni Hoax etc
♚ Debut LP "Soundtrack for a Game of Chess" has been nominated 'album of the month' by Vice Magazine, declared ‘one of the most valuable releases of the year’ by Radio Romania Cultural.
♚ The Vocal Edits (2016) was declared Best Romanian Electronic Release of 2016 by Scena9.ro and stamped "probably the best Romanian album of its genre in the last 30 years" by the journalists of musical blog Muzici&Faze.
♚ Memory EP (2021) was featured on BBC 6 .
Full album announced for spring 2023.
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