Mon, May 21 2012
Never settling for the status quo, Yalta, one of Bulgaria's first (and again, first post-communist) nightclubs, is keeping things hopping with the presence of jazz singer Beloslava at the Thursday Live Session on February 28. DJ Sander Kleinenberg of the Netherlands will follow on the 29th, with a DJ and VJ set - a mixing talent for which he has earned acclaim.
Kleinenberg, who is known as one of the fathers of progressive house music, will be assisted by video artist Mark Pistoire; together the two have created a series of original mini-films that will be projected on the walls of the club.
Yalta Club's Thursday Live Session programme occurs every first and third Thursday of a given month, with doors opening at 10.30pm; tickets cost 10 leva. It features live performances of Bulgarian artists, among whom have figured Phuture Shok, Mind Trips and Tri o Five. March will see Alex Raeva on the third, and Gravity Co on the 20th.
Beloslava will be performing with the noted pianist and composer Zhivko Petrov, though in a fashion a bit more avant-garde than the norm - experiments, such as electronic remixes of her lounge-jazz songs, are allowed. Her first Thursday Live Session at the Sofia club was in October 2007.
For those who feel nostalgic about the music of the likes of Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Soft Cell or Human League, Sofia's Yalta Club starts a new series of events.
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