Budapest Showcase Hub aka. BUSH, the leading Eastern European Showcase event for popular and alternative new music, is also one of the many festivals/conferences that has to adapt to the global pandemic situation. This year instead of our traditional events will be presenting:
🔥BUSH Online: A VIDEO EXTRAVAGANZA🔥
31 act, 16 countries, 3 weeks, 4 prices, one video series. A special, funny, trashy yet classy videos of 31 acts await you in the month of chilly and wet November. So why not cozy up in your favorite armchair and pick up your smartphone to watch video reviews about Eastern European (but not only) performers? See & hear everything you need.SPOILER: don’t expect online gigs but something new and different and actual fun!
🔥BUSH ARTISTS 2020🔥
ALYONA ALYONA (UA) ▪️ ANNNA (LV) ▪️ BANNED SOCIETY (UA) ▪️ DISZIPLIN (RU) ▪️ DLINA VOLNY (BY) ▪️ DRAHTHAUS ▪️ (AT) ▪️ GURT (O) (UA) ▪️I AM SOYUZ (HU) ▪️ INA WEST (PL) ▪️ KABLOONAK (LT) ▪️ LEXSOULDANCEMACHINE (EST) ▪️ LUCIA (RO) MATEUSZ FRANCZAK (PL) ▪️ MIUS (HU) ▪️MONGOOZ & THE MAGNET (HU) ▪️ NAAZ (NL) ▪️ NEMANJA (HR) ▪️ PLATON KARATAEV (HU) ▪️ SAYA NOÉ (HU) ▪️ SFYA (AT) ▪️ SAJZERBITERLEMON (SRB) ▪️ SHELL BEACH (HU) ▪️ SOLO ANSAMBLIS (LT) ▪️ STROON (SK) ▪️ SUBOTAGE (HU) ▪️ TEEPEE (CZ) ▪️ THE ANAHIT (HU) ▪️ TÖRZS (HU) ▪️ VERY COOL PEOPLE (LV) ▪️ WCKD NATION (SI) ▪️ YASMYN (EST)
🔥PRIZES🔥
Some of the artists will be awarded some pretty cool gifts, offered by our international partners:
ELECTRIC CASTLE – One artist will be able to perform at the next edition of Romania’s Nr.1 Summer Festival YAMAHA– Yamaha MG10XU mixer GIGMIT – Three Gigmit PRO accounts VALLEY OF ARTS – One artist will be able to perform at Hungary’s iconic summer festival, held in the picturesque Balaton Uplands MMB– One artist will get free accreditation and also a slot in the MMB Mentorship Program at the 2021 edition of the Bucharest based music conference/showcase festival.
*We reserve the right to make changes in the concept and in any of the programs.
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 23, 2020
Boys and girls, meet Teepee – an indie-folk band from Czech Republic. Teepee’s sound is defined by intoxicating vocal hrmonies, with Miroslav’s’ gentle acoustic guitar enhanced by fragile notes from Tereza’s electric guitar. Subtle samples and synthetic sounds provide a bed for their melancholic, confessional English lyrics 👑
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 22, 2020
Are you ready to put your brains on fire? Then it’s time for Shell Beach – a post-hardcore band from Budapest. Their songs build some mean tension with their crushing drums, and the ‘weeew- weew-weeeew’ guitar freak – outs. Shell Beach’s second studio album “This Is Desolation” have earned them acclaim and the European tour with Enter Shikari in 2014.
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Törzs is a post-rock trio from Budapest.
They take their name from a Hungarian terminology “that connects ideas which reference persistent evolution coupled with coherence and continued clarity of conceptual vision” 🤓 Törzs retain their strong shoegaze-aligned roots while employing post-rock technic to explore chosen themes via texture, melody and atmospherics.
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 21, 2020
Wckd Nation is a community of musicians from Ljubljana, Slovenia, that explores new shapes and sounds of jazz-pop. Founded by multi-instrumentalists, composers, producers, and brothers Peter and Žiga Smrdel in Klagenfurt in 2015, the group was initially created as an artist collective from three different countries: Slovenia, Austria, and Croatia ❤️❤️❤️
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 20, 2020
Meet ANNNA – a Latvian/Dutch producer and singer from Amsterdam. Sustainability, burnouts and equality are some of the topics that she covers in her music. ANNNA is known for writing music about specific teams that bother her, such as global warming, fast fashion and millennial problems ♻️ Give ANNNA a listen this weekend!
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 19, 2020
Subotage’s dj sets touch upon various styles from techno, house to many types of cutting edge genres. He shared the stage with acts such as Chemical Brothers, Moderat, Röyksopp, Moby and many more. BUSH is excited to share with you a terrifying story of Subotage surviving the extreme lockdown at the Tribal Gathering festival in Panama 🇵🇦 ♨️
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 18, 2020
Mateusz Franczak is a Polish multi – instrumentalist, vocalist and improvisor who crafts dreamy and expansive atmospheric tunes.
Mateusz’s music has been compared to Bon Iver, Papa M and Vincent Gallo. It overflows with intimacy, effortless melody and poetic lyrics. We’re excited to welcome Mateusz Franczak for BUSH 2020!
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 17, 2020
This will be a special one: the shooting star of the Estonian R’n’B scene YASMYN is on our block. Yasmyn’s undeniably seductive feminine vocals beautifully blend together with some elegant, dark r’n’b beats. Her lyrics are emotional and pretty compelling. Be ready for extraordinary harmonies and solid steady flows! 🌶️
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 16, 2020
Serbian garage-noise band – Sajzerbiterlemon will smash your face with their true Slav horror attitude ⛏️ Their drumsets are being knocked over in the middle of a show while the singer gets completely topless. If you are missing some chaotic, nasty, distorted music, then your ears are gonna be massaged all right with the gruesome Sajzerbiterlemon’s tracks.
Video Extravaganza
Get to know SFYA – an acoustic dream-pop project from Austria.
The duo uses the archetypal singer/ songwriter sound and blends it with elements of electronic music to take their new sound to the new heights. Weaving dreamy-pop melodies together with Su’s silvery voice create subtle musical moments that grow on you with each listen. Discover all the ways to listen to SFYA’s mesmerising tunes!
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 15, 2020
Ladies and gentlemen, we bring you Anahit – the goddess of wisdom, healing and water in Armenian mythology ⛰️ This name greatly reflects the messages of the songs, where feminism is majorly represented through the lyrics and powerful vocal performance. Their melancholic tunes are reflections of different emotional moments and life situations.
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Dlina Volny is a Minsk – based evocative blend of post-punk and new wave. It is heartbroken, glamorous, and industrially beautiful. Inspired by their love of the early 80’s Soviet Pop & Brutalist Architecture 🏢 the trio employs the mechanized action of motoric rhythm machines, vintage synthesizers & post-punk bass lines to put their spin on classic New Wave sound.
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 14, 2020
Gergely Álmos is the man behind the exceptional electronic project MIUS who is highly appreciated for his outstanding audio-visual shows and also an architect and a set designer in civil life. His music is a massive mix of different styles, classical instruments and analog synthesisers. Do yourself a favour and be delighted with this music!
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 13, 2020
Music of Kabloonak is a safe haven for those who feel a bit too exhausted by the sharp pulse of the modern city life. It could be a shelter for those whose life currents are too fast and electrified. Sensitive, poetic and maturely sarcastic bits of his music fit perfectly for a dance of two
after sending off the last clients of a noisy bar.
Video Extravaganza
Sometimes all you need is a piano and fragile female singing 🎹
Talented Romanian indie-pop songwriter Lucia combines her indie band formation with strings, piano and electronics in the special atmosphere of “a meditation on the nature of death and the cycles of rebirth”.
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 12, 2020
Nemanja is something highly spiritual: their music is inspired by Tarot cards and the Tibetan Book of the Dead 🔮Their music stuffed with funk-like grooves and explosive psychedelic textures. These Vintage 70’s tunes will make you think you’re attending a Turkish wedding on acid. If you never heard of Nemanja give it a spin – it’s an ABSOLUTE delight!
Video Extravaganza
Stroon is the exceptional element of the Slovakian electronic scene.
His idea is to create contemporary temple music for clubs and churces. His tunes are pulsating, mysterious and danceable. Stroon is the perfect suggestion for those who wanna hear contemporary orchestra turning into synths and electronics. It brings you joy, blessing and some fun ⛪ 🎉
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 11, 2020
If you’re into contagious groovy street funk attitude then you gonna fall I love with Lexsoul Dance Machine! These Estonian dudes play 3,5h long moving concerts on the top of a bus during COVID times. Isn’t it already worth checking out?! Expect some contemporary funk and fantastic jazzy improvisations from Lexsoul Dance Machine! 🎺🎷💃
Video Extravaganza
Are you in the mood for some amazing dreamy pop music? Perfect! Suzie proudly presents NAAZ – the first Dutch act at Bush this year.
Naaz is a wonderful female artist and the award-winning singer-songwriter from the Netherlands. She’s gonna bless you with her personal, deeply emotional songs and her soft magical voice 🐚
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 10, 2020
Dreamy songs of I AM SOYUZ were written in her long adventurous travels around the world. Her voice skies in its clearest, most present harmonies hitting the romantic, youthful nostalgia. Put on I AM SOYUZ, lie down, and sink deeper into your own memories of being young, a little sad, and in love💜
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After her debut single Alyona Alyona instantly became the star of Ukrainian rap. Her interesting story only accelerated interest: Alyona Alyona is a former kindergarten teacher who worked as a seller in the market and a social worker. You don’t have to translate her lyrics to feel her genuine vibe and inspiring energy – her shows at the most prominent European festivals are always fully packed. Welcome Alyona Alyona – the turning moment for raising female hip-hop in Eastern Europe!
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 9, 2020
They named themselves after the “War and Peace” character who seeks the deepest truths in honest ways. That’s how Platon Karatev feel about their music: it’s sentimental, easy and sincere 🕊️ 🕊️ 🕊️ They get inspired by break-ups, self-questioning and Bible verses. Suzie will guide you into Platon Karataev’s heavenly sweet songs that won’t leave anyone indifferent 👼
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 7, 2020
Solo Ansamblis is more than post-punk. It’s a deep dive into each member’s personal philosophy that will “sad- dance” you in the dark. Solo Ansamblis is the Lithuanian award-winning cold wave band that gonna make you sweat from their music all night long. Let Szoni take you through their lo-fi pulsating sound and introduce you to this ultimate audiovisual dream.
Video ExtravaganzaNovember 4, 2020
Vienesse collective DRAHTHAUS consists of programmers, technicians, filmmakers and craftsmen🤓. No doubt their music fells so innovative! Expect complex sound of 20 instruments, Vienesse vibes and no lyrics . Pista will kindly guide you through their music and we hope you will enjoy their music as much as we do!
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Meet Disciplin – new electronic project of Max Fedorov – the singer of the well-known Russian band Everything Is Made In China.
Suzie shares her personal teenage music preferences along with acquainting you with the new sound of Disziplin – it’s dark, it’s robotic, it’s futuristic, it’s sweaty. It’s Russian.
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Let us introduce the Hungarian queen of Twitch: @Saya Noé. 👑
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Let us introduce another amazing act from Eastern Europe: banned society. Our long time bro, Pista aka. FVLCRVM, Pista explored every important information that needs to be known about Banned Society: like animals and ugly vegetables!🥦
Sit back and chill, because Banned Society is next level💩!
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Let us introduce Mongooz and the magnet!
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Omg, INA WEST! We are so excited to have you with us (virtually) this year! 💯
Poland is blooming in creativity even in hard times like this. Let Suzie take your hands and guide you through the work of Ina West, one of the most awaited artists at this years’ BUSH!
Video Extravaganza
Hello there! Meet Suzie, Szoni and Pista, your BUSH Online hosts!
They will bring you a month of unique and entertaining video experience starting right after BUSH Offline.
