How do we cope with winter? With music. It could be a way.
We have turned this way of softening the cold season into a music program since 2023, inviting various local and international artists to use the Kino Lumbardhit spaces for experimental music.
This time, Off the Record returns at the beginning of December with the trio from Skopje known as Svetlost. Svetlost is an important jazz group in North Macedonia and their music is characterized by energetic, strong and complicated rhythms. The members of the band Svetlost formed in 2014: Kristijan Novkovski (drums), Deni Omegarić (bass) and Ninoslav Spirovski (clarinet/saxophone) create an elegant musical amalgam with dark, punk and depraved undertones. Svetlost’s music has received international accolades and contains dark elements, narrating despair and sadness between the rhythms and forms of jazz, modal and psychedelic.
They will come to Kino Lumbardhi with their latest album entitled “Everything was and it had been a minute ago” co-produced by PMGJazz and Inverted Spectrum Records which contains habits and experiences of personal losses and daily social efforts of trios. In this appearance they will be accompanied by the violinist and composer Gligor Kondovski.
Previously, Edona Vatoci, Viola Rrecaj, Agona Shporta, Tringa Sadiku, Blla Blla Blla.. (Toka Shitet), Jazzair’t, Cats Quartet, Elise and Ägain were part of this program.