FATAMORGANA + SDH - Concert (5 June, Klub Gromka, Ljubljana, Slovenia)

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Published on Sunday, 11 June 2023 20:25

Written by Jerneja

Can there be too many concerts? Apparently, it can. May and now June has been hipper-concert in Ljubljana, Slovenia; in only eight days, people got to attend Celeste, Testament and Voivod, Jethro Tull, Rancid, Meshuggah and Behemoth, starting with Iron Maiden on 28 May. Even if you can financially afford such a concert pilgrimage and are in an excellent psychophysical condition, you can't be in two places at once (well, maybe someone can - only to keep an open mind). And that precisely was the case with Monday's Fatamorgana and SDH concert in Klub Gromka; on the same day and some kilometres away, Canadian punk rockers Billy Talent, English folk-punk poet Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls, and two American punk rock bands, The Menzingers and Sincere Engineer shared the stage in Kino Šiška. It's a pity that only about 50 people attended such an energetic and sensual show staged by Fatamorgana and SDH. They did a great job, despite the smaller crowd.

The concert was supposed to start at 21.00 [CEST] with SDH, but it was over half-past ten when it did, and with Fatamorgana. Since it's a co-headline tour, they switch as they like. This time we conducted two interviews, one after another, first with Andrea and Sergi of the synth-wave/dark pop/EBM act SDH in front of the club and then with Patrycja and Louis of experimental electro/minimal wave/post-punk Fatamorgana, in the backstage and right before their performance. We will delight you with them soon-after publishing the Swallow The Sun interview (hopefully in a week) - so stay tuned!

Vocalist Patrycja and keyboardist Louis, who performed on the same stage not even a month ago with their other project Belgrado, where Louis plays bass, now, as Fatamorgana offered ten tracks: four from its debut album Terra Alta (released in February 2019), starting with "Universo", and six from last year's released Ahora Aqu​í​, Todav​í​a No, with "El Rinco​́​n del Ojo", "All The People", "Woko​́​ł Nas", and "El Planeta Enfermo" in a row for the finish. "El Uro​́​boro" and "The Isle of Barra" were another two from the sophomore album, while from Terra Alta also "10 Minutos De La Tierra", "El Amanecer", and "Espacio Profundo". The music, although minimalistic, was hypnotically danceable. Patrycja's mystical linear singing, joined with her unique, I'd say, sensual half-mechanical movement, was just enchanting. Sorry, Louis, all eyes were on her ;).

After a short break, the Barcelona, Spain-based SDH took the stage and served, in the best possible way, its ten tracks - probably to the surprise of many, five of them belonged to its upcoming album Fake Is Real, set for release on 30 June, and except "Denial" and the finishing track "Hectic", three yet unreleased: "Balance", "Talk In Dreams", and "Our Fear". The audience, therefore, heard more than half of the Fake Is Real album; how great is that? From the debut full-length Semiotics Department Of Heteronyms, which, by the way, marked the fifth anniversary the next day, there was only "Tell Them", while there were two from each of SDH's EPs: Maybe A Body (April 2022) was represented by the EP-titled track and "All Of That" and Against Strong Thinking (February 2020) by "No Miracles" and "Suffer".

Andrea and Sergi gave us an intense sexy performance. Well, mostly Andrea by her powerful smoky voice and erotic movement. Yeah, now sorry, Sergi - but really - what can you expect when being covered up with all this equipment and even digital drums on top ;)? Good job, though!

Fatamorgana and SDH definitely made people go with the dancing flow. Even I danced a little, but it was on the inside because, on the outside, it would look much like Seinfeld's Elaine dancing. Now you know, so no matter how tempted, don't ask me to dance; buy me a beer instead ;). My first this genre concert experience was more than great - looking forward to more of such. And you shall be looking forward to the Fatamorgana and SDH interviews, I guess. And you still have some chances to catch them on this tour...

Report by Jerneja
Photos and videos by Tomaz
Links: Fatamorgana, SDH

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