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♚K NOT K♚

︎ danceable︎ trippy ︎ oriental ︎ electro︎

𝅘𝅥𝅮 BRIDGES OF SOUND ❤︎ 

Musical Solidarity Tour in Ukraine 🇺🇦

This Bridge of Sound = 
🇲🇩 Chisinau + 9 cities in 🇺🇦 Ukraine (including Odesa, Kyiv and Lviv) + 🇷🇴 Bucharest

In each city a local musician participates in a live concert.

This bridge hopes to cross not only geographical distances but also the human ones —
and to become part of a wider, unbroken network of cultural resistance against war, aggression and terror.

Music will shine through!
 

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🎼 Local musicians who joined the stage
and the Bridge of Sound 🥁🎹 :

Chisinau 10.07 Odesa 11.07 Vinnytsia 12.07 Kyiv 13.07
Rivne 14.07 Khmelnytsky 16.07 Ternopil 17.07 Lviv 18.07
Ivano-Frankivsk 19.07 Cernivtsi 20.07 Bucharest 23.07

“Bridges of Sound is a musical tour, but also a gesture of connection, of artistic defiance and solidarity.
At a time when Ukraine faces brutal attempts to isolate, demoralize, and silence its people,
we believe it’s vital to keep the cultural link alive and present.

Music does not stop at borders and neither should the bonds between people.
This tour is meant as a small bridge between communities,
a way to remind each other that the cultural thread is unbroken,
even in the darkest of times.”

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♚ PRESS                  :  

➤ RADIO FRANCE INTERNATIONAL

➤ EURONEWS

➤ RADIO ROMANIA INTERNATIONAL

➤ BUCOVINA PRESS

♞ BIO - K NOT K     : 

♚ One of Eastern Europe’s most exciting musical exports,
K not K (formally known as Karpov not Kasparov) makes optimistic-danceable music inspired by the game of chess. 
♚During the past 10 years, the band played in almost every European country 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 electronic album in the last 30 years"
by the journalists of musical blog Muzici&Faze.
♚   Memory EP (2021) was featured on BBC 6 .
New single announced for autumn 2025.
 China tour in april 2025!


>MORE INFO HERE<

CONTACT:

+40722541717

✉️ EMAIL

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“Influences from Eastern folk music are mixed with jazz and electro-sounds from the 80s. The whole strongly reminds of the pioneers of electronic music such as Jean Michel Jarre and Klaus Schulze.”

Heyta Melssen - 3vor12 (NL)

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“The fidgety intensity of early Hot Chip. Swiss electro-dance oddballs Yello’s take on the dancefloor. The mesmerising, bloopy pulse of year-zero Acid House. Exotic melodies suggesting Turkey as much as Japan.”

Kieron Tyler - Mojo & Guardian journalist (UK)

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“Chess is math and that’s why Karpov not Kasparov’s sound is a mathematical fusion of electronic music, an early 80’s sound and some jazzy-oriental flavours. Like in chess, the drum machine and the vintage synths take turns on the offensive, wrapping around one another in a psychedelic waltz. Every move the instruments make nudges the track towards a new direction and changes the course of the game. The result is danceable, fluid and favourably inclined towards out-of-consciousness experiences.”

Matei Barbulescu - Europavox (FR)

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