2020

Artist: BALANS
Album: sam pravm

LISTEN & BUY / VINYL & DIGITAL ALBUM

KAPA Records presents the sixth album of the Ljubljana based audio-visual trio balans.

The bunkerpop tandem has already found its balance in the minimalist art-punk expression, and this time testing it again on the waves of a new, studio-recorded album.

The post-punk versatility embodied in balans proves that their music knows no boundaries, nor does it try to transcend them. Their approach to creation, which skillfully maps everyday stories and feelings into a minimalist musical structure, is even more open and genuine this time around.

A love letter from balans:
“pozdrav pozdrav, hello and welcome, this is an informal letter from balans to the kneels and elbows of this world, sam pravm. samo da ti kažem, brate. we’ve just released our new album. on vinyl. extrapolished, but balans-style-lo-fi-turned-into-hi-fi sound. at KAPA Records with the most amazing coordinator ever. you are most invited to click on our or the labels’ bandcamp page. okay, enough joking around, ni se za heckat. we’ve waited for this moment for nearly 9 months and this album has been through turbulent times. but here we are, giving you 10 fresh songs, studio recorded at Radio Študent, traveling among the ears of 08080 and Dominika, dressing up in the polaroid camera of Alessandro, stopping at Austrovinyl and ending up in our hands, freshly baked. if you want to feel how hawt they are, you are most welcome to try. just sayin. od nas za vas. vedno. sam pravm.” balans

The Ljubljana based audio-visual duo balans, Kristin Čona and Andrej Pervanje, have been balancing their post-pop-punk sound since 2013. They complement their sympathetically whimsical musical expression with personal confessional lyrics and sharp whistling. The banality of their music is also connected with a strong visual component. In 2016 they started collaborating with a contemporary artist Alessandro Di Giampietro, who takes care of the entire band’s visual aesthetics with his unique artworks. Last year, with the desire to further enrich their live performances, drummer Jan Kmet joined them on stage.

In 2018, as part of the Radio Študent club marathon, the band played on most of the Slovenian stages. With their relaxed and authentic performance, they also impressed the audience abroad, touring from Vienna to Skopje. As this year’s “Ines talent” of the international network of showcase festivals Ines, they have already performed at several showcase festivals; MENT Ljubljana, Waves Vienna, and in November they will perform via stream at the digital edition of the Spanish MonkeyWeek. In December last year they collaborated with the Belgrade collective Krava 22 at the Dvocikel art residency in Kranj, where they also recorded an entire album, which will be released in 2021. Their two latest albums “a vam je jasno” (2019, ŠOP Records) and “sam pravm” (KAPA Records, 2020) were named the best album of 2019 and 2020 on the international music platform Beehype. In recent years, balans has thus become one of the most prominent representatives of the domestic underground.

balans:
Kristin Čona – vox, guitar
Andrej Pervanje – vox, bass, drum machine
Jan Kmet – drums

______BALANS LINKS
contact: balansnalab@gmail.com
– INSTAGRAM @___balans___
– BANDCAMP

– YOUTUBE

______KAPA RECORDS LINKS:

contact: dominikamasa@kaparecords.com
– FACEBOOK
– INSTAGRAM @kaparecords
– BANDCAMP

______REVIEWS
album of the week at Radio Terminal, november 2020

album review by Radio Student, november 2020

album review by Mladina Magazine, november 2020

album review by Odzven, november 2020

album review by Eu!Radio FR., december 2020

album review by Muzika.hr, december 2020

Best Slovenian album 2020 by Beehype

Best albums 2020 (Naj tolpe bumov) via Radio Študent

Best albums 2020 via Dnevnik

______OTHER
balans at 100 decibelov / Radio Študent
“uganka” song of the week at Radio Marš
balans – “dežuje” at altr.si
balans at rocker.si

“njam njam” / song of the week at Radio Student

interview: balans about the new album “sam pravm” / Radio Student

video interview: balans via RTV MMC / Kultura

balans at Music 24

interview via The Blog Of Roland

“dežuje” – Third best song of 2020 by Runda (Runda Awards 2020)

interview via Dnevnik (January 2021)

interview via Radio Študent (January 2021)

“sam pravm” by balans is nominated for Impala’s European Independent Album of The Year 2020, January 2021