Let's Listen | Balkan Bleeps: Retrograd
Thu, Mar 07
|Bonus Stage Twitch
On a very special edition of Let's Listen, Bonus Stage features Balkan Bleeps and their new album: Retrograd!
Time & Location
Mar 07, 2024, 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.
Bonus Stage Twitch
About the event
https://www.twitch.tv/bonusstagevan
On a very special edition of Let's Listen, Bonus Stage features Balkan Bleeps and their new album: Retrograd!
"Retrograd" is an exploration of adapting "Starogradska Muzika" (old city music of the Balkans) to chiptune. Blending tremolo pulse waves with tamburica and sweeping square wave melodies with electric violin, a new sound is created infused with multiple levels of nostalgia. From Starogradska Muzika classics to other Balkan tunes adapted to the "Retrograd" style, all carefully designed to work equally well with or without live instruments, at a banger chiptune show or from the comfort of your living room hi-fi (or lo-fi) set, this release is the most ambitious project of Balkan Bleeps yet! And to top it off, the tunes shine in the companion game, Skadarlija Scramble, available to play at itch.io (https://vacuumbrewstudios.itch.io/skadarlija-scramble).
Let's all listen and talk about the album on Twitch at 6pm PT. See you in chat!