Machine with no mistake

Twelve members of tribe The Stroj from the urban city of Laško, presented a part of their new album Gremo! in an exceptionally suiting environment of the Railway museum in Ljubljana.
Gremo! is a collection of noises, carefully assorted in powerful rhythmical patterns, that every once in a while sounds like a bit stoned sounds of our every day life. The cover song, on which they bet, is a remake of War, the old hit from Edwin Starr. Members of the tribe also joined forces with sound engineer and producer Aldo Ivančič, Dejan Pozegar (ex IN4S and Wreck) as vocal in the song War, syndicate Bast for the extra remix of the song 60s/min, and Aleksij Kobal for the album covers and the whole project design.
The hall was full, and probably excited enough, that two of the machines placed right behind, couldn’t feel cheated. The ambulance was also parked outside, but had no work - everything on stage went well. The Stroj is a machine that works steadily, but puts you in a feeling, which is about to jump into the crowd, but then calmly stays in place and wreck its anger on metal instruments – with noisy and raffinate sounds, with angle-grinder included - but it isn’t all that the crowd really gets.
There are no improvisations, which is reasonable within such collective banging, but there is enough for one to be amazed. The big construction with proper lightning and pyrotechnics, could easily serve as a scenery for Mad Max 4 (where are you, agents?). And nearly at the end we also received a shy commercial attempt, performed with two cans - you got three guesses - of what and from where. The Machine makes no mistakes.

Jani Kenda