ŽEN

Wednesday 10 May 2023 2023

The audio-visual all-female collective ŽEN started in 2010 in Zagreb where they’ve found their creative home at the AKC Medika squat. Their debut ‘I onda je sve počelo‘ (2013) released under queer feminist label Unrecords from Vienna and sophomore album ‘Jantar‘ (2015) released as collaboration between Unrecords and French independent label Vox Project, made them one of the most salient guitar bands of the ex-YU region.

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In recent years, ŽEN have performed at many major European festivals (Europavox, Colours of Ostrava, Tallinn Music Week, INmusic, Welcome to the Village…) and clubs from the Baltic to the Balkans, the Vistula River to the Atlantic sea

ŽEN playfully dissects gender stereotypes and connects the boundaries of audio and visual art, evoking journeys through vocal harmonization submerged in a progressive symbiosis of guitar, bass, drums and synths. If we were to try to define them by genre, the closest we would get is a complex form of indierock, informed by various style and genre characteristics ranging from post-rock to shoegaze, math-rock, vintage synthwave and experimental electronics.

“ This is a perfect modern pop post-rock, math-rock, prog-indie, synthwave – very well thought out and hypnotic to watch and listen to... Zen are a beatiful misty treasure and a real find! “