Nina Garcia: "Bye Bye Bird" + support act Luka Čapeta
After a decade of performing concerts under the Mariachi guise, Nina Garcia has finally unveiled her unique approach in "Bye Bye Bird", her first album under her name, released by Ideologic Organ. With no pretence or demonstration, the album is a captivating blend of chiaroscuro, melodies, and raw emotion.
At KONTEJNER Nina Garcia will present the album, played with a magnifying glass where the guitar is amplified by 1-inch zones. A fist linked to a micro-microphone, "ultra-territorial" music and total dependence of the sound on the slightest movement. What emerges from this new research is a tenfold increase in tension, forced silences, aborted feedback, and manufactured loops that are always trying to move forward. Her music is increasingly handmade, but always with a high intensity. In this new set we find her classical Mariachi folklore: threaded rods, saturated wedding and funeral noises, assertive rhythms and breaks, and a privileged link with the amp as a playing partner.A duo rather than a solo, it stuns with its blend of technical mastery and total freedom. Nina converges between wildness and tenderness with her instrument, a tense corps à corps between two vibrant souls, music and choreography of raw poetry.
Tickets are available in presale at a price of 7,00 EUR via the ENTRIO system, while tickets purchased on the day of the concert will cost 11,00 EUR.
Admission is free for persons with disabilities, those over 65 years of age and children under 16.
Nina Garcia (HR)
Nina Garcia lives and works in Paris. Since 2015, she has been researching and creating around the electric guitar, halfway between improvised music and noise. Her set-up is reduced to a minimum: a guitar, a pedal, and an amp with which she sculpts sound and delves into chaos to bring out the unheard-of. Her concerts draw audiences into an immersive sonic space where power and fragility intersect with communicative intensity. In just a few years, she has attracted the attention of numerous international stages. Garcia also plays with Arnaud Rivière in Autoreverse, in a duo with Danish trombonist Maria Bertel, with percussionist Camille Émaille, and in the rock band Mamiedaragon. Since 2019, she has been a member of the improvisation ensemble Le Un. She has also performed with Sophie Agnel, Méryll Ampe, Stephen O’Malley, Leïla Bordreuil, Antoine Chessex, and Fred Frith. In 2020/2021, she was in residency at GRM for a commission for the Présences Électronique festival. In 2023 she created "De haut en bas, de bas en haut et latéralement", a piece for body, sound and sculpture with Anna Gaïotti, Jennifer Caubet, Romain Simon, Christophe Cardoen and Étienne Foyer. Nina Garcia also teaches experimental music, leading workshops for art students (EsadHar, Le Havre, 2017) or children (Le DOC, Saint-Germain d’Ectot, 2022 / Muse en Circuit 2024). Since 2023, she has been developing concerts for children and families, where she presents adapted but not cropped music.
Luka Čapeta (HR)
Luka Čapeta is a guitarist and producer from Zagreb who has been involved in music since the age of fourteen. Since taking up the guitar as his primary instrument, he has simultaneously explored and developed other aspects of the musical practice, including composition, production, and music education. He studied at the Vienna Music Institute, where, under the mentorship of Peter Felix Rom, he explored jazz, harmony, and world music. After his years as a student in Vienna, Čapeta returned to Zagreb, where he has been actively involved in fostering the development of the local music scene, both as a musician and as a concert organizer. He has composed and produced music for contemporary dance, theatre, and film, while performing with numerous bands and participating in a wide range of projects. Rooted in electronic, ambient, jazz, and classical music, Luka continuously develops his own musical language, experimenting with various traditional and world music approaches, noise, and avant-garde aesthetics to create a distinctive approach to performance and sound. He has performed at numerous renowned festivals across Europe, including Glatt&Verkehrt, Fira Mediterrània de Manresa, Resonator Festival in Odense, Mikołajki Folkowe in Lublin, BALKAN:MOST Festival in Veszprém, Jazz Jantar Festival, Ljubljana Jazz Festival, and others.
