Of the Wand and the Moon / Majdanek Waltz / Uhushuhu in Tbilisi 🇬🇪

Name: Of the Wand and the Moon / Majdanek Waltz / Uhushuhu in Tbilisi 🇬🇪
Start: 2025-03-29T19:30:00+04:00
Location: Junkyard

Schedule

Sat, 29 Mar, 2025 at 07:30 pm

UTC+04:00

Location

Junkyard | Tbilisi, TB

Zhesht Events proudly presents an intimate evening with Of the Wand and the Moon, Majdanek Waltz and Uhushuhu.
Of the Wand & the Moon is a musical project of Danish musician Kim Larsen (ex. Saturnus) started in 1998 to explore neofolk, dark folk, experimental and ambient sounds. The early albums of the project blend melancholic acoustic guitar, atmospheric synths, and poetic, often esoteric lyrics, drawing inspiration from European folk traditions, runic mysticism, and personal introspection. Of the Wand and the Moon’s first 3 albums ( Nighttime Nightrhymes (1999) and Emptiness: Emptiness: Emptiness (2001) and Sonnenheim (2005)) helped define the project’s signature sound, making it one of the most revered names in neofolk alongside such heavyweights as Death in June, Sol Invictus and Current 93.
While still rooted in neofolk, The Lone Descent (2011) saw Of the Wand and the Moon shift towards a much more expansive, layered and cinematic sound, moving beyond its earlier minimalistic neofolk style to music most notably influenced by 60s & 70s singers/songwriters, citing such names as Lee Hazlewood, Leonard Cohen and Serge Gainsbourg as inspirations as well as movie soundtracks of the same period. The album was received with great critical acclaim and is considered a contemporary neofolk masterpiece. The next full length effort, titled Your Love Can’t Hold This Wreath of Sorrow (2021) follows in a similar vein, but features even greater experimentation with other genres such as post-punk and electronica.
Deeply personal, intimate and sincere, Kim's sound has been shifting and evolving always forward throughout the years, invoking in equal parts feelings of warmth and desolation, love and resentment, pain and comfort, and it will eventually smother your soul... but at least the tears are free!
The show will be supported by Majdanek Waltz, veteran of Russian industrial and neofolk sound and Uhushuhu drone ambient masters!
Majdanek Waltz is a musical group founded in 2001 in Ryazan. During their 24 years of musical history they evolved from an anonymous project into one of the most influential acts on Russia’s post-industrial scene. They began with noise experiments infused with martial aesthetics, spoken word and a cavernous sound created with live instruments like guitar, bass, and viola. Over time, Majdanek Waltz shifted towards acoustic compositions, crafting intimate, somber music with tragic recitations that evoke a twilight, bleak atmosphere. Known for their mystical dark, neo and apocalyptic folk sound, they create music that is hauntingly beautiful and deeply melancholic — slow, somber and detached.
Representatives of Saint Petersburg's multifaceted drone scene and members of the Petrograd Hum Society, **Uhushuhu** has been active since 2014, performing regularly at festivals in Russia and beyond. Their releases appear on labels such as Zoharum, Zhelezobeton, Unline, Kultfront, and Pantheon, as well as self-released on their own label. Uhushuhu is known for its dense, immersive, beatless sound, blending electronic noise, drone loops, resonant synths, shimmering guitars, and distorted organic and industrial sounds.
📅 Date: March 29
📍 Place: Junkyard club
🚪 Doors: 19:30
🎫 prices:
Presale: 60 Gel
First bucket: 75 Gel
Second bucket and at the doors: 90 Gel