A Taste of the Bee‘s Knees

Donaufestival in Krems (Austria) , May 2019

We have come back for this year‘s edition of the exquisitely well curated festival for independent experimental music in the small vineyard village of Krems by the Danube river in Austria.

Guitar noise, electronic noise, transhuman noise. All type of noises that one can imagine can be experienced from Sao Paolo, New York , Berlin etc. I especially enjoy the free jazz quintett of Irreversible Entaglements and drift away with Berlin‘s Band Apparat who explore an interrelationship of programmed sounds and analogue instruments. 

Hardcore Punk, Dub, Congolese rhythms with the stratified beats of the electronic avant-garde make my heart beat higher and higher. We feel so comfortable at this small festival with niche music lovers , cool people and good austrian white wine. After saturday‘s last concert we end up in a Volkswagen bus of two real austrian charming gentlemen from Salzburg, parked in the middle of the village‘s cobble stone marketplace, continuing with music, wine and a bit of kissing. It feels like being back in our twenties but much better fun with the naturalness and self confidence of our age and more money to buy only the good stuff (booze and luxury van version). At five am we stumble out in the rain towards the family run guest house with crucified Jesus Christ above our beds.

Next day we skip breakfast and start the day in the afternoon with Sacher cake listening to the next concert while laying on the heated floor of the venue‘s event which is a modernized church with exzellent sound system. The festival is closed at midnight by UK rapper Kate Tempest. Mr P has been a wonderful boyfriend this time as he had stepped back discretely since my Menorca hike. 

Good Boy