Katalena

Label: PivecRelease date: June 18, 2021Production: Jernej KržičAlbum length: 51.42 minGenre: Art RockRating: 9.5/10Buy the album! If we're counting right, "Kužne pesmi" is the ninth album from Katalena, by now rather legendary…

"Katalena and Clug. A fusion of ballet and Katalena's music, based on an "updated retelling" of Vandot's famous tale, with an effective realization"

Location: Tolmin / Kinogledališče Tolmin / SloveniaDate: Saturday, 23.03.2019 "Človek ni zver" ("Man Is No Beast"). Damn right. Compared to man, the beast is small fry. Man is of course far worse. There isn't a word that could even…

"Katalena needed an artistic about-face after their previous album, and with that move they've once again delivered a one-of-a-kind record that is, head to toe, 100% Katalena"

In its very core, "Človek ni zver" is a theater of deeply perceptive confessions that grabs the listener at once and holds them in suspense right to the end. That's how real its content feels. Your blood will run cold.

Location: Ljubljana / SiTi Teater / SloveniaDate: Thursday, May 12, 2016 Katalena, probably the go-to band in Slovenia when the talk turns to reworking Slovenian folk music (on a thousand and one tunes), is marking 15 years of…

Katalena, probably the go-to band here when the talk turns to playing Slovenian folk music (a thousand and one tunes' worth), is marking 15 years of existence this year. They walked into SiTi Teater with the premiere show of a revision of…

Label: PivecRelease year: 2015Production: Blaž Celarec & Marko TurelAlbum length: 35.24 minGenre: Folk / Rock Time flies! Four years have gone by since the album Noč čarovnic came out.. It feels like it was yesterday. And now…

Unlike its predecessor, which was an album of original music, »Enci Benci Katalenci« is at its core an album of children's folk counting-out rhymes that have been put through a radical process of so-called »Katalenization« or…

Location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Friday, October 19, 2013 CUK Kino Šiška hosted a very special celebration last weekend: a glamorous show from the folk art rock outfit Katalena, backed by all of its musical…

The event called "(Z)godbe ob Kataleni" came off in the best possible way. The experience of being "swept away" was there again this time. The band's one-of-a-kind world is so strong and shines so convincingly that it grabs you and carries…

Location: Postojna / Kulturni dom / SloveniaDate: Sunday, 01.09.2013 Katalena closing out Postojna's "Zmaj ma mlade" festival delivered the high point of this year's lineup. This is a top-notch band with a long track record and a…

Katalena brought the Postojna festival "Zmaj ma mlade" to a close with the high point of this year's lineup.

Location: Ljubljana / SiTi Teater / SloveniaDate: 25.01.2013 When the talk turns to musical experimentation that you hurl into the century-old template of recognizable tunes from the Slovenian folk music landscape, you'll struggle…

When it comes to musical experimentation hurled into the century-old template of recognizable tunes from Slovenia's folk music landscape, you'll be hard-pressed to find a bigger artistic high point than what the sextet Katalena delivers…

Label: CelinkaRelease year: 2012Production: Aldo IvančičAlbum length: 38.32 minGenre: tango A little late to the party, but here we go anyway. This record deserves your full attention, no question. It's a head-on collision of tango…

Location: Ljubljana / CUK Kino Šiška / SloveniaDate: Monday, 21.05.2012 Boštjan Narat is a poet, a musician, even a philosopher, known to everyone as the frontman and guitarist of Katalena and, now more than ever, a…