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Guca Meets Wacken (DE)
- Style: Metal
- License territory: WW
A metal band with authentic Guca trumpets!
Not much needs to be explained about the Wacken Festival.
Guca is a village in Serbia. The Guca Festival is unique in the world. 3 trumpets, 4 horns, a tuba and a tupan/drum are playing on the stage. No guitars or drums. Typical Balkan music. More than 30,000 fans react in front of the stage like at metal concerts, like at the Wacken Festival. We connect the two worlds. A metal band with authentic Guca trumpets. No funky big band jazz horns. That's what the brass world expects. Guca horns are different.
Band history:
2015 - Producer & musician Manne Pokrandt visits the Guca Festival, the idea is born.
2020/21 - no concerts due to the pandemic. Plenty of time to try something new.
April 2021 - 3 songs give an idea of what "Guca Meets Wacken" can be. Mario Husten (Holzmarkt Berlin), Sören Birke (Kulturbrauerei Berlin), DJ Robert Soko (BalkanBeats), Frank Klaffs (Womex) and many others see the potential and support the idea.
In 2021 a singer, 2 guitarists, 2 trumpeters, 2 tenor horns and the drummer will be found. The program consists of original compositions and cover versions of Guca and Wacken classics.
August 2021 - visit to the Guca Festival, meeting with Roma musicians
February 22nd, 2022 Live video production for promotion.
May 23rd, 2022 Showcase with audience in the Kesselhaus Berlin. Proof of concept. The fans sing and run in the circle pit. Many say that they don't actually listen to metal, but that they like the Balkan metal constellation. "Now you have to go to the festival stages!"
May 28th, 2023 Entenfang Festival Torgau, new songs presented
Fall 2023 - Working on the album
June 7th, 2024 First concert with the new singer Tim Tom Thomas at the Blue Wave Festival on Rügen with an additional 60-minute set by the Guca Horns as a marching band. What works so impressively in front of an audience of random holidaymakers should work everywhere.
July 2024. The album is finished.
Guca is a village in Serbia. The Guca Festival is unique in the world. 3 trumpets, 4 horns, a tuba and a tupan/drum are playing on the stage. No guitars or drums. Typical Balkan music. More than 30,000 fans react in front of the stage like at metal concerts, like at the Wacken Festival. We connect the two worlds. A metal band with authentic Guca trumpets. No funky big band jazz horns. That's what the brass world expects. Guca horns are different.
Band history:
2015 - Producer & musician Manne Pokrandt visits the Guca Festival, the idea is born.
2020/21 - no concerts due to the pandemic. Plenty of time to try something new.
April 2021 - 3 songs give an idea of what "Guca Meets Wacken" can be. Mario Husten (Holzmarkt Berlin), Sören Birke (Kulturbrauerei Berlin), DJ Robert Soko (BalkanBeats), Frank Klaffs (Womex) and many others see the potential and support the idea.
In 2021 a singer, 2 guitarists, 2 trumpeters, 2 tenor horns and the drummer will be found. The program consists of original compositions and cover versions of Guca and Wacken classics.
August 2021 - visit to the Guca Festival, meeting with Roma musicians
February 22nd, 2022 Live video production for promotion.
May 23rd, 2022 Showcase with audience in the Kesselhaus Berlin. Proof of concept. The fans sing and run in the circle pit. Many say that they don't actually listen to metal, but that they like the Balkan metal constellation. "Now you have to go to the festival stages!"
May 28th, 2023 Entenfang Festival Torgau, new songs presented
Fall 2023 - Working on the album
June 7th, 2024 First concert with the new singer Tim Tom Thomas at the Blue Wave Festival on Rügen with an additional 60-minute set by the Guca Horns as a marching band. What works so impressively in front of an audience of random holidaymakers should work everywhere.
July 2024. The album is finished.