Høstsabbat 2024 Adds Monkey3 to Lineup
Though one is rarely mellow in this regard, it does feel especially self-flagellating to keep harping on how good the lineup for Høstsabbat 2024 is since, for the second year in a row, I can’t be at the fest owing to familial obligation. I know very well that in this day and age, “family first” is the accepted norm, and that it’s just one of those timing things, but that’s precious little comfort when it comes to missing out on seeing the likes of Monkey3, who are one of the pioneers of heavy psychedelic instrumentalism in Europe, for the first time, or Träd, Gräs och Stenar, who are psych-folk legends and probably a once-in-a-lifetime chance (at least for me) to catch.
This is the part where I usually say “alas” and move on with the post, but you’ll forgive me if I’m having an increasingly hard time kissing this up. Aside from enjoying the jaunt to Oslo every October and seeing friends and bands in the church — a special place that plays host to special performances, whether it’s on the altar or in the crypt/basement downstairs — it’s a stellar and broad-ranging edition of Høstsabbat that the team behind the fest has put together, and all the more impressive as they’re now splitting time, one assumes, with assembling a roster for next Spring’s Desertfest Oslo. I don’t go to more fests than I do go to, and so I’m well used to missing out — can’t see everything — but while I spent a goodly portion of this past summer ‘away’ and was at New York’s own Desertfest this past weekend, it’s hard to resist being greedy with a bill like this.
Alas.
Wherever you are in the world, if you’re going to this one, here’s another reason to look forward to it from the fest’s socials:
We are over the moon to be able to present to you the Swiss astronauts, the instrumental space drifters, the extraterrestrials: monkey3!
Hailing from the Olympic city of Lousanne, the sonic cosmonauts are looking to add an Olympic ring to their festival CV, after playing Hellfest, Desertfest, Freak Valley and Roadburn they are now gracing our Church of Riffs in October.
Their psychedelic/space/stonerrock is as captivating as the view of the Swiss alps, and accompanied by their otherworldly flair for visualizers and art, this concert is gonna be absolutely wild!
Each album gives you a new theme or backdrop, and each album guides you through space-time continuum, from slower “floating in space” parts, to the heaviest sun storms of riff-galore.
There is no sound in space, but Monkey3 perfectly captures what we all think it sounds like.
Buckle up and get ready to detach your mind from your earthly body, board our church-like spaceship, cause we’re going to the event horizon together in October!
Design by Thomas Moe Ellefsrud / hypnotistdesign
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