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QFest – Day III – FIRMA + Ana Coman + NoruNegru
Wednesday, October 02, 2024
Public access: 19:00
FiRMA, one of the icon bands of Romanian alternative rock, appeared in 2001 on a music market that was just learning to align itself with international standards. The band has been innovating and breaking patterns throughout their career, developing non-conformist projects and alternative shows without a break, repeatedly demonstrating their compositional versatility.
Released in 2003, ``La Orbire'', the debut disc whose music producer is Rocca, would define the band's position through an alternative rock sound with jazz, blues, funk and trip-hop influences.
'La Orbire', the single that gave the title of the first album, reached the 1st place in the Romanian MTV chart after the first 2 weeks of broadcasting.
The beginning of 2017 marked the premiere of the show "Spring Awakening" at Teatrul Mic. During each performance and throughout the duration of the show, the FiRMA band performs a live soundtrack (music and lyrics) created especially for this non-conformist project by Daniel "Rocca" Stoicea.
In December 2018, FiRMA releases a new material, the album "Poezii Alese.Vol I", a FiRMA - Radio Romania co-production, through the Casa Radio publishing house. This record project brings together a set of nine songs composed by Daniel Rocca on the lyrics of Romanian, classic poets and contemporaries. Starting from a series of recordings of the poets who recited their works in the Radio Romania studio, Rocca creates a musical structure that dresses and intertwines with the verses of the poets Nina Cassian, Elena Vlădăreanu, Ana Blandiana, Svetlana Cârstean, George Bacovia , Adela Greceanu, Leonid Dimov, Lucian Blaga and Mihai Eminescu.
FiRMA reconfirmed in all contexts its position among the most important and fascinating alternative rock bands in Romania, through original chords, subtle lyrics and through an innovative visual story, based on the graphic and directorial vision of the soloist Daniel "Rocca" Stoics. The band has combined musical genres such as rock, pop, synth, funk, blues & trip-hop, always putting a passion for quality sound and original composition, from their out-of-the-box beginnings in the 2000s, to the fervor of today's maturity.
ANA COMAN
Although she has been singing since she was little, it wasn't until 2018 that Ana Coman realized that music is much more than a hobby. It started as an acoustic version, voice and guitar, at Radio Guerrilla, in the column "Ana has a song". Afterwards, Ana started releasing her own songs and had a rapid rise, participating in big festivals in the country, such as "Summer Well", "Femei pe Mătăsari", "Focus in The Park" or "Electric Castle". So far, he has experimented with several influences and expressed his talent as a storyteller, with lyrics in both Romanian and English.
In 2020, he released his first album, "9 missed calls". In 2023, Ana Coman returned to the scene with her second album - "Pretext". A pretext is a way to turn two strangers into soul mates. A pretext can be a glass of wine, because in the right context it becomes more than just a glass.
This year it is under "Tu nu o sa ma uitis" - the last album released by Ana Coman and played all over the country in the spring of the same year.
NoruNegru
The NoruNegru band was founded towards the end of 2015, in Bucharest. His music confirms the natural appetite of the '90s generation for the indie current and highlights the stylistic diversity within it.
The band's debut album - O sa va stricam vacança - contained 10 songs composed between 2011 and 2016 and was released on November 1, 2016. It was followed by CONTRAINFINI7, published on December 17, 2017. 11 songs written within a year after publication the first album.
At the end of July 2021, we brought 9 Cherries Bitter as Life. Without dramatizing, like it or not, troubled times are in the story of these songs. Sometimes from a personal perspective, sometimes with more objectivity.
NoruNegru tells stories of the generation he belongs to. He tells them in Romanian, who has ears to listen. |
