Preview: It's "Garbicz", Not Garbage!

"Magic becomes art when it has nothing to hide."

I just found out that I am going to be working at the Garbicz festival this year. This is good news! I've heard a fair few people around town whinging that it's too expensive / fancy / hippy / slow mo [delete as appropriate] but I found it to be a very experiential and grown up Bacchanal. By which I mean, it focusses whatever it's good at into a high intensity beam that illuminates a very personal, but alluring vision of what openair raving could be. 

It's at a really lovely location on an ancient Polish river, with azure waters that look like something from Neolithic times... or a backdrop for a Neolithic fashion shoot, if you will. There are some very decked out modern primitives in this wilderness, as my dusty photos from last year suggest. 

The place has a brilliant energy that feels right for working magic of whatever kind: dancing, delirious, holistic chaos magick, but without sacrificing your sanity or health, or too much sleep. It has an eclectic, small selection of music stages, playing it all from sophisticated house to tribal techno to dark hammering heartbeat out in the woods, all night long. These people have cut their teeth at bigger venues like Bar 25, Kater Holzig, Fusion - so there's no time wasted with trial and error. You will pay for that, of course, and for an almost natural, protected state of balance. So protected that you might feel like there's something conscious peering back at your from those trees, or moving alongside you on the paths. It's probably not just a trick of the light (it might even be Garbor, a Treebeard like protective spirit that is alleged to patrol the site). 

I'm really, really looking forward to seeing the place again, but I'm not trying to sell it or anything - I don't think it needs any more advertising. I'm just happy, and wanted to share that fact with you!