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»Recently one of the most pleasant surprises on the Slovenian jazz scene.«
- Bogdan Benigar (creative director of Druga Godba) for newspaper Dnevnik

»They are one of the big(gest) achievements of the festival.«
- Nina Novak (music critic) about Jazz Festival Ljubljana on Sigic

»Their playing is intriguingly vividly colourful and often very diverse.«
- Radio Študent

"A completely airy and intimate music of fairly classic swings, which sails particularly well and with a clearly defined direction."
- Borja Borka for Mladina magazine

"birds of unknown '...' presented a dreamy trip to the world of singing and whispering, to calmness and refined and decent excitement.”
- Václav Valtr for Full Moon Magazine

»Finely woven compositions in airy musical guise meet the emphatic, spontaneous interactions of the
band members in the music of the trio.«
- Radio Ö1

"Obviously, this trio loves balance, and they demonstrated this by telling creative stories built on nuance, inventiveness, and already imbued with a real musical maturity."
- Yves Dorison for CultureJazz France

WINNERS of the 49th Jazz Juinors Competition

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As the name suggests, the Slovenian trio tends to go beyond any limitations when it comes to transcending genres, inventively exploring freedom in musical creation. Building their oeuvre from their own unique musical expression, which grows from the vast knowledge gathered during their studies abroad as well as diverse collabs, they create peculiar musical figures that emerge from the foundations of jazz, ethno, avantgarde and soul. Their common goal is to find their expression and tell their story.

There are three so-called birds, vocalist Patricija Škof, saxophonist Tibor Pernarčič and guitarist Tilen Beigot, all coming from Slovenia. birds of unknown were formed in 2020 with their debut performance on the Slovenian National Radio (RTV Slovenia) and their first single To Find a Place.

They are the recent winners of the 49th Jazz Juniors, prestigious international competition in Krakow, Poland. Alongside the Grand Prix, birds of unknown also received two festival awards — from Fara Music Festival and Petrovac Jazz Fest — which will take them to festival stages next summer, as well as to the studio of EMME Record Label, where they will record and release their next album

The trio released their debut album Gently Sailing in 2022 and have been actively performing in Slovenia and internationally, at the numerous festivals and venues such as Jazz Festival Ljubljana, MENT, Porgy&Bess Vienna, Kino Šiška, Blue Note Dresden, Budapest Showcase Hub, Cankarjev dom, and more. In October 2022 they also performed as a supporting act of Alfa Mist in Palac Akropolis, Prague. They were selected as Slovenian representative artists for the Footprints Europe touring project in 2022, which brought them their first international tours in 2023 and were nominated for HEMI Award 2023. They have been touring internationally since.