Iztok Koren (banjo, gembri, balafon, guitar, effects, synth, drums, percusions, objects)

From 2003 lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia, earlier in Beltinci, Slovenia.

• With music starts to engage in 2000, self-taught

• - 2003: co-founds his first band Štefan Kovač Marko banda (post jazz noise folk rock), 5 studio albums, 1 live dvd; https://skmbanda.bandcamp.com/

• - 2005: co-founds his second band Hexenbrutal (experimental noise hardcore ambient), 3 studio albums, https://hexenbrutal.bandcamp.com/

• - 2008: short term project Dani Kavaš & Narodno zabavni terorizem, plays acoustic guitar, 1 studio album, http://kavasdani.org/?p=1172

• - 2011: with homeless people from Ljubljana and with cooperation with Kings of the street association and instrument craftsmen Samo Kutin and Andrej Fon records experimental album Ulične žvrgoljivosti, http://www.kraljiulice.org/casopis/katalog-izdelkov/

• - 2014: co-founds his third band Širom (avant-garde folk drone trance, imaginary folk), 3 studio albums, several recordings of collaborations or other projects, http://siromband.si/

• - 2015: one of the creators of music for dance performance No more solo, http://www.flota.si/predstave/predstave.html

• - 2016: one of creators of music for dance performance Synaesthesia, http://www.flota.si/predstave/predstave.html

- 2020: starts his first solo project under name Iztok Koren solo, 1 studio album

• - 2000 – 2014: activist in DIY alternative club Ambasada Štefana Kovača Marka Beltinci

• - 2003 – present: more over 900 concerts in several countries in Europe, Russia and Balkan

• - 2014 - present: as part of Širom trio collaborates with several artists and musicians such as Raphael Roginski (Poland), Dereck Gripper (South Africa), Yoshio Machida (Japan), Yann Gourdon (France) etc.
  

• - 2020 - 2022: colaborates with director Mirjana Medojević and makes music for 2 theatre plays

• - 2020: starts solo project under his personal name