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Zavoloka, KotraZavoloka versus Kotra "To Kill The Tiny Groovy Cat EP" (September 14, 2006)

"Kotra played bass, clanged and creaked.
Zavoloka has nurtured it and killed it."

After more than two years of collaborating in studios, playing improvising jams around Europe and releasing live sets and separate collaborative tracks on different labels, Zavoloka and Kotra finally bring a pre-release of their full-length collaborative CD that should come out soon.

"To Kill The Tiny Groovy Cat" EP is a collaborative destruction work, where Zavoloka totally deconstructs and rebuilds specially prepared and played sounds and pieces from Kotra, who came back to his bass specially for this collaboration.


This audio is part of the collection: Nexsound - Wayward Music

Artist/Composer: Zavoloka, Kotra
Date: 2006-09-14
Keywords: abstract; experimental

Creative Commons license: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs

Notes

This short release is a taster for a forthcoming full length release by Kotra and Zavoloka. Both are from the Ukraine and over the last couple of years they have played together a lot, both live and in the studio. For this release, Kotra returned to playing the bass, 'clanged and creaked'. Zavoloka 'has nurtured it and killed it', it says on the rather beautiful cover. Whatever nurturing and killing may be, it's hard to trace any sound back to the bass in these five pieces. Five pieces of chilling computerized glitch, with a good ear for a bass sound (that seems to be coming from anything deep end in the plug in section, rather than from a wooden box with four thick strings). Sounds crash like hard drives here, with fierce high end pitches among the deeper end music. Not danceable, hardly 'warm', but a truly noise related attack on the senses. Good for the fact that it defies any relation to microsound and clicks 'n cuts, trying really to melt down all the various influences together and be something new. Makes great expectations for the full length.
(FdW, Vital Weekly)

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Reviewer: ejanuska - - September 9, 2007
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I listened to two of these tracks and I just didn't get it maybe if I was wasted it would make sense. It takes too long for the song to get anywhere and just when the song is finally getting interesting...it ends.