Irena Z. Tomažin - voice
Samo Kutin - hurdy gurdy
Tomaž Grom - double bass
Matija Schellander - electronics
The
featured quartet has sprung forth from the threads and bonds that were
being woven between the Austrian and Slovenian improvised music scenes
for over a decade. Double bass player Tomaž Grom, vocalist Irena Z.
Tomažin, Samo Kutin on the hurdy gurdy and
Matija Schellander on electronic devices have performed together
multiple times in different combinations during various creative stages
in their careers. Improvisation is always the encounter of different
musical expressions, their clash, their conjunction. Woven into it are a
searching, oppositions and misunderstandings, both on the individual
and collective level. The brittle and disembodied nature of the
collective organism is what at the same time makes for the tension that
encircles the music and that the featured quartet grasps splendidly to
produce a collective sound and noise whose dynamic range spans across
electronic sounds and noise, the bodily nature of the voice, the
acoustic sound of the double bass and an altered hurdy gurdy. Together
they form a uniform and intensive textural body of sound that allows
them to engage in a stretching of the potential of their individual
instruments.
Luka T. Zagoričnik