BUY CD
CD / Digital Download, Nexsound 2006
Collaboration of Zavoloka and AGF.
Credits:
Music by Zavoloka and AGF.
Mastered at The white room Vladislav Delay's studio by AGF.
Design by Zavoloka.
Release notes:
HANDMADE BIO BEATS
The idea was to extract sounds from existing and form a variation of beats and vocal snippets to make powerful techno of nature which can be seen as identical and not similar as structure of plants and nature. Repeating of otherness and repeating of difference. Both artists can be seen as huge fans and admirers of nature and the inspiration evolved out of structure of forest leaves and berries translated into musical rhythm and moods. One technique they used to produce these irregular but repetitive patterns was setting up an old school metronome tik tak at xxx beat per minute and count in and start to battle the beat with drumming on self designed sound banks directly recording into powerful converters the structure of the pieces are woody, spicy, discontinuous, recurrent, flavor, like: grain, sappiness, chime, species, extraction and vitality.
NATURE NEVER PRODUCES THE SAME BEAT TWICE
CD contains 50 one minute compositions each dedicated to a certain plant. the tracks are split into 5 subgroups: trees/ bushes/ meadow/ flowers / spices. The language the artists communicate in is english but both bring in their native tongue by naming plants and both are singing and speaking Ukrainian as well as interpreting Ukrainian traditional folk lyrics. The record was mainly recorded in AGF's studio in Berlin Kreuzberg in July 2005. Edited and crafted in Kyiv, Ukraine at Zavoloka's studio and mastered and completed in Berlin Prenzlauer Berg in Vladislav Delay's studio the White room in Autumn 2005. The material is strictly female touch and without comparison to existing sound on planet earth.
The design, photos, ornaments and packing are made by Zavoloka.
www.zavoloka-agf.com
In Press:
WIRE
...At first, the tracks blur together like dense foliage, but listen more closely and the detail reveals itself. Each piece has its own structure quite separate from the others, an astonishing feat considering the number of tracks here, but also includes elements that find echoes elsewhere, a sonic analogue of the patterns and repetitions found in nature.
That's not to say that the album is all process and no action. This would be great stuff even without the contextual. Using theme, a whirligig of cut-up voices, splattering beats and sprays of glitched-out waveforms. This is nature as relentless, bustling activity rather than bucolic calm, a document of
great vitality and joy.
rubored
... if you're familiar with the solo-works of AGF and Zavoloka, you will recognize many of Katias semi-tonal synth-sounds, the flute-samples, her harsh singing. Antyes voice is also present in the mix, altered with some effects. still the use of human voices gives some hold in the storm of musical particles the listener gots to put in order. Due to that, the sparingly use of harmonies emphasizes the melodies if there are some. "Nature never produces the same beat twice" is a quite rhythmical album, but the subtle harmonic surplus makes it outstanding and special. Far too fragmentary to be called the future sound of electronica, but one of the most exiting records of abstract electronic music i was allowed to listen to for the last few months.
Westzeit
... Name bildet Gerüst und Basis zugleich. Die Untergruppen "Gräser, Bäume, Gewürze, Sträucher, Blumen" geben dem vom technoiden Cut-up-Gewitter zunächst überforderten Gehör eine schwache Orientierung. Trotzdem ist jede Sekunde die Anstrengung wert!
nowamuzyka.pl
...To haslo obrazuje zamierzenie Zavoloki i AGF – chec ozywienia formuly muzyki silnie zrytmizowanej, o powtarzalnych strukturach. Panie widza to troche inaczej – z bacznej obserwacji natury wyciagaja wniosek, ze nawet to co sie powtarza i wydaje sie bardzo podobne, nigdy nie jest takie samo. I wlasnie taka jest ich muzyka – w kazdej kompozycji rytm jest silnie zarysowany, ale zarazem poddawany sporym deformacjom, nadwerezany. Beat jest na tym albumie bardzo wazny, ale to co dzieje sie wokol niego trudno jest przeoczyc. ... Juz marzec, to chyba najwyzszy czas, zeby zaczely pojawiac sie pierwsze dobre plyty. Do nich na pewno moge zaliczyc zbior 50 migawek z podpatrywania nieprzeniknionych fenomenow natury, ktory Zavoloka i AGF dzwiekowo przekladaja na materie gesta, absorbujaca uwage, nie pozbawiona zarazem harmonii, pewnego pociagajacego powabu, uroku.
OndaRock.it
... Animi pensanti rimarranno felicemente sorpresi dal tornado di trambusti qui presente, una piccola lacrima d'amore verrà ritirata e fatta cadere per un dolore benvoluto, piccoli sorrisi irregolari si presenteranno anche sul viso più imperscrutabile.