With the forthcoming January 2010 issue, The Wire releases the second instalment in its series of subscriber only music downloads - "Below The Radar Vol 2".

Kvitnu is presented with a remix of Zavoloka for Kotra from upcoming release "Revolt" which will appear in just few days on our site.

Other participants are Carlos Giffoni, Mattin, Gary War, Ishmael Wadada Leo Smith, Skull Defekts & The Sons Of God, Marina Rosenfeld, MV & EE with Willie Lane, Leisure High, Leyland Kirby, Mazen Kerbaj & Sharif Sehnaoui, The Haxan Cloak, Blood Stereo.

But you need to be a subscriber for the Wire to get this compilation ;)

The unknown will inherit the earth. There is nothing that can anticipate the fortune to find something quite like Sturqen, a band with not much propaganda or merchandising behind it, surviving in the war zone from laptop music and with just one album as general curriculum. That just makes me think that sometimes the lesser known are the chosen ones, the less expected become the heroes and the bringers of distinctive fortunes of solid sound creation.
These debutants from Portugal, on the recently discovered Ukrainian label Kvitnu will take you with their highly experimental rhythmic industrial blended in acidic techno and extremely unstable energetic power. “Piranha” is a predatory album, dedicated to exploit rhythm above melody but with distinctive preference for energetic textures, fragmenting the electro synthesis into fierce distortions and paralleling Industrial sequences with the acidic blend of some kind of defaced Techno, evil, noisy, and painfully psychedelic.

Since there are no melodies but progressive textures sequenced it’s the powerful and almighty beat what will command the record from start to finish. Magnetically driven, these set of beats augmented by the ever pulsating core of beeps and hard trance distortions will engulf the listener’s mind into a raisin in the end. But while it happens the general meltdown will occur with the extreme transitions of acid trance. The work starts rather calmly, slowly peaking on “Vyk” where it will deploy part of its more raw resonance, consider a groovy techno side melted with Old school industrials ending their fusion in a noisey, dirty and psychedelic compost and then taking the definitive wild ride on “Tul” where the cerebral synapses start to fail in its daily deliveries when the storm of antenna like pulsations and odd chopped breaks blend together. The muscular rhythms takes the listener into the dance floor and smash his head with mind bugging loops and distortions. As general tactic, the tracks start from a massive hooking beat that gets abused by all kind of synthesis adding high frequencies that really disturb the ear and transforming its simple play intercourse into really weird breaks, fragmented rhythmic pieces and noise blasts while the twisted background made of groovy analogues morph like the round of fortune.
“47” presents a more Industrial approach with a locked rhythm that circulates till it gets like a mechanic progression but preserving that provocative set of analogue groovyness around it. Now if you want to get mad get rapidly into “K2n” and “Facce” where mechanic industrials meet delicious Trance sequences and a company of powerful rhythmic noise blasts and you’ll pretty much peak out with the highly intoxicated acid quality from “Alk” grinding with its high frequency sequences and completely rumbling everything over with its repetitive rhythmic hooks.

Clearly a mad album, seems like a phase of experimentation made without restrictions, with an intent to pervert the listener with its mad abrasions and fierce rhythm practice. Its original foundation made of rhythm transmuted into Industrial power and noise burns over an unstable transition of Trance analogues is really mind altering and really interesting. They achieved two things basically, to move the listener’s bones through its intrepid and volatile rhythms and to melt down his brain with the lights and colors. Sturqen is a band that will give a lot to talk about with this album, they have paved the way for massive admiration. Thumbs up!

(by Jack The Ripper)

http://www.heathenharvest.com/

Altra splendida release della Kvitnu – non fosse altro per la curiosa geometria del cartonato in cui è inserito il disco – che questa volta ha spinto la sua ricerca fino al Portogallo. Sturqen è artista detito ad un industrial sperimentale con uno spiccato ascendente rhythmic noise. Nelle sue deviazioni c'è la passione per la tecnica e la pulizia del genere ma anche un'indole violenta che frattura più che volentieri le linee melodiche lanciate dalle macchine a sua disposizione. IDM, trance, ambient oscura improvvisamente attraversata da fasci di luce accecanti, solitudine, atroce distacco. Questi gli elementi che contraddistinguono il viaggio di 'Piranha' tra rumore e silenzio. Non vi fate ingannare dai primi brani che non sembrano tanto il risultato di un processo compositivo spontaneo quanto esercizi di stile perché col passare dei minuti l'album cresce a dismisura. '47' il pezzo chiave, quello che trascina l'ascoltatore verso 'K2n', 'Facce' e 'Parkus' corpo significativo di un impianto sonoro che richiede un'analisi profonda e non vi deluderà.

http://www.dagheisha.com/

Laser Projection "Enlightenment", with music (5.1 surround) by Zavoloka, will be presented from 31.10 to 20.12.2009 at
PinchukArtCentre (4th floor, left entrance).

Zavoloka invent musical composition, that consist of voice and breath through digital filters, heartbeats, ambient, atonal harmonies, organic micro pulses of noises, high frequency bells.

PinchukArtCentre address: Chervonoarmyska / Baseyna vul.1/3-2, Kyiv , Ukraine.
Open hours: Tuesday through Sunday from 12:00 until 21:00, Closed Monday.
Admission is Free.

more information:
http://prize.pinchukartcentre.org/en/about

New on-line compilation with tracks from v4w.enko and Kotra - Striated Space - curated by Kim Cascone -- http://vagueterrain.net/journal15/striated-space/01
Go and get it now

text by Rasmus Steffensen here, in Geiger magazine - http://www.geiger.dk/anmeldelser/anmeldelse.php?id=3334

High-pitched to the point of absolutely devastating your eardrums, Kotra's music might hardly be considered music at all if it wasn't for how amazingly well-arranged and sonically-diverse it is. Take amusement in the fact that the works of this Ukranian electronic artist, also known as Dmytro Fedorenko, melted three speaker parts and possibly temporarily incapacitated my digital camera (seriously, see the video below; the camera operated completely fine again twenty minutes after its technological meltdown).

Despite potential skepticisms, what Kotra makes is music -- cutting-edge experimental electronic that might sound like a hyperactive robot coming to life, with a mouth full of screeching metal. On his MySpace, Kotra's music is self-described as "ear needles," and I can think of no better description. His music is piercing, and the insanely high-pitched sounds associated with it are probably the only reason it's kind of difficult to swallow. And frankly, one has to wonder how Fedorenko isn't just completely deaf by now, so intense are the sounds that he uses. Even I, who never wears ear plugs, was completely driven to stuff my fingers in my ears like a madwoman. For me, it was simply literally intolerable without them, but with them, Kotra's music was a perfect soundscape. It put a distorted, techy face onto fairly typical song structures, creating an experimental amalgam that was noisy, sure, but still clearly recognizable as songs. There was no need to stretch the imagination to find the meaning of it all, as one might have to do with structureless noise experimentation; it was controlled chaos in a most impressive way. It simply melted the speakers as it melted my mind, and I found myself grasping onto every note -- wide-eyed, intent, content.





http://www.redefinemag.com/music/reviews_concert_2.php?artist=Kotra&id=1191

live at Sonic Cirquits festival

Some changes and additions to our tour dates in October.

two new dates:
14th of October - Zavoloka and Kotra @ Staalplaat, Berlin
19th of October - Zavoloka and Kotra @ Crossroads event in Lublin, Poland

one update:
our live in Warsaw will be on 17th of October

one event canceled:
The Bridge event with Kotra, Borisov and Nikkila is canceled in Charlottesville, USA

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in all our concerts we will have Kvitnu releases for sale.
the best way to get our music is to buy our CD at our concerts :)

see you all there, friends!

Kotra and Zavoloka

Dunaewsky69 will have his new work "Universe EP"
released soon as digital download on Horns and Hoofs.

Released promised to be out on 24th of September
and it will be distributed by Beatport.

for now take a look at extra cover made by Boshke Beats genious artist Inga Burina

hey friends!

We are happy to announce a new release on Kvitnu!
This time from absolutely new brilliant artists from Portugal - Sturqen.

 

Their first release Piranha explores a vast amount of massive sonic rhythmics where a techno-trance universe is combined with a constant pure noise attitude. A continuous search for raw and energetic sounds gives the strength and anarchy to their first studio album.

preview Piranha's tracks in our Myspace player,
and on last.fm release page:
http://www.last.fm/music/Sturqen/Piranha

This album comes now as digital pre-release on our mp3-shop:
http://www.klicktrack.com/kvitnu/releases/sturqen/piranha

And expect CD version in beginning of September!

and also find more about STURQEN
on Kvitnu - http://kvitnu.com/artists/sturqen.html
on Myspace - http://myspace.com/sturqen/
on Last.fm - http://www.last.fm/music/Sturqen

12.09.2009 - ZAVOLOKA at Space Textures III festival, Riga, Latvia
14.09.2009 - KOTRA at EM-Vizija, Kyiv, Ukraine
23.09.2009 - ZAVOLOKA at Electroacoustica, Kyiv, Ukraine
26.09.2009 - KOTRA at Sonic Circuits Festival, Washington, USA
28.09.2009 - KOTRA at The Rotunda, Philadelphia, USA
29.09.2009 - KOTRA at The Bridge, Charlottesville, USA
09.10.2009 - KVITNU SHOWCASE at Net Audio festival, Berlin, Germany
18.10.2009 - KOTRA & ZAVOLOKA at Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
04.12.2009 - ZAVOLOKA at Madeiradig Festival, Madeira Island, Portugal
01.02.2010 - ZAVOLOKA in New York, New York, USA

details for each concert are here:
http://kvitnu.com/events/