TALVEKOIDIK
"Silent Reflections"
(Brume Records)
Visionary soundtrack for experimental electronic poetry.
Saying that the creative mind behind Talvekoidik is the same from the rhythmic noise project S.K.E.T. is absolutely a negligible detail. Talvekoidik is far from being a side project, it is a fresh expressive reality that flows from the same individuality and completes it with the same strength. Listening to "Silent Reflections" is like dreaming an inner film rich in airy shots and wide views that fills up with thrills and move to emotional tears. The continuous contrast between harmonic sensitiveness and the wonderful rhythmic work welcome the restless and shocking throbs of experimental industrial syncopation, it excites the epic pursuit among wind instruments, strings and piano within a magnificent superb explosion of timbric colors, crescendos, diminuendos and noisy emotional scenarios able to take your breath away. The cinematic strenght is soaked in digital sizzling mechanisms and sine waves that keep estranged from reality and expand in impressive classical symphonies, in the lyrical and ethnic romanticism of the lashing Nordic wind, as well as in the tribal silence of the desert wrapped in the refined lights of a dreamy metropolitan hi tech oasis. Three remixes (the one from 16PadNoiseTerrorist seems to be the funniest and most original) complete an unmissable debut.
And here follows a short interview with Talvekoidik
A: Your logo is the Möbius strip, a non orientable surface. This property could also be directly connected with your music. Can you please explain what is the relation between Talvekoidik and the Möbius strip?
T: The Moebius strip is very fascinating to me. It..s the only endless thing you can hold in your hands. It..s the only object with only one surface. Whenever you move forward on it, sooner or later you will end up on the point where you have started. This symbol is a reminder for me to stay focused while writing tracks for talvekoidik. It..s necessary to stay focused if you want to develope a track to its end, to perfection. I don..t like limits and i dont like compromises. But sometimes I am too lazy or demotivated to go a step further. The Möbius strip should motivate me to make a step forward in such situations.
A: The creative process implies a necessary abstraction from reality, a deep inner trip within one..s own self, which is particularly intense in your debut album. If S.K.E.T. is clearly involeved in political matters as far as the concept goes, Talvekoidik is more "poetic" and lyrical. Which dream/vision/imagery does Talvekoidik..s music come from?
T: Talvekoidik is a way for me to express things i cant explain with words. Its another language. I dont have a clear concept for the music, no rules, no formula. This music comes directly out of my mind and the sound depends on my emotional situation while I make music. Its not a forced process, there is no will behind it. I just let myself go. Things I see and feel are a big influence of course, as well as things I imagine. But its all driven by a yearning for living, for breath, for an enlightened mind, for the ease of being in contrast with reality.
A: Can you point 1 advantage and 1 disadvantage of being an electronic/idm project in 2007?
T: An advantage is definitively the freedom of creativity as it always happens in "new" cultural movements. There are masses of artists, very billiant minds, most of them with a unique shape of sound, people who like to be experimental. There is a lot of confidence in this school of sound and it is very interesting to discover this wideness of different approaches. This is also a very huge disadvantage (of course not for me) because the peripheral enviroment like magazines, promoters, booking agencies and labels do not like this fact. I think because it..s hard to calculate the profit they may make and so they wait until the risk is easy to calculate and the musical uniqueness is morphed into boredom by acts who cook always with the same recipe to satisfy the mass-market.
A: You have a great passion for architecture. What would be the perfect architect to describe Talvekoidik music in shapes and colors?
T: This is a good question! I don..t want to offend these architects with my statement. I don..t see myself on the same level of expertise as they are but projects of Zaha Hdid and Coop Himmelblau have always been a big inspiration for me. I adore their work but it is too huge and too brilliant to bring my music in a relation with their work.
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