 Magic Carpathians
Project "ethnocore3: vak", FLY Music
2002
mp3 1.5 MB
available in May 2002 through VIVO (www.vivo.pl)
Tamizdat (www.tamizdat.org) RevolverUSA/Midheaven
(www.midheaven.com) and elsewhere
MP3 with one of the tracks available at www.karpatymagiczne.vivo.pl
Anna Nacher (voice, lyrics, 12-string guitar, e-bowed
guitar, field recordings) & Marek Styczynski
(Slovakian pastoral fujara, signalling trumpet,
didjeridu, cello, Tibetan cimbals, field
recordings), Tomasz Radziuk (Kramer bass guitar,
acoustic fretless bass guitar)
also contributed:
Alexandra Yaromova (Le Plastic Mistification -
cello, voice, harmonica)
Tomasz Jurecki (Slovakian pastoral fujara), Piotr
Golonka (voice, hermonica, objects)
Most of the "ethnocore3: vak" session
has been recorded live with two tracks remixed by
Umpaalas (rhBand) in San Francisco at his home
studio. Live recordings have been made during
October 2001 at the Browarna Galery in Lowicz (Poland),
established by an artist, Andrzej Biernacki, in
the building that used to serve as a church. This
space with its specific acoustics has been chosen
for the vocal performance that resulted in
ongoing one-hour-and half long improvisation,
designed and arranged by Anna Nacher. Two tracks,
/dark/ and /light/ are the parts of the
performance that shows voice as a process
constantly and actively redefining the borders
set to delimit and produce body politics within
culture. Voice as such is a lead motive here -
voice as a soil of language, its sonics and
source, voice as a communication tool, as a con/non-text,
voice as a deprivation and degeneration, voice as
a violence, voice as subjected to violence, voice
reborn.
This is why the name of Hindu divine emanation
appears - in Hindu mythology Vak is an
incarnation of shakti power, embodiment of vocal
music and Voice itself.
Some tracks contain field recordings recorded by
Nacher/Styczynski in Varanasi, 1999 and Kathmandu
Valley, 1994. Several tracks recorded at Stary
Dom Gallery (owned by Nacher/Styczynski in their
hometown, Nowy Sacz, Carpathians) during May/June
2001 have been remixed by Umpaalas (known also of
his incarnation in rhBand) in San Francisco later
the same year, with additional sounds recorded
during the Magic Carpathians' U.S. tour (March
2001).
Hence "ethnocre3: vak" made a bridge
between the continents and time zones.
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Other CDs by Magic Carpathians Project:
*** "ethnocore" CD (FLY Music, 1999)
*** "Księga Utopii" CD (Obuh Records/FLY
Music, 1999)
*** "Bałtyckie Szepty" CD (FLY Music/
Fundacja Rozwoju Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, 2000)
*** "Dënega" CD (Obuh Records/FLY
Music, 2001)
*** "ethnocore 2: nýtu" CD (Drunken
Fish Records/ FLY Music, USA, 2001)
Available through VIVO www.vivo.pl and
RevolverUSA/Midehaven www.midheaven.com
Magic Carpathians on compilations:
***"New Music from Central and Eastern
Europe" (CD released by The Wire magazine,
UK 1999),
*** Urban Meadows - a benefit CD for the Broken
Face magazine (Sweden 1999),
*** Floralia vol.3 (onoff records, Italy/Netherlands
1999),
*** Oggum (Oggum Records, Wales 1999),
*** Dream Magazine compilation (2001, USA),
*** a benefit compilation CD by KFJC radio
station (2001, USA),
*** a benefit compilation CD by WFMU radio
station (to be released in 2002, USA).
Upcoming:
*** Trighplane Terraforms - a compilation CD (Vibracathedral
Orchestra, Six Organs of Addmittance, Magic
Carpathians) on Mental Telemetry (USA) www.mentaltelemetry.com-
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