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First episode of LYL radio "Stone Sleepers" with Kӣr
"To desire this world, to be a stranger in it." Following these lines of the Bosnian poet Dizdar, Kӣr is presenting you a stylistic amalgam in which surrealistic motifs share lines with monist reflections, folk imagery and existentialist symbolism. In a world that is always in becoming, Stone Sleepers re-animate our eternal utopias.

"Stone Sleepers" part one (LYL radio 06.01.2021.)

Kӣr is the solo production epithet of Bane Jovančević, resident live
artist and program manager of Belgrade’s club Drug§tore. His first
release Imrali was on Creme Organization and second one
Mramorje was released on Yerevan Tapes.
By combining traditional and experimental influences in electro-acoustic music,
Kӣr creates the sound in which drone-navigated post-industrial logos
transgresses into a tribal mythos, in search for the traces of future. The clash of
synths and acoustics invoke an audio landscape of Byzantine sacral traditions
and Balkan folklore rhythms. Kӣr’s symbolic language (Dimiskija, Imrali,
Mramorje, Balčak) layers it up with an ancient temporality and its logic of being
that is not past but our own. The basic concept is to challenge conventional and
predominant rhythmic structures in music by juxtaposing traditional rhythms with
contemporary electronic sound design. The visual imaginary invoked in the
sound – that of a forest air, a river, a hum of birds – delivered through the
ruthlessness of the machine, insist on an active listening, to all the otherworldly
of this world. It is music that hypnotizes, contemplates and raves. And it always
dances.

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