Kolka music – post-audio_environment from Baltics  

Kolka music discography:

v.a. Kratzputz Konzentrat (LP, CD 2005 Second Edition)

Mr Pkalk N Tribob - Istip (LP, CD 2003)

Kriipis Tulo – Ujuja (EP, CD-R 2002)

v.a. Motobase  (LP, CD-R 2002)

Turbulence (EP, CD-R 2002)

Oloolo - Norma (LP, CD-R 2002)

Limiteur Compost  - Insect Compo (EP, CD-R 2002) 

v.a. Sea... Sun... Send...  Kolka! (Promo CD-R 2001)

v.a. Kratzputz Konzentrat (LP, CD-R 2001)

Have you ever tried to depict the sounding of an electric socket at home ? Or how the electrical current is flowing through a wire? No, not to explain it in words, but to depict? First I was given a CD to learn how it sounds, later I was given this site address: http://www.kolka.org Then it appeared to me - it's possible to depict the switching of oscillators. The guys from Kolka Music are investigating the open space of sound experiments with phonic and symbolic shapes developing traditions of futurists and neo-linguists of the last century. Geographically they are situated in Latvia. But they also unite Russian projects Membranoids from Kaliningrad, Cancel Cancer from Moscow and latvian Kriipis Tulo, Oloolo, Sever, InGarin's etc.

The audio designers work on forms, risk experimenting, provoke the listener or an occasional visitor of the site. Sometimes it's impossible to listen to. But pleasant at the same time. Sometimes - it's both pleasant and possible, but somehow peculiar. Every connoisseur will  confirm that to think using symbols and to try to express reality with their help is equivalent to insanity. But the experiment with symbol and form is closer to the truth than standard and norm. The musicians of Kolka Music lack the norm. It's named after the most western point of Latvia that borders polluted, idle water of Riga's gulf and boundless marine space. Kolka…colic…kohl… Not norm. The style of their music is called click & chano. Many people know what clicks & cuts means, there's even such a term, but they've created their own. "Click" is a short circuit in wires of lo-fi sound equipment often used by artists of Kolka Music, while "Chano" is a place. Not norm again. But who cares what gear they've got?

And the project is functioning: they have already released a compilation. Kratzputz Konzentrat - a buzzy experimental music form. I found really exciting. Amid peeks, crackles and snaps typical for sonic experiments, amid sounds of short circuits there appears the voice of a magical beauty. It belongs to Kristi, the singer from Kriipis Tulo. She sings in English and Estonian, carries out experiments in word-formation, improvising sounds of an unknown (non-existing) language. You can observe both: searching for the form and the result of it. In the songs you cannot understand a word, cannot  distinguish the tongue, but you understand the meaning. No matter in what way they try to depict the truth, they are striving for it. Only the movement, only the process has the strength, while depicting the truth and its sounds is impossible. Music and overall creative work of Kolka Music present a new formation, which is interesting for being flexible, dynamic, searching. Kolka Music is a new literature, a new music, a new slang that creates a new tongue within its basic language. Kolka Music is an overall striving for the new, the unknown. Its creations are moving towards the end of music and language, which must cause their revival in absolute new shapes. And they are doing it unpleasantly but interestingly, wholly but with risk. In short, contrasts incompatible in any other field present harmonious union in this project. Let's see and hear what happens next.


© 2001 by Antishanti



It's hard to say where, and tough to know when, but sometimes when the moon parks itself between the stars and the earth at just the right hour and the northern winds jettison their cold jet streams and the night owl trades 3rd shift for 1st, the rotation of the earth slows just long enough so that the neurons of an unsuspecting homosapien fire a salvo of the sort one could only describe as, what we here in the Troposphere call, inspiration. When the mood strikes, I just roll with it. 

What I will share here is a collection of songs that, at one point in time or another, I felt the need to record, playback and gently edit an incessant amount of times before imperfection nodded to sanity and tacitly agreed, or perhaps with a sigh, to cut them loose. These musical numbers, straight from the shaky hands of an amateur enthusiast, are a mix of spontaneous fiddling and premeditated composition. I believe in all things janky, sketchy, homespun, and sincere. Maybe that will be reflected here. Go free, my minuscule creations. Care not for the fruits. Be heard or collect dust. Be pretentious or genuine. Inspire or irritate. Just get out of my head.

Singer and songwriter of many different styles of music.  Vocalist. Guitarist, Drummer, and Recording Engineer.  Projects I've been involved in are "nightmaremode" "Gomorrahizer" "Extreme Noise Terrier" "Drogheda" "Fascist Insect" "Thrashantos" and my current band "Survivors"

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smallfunk is a music publishing and label created by keyboardist pär magnus johansson, together with alex van heerden, based in stockholm with a satellite somewhere around cape town.

the aim is to collect and present a music that can be described as spacious, techy, organic, understated, abstract even, but always very funky.

the bulk of the music is composed by the late great alex van heerden, respected trumpet/accordion player and singer in the jazz and ethnic music circuit of south africa. he did during his last few years melt these influences together with the sounds of european/scandinavian minimal electronic styles of techno and glitch, resulting in some truly original blends of rural/urban club music.

current projects are:

bushtech - minimal rural techno

nefertiti - insect jazz

tales of droëland - more wasteland beauty; AvH with paul miller and derek gripper

pinkfield$ - dark erotic and fragile; alex with kate ehrhardt

dandyesque - alex van heerden in the psychedelic dub-room

afrodisiac - music of secret plants

hemisfär (hemisphere) - electronic karoo poetry in afrikaans, with derek gripper, kate ehrhardt and magnus johansson

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