File under early Russian industrial rock/art; Harry Partch, incorporating primitive analogue electronics.

File under early Russian industrial rock/art; Harry Partch, incorporating primitive analogue electronics. ZGA was formed in 1984, in Riga, Lavia, under the old regime, by Nick Sudnik and Valery Dudkhin. Unable to rehearse acoustically because of noise, they invented their own instruments form scrap and springs and shaped metal fitted with contact microphones; these were not just noise instruments, but ways of accessing complex pitches, strange colours and articulating rhythm. By 1995, when this third CD was released, the instruments had become more elaborate and sophisticated - moving toward the Baschet brothers Sculptures Sonores - but the sound was even more powerful, and the mood much, darker, responding to the chaos and misery of the Russian republic as various dubious groups fought over the spoils of the peace. It's an extraordinary project, too original to reduce to comparisons, but it perfectly captures a pre-digital, post instrumental moment of raw sonic innovation, tamed by angry intellectual sophistication. The booklet comprises a small folio of work by the contemporary Russian painter Marina Kavezzina.

Additional Details

Label: Rer Megacorp

Genre: Progressive Rock

Language: English

Run Time: 56 mins

Region: 0

Release Date: 01/01/96

UPC: 752725004923