Zoviet Pride
* Zoviet France: Kofca (10.0 mb) | Latst (14.5 mb) | Farasin (7.0 mb)
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I bought this awhile ago on an impulse because I thought the packaging looked cool. The whole package was kinda mysterious and for some reason really spoke to me. I’d heard the name Zoviet France in one context or another, but didn’t really know too much about them. From what I knew, they sounded like a group shrouded in mystery that dealt primarily with noise and aural textures. And that’s exactly what I got. After putting the CD in my walkman, I was immediately immersed in a sonic world that, at the time, was completely alien to me. I was transported to some netherworld and never wanted to leave it.
In their 17 years of musical output, :zoviet*france: have become one of the most influential bands of the (post)-Industrial movement. Despite this, though, they have remained largely anonymous, playing very few live dates and generally avoiding over-exposure. Their music has been described as “a series of infernal soundworlds that wanders between organic, non-linear, lo-fi explorations and fake ethnicity, creating a world where nothing is locatable and everything is suggestion, awaiting responsive imaginations. (The Wire)
For whatever reason, even though I fell in love with this album, I never bothered to find out more about the band or much more of their music. I felt like they wanted their music to stand alone and wanted to dissociate themselves completely from the whole process. I have no idea if that’s true or not, but it worked for me, and I listened to this album obsessively for a couple of years. It fell to the way side when I started getting more into the free jazz, but for whatever reason, it’s been working it’s way back into my listening schedule. At any rate, hope you enjoy this one as much as I have.
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mattttttt said,
October 24, 2007 @ 9:00 am
thank you thank you thank you.
a great treat to find some of their music for today
bikefridaywalter said,
November 8, 2007 @ 12:14 am
a bit belated here but the thing on the doorstop has a whole bunch of old zoviet france available. frankly, i’m much more into their early work because it’s so primal. no, i don’t mean “raw” or “harsh” as was the case with a lot of early post-industrial– i mean primal. using whatever was available: instruments, non-instruments, a couple delay pedals, the human voice.. i mean, it’s really really interesting stuff, like an ethnomusicological study of an alien world. interestingly, though, rapoon (a side project) continues this general feel even to this day.
claudio also just posted up some f/i which i highly recommend as it’s like a psychadelic version of throbbing gristle-ish noise!