Sympozion - Kundabuffer
SKU
UNICORN 5036
An Israeli band who have been working together for a number of years now and who have just released their debut album. They are a quintet of keyboards/recorder/vocals, dual guitars (one doubles on recorder), bass/vocals and drums. Their sound is generally busy, and includes a heavy influence from quick-moving minimalism, which they acknowledge. This is somewhere between avant-progressive and progressive rock; it should appeal to a pretty wide number of the people who read this catalog. "Many different musical universes came together in the music of Sympozion, and although the primary target was not to repeat anything the composers have heard before, there is an obvious connection to the traditions and achievements of some of the great musicians in the 20th century and earlier times. The main influences are Gentle Giant, Frank Zappa, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Erik Satie, Olivier Messiaen, Igor Stravinsky, Yannis Xenakis, Pierre Boulez and many more. Ultimately, the sound and essence of the music is a fusion of the past with the unpredicted results of present experiments, going through the old traditions such as jazz, progressive rock, electronic music, classical, minimalism, computer games soundtracks and avant-garde, and eventually becoming a fresh and surprising entity..." Recorded, produced, mixed and mastered by Udi Koomran (Ahvak, Present, Guapo), this bears his unmistakable stamp, but it also doesn't really sound like any single influence, and instead mixes all their influences into a whole that is Sympozion's alone! "Among the Israeli bands I saw on stage, this one is the best"-Yehuda Kotton of Ahvak.
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