Thierry Zaboitzeff - Iva Lirma '2021

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ABOUT IVA LIRMA

BABYBLAUE SEITEN (D)
Thierry Zaboitzeff, one-time bassist and cellist, and, together with Gerard
Hourbette, the creative force behind Art Zoyd, opens his archives. The
Belgian’s new album has just been released (autumn 2007) by Spanish label
Margen Records, where last year his cd debut came out. The new cd is subtitled
‘Archives 02-07’. ‘Iva Lirma’ contains 12 pieces which
Zaboitzeff composed between 2002 and 2007. Each of them originally accompanied
various dance theater performances by Edittta Braun such as ‘Luvos vol.
2’, ‘Manifest’, ‘oXalis’, ‘Matches of
Time’ and ‘Coppercity’.
Those familiar with Zaboitzeff’s and Art Zoyd’s music won’t
be surprised by what they find on ‘Iva Lirma’. The Frenchman
creates with bass, cello, guitars, trumpets, various keyboards, percussion,
assorted samples and electronic sounds dense, mostly sinister and threatening
soundscapes, which flow out of the boxes in a sustained to very rhythmic way.
Once again Zaboitzeff produces weird and hard-edged music. Compared to
‘Mïssa Furïosa’ or ‘Dr. Zab Vol. 2’, this cd
presents more avantgarde and complex, if not complicated, compositions. The
whole is simply more sparse and electronic, although now and again cello and
bass dominate and define the sound.
Very rhythmic numbers (like the introductory ‘Matches of Time’),
where Zaboitzeff thankfully abstained from the dancebeats which used to appear
now and again, meet with threateningly sultry, dense sound waves, sustained
ethno electronic and real Kammerprog, which occasionally reminds us of
colleagues from Univers Zero and Present (listen to the second half of
‘Luvos vol. 2 Epilogue’). Zaboitzeff sings now and again, scratchy
and rough as usual. The title song captivates with a hypnotically sinister
refrain which bores itself into your brain. In the final ‘Crash’
Zaboitzeff sounds like Apocalyptica. Several cello grooves rock, accompanied
dynamically by well-programmed percussion and brings the album to an almost
hymnic end.
Zaboitzeff doesn’t necessarily offer anything new on ‘Iva
Lirma’, but what he presents here is of good quality and interesting
enough to be recommended by Electro-RIO-Avantgardists. Compared to his
ex-colleagues from Art Zoyd, who are moving more and more onto
contemporary-classic terrain, Zaboitzeff’s sound creations are clearly
more lightweight and transparent. This may please the Proh listeners among us,
who like more weird and complex music without going overboard.

Tracklist:
1.01 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Matches of Time (Remastered) (6:02)
1.02 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Coppercity, Pt. 1 (Remastered) (7:52)
1.03 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Luvos, Vol. 2, Pt. 1 (Remastered) (5:18)
1.04 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Luvos, Vol. 2, Pt. 2 (Remastered) (6:15)
1.05 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Luvos, Vol. 3, Pt. 3 (Remastered) (3:04)
1.06 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Luvos Vol. 2, Epilogue (Remastered) (3:49)
1.07 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Promenons nous... (Remastered) (5:04)
1.08 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Gertrude (Remastered) (2:19)
1.09 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Coppercity, Pt. 2 (Remastered) (2:45)
1.10 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Iva Lirma (Remastered) (3:38)
1.11 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Oxalis, Pt. 1 (Remastered) (5:56)
1.12 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Crash (Remastered) (4:25)
1.13 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Smell of Copper (Remastered) (1:49)
1.14 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Fugue (Remastered) (4:02)
1.15 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Frosted (Remastered) (3:33)
1.16 - Thierry Zaboitzeff - Last Supper (Remastered) (7:48)

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