Dub Reggae International

Archival recording from Umanee (2004). The tune emerged around 2001 during jam session with Yerba Mater (Poland). In this recording: Bill Thomson (drums), Dushan Mitrovic (clarinet), Rob Law (oud), Shakira Searle (voice), Peter Nowotnik (saz).

This tune is a kind of rondo form with improvised segments between each reiteration of main theme.

I found this piece as an 128kbps MP3 and decided to give it a second life. I remember being inspired by a dark, black and white comic book read back in 90's. This track was recorder using SB Live! with a Takamine guitar and some acoustic instrument ( it was 10 years ago ;)

I was thinking about recomposing and rerecording it but it could be the very fragility of that piece which might be hard to grasp nowadays with better technology - and, well.....probably different "me" ;)

anyway, enjoy

Based on a theme by Mattia Mauree.

"Esthenos Theme" from "Blood Knight" (video game by ipwnstudios.com)

"Ithacan Poem" is based on lyrical narrative of Penelope of Ithaca. Set among the mythical surroundings of ancient Mediterranean’s it evokes not only an inner longing and solitude but also illustrates forgotten canvas of dream-like colours and contours...

Vocals: S. Searle; Music/Lyrics: P. Nowotnik

This track has been composed and produced for Olena Fedorova's performance - "Zone. Motherland" (VCA, Melbourne 2010).

"...“Ashes” is one the most dynamic and dramatic pieces of music in “Zone”. Being also the longest one, it represents the brutal clash of human values, family and community life with tragic circumstances personified throughout the “un-dead” machinery of state in the condition of emergency, contamination and containment.

Original piece of TV news from Russian “Vryemya” channel is a visceral statement of the situation after the peaceful communal existence is torn apart by technological flaws which failed to harness elemental forces of the nature.

The radioactive fallout and the sound of an emergency horn leads into the long and delayed time of awaiting, incertitude and progressing decay which leave us in the aftermath of exposure, destruction and the unsuccessful attempts of unaware human beings to fight with the consequences of the unknown. Long, flooded corridor, attended by fire-fighters is now soaked with water and extinguisher substances which encapsulates danger as a cocoon among the post-industrial remains.

After the climax of the screaming textures, the fallout of gentle percussive patterns emerges invoking a dream-like vision. The female voice singing a prayer in Sanskrit is a universal spiritual aspect of bonds between human life, death and bond between everything that occurs on earth. High-pitched, unstable sound represents the spikes of radiation and a wave form it takes to synchronize into a repetitive pattern from seemingly chaotic instances.

from the latest KiEw album "mental [per]mutation"