{"id":1818,"date":"2022-02-11T19:28:57","date_gmt":"2022-02-11T19:28:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/siromband.si\/portfolio-items\/the-liquified-throne-of-simplicity\/"},"modified":"2022-03-05T22:36:29","modified_gmt":"2022-03-05T22:36:29","slug":"the-liquified-throne-of-simplicity","status":"publish","type":"avada_portfolio","link":"https:\/\/siromband.si\/sl\/portfolio-items\/the-liquified-throne-of-simplicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Uteko\u010dinjeni prestol preprostih"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"fusion-fullwidth fullwidth-box fusion-builder-row-1 nonhundred-percent-fullwidth non-hundred-percent-height-scrolling fusion-equal-height-columns\" style=\"--awb-background-position:left top;--awb-border-sizes-top:0px;--awb-border-sizes-bottom:0px;--awb-border-sizes-left:0px;--awb-border-sizes-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-left:0px;--awb-border-radius-top-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-right:0px;--awb-border-radius-bottom-left:0px;--awb-padding-top:0px;--awb-padding-right:0px;--awb-padding-bottom:0px;--awb-padding-left:0px;--awb-margin-top:10px;--awb-flex-wrap:wrap;\" ><div class=\"fusion-builder-row fusion-row\"><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-0 fusion_builder_column_1_3 1_3 fusion-one-third fusion-column-first fusion-column-no-min-height\" style=\"--awb-padding-bottom:169px;--awb-bg-blend:overlay;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-border-color:#ffffff;--awb-border-right:0;--awb-border-style:solid;width:33.333333333333%;width:calc(33.333333333333% - ( ( 8px ) * 0.33333333333333 ) );margin-right: 8px;\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-column-content-centered\"><div class=\"fusion-column-content\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-1\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><iframe width=\"394\" height=\"514\" style=\"position: relative; display: block; width: 394px; height: 514px;\" src=\"\/\/bandcamp.com\/EmbeddedPlayer\/v=2\/album=798380862\/size=large\/bgcol=333333\/linkcol=0f91ff\/tracklist=false\/\" allowtransparency=\"true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"fusion-layout-column fusion_builder_column fusion-builder-column-1 fusion_builder_column_2_3 2_3 fusion-two-third fusion-column-last\" style=\"--awb-padding-top:36px;--awb-padding-right:40px;--awb-padding-left:40px;--awb-bg-color:#e8e8e8;--awb-bg-color-hover:#e8e8e8;--awb-bg-size:cover;--awb-border-color:#ffffff;--awb-border-left:0;--awb-border-style:solid;width:66.666666666667%;width:calc(66.666666666667% - ( ( 8px ) * 0.66666666666667 ) );\" id=\"music\"><div class=\"fusion-column-wrapper fusion-flex-column-wrapper-legacy\"><div class=\"fusion-text fusion-text-2\" style=\"--awb-text-transform:none;\"><h1 class=\"fusion-responsive-typography-calculated\" style=\"--fontsize: 37; line-height: 1.4;\" data-fontsize=\"37\" data-lineheight=\"51.8px\">\u0160irom &#8211; The Liquified Throne of Simplicity<\/h1>\n<p>A well-placed crossroads to central Europe, the Balkans and the Adriatic, Slovenia has a rich atavistic topography of mountains, deep forests and karst landscapes to arouse both escapism and inspiration. Drawing on this geography of contemplation and psychic energy, from a country previously swallowed up by Yugoslavia and before that, reaching back centuries, the Roman, Byzantine and Austro-Hungarian Empires, the Slovenian trio of Iztok Koren, Ana Kravanja and Samo Kutin conjure up an extended album of intuitive transcendence and reflection on the unique sounding The Liquified Throne of Simplicity.<\/p>\n<p>Finding a home once more with Glitterbeat Records\u2019 adventurous, experimental, mostly instrumental, platform tak:til, and following on from the debut I (released in 2016 on the Radio \u0160tudent label), the much lauded I Can Be A Clay Snapper (2017), and the equally acclaimed A Universe That Roasts Blossoms For A Horse (2019), \u0160irom\u2019s fourth such inventive and illusionary album incorporates some aspects of the former whilst expanding the inventory of eclectic instruments and obscured sounds. For the first time the trio also ignore the time constraints of a standard vinyl record to fashion longer, more fully developed entrancing and hypnotizing peregrinations. This new, amended, approach results in 80 minutes of abstract and rustic folklore, dream-realism, explorative intensity and cathartic ritual. And within that array of realms there\u2019s evocations of Jon Hassell\u2019s Fourth World experiments, visions of Samarkand, the esoteric mysteries of Tibet, an unplugged faUSt and pastoral hurdy-gurdy churned Medieval Europe.<\/p>\n<p>These off-the-beaten-track performances converge history and geography with untethered fantasies and ambiguous atmospheres; all of which are made even more so fantastical, and even symbolic, by both the poetic, allegorical fabled track titles and the softly surreal illustrative artwork by the small village-based painter Marko Jak\u0161e, whose signature magical, if solemn, characters and landscapes adorn the album\u2019s cover and inlay.<\/p>\n<p>Music, in part, as a therapy The Liquified Throne of Simplicity offers a portal to other musical, sonic worlds: an escape route out of the on-going pandemic and its demoralizing, mentally draining effects and the crisis it has sparked in Slovenia, with certain far right groups especially taking advantage to ramp up the discourse of nationalism. More than anything, it was a therapeutic chance to mend disconnection and isolation. Yet though it was a bleak long winter, lockdown nevertheless gave the trio time to create and learn, as Ana, the trio\u2019s multi-instrumentalist and amorphous aria voiced siren, describes: \u2018For me drumming in winter was like a good drug. It gave me inner peace and meaning to just drum a few hours every day, to forget about a crazy everyday life and to be somewhere else\u2026\u2019<\/p>\n<p>During the darkest days of the Covid miasma the trio took to walking across the remote parts of their homeland, making a reconnection of sorts with their surroundings but also in a quest for inspiration. Another important motivation was found in exploring, studying and researching an ever-growing list of exotic instruments, in repurposing an assemblage of found objects and in constructing new effective devices such as acoustic resonators (made out of a spring and frame drum). Introduced to the already worldly sound ensemble is the shortened Balkan region mandolin\/guitar-like \u2018tempura bra\u010d\u2019, the Middle Eastern \u2018daf\u2019 frame drum, the \u2018ocarina\u2019 vessel fluted wind instrument, the \u2018lute\u2019 and the North African three-stringed, skin-covered, bass plucked \u2018guembri\u2019 (signature instrument of Morocco\u2019s spiritual Gnawa music). That\u2019s all on top of the repeated hurdy-gurdy playing and use of the lyre, viola, three-string banjo, balafon, ribab and mizmar.<\/p>\n<p>\u0160irom arrived at such polygenesis, otherworldly music via disparate but intersecting roads. Both active in the Slovenian underground scene, Iztok (with the DIY club Ambasada \u0160KM Beltinci) and Samo (the \u010cadrg Records Festival) both organized shows for each other\u2019s emerging projects (\u010carangi, Salamandra Salamandra, Hexenbrutal). Gravitating towards new horizons, painter and violinist Ana formed a kalimba duo Najoua with Samo. At a balafon making workshop that Samo organized, he and Ana and Iztok improvised together for the first time and discussed meeting again to play on homemade instruments. At last, during a shared Najoua tour with one of Iztok\u2019s bands, \u0160KM Banda, the idea for \u0160irom took hold.<\/p>\n<p>In the spirit of goodwill and for good mental health, as the lockdown in Slovenia passed \u0160irom shared this new album with others on a national underground tour; playing six acoustic concerts in special locations across their native country, like a remote village, pastures and in an old stable. This mini-tour, documented in the 35-minute film titled Rural Underground (that will come out later in the year), can be seen as a further illumination on the process and inner workings of a most hypnotizing mysterious trio.<\/p>\n<p>From the epic, almost primal, tubular and cattle bell ringing, Gnawa scratching, viola frayed fantasm opener \u2018Wilted Superstition Engaged in Copulation\u2019 to the almost Oriental dulcet shivered creeping drama of an acoustic Swans, \u2018A Bluish Flickering\u2019, attuned diverse tunings, rhythms (the poly and non-binary) and various rubbed, frayed and driven textures soundtrack an eventful age whilst probing uncharted musical worlds. By instinct, and in parts by coincidence, \u0160irom once more entrance with their vague undulations and illusionary echoes of places, settings, time and escapism on another highly magical album.<\/p>\n<p>CD:<\/p>\n<p>1. P\u00e1ri se ovenelo praznoverje<\/p>\n<p>2. Pase, zguba, pada v spanec<\/p>\n<p>3. Modrikasto kresni\u010denje<\/p>\n<p>4. Se\u017ee s kostjo v ogenj se prevrne s ka\u010do<\/p>\n<p>5. Poper obelodanim izgine<\/p>\n<p>Vinilka:<\/p>\n<p>1 A<\/p>\n<p>P\u00e1ri se ovenelo praznoverje<\/p>\n<p>1 B<\/p>\n<p>Pase, zguba, pada v spanec<\/p>\n<p>Poper obelodanim izgine<\/p>\n<p>2 A<\/p>\n<p>Modrikasto kresni\u010denje<\/p>\n<p>2 B<\/p>\n<p>Se\u017ee s kostjo v ogenj se prevrne s ka\u010do<\/p>\n<p><b>Iztok Koren<\/b>: gembri, banjo, tristrunski banjo, tank drum, bas boben, tolkala, balafon, cevni zvonci, zvo\u010dila<\/p>\n<p><b>Ana Kravanja<\/b>: viola, obro\u010dni boben, okarine, mizmar, balafon, ribab, zvo\u010dila, glas<\/p>\n<p><b>Samo Kutin:<\/b> hurdy gurdy, tampura bra\u010d, lira, lutnja, bra\u010d, cevni zvonci, balafon, obro\u010dni boben, okarina, akusti\u010dni resonatorji, zvo\u010dila, glas<\/p>\n<p>slika: Marko Jak\u0161e<br \/>fotografija: Tadej \u010cau\u0161evi\u010d<br \/>prevod: Gregor Zamuda<br \/>oblikovanje: Sa\u0161a Kova\u010di\u010d<br \/>snemanje in miksanje: Dejan Lapanja<br \/>masteriranje: Gregor Zemlji\u010d<\/p>\n<p>zalo\u017eba: tak:til, Glitterbeat Records<br \/>Vse skladbe so sestavili in uredili \u0160irom.<br \/>Posneto brez nasnemavanja, Cankarjev dom Vrhnika, Slovenija, maj 2021.<\/p>\n<\/div><div class=\"fusion-clearfix\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1808,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"portfolio_category":[],"portfolio_skills":[],"portfolio_tags":[],"class_list":["post-1818","avada_portfolio","type-avada_portfolio","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Uteko\u010dinjeni prestol preprostih | \u0160irom<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, 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