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Source..: CDDA Label.....: Membrum Debile Propaganda
Scans...: None Catalogue#: Catch 008
Tracks..: 7 Type......: Album
Rel.Date: 10/20/03 Genre.....: Industrial
URL.....: http://macabre.cz
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SKROL's new CD-release INSOMNIA DIE was originally the first album, but
only some songs was released on a 10" on LOKI FOUNDATION. The complete CD
is in the tradition of this czech band. The music is very individually and
recommeded. A composition mix of classical heroic and mystic music from the
19th century, the modern influences of the 20th century classical music,
musique concrete and atonal / industrial culture.
The conception of integrated music, embodied in the formation SKROL, arose
from the visions of its spiritual father Vladimir Hirsch (composition,
keyboards, drums, programming, vocal) at the beginning of 1996, when he
was joined by Martina Sanollovß (former Sweeney) (vocal, keyboard,
percussion) and Tom Saivon (words, samples).
SKROL's first musical inventions were projected into Insomnia Dei
(CatchArrow Recordings, 1997), where majestic and uncompromising music,
based on Slavonic melodiousness, trampled on and brutalized by the
industrial noises and modern technology sounds, comes to life. The compact
and repetitive up-beat intensity of the music pieces (Movie Martyr,
Uniformity Celebration March, Soaking, Dei irae? etc.) is in full harmony
with the basic philosophy of the eternal tossing between the idea and
reality, of the never-ending "cogito ergo sum". The work on SKROL's second
project Heretical Antiphony was definitely terminated in August 1998.
Unlike the previous album Heretical Antiphony is a markedly more
introspective project compressed by some inescapable burden of fate. Even
if proclamatory and uncompromising diction is still to be heard, it becomes
subject to mostly dominating anguish, humbleness and delivery. At the very
end of the heretical story one can feel an unpleasant conviction of the
vanity of eternal human struggle appraisable not in its outcome but taken by
itself. The unquenchable dialog between two antagonistic faces of our
seemingly unipolar truth. The listener can hardly discover any sign of
apology, this fact basically being documented by the intentional antithetical
and paradoxical character of lyrics. For all the contradicting appearances is
the religious nature of the suite at hand.
In September 1998 SKROL releases its first official recording - 10"LP Martyria
on the German label LOKI Foundation/Power and Steel. The project finds warm
favor among neo-classical industrial music fans in Bohemia, Germany, U.K.,
France, Russia, U.S.A. and Brazil. CD Heretical Antiphony released in August
1999 on the German label M.D.Propaganda. SKROL accompanies the edition of this
project by a successful tour of Germany. Since autumn 1999 the band is
currently working on their third album Dances and Marches, based on a more
volcanic and martial conception taking up the threads of a substantially
introvert simulacrum of Heretical Antiphony and simultaneously completing a
more extensive project New Laws/New Orders, eclectically concentrating all
processes of integrated production, which is in distribution on CDR in the
basic instrument version.
In June 2001 SKROL undertook a three-week tour of the United States (New York,
Boston, Pittsburgh, Cleveland, Chicago, Detroit, Atlanta, et al.). The tour
was supposed to promote the album Insomnia Dei, which was supposed to come out
at the time at Chromosome Records. Since this did not come to pass, the group
presented a selection of their actual production and simultaneously introduced
here its newly up-sprung off-shoot AGHIATRIAS.
The program AGHIATRIAS is a sort of extrapolation of neo-classicist (Vladimφr
Hirsch-composition, keyboards, samplers) and noise (Tom Saivon-noise-
generator, samples) tendencies within SKROL a gradual mutual intergrowing of
basic theses and antitheses of both members, brought to life as a homogenous
structure. The project's essence lies in the grasping of both ways in such a
way as to make them mutually exchange their principal formal attributes, both
on the basis of sharp confrontation a nd of open mutual perception, which
should result in the union of seemingly irreconcilable worlds. This happens
through musical symbolism of their transubstantiation into one indivisible
essence an act representing the metaphorical and philosophical principle of
the formation's work. This idea was conceived at the end of the year 1998,
but its realisation was very slow and so the final work on the first album
Field Mass dates from December 2000, when it was also first presented live.
The CD is still awaiting its official release and is available since the
first shows in private edition.
Since the end of 2000 the group is working on a new recording, named
Epidaemia vanitatis, its basic theme are the methods of spreading and
inter-growing anthropocentric principles of thought, namely as a perfect
way of manipulating society. This album is currently in the stage of final
arrangement and its release is planned for March of this year as the first
release on the new label INTEGRATED MUSIC RECORDS - a joint activity of the
trio Hirsch, Saivon, Sweeney, for all related projects as well. One of them
is also ZYGOTE (Vladimφr Hirsch-composition, all instruments), arising in
1998 as another model alternative of integrated musical form. Its foundation
was the primarily instrumental version of the album called Sense Geometry.
This album is inspired by structural principles, based on the musical
application of fictive geometrical symbolism of certain physiological
mechanisms of the psyche. It is an attempt to detect or demonstrate the
existence of a certain order within the seeming chaos. The author titles
this musical form of mathematical theory analogously as the so-called fractal
musical geometry. For this purposes he makes use of intervals logic signals,
rhythm, structure and instrumentation. Sound is and important component,
creating a lightly structured yet tense atmosphere, where the industrialised
instrumentation of the pieces plays the role of a chaotic and, at once,
irritating element, the hypnoticising conception of rhythm then the role of a
mediator of order, pointing our perception towards other, more meditative
levels of view. In 1999 the project is joined by Martina Sanollovß (vocals),
augmenting the effect by supplying the exacerbated sensuality of her vocal
conception, fully within the intentions aimed for. With regard to the success
of joint stage presentations (Bohemia, Poland, Germany) the group is finishing
the final version of an album in spring 2000, with Czech lyrics (mostly penned
by Tom Saivon), called Geometry of unconsciousness. The album is also to be
released on the label INTEGRATED MUSIC RECORDS. From the above said it is
clear that the activities of all founding members of SKROL is very broad, not
excluding strictly solo projects of the protagonists.
Vladimφr Hirsch (this only in the period of joint activity of the trio)
composed two symphonies for an integrated orchestra (Symphony no.2 and 3) and
a number of organ, piano and chamber compositions (for example Concert
industriel pour l┤orgue). The last symphonic composition, Symphony no.3, was
presented with success - for the first time in December 1999 within the
Festival of industrial and postindustrial culture, under the patronage of the
Open Society Fund, who provided a grant to the author. Its release on a
standard medium was undertaken by Chromozome (USA). Next in line is the
project SUBPOP SQUEEZE (albums Arsenica/Less Than Nothing /CDR 1996/ and
Dream Monsters Exorcism /CDR 1999), preserving the style of rock-music
composition, but song-wise elaborated in the dimension of integrated musical
conception. In July 1999 Hirsch realises his long-planned Missa pestilens
integra a nesting-in of authentic, unmixed parts of Diamanda Galßs' PLAGUE
MASS into a compositional form, with integrally conceived sound and
arrangements and added shorter compositions, intended as an authorial
partnership. The aim of this fusion was both to enrich the harsh, typically
for its protagonist self-oriented, project instrumentally, but mainly to
divert it from its traditionally blasphemous route, being simultaneously
with indubitable appreciation of the author's artistic qualities - a light
expression of dissent with the horror-theatre ostentatiousness of her
production. A new project, symphonically construed, is the suite, currently
being completed, Descent From The Cross, intended by Hirsch for presentation
under the heading of SKROL in co-operation with an ensemble, headed by him,
called the Czech integrated ensemble (CIE).
Martina Sanollovß also dedicates herself to her own performance project,
called VIACTRIX, which is accompanied by Saivon's reproduced invasive noise
samples. The newest piece traces her work 2001-2002, focused on system fatal
disease / e.g. world fatal disease. This extreme body performance MORTAL
ANCESCION will be presented at the upcoming audiovisual festival in Praha in
autumn this year. Another performance project, called VIOLENTA PROJECTA, is a
co-operation between Martina and three other Prague musicians an all-female
set-up, combining ambient and noise music with visual art and theatre.
Violenta projecta is also to be presented at the international multimedia
interdiscipline Female Avant-garde Festival, THE OTHER SEX, taking place in
Praha this June. Martina contributes substantially to the organisational work
around ARS MORTA UNIVERSUM, the formal side of concert presentations, she
co-operates with Tom Saivon on film projections and she is the author of the
stage strategy of presenting Hirsch's third symphony.
Tom Saivon is, for the eight year already, at the head of the agency ARS
MORTA UNIVERSUM, thanks to which our country hosts less common, mostly
distinctly untraditional musical and performance artistic acts (more than 250
shows in Bohemia, European and US Tours, band management). ARS MORTA UNIVERSUM
is also a base for our own and other, varied, though related in conception,
artists and formations (Einleitungszeit, VOID., Seismic Wave Factory, atd.).
Since the end of the year 2000 he is working on an authorial debut album
Religio within the framework of his solo project UNIFORM aimed for release
this summer. Saivon is also the author of an edited video recording from
SKROL's live performances called WHAT THE EYE HAVE SEEN HAVE NOT SEEN,
which saw the light of day in autumn of 1999.
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01. Soaking / Movie Martyr [10:28]
02. Gasteropod [04:16]
03. U.C.M. [05:16]
04. Insomnia [07:57]
05. Agog [03:52]
06. Katarakt [02:18]
07. Dei irae [07:17]
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