SFA068 - Datel zkázy: Live at Festival Ha!wangarda - Kraków

Datel zkázy (The Woodpecker of Doom) is a sub-group, side-kick and extra-marital affair of Sova smrti (The Owl of Death). Both groups work on the same principle: all the sound materials have their origin in the banjo, sampled and processed by the electronics of Jan Faix. In Sova smrti, Tomáš Mika plays the banjo, with Ian Mikyska acting as his woodpeckerish banjo countepart. To coincide with the release of Sova smrti's eponymous debut album on polí5, we present a recording of Datel zkázy's performance at the legendary Bomba club in Kraków, where they performed as part of the Ha!wangarda Festival. The cover design, as in the case of the Sova smrti, was made by Anastasia Vrublevská.

Ian Mikyska: banjo da gamba

Jan Faix: live processing, sampling

01 tak / yes

02 tak tak / yes yes

03 tak tak tak / yes yes yes

04 tak tak tak tak / yes yes yes yes

Recorded by Ian Mikyska at Bomba, Kraków, Poland, 6 th october as a part of Festival Ha!wangarda
Cover design: Anastasia Vrublevská

Special thanks to Aleksandra Małecka and Piotr Marocki

www.ianmikyska.com

http://ha.art.pl/hawangarda

http://www.atypgraphicdesign.com
www.bandzone.cz/sovasmrti

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SFA063 - Ian Mikyska: road patterns in decay

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recorded, mixed and edited by ian mikyska
using a student agency fun & relax bus
total running time, 56:11

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SFA020 - Stratocluster: Tamanrasset

Writing liner notes for a project as spontaneous as this one is somewhat self-defeating. The purpose of liner notes is generally to expound a concept, an innovation, a purpose: we have none of these things.

We met to have a few drinks, breathe the proverbial fresh air and play music, not to record an album. We recorded in a living room, not in a studio, and on one handheld recorder, not an expænsive setup.

There was no playlist, program or concept, but only the projected coherence of our individual musical personalities. We played instruments we didn’t know we could play, and played things we didn’t know could be instruments. We played music we knew and music we didn’t, and hopefully some music that’s new.

Ian Mikyska

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Line-up:

Ian Mikyska – guitar, electronics, plastic bottles

Tomáš Mika – guitar, piano, klaxon

Benjamin McGarr – saxophone, flute, piano

Jan Faix – no-input mixer, live electronics, no-fi tapes

Mikuláš Mrva – bass guitar, electronics, jaw harp

Jan Kulka – drums, percussion

Recorded live on the 24^th of July 2013 in Všestary, Czech Republic.

Mastering: Veronika Bartošová

Cover: Jan Polanský


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