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HISTORY
The project's life started in 1996, when the first humming, clashing and boiling sounds appeared in the computer of one "professional experimental music profanator" called Fedor Svoloch. The first records were marked by a truly inhumane attitude to sound and harmony, biting mockery at all styles and trends. Kitsch pop and noise ambient, analog experiments and microwave - nothing escaped his taunts. From the beginning of 1999 a few old acquaintances of the "mysterious experimenter" became permanent band members, changing the project's name to Theodor Bastard.
The band's live gigs five years ago were noise performances conveying the ideas of alienation, dehumanization of conscience, mechanization of the environment.
Coloured lamps dazzled listeners and drove them into the state of trance. Band members appeared on the stage in anti-gas masks and ingenious gadgets that looked like helmets of "universal soldiers". Mournful tunes flowed over sounds of breathing, occasionally consumed by guitar noise.
CONCEPT
The significant part of Fedor Svolotch concept is polystylism at subconscious level (Schtokhausen). The inventor of this term - Alfred Schnitke - underlined that "polystylism is the mixture of external and inner elements, where the external is the influences of styles, glitters and echoes of the world, and the inner is the personal style". Our musical technology includes a wide range of methods with various semiotic functions: quotation, allusion, stylisation, adaptation, mixing.
The variety of works is rooted in this concept. We use noise ambient with ethno-rock, adding some other cultural traditions and influences - including pop-music and authentic folk. Fedor Svolotch is planned to be not just a musical band but a special kind of a theatre. Our artistic activity has always been based on the idea of parity of national cultures, convergence of styles and synthesis of languages. Fedor Svolotch as an independent art unit believes in the ability of art to change the world. We believe in the power of music that brings good and justice to the world. So we dedicate our art to all victims of greedy corporations that leave thousands of people jobless in an instance, the the victims of violence and power of cynical moneybags which profit by blood and death.
METHOD
The other feature of Fedor Svolotch is the conscious withdrawal from the material. We collaborate with various guest musicians. Music made outside of the band is usually mixed with ideas of Fedor Svolotch, and finally it gets a new unexpectable sound.
