HATI

NEW RELEASES - SOON:
--- HATI: Die Mechanik, Die!, 2008, Beast Of Prey, CD
--- HATI vs. LAL: The Journey Like Never Before..., 2008, Requiem, CD
HATI is an audiovisual project based on sound of ethnic instruments from all over the world and hand-made instruments or find objects. HATI connects a personal interest in modern improvised and acoustic music with ritual and meditation. The band was founded in 2001 by Rafal Iwanski and Dariusz Wojtas. They formed many psychedelic rock and industrial experimental musical projects since the beginning of the 90’. HATI have performed many concerts in Poland, Germany and Spain and on festivals, e.g.: Wroclaw Industrial Festival, Audio Art in Krakow, Festiwal w Krajobrazie in Inowlodz. In 2006 members of HATI organized and performed 2 tours with Z’EV, one of the founders of ‘industrial' - the cultural movement. All HATI albums received very good reviews, their unusual magic sound and power was emphasized. Nowadays HATI performs as a duo: Rafal X-NAVI Iwanski and Rafal SABON Kolacki. They are also the organizers of CoCArt Music Festival (cooperation with Centre of Contemporary Art in Torun).
LIVE performance with (among others): Z'EV, Andrzej Przybielski, Marcelo Aguirre, pathMAN (Piotr Kolecki i Marek Leszczynski), MOLR DRAMMAZ (Wojt3k Kucharczyk i Asia Bronislawska), 2hand Beatnix (Magura i Lalin), Miroslaw Rajkowski, MIRT.
DISCOGRAPHY:
HATI 'TRANCE-GONG-DRONE-MUSICK':
--- Works for Scrap Metal, 2007, Eter, CD
--- Recycled Magick Drones, 2007, Drone Records, 7" vinyl
--- Recycled Magick Emissions, 2006, Malachit, miniCD-R
--- Zero Coma Zero, 2005, Nefryt, CD-R
--- Music for Metal Idiophones, 2003, Eter, CD-R
--- Genius Loci, 2003, Eter, CD-R
SIDE PROJECTS AND PREHISTORY OF HATI:
--- HATI vs. Z’EV 1, 2006, Ars Benevola Mater, CD
--- Recycled Magick Soundsystem: live, 2006, Eter, CD-R
--- Mantra-I: Prehistory of HATI: Vol. 1, (1997) 2006, Eter, CD-R
--- 23 IX: Prehistory of HATI: Vol. 2, (1994) 2007, Eter, CD-R
COMPILATION APPEARANCES:
--- HATI vs. Z’EV: Layering of the Elements (included on Walking in the Rain on the Ostrow Tumski, 2006, Ars Benevola Mater), CD
--- HATI: Loaded (included on Brewery in Piotrków Trybunalski, 2006, Beast of Prey), CD
--- HATI: Multiversion (included on ERG [Nefryt vs Malachit], 2005, Nefryt), CD-R
REVIEWS:
--- „100% Recycled Sound Installation – glosi napis na pieczeci wewnatrz okladki. Muzyka z recyklingu? Ba, ze smietnika i ze zlomowiska. Dzwonki z gwozdzi, gongi z patelni i pokryw od pralek, kanistry, metalowe beczki, a nawet felgi i resory. Instrumentarium z odzysku. Przypominac moze o prorokach industrialu z Einstürzende Neubauten i Test Department na czele. HATI idzie jednak wlasna sciezka, ktora wiedzie wprost do korzeni. Miast na halas, stawiaja na sublimacje tych zrodlowych dzwiekow. Z jednej strony przypominaja o wynalazczej inwencji instrumentalistow z Afryki i Karaibow, a z drugiej przywoluja subtelne dociekania awangardy minimal music. Mieszajac plemienny rytual z natchniona medytacja, realizuja te wyzwania znakomicie. Rafal Ksiezyk, Machina nr 19, pazdziernik 2007
--- ‘HATI vs. Z’EV 1’ It's a combination of drone music, sometimes quasi new age and sometimes ritualistik music. For their latest release (their fourth one) they send a whole bunch of their recordings to Z'EV with a request to him to treat the material in anyway he sees fitting. Not a strange request, since Z'EV worked with percussive material since the late sixties and worked in many sorts of percussive music but also the world of sound/studio treatments is not a stranger to him. I must say that even when Z'EV did a great job, it may not necessarily mean that he radically altered the material, like he did on his 'Headphone Music' or his collaborations with Chris Watson and KK Null. Rather he stays close to the original only subjecting some of the finer nuances of the material, sometimes adding some effects to accentuate the sustains and make it more drone related, and sometimes the whole thing seems a matter of editing the material down. Z'EV did a great job on this, but then I believe that HATI delivered him material that he could easily relate to, it's common ground for him to get the best out of this. It doesn't work the more radical textures that Z'EV is also known for, but it's a strong and subtle work of subconscious sound. Frans de Waard, VITAL WEEKLY, number 538
--- ’Zero Coma Zero’ There's a really elegant economy of means about HATI's approach to music - out of quite humble, often improvised, acoustic instrumentation, they manage to create eloquent and evocative works. I'm tempted to dub what they do musica povera, after the arte povera art movement epitomized by the mixed media work of Joseph Beuys. But regardless of what you call it, HATI's music is innovative and inspired. As far as I'm aware, nobody else is doing quite what they're doing at the moment, although they have affinities with Z'EV (who's both toured and made an album with HATI) and ritual ambient acts like Terroritmo, COTA and Chaos As Shelter. HATI's work taps into some very deep, primordial, shamanic places. Simon Collins, JudasKissMagazine
--- 'Works for Scrap Metal' does have passages which acquire a devotional atmosphere, as the timbres of pounded metal extend and blur into a kind of throaty roar. It’s also there in the quieter passages of tinkling, shaking tintinnabulation, which recall the use by Pharoah Sanders or John Coltrane of washes of devotional hand percussion. But maybe these are simply the passages where some kind of organisation makes itself felt, and all too often HATI’s use of their contraptions feels like demonstrations rather than pieces with coherent forms or points to make. For all the weighty intellectual tradition invoked, Works is rarely more than interesting as a listening experience, and as a simple show of ingenuity – look what they can do with this old junk! – it doesn’t get much beyond a bit of DIY fun. Sam Davies, THE WIRE, 284 October 2007
--- 'Recycled Magick Emissions', which is a 3" CDR where they reach the perfection of their sound. Densely layered, using reversed sounds, minimal changes and throughout mostly acoustic sounding. The all acoustic sound works quite well. It's drone related, but acoustic and highly atmospheric. Frans de Waard, VITAL WEEKLY, number 556
--- ‘HATI is ideal in its simplicity of composing archaic rituals into contemporary minimal music. However, it has nothing to do with academic outburst of ethno-folk scenes or childish seeking the darkness and cheap mystique’ Wojtek Wysocki (original in polish in Aktivist 4/2005)