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John Koviak

About Me

Formerly known as Sub Version (founded in 1991), John Koviak is a Solo Artist who primarily creates music electronically. Writing, Vocals, and Production are all handled by John.
Discography:
Sub Version - Metamorphosis / cassette EP (1992) out of print
Sub Version - Damaged Gods / cassette EP (1994) out of print
Sub Version - The Winds of War / CD (1997) AVAILABLE AT AMAZON.COM!
Sub Version - Reflections / cd-r (2000 - first two ep's remastered on cd)
$10.00 ppd through direct order.
John Koviak - Heaven / cd-r EP (2002) $7.00 ppd through direct order
John Koviak - Imagination / cd-r EP (2003) $7.00 ppd through direct order
The three cd-r's mentioned above are available directly through this address: John Koviak
P.O. Box 1778
Monrovia, CA 91017-5778
USA
(Check or money order please, postage is included in price)
The Heaven EP is now also available on iTunes!
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My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 08/11/2007
Influences: Music that stirs it ALL up:
Joy Division, The Chameleons, Depeche Mode, the Cure, Dead Can Dance, VNV Nation, Lowlife (Scotland), [:SITD:], Tears for Fears-The Hurting, Frederyk Chopin,
Nicolo Paganini:
Beethoven, This Mortal Coil, New Order, Killing Joke, The Clash, The Cult (Dreamtime & Love), Massive Attack, Echo and the Bunnymen, Delerium, Front Line Assembly, Sasha, Puccini, A Flock of Seagulls, Cocteau Twins, Wumpscut, Clan of Xymox-(Medusa), Zbigniew Preisner, Howard Devoto, Terry Hall, Dominic Appleton, Wolfsheim, Decoded Feedback, The Thompson Twins, The Bruch Violin Concerto as performed by Shlomo Mintz, Anastasia (Macedonia), 4AD (pre-1991), early Van Halen, AC/DC, Rush, Bowie, Queen, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Bobby Vinton, Patsy Cline, Gary Numan, William Orbit, The White Stripes, Kult (Poland), Tim Buckley, Jeff Buckley, Brendan Perry, The Abecedarians, Undercover, Peter Murphy, ~Loyalty, honesty, looking inwardly without fear, your brightest light and your darkest shadow, synchronicity, noise, finding silence from the noise, world history, war, peace, The experience of growing up as a Polish-American, The Warsaw Uprising, Katyn, WWII
"Love demands Sacrifice"

Authors: Neil Gaiman, J.R.R. Tolkien, Henryk Sienkiewicz, David Deida, Yeats, Eckhart Tolle, Norman Davies, The Little Engine that could, Traveling to new places, photography, Poland, Eastern Europe, Oslo-Norway, Athens-Greece, WGT-Leipzig, profundity, wisdom, and humour wherever it may be found.......Carl Jung, Oscar Wilde, South Park....etc, supernatural experiences, Depeche Mode at the Rose Bowl-1988, the imagination of a child, astrology, archetypes, chakra's

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FILMS:
Katyn, Braveheart, Quills, Gladiator, The films of Krzysztof Kieslowski, The Count of Monte Cristo, Before the Rain, The Name of the Rose, Boxing Helena, Onegin, The Red Violin, Malena, Gloomy Sunday, Underworld, Equilibrium, American History X, Jacob's Ladder, Ghost Dog, Fight club, Black Hawk Down, Stalingrad, Leon - The Professional, Mad Max, Green Street Hooligans, 300.
Lightning storms, Thunder, the Arizona desert, People who create, the changing of the Seasons, old Violins, Mad Libs, Creatures of all kinds, DJ'ing, dancing, HEMI engines & Mopar Muscle Cars ;) World cup football (soccer), things that fly, the Sun and the Moon, Voices, my Mother's singing voice, my Father's dancin' feet, the Heart, Eyes, Dreams, God.

All of the above mentioned influences finds a place, great or small, somewhere in the creative process.
Record Label: Unsigned

My Blog

Reviews

John Koviak  live 2.6.2001 Its been a while since John H. Koviak last graced the stages of Hollywood with the now defunct and more gothic long-standing project Sub Version. Koviak had promised that ...
Posted by on Tue, 26 May 2009 18:32:00 GMT

August 1st - The Warsaw Uprising

(The chorus of this song mourns all the lost "flowers" from that time..)The Warsaw Uprising (Powstanie Warszawskie) was a World War II struggle by theĀ  Polish Home Army (Armia Krajow...
Posted by on Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:56:00 GMT

A personal note..

If you know me, you know that I don't happen to play shows very regularly.Why? Not exactly sure..but perhaps it's simply because I've never vieweda live performance as just as another means to some en...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:22:00 GMT

Guest DJ’ing at Ruin

I wanted to again thank everyone who made it out to Ruin on Feb 1st where I had thepleasure to guest DJ. It was really heart-warming to see familiar faces from old places, and great to meet some new f...
Posted by on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:08:00 GMT

Welcome to the new site

Hello Friends,Something strange happened to my site in October that has since prevented me from receiving most friend requests or messages from non-friends. Repeated emails to myspace didn't bring a s...
Posted by on Sat, 08 Dec 2007 00:10:00 GMT