KiloWatts and Vanek is the collaboration of James Watts from Philadelphia, and Peter Van Ewijk from Belgium.
Working together for a year to create their first album, RawQ, they constructed songs over the internet without ever meeting face to face, while Peter wrote lyrics and guitar licks, and James Watts composed songs out of them, adding his own electronic glitchery and certain KiloWatts flavor.
They were soon signed to HoloPhon Records in Germany, and Diffusion Records out of Austin, TX, and in May of 2004 they finally met face to face and gave their first performance in Augsburg, Germany at the Lab 30 Festival, a 4 day weekend celebrating digital artists and musicians.
Now, four years after their first offering, KiloWatts and Vanek have teamed up again to create a journey through their familiar fusion of epic existential storytelling and cutting edge electronic intricacy with their newest album Focus & Flow. James Watts's technological precision and ethereal melodic intuition, combined with Peter Van Ewijk's dreamlike lyrical exploration of consciousness and confusion create a spectacular synthesis of a visionary dimension.
Check out the website for full details, lyrics, and audio samples:
http://kilowattsandvanek.org
Both KiloWatts and Vanek also produce and release solo work/albums, as well as collaborations with other artists.
