LEZET

" Someone's comment about the sound of Lezet was "like Zorn without saxophone"...And indeed, Lezet's work could remind the results of "the game theory", which John Zorn exercised on his debut "Locus Solus"", for example...The fact that LEZET don't use only live instruments will probably disconnect it from the avantgarde free jazz scene, but I suppose the coming under some specific style wasn't the intent in this case anyway. It's about free experiments with sound captures in search for the surprises.And it can't be pretentious as such... " (extract taken from issue2 of the "Black Syrup" zine (Serbia,2007).Find out more about this great zine at: http://www.myspace.com/blacksyrupzine )
Featured releases:
1.Lezet-"Lezet"(May 2006)-The self-titled debut album was recorded in 2005, and released on May 10th,2006 with "Lucky Unicorn Records",San Diego,USA .This download-only release was available for $4 at www.luckyunicorn.com
2.Lezet-"."EP (Oct2006)released with "Abdicate Cell" , a Norwegian experimental label, available for free download at the label's site : http://www.abdicatecell.net or
http://www.archive.org/details/abdicate_cell020
3."CELL compilation" (Oct2006),released with "Abdicate Cell", features artists from Italy, Spain, Norway, Sweden, Japan and naturally,Serbia. Lezet appears on the compilation with a previously unreleased track "Is cell division painful?" The compilation is a vailable for free mp3 download at: http://www.abdicatecell.net or link: http://www.archive.org/details/abdicate_cell019
4.Lezet-"Lezet" (Jan2007)re-released with "FauxFetus", an experimental label/collective from USA, www.fauxfetus.net
5.Lezet-"Lezet2"(Jan2007), second full-length release ,released with "Faux Fetus" available for free download at www.fauxfetus.net
6.BR Records compilation "Do You Ever Dream vol1"(Feb2007)-free mp2 download release at www.brrecords.com; features a track "You crybaby"by Lezet.Free download mp3 album at: www.brrecords.com
7."LEEPilation"(Feb2007), released with LEEP records, Paris, France and available for free download.Features a collaborative track done by Tracy Lee Summers and Lezet .Entire album is available for free download at: www.leuropeparisien.free.fr
8."Clinical Sounds Vol1.disc 4"(March2007), released with "Clinical Archives" from Moscow, Russian Federation; Lezet's featured track "El Ave Fea"-please see the appropriate blog entry for the link to the compilationfree download.Link to this album's free download: http://www.archive.org/details/ca015_va_cs
and: http://www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com/
9."Lezet Throuroof" (March2007)released with "Digital Biotope", an experimental label from France; this collaborative album done with the incredible "Throuroof" (Italian avant composer) is available for free download and streaming at : www.digitalbiotope.net .
10.VRWM003-Digitalbiotope Showcase (March2007)- Greek label VEERWAVES MUSIC made out a promo compilation of their friend label “Digital Biotope“ featuring 3 “Lezet+Throuroof“.Link to the compilation's free download: link: www.digitalbiotope.net
. 11."Performance is Inherently Unlikely"EP (March/April2007)-released a s a free download album with "Abdicate Cell" ( http://www.abdicatecell.net )( http://www.archive.org/details/ac035 )
12._kif01 kifrecording -Ten Seconds Compilation (April2007) on this album you might find stuff like; multicolored noise MCD-R compilation produced and released by "Keep It Frozen"(experimental music label from USA), an experimental, 58 tracks 9:53 minutes plus 9:12 minutes remix by ANIMAL MACHINE and CYGORE.The compilation features works by Sabae,AATMAA ,Aesthetic Meat Front ,Anal Oder Nicht Sein , Lodemidiquail ,Djet, Exmachine,Implore, Animosity, Lezet, Plankopie, Wolf 107, Xm2901cw, Barkona Rova,Nanohex,, M.Pervere, Man Invented Airplanes Just to Get High,Uncle Mum, False Mirror,Krak,Eraritjaritjaka, Throuroof, Ronny Waernes, Bjorn Eriksson, Munkkrach, Napalmed,Rotted Brain, (B)Ananartista Orgasmo Sbuff,Fossil, Camisole,Kenji Siratori, Frostwinter,Cygore,Organ Morgan, Toxucum Aestus, Uta Jan,Darph Nader, Avi, Broken Diode, Liquid Signal Distrortion, Environmental Testing Device... / Limited Edition . Contact: www.myspace.com/kifrecording
13."OCEANIDE" (Downtown Recordings compilation, May2007)- a broad-minded label from Slovenia released a compilation of experimental/electro artists from various ex-Yugoslav republics.Lezet is featured here with two previously unreleased tracks "Roots and Wings", and "Different Strokes for Different Folks".Free distribution; contact: [email protected] .This compilation throws light on ex-Yu acts different from the ongoing mainstream music deterioration present in all former Yugoslav republics with being both accessible and far-out.
14.Lezet-"ANNOYANCE" EP (June2007) released with "SCHNURSTRAX Records", an experimental music label and art/video platform from Luxembourg.Available for free mp3 download at: www.schnurstrax.net
15.Lezet-"EARPIECE" EP (August2007), an homage album to Italian experimental artist known as Pentliczek comprised of remixes and alternate takes of his original material.This album ,released with "Abdicate Cell" (Norway) is available as a free mp3 download album (and free streaming) at: http://www.archive.org/details/ac042
and http://www.abdicatecell.net
16.Lezet "MELD"(Sept2007), an album of collaborations and remix with artists from various countries: Feel(USA), Tiger Tiger Uppercut (USA),Igorrr (France),Zma (Serbia), Control One Remote (USA),Throuroof (Italia),Tracy Lee Summers (France),Enigmatiko (Brasil),Biomuse (England), Larva 108 (Italia).This EP was released with "B&R Records" from Santa Monica (USA) and is available for free mp3 download at: http://www.brrecords.com/meld.htm
I thank my accordion teacher, Milan Ristovski (R.I.P.).I couldn't have done anything if it hadn't been for you and your guidance
17.Lezet "DIN" EP(Oct2007)- new EP released as a free mp3 download album with "HEADPHONICA Records"(Germany).This EP features piano-oriented tracks recorded by Lezet and 3 collaborative tracks done with Chrystoher Blyr (USA,experimental), Eric Schwartz (USA,classical), and Tracy Lee Summers (France,experimental/psychodelic/free-form electro/avantgarde). Link to direct download and streaming of the album: http://www.headphonica.net
18.TRACY LEE SUMMERS & LEZET-"P COLOR" (Oct2007) -this collaboration is released with the extraordinary experimental music label "Les Enregistrements de l'Europe Parisien" (LEEP) situated in Paris, France.This album is available at the label's site: http://leuropeparisien.free.fr/pcolorCD.html
Many thanks to NAPE for being an integral part of this release.
19.TEN SECONDS COMPILATION II (Dec2007)-released by KEEP IT FROZEN ,an experimental label from Poland TOTAL TRACKS: 70 TOTAL TIME: 11:26 MINUTES CONTRIBUTORS:NAPALMED,DJET,CUMDIVISION SPERMANY,EXTREME HAIR STENCH,HIRNPARASIT,B°TONG,ANIMAL MACHINE,SWAMPS UP NOSTRILS, TAPE RAPE,ERARITJARITJAKA,AxBx,LODEMIDIQUAIL,JOLTHROWER,KHUSUK, ,ORIGAMI METALLIKA,FIORELLA 16,JOHN PUSSY KRAK, AMBIENT ANIMAL, PICHISMO,XM2901CW ,KUMKRUSTED,PUSSYJUICE ABSORBER,WHITE TORTURE,BIUS,ENVIROMENTAL TESTING DEVICE, MELDHKWIS_DAPNOM_AEP,PROTOPLASMIC SHOT a limited number of cd-r copies is available at KIF Recs. Contact myspace page: http://www.myspace.com/kifrecording
20."LEZET WITH PROTECIOUS"(Dec2007)-a collaborative album with the PROTECIOUS ,an incredible band from the States released with "Schnurstrax Records",an experimental/electronica label from Luxembourg.The album is available for free mp3 download at: www.schnurstrax.net
21.MC INA-TV CHANNEL 17 [THE HEADPHONICA REMIXES](Jan2008)-Headphonica Records released a compilation comprised of a set set of remixes of a single track done by a great Japanese rapper known by the alias of MC INA.Here is what the people at Headphonica said about the release: "When we asked mc ina to contribute this track to headphonica's first myspace-compilation he invited us to hang around with him on tv channel 17. So we did and we enjoyed the program a lot. Even if none of the remixers did understand what mc ina is telling us it is a very special pleasure to listen to his voice in its hyperrhythmic weirdness." You can download this free-download release at:http://headphonica.net/?c..releasemore&id=hpcd026
22."V.A.-Dedicate To Gagarin" (March 2008)- http://h-a-z-e.org - HAZE, an experimental music net-label from Belarus, released their third compilation in a progressing theme compilation series ,this one being a dedication/tribute to the cosmic era pioneer Jurij Gagarin.Participants:RoomDark ,Ogogo,Zenial,Nagami Yukitaka, Buben,Burbon Monsters,Lezet,Archilear,Djet,Raw N^D .This compilation is available for free streaming and download at: http://www.archive.org/details/Dedicate_to_Gagarin
23.LEZET "THE NOISE ARCHIVES" (March2008), released with "Clinical Archives", Moscow, Russia.This 32min-long EP is a set of solo noise improvisations done exclusively by using keyboards (and the awesome pitch lever).The material was directly recorded and there were no additional overdubbing or re-mixing; I nevertheless think that the quality of those recording is ok.This album is completely different from all the ones Lezet did (all other albums contained premeditated and (loosely) "structured "materials)." Links to free downloads: http://www.archive.org/details/ca106_lezet
http://www.clinicalarchives.spyw.com
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26.LEZET-TORSION (April2008)-The fabulous DEEPWHITESOUND label (USA) released Lezet's "Torsion" EP!!!!! "four tracks based on piano and laced with static bursts, detuned violin samples and high frequency turbulance… courtesy of LEZET, aka Igor Jovanovic, avant-garde composer from Serbia." free download at: http://www.deepwhitesound.com/releases/x/?p=42
27.V.A.-KEEP IT FROZEN - Anti-Nuclear Music Compilation 22th anniversary of Chernobyl Nuclear Disaster - April 26, 1986,Pripyat, Ukraine;features artist and project from : United States,United Kingdom,Portugal,Germany,Poland,Czech Republic,Russia,Belarus,Ukrania,Lithuania,Norway,Italy,Serbi a,Ecuador,Peru,Chile,Australia,Antartica. The free download link: http://www.archive.org/details/kifrecordingKEEPITFROZENAntiN uclearMusicCompilation
28.LEZET-"ATONA" EP(May2008)-a series of recordings dating from 2005 to 2008 ,released with Dog Eared Records(Mexico).The tracks are entitled after the actual days of of their respective creation.Here's what Max Go wrote about this EP: "On the one hand, there are things I cherish - chord progressions that utilize what I desperately hope others will think of as sophisticated chromaticism. On the other hand, there are artists who offer up studies in an eloquence that not only humbles my harmonic vocabulary but more importantly, exemplifies a diversification into a higher sonic strata. Enter Lezet's Atona. These studies glisten and sizzle, poke and stab, stutter, jerk and cavort about beautifully without a hint of anything related to traditional music theory. There is humor and seriousness here. I conjure in my head a gene-splice of Groucho Marx and Arnold Schoenberg or maybe if the Monty Python cast were given scholarships to Julliard. Julliard would be so lucky. This is not music for the masses. But boy would I like to play it for them, that they may be momentarily privy, as I was, to these concise statements that are refreshing in their lightheartedness and restraint. Max Go".Free download at: http://www.dog-eared-records.com/Music/Lezet21/
29.V.A.-Postindustrial Changes (June 2008)-An independent Slovenian label DOWNTOWN RECORDINGS released a compilation featuring an exclusive, new track by Lezet;you can download it here: http://www. divshare. com/download/4821911-e03 or visit: http://www. myspace. com/dislocateddowntownartists
Thanks to the following radio stations/shows for playing LEZET /:
KGNU Radio,Boulder,CO for playing the LEZET debut cd extensively on the "Present Edge Show"(hosted by Davide) and on the "Sleepless Nights" show (hosts Stephen Wright and Stephen Whitehead);You rock!
"SOUNDS OF TOMORROW", Philadelphia,PA
"COLLECTIVE VOICE"!!!!!!!, St John's ,NL,Canada
EPSILONIA show at RADIO LIBERTAIRE 89.4Fm , Paris,France
WNYU Radio, New York;
Rosebud Radio (USA)
The "Gramofon" show, radio Pozega94.7fm (Pozega,Serbia)
Mark Keill at CKCU Fm93,1 (Ottawa,Canada)
ISTOTA SS--CA on radio_sitka (Poland)
Elia at MP3HARDPLAYPROMOTIONS;
THE MUSIC PROMOTION TRAIN
Alex's show at KDHR,La Habra,CA
KDVS Radio, Davis, CA (the "California Police State "with Ryan)
NPR Open Mic Show, USA
"Epsilonia" show at Libertaire Radio, Paris, France
WNUR Radio (Evanston, IL, USA)
WFMU Fm 91.1 (Jersey City,NJ,USA)
CKCU Fm 93.1 (Ottawa ,Canada)
RADIO CORAX Fm95.9 (Germany)
NTNS Radio (the "Intelligent Machinery" show, the Netherlands)