KLEEMAR

Matej Koncan (alias Kleemar) - a passionate experimenter with analog electronic devices and a curious explorer of new digital creative options - plays a significant role in this movement. Owing inspiration as much to contemporary music visionaries of all genres as to legendary sound researchers, electronic music pioneers, and cult movies, Kleemar creates warm lyrical harmonies, serene sounds, and - with high sensitivity he recycles old audio materials into new sound qualities. With Kleemar on synthesizers and three additional musicians (Saso Benko, David Halb, Ivor Knafelj) on drums, basses, guitars, samples and synthesizers, this full band version takes Kleemar's music to energetic post-rock dimensions and impressively reflects his intolerance for purism and categorization in music.****************************************************** ********"...backed by three musicians, Kleemar turned his quiet studio work into romping post-rock with a strong percussive drive, Acid moments, chopped-up noises and a vocoder. Three songs into the set, Kleemar and company broke free, harnessing their sound to something close to a pop song structure while all the time wildly trading places on drums, basses, guitars and sythesizers." (WIRE, February 2005 by Eric Smillie)