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HATI & Z'EV - Collusion

by HATI & Z'EV

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I 08:07
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II 07:00
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III 05:17
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IV 06:48
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V 08:47

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HATI & Z'EV - Collusion (CD, Idiosyncratics Records, 2013)

All tracks composed, performed and recorded live in studio by HATI (Rafał Iwański, Rafał Kołacki) and Z'EV
HATI: gongs, cymbals, percussion, metal objects, wind instruments
Z'EV: drum, metal objects, percussion

Recorded at Studio Sferax, Toruń, Poland, May 8, 2011
Recording engineer: Bartek Jaworski
Edited and mixed by HATI and B. Jaworski, August-October 2012
Masterd by Marcin Bociński (Legato), January 2013

Photo cover: Gast Bouschet / Nadine Hilbert (www.bouschet-hilbert.org)
Design: Helena Dietrich

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released May 15, 2013

RECENZJE / REVIEWS (fragmenty / excerpts):

"Legendary experimental percussionist Z'EV and critically acclaimed transcendental drumming duo HATI (Rafał Iwański & Rafał Kołacki) join forces once again for a third album. At the top of their long running synergic collaboration, HATI & Z'EV deliver a masterpiece of trance-inducing, highly spiritual music."
Yannick Franck, Idiosyncratics

"Both Z'EV and HATI move deftly in the field of ritual trance music and its ancestral structures, even if their percussive journey, the gradual unfolding of hypnotical beats and contemplative undertows definitively sound like the outcome of possessed improvisational sessions whose absorbing progression could let you think about geometrical figures which asymptotically tend to a perfect circle."
Vito Camarretta, Chain D.L.K.: www.chaindlk.com/reviews/?id=7593

"This is the kind of music that sounds like being present at some obscure ritual, with the the rattling of percussion, the slow deep beat of mother bass drum and the overtones created by rubbing percussive bits against each other. What kind of ritual this is, we don't know. A call for prayer, some mysterious rite de passage? I don't know. Probably it's more one of those kind of releases that are mysterious and you a free to use it to what ever end you want. Music that is all about meditation I guess, even when it sometimes seems a bit too hectic to be fully meditative. Something for the late night service. Very nice for sure."
Frans de Waard, Vital Weekly, number 888: www.vitalweekly.net/888.html

"Percussion has a potent, almost animalistic quality to it, but that’s not always something experimental music brethren recognize and explore. "Collusion" changes that as the Los Angeles-based and prolific collaborator Z’EV melds his rhythmic powers with the drumming duo HATI to form a banging, pulsing, and quaking album that explores texture and mood as much as the more typical percussive uses. The three-piece tap into some serious avant-garde ritualism that feels high-minded and primal at the same time and becomes more hypnotic and addictive as “Collusion" grows across its five tracks."
Ryan Potts, Experimedia

"To listen to Collusion is to appreciate that all sound is collaboration – that sound is a moment of miraculous assembly, rousing energy from the collision of physical fibre, and then between vibration and space; between overtone and reflection, between mallet and humidity, between mood and material tension, between an equilibrium of potential and the synaptic impulse that brings action into the state of stillness. The album is a magnification of sound as process, bringing wobbling drum skins, whispering cymbals, quivering shakers and dripping bells into vibrant being; percussion as a gateway to the intimate point of now, and with a production clarity that seems to even highlight the slightest serration on fingernails as they tap a drumskin, I am thrust into a bodily and spiritual connection with these two composers, unified in vibration and in meditation. The fact that Collusion forbids the air from settling into silence means that Z’EV and Hati are inseparable. While they are eternally acknowledging the soundscape and reacting accordingly, the music does not feel conversational – no space or stylistic distinction exists between the musicians, with ego abandoned in favour of a much more fluid unravelling of unconscious instinct. The instruments feel as though they’ve been arranged in a tight crescent around my head, with the limbs entwining and overlapping with eachother as they stretch to strike or blow each instrument and release its unique vocalisation. In the moment that a new sound leaps out of the frame – say, a jittery rattle of a beater skimming a metal sheet, or a soft plosive remark from a steel pan – it does not matter who is playing what."
Jack Chuter, ATTN:Magazine: www.attnmagazine.co.uk/music/6659

"Collusion nagrane przez Z’EVa z polskim duetem HATI to bardziej rytualna, gęsta muzyka, choć ten rytuał pozostaje nieokreślony, abstrakcyjny. Przestrzeń jest wypełniona dość ściśle, od nieregularnego pulsowania bębnów, przez miriady trzeszczących i szemrających perkusjonaliów, po zgrzyty talerzy i wybrzmiewania gongów. To instynktowna, na swój sposób zwierzęca muzyka, w której z wyjątkiem przerw między (umownymi) utworami praktycznie nie ma ciszy. Zwraca uwagę, że gra faktycznie trio i nie ma tu podziału mentor – uczniowie, ani głos – odpowiedź. Najbardziej przewrotną tego ilustracją jest czwarty utwór, w którym zamiast wcześniejszego buzowania słyszymy moment delikatnego piękna – rytmiczną sekwencję stopniowo wykluwającą się z gestów poszczególnych muzyków. Negatywnie nacechowaną „zmowę” w tytule spokojnie można byłoby zastąpić „porozumieniem”, ale tak, byłoby to banalne."
Piotr Lewandowski, Popup: popupmusic.pl/no/41/recenzje/1989/charlemagne-palestine-+-zev--zev-+-hati-rubhitbangklanghear-rubhitbangklangear--collusion

"Wyraźnie wyczuwalna surowość formy ma związek z jej otwartością. "Collusion" to dzieło ujęte swobodnie i oparte na różnych motywach fakturalnych. Rytm swojej gry muzycy poddają licznym przekształceniom i rozwinięciom - w konsekwencji wspólnie tworząc nowe układy. To nie jest muzyczny dialog, raczej równoległe strumienie rytmu: czystego i ledwie lekko okiełznanego. Imponuje jego rozmach, wibracje brzmienia rozmyślnie pozbawionego przesadnej ekspresji. Forma miejscami jest sucha i abstrakcyjna, a mimo to oddziałuje na konsumenta muzyki niczym nakaz: zwrot ku pierwotnej, żywej i spontanicznej muzyce. Tu prostota staje się jaskrawą antytezą współczesnego, często sztucznego języka muzyki."
Only Good Music: onlygoodmusic.pl/recenzje/hati-zev-collusion

"Kollaborationen verlangen nicht nur dann besonderen kreativen Einsatz, wenn Musiker aus weit außeinanderliegenden Bereichen aufeinander treffen. Gerade im Bereich rituell angehauchter Perkussion gibt es zahlreiche Beispiele dafür, dass sich bestimmte Rhythmen recht einfach in die unterschiedlichsten Klangbilder integrieren lassen. Will sagen: Ethnogetrommel jedweder Art passt zu den meisten Musikarten von entweder flächiger oder eben sehr freier Struktur. Z’ev und Hati sind in der Vergangenheit schon die unterschiedlichsten Verbindugen eingegangen, meist mit sehr reizvollen Resultaten, ohne ihren bekannten Still allzu sehr verbiegen zu müssen."
African Paper: africanpaper.com/2013/06/01/hati-zev-collusion/

"Je ne sais pas dans quelle mesure cette musique est écrite ou improvisée (est-elle le fruit des recherches de Z'EV sur la kabbale?), comme dans les musiques rituelles, dans les musiques de transe de possession notamment, la structure semble tout de meme établie selon des codes tacites immémoriaux, et c'est a chacun de jouer a l'intérieur de ces codes et de cette structure. Musique liturgique dédiée a elle-meme, a moins que ce ne soit de la musique animiste, une ode a l'univers et au son. En tout cas, la musique de Z'EV et Hati semble réflexive au sens ou elle semble avant tout dédiée a elle-meme. Un voyage percussif au pays des spectres et des harmoniques, des pulsations hypnotiques et de la contemplation sonore. Conseillé."
Improv Sphere: improv-sphere.blogspot.com/2013/04/hati-zev-collusion.html

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HATI (Rafał Iwański a.k.a. X-NAVI:ET & Rafał Kołacki) is a musical project based on the sounds of ethnic and hand-crafted instruments: gongs, drums, percussion, horns and pipes Their work combines genres that the band has a passion for: acoustic music, improvisation, sound phenomenae, trance, recycling. They have worked with Z'EV, Mazzoll, PURE, Zdzisław Piernik, PAS Musique, R.S. Harmon. ... more

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