ARTIST: ZAVOLOKA & AGF TITLE: NATURE NEVER PRODUCES THE SAME BEAT TWICE CD LABEL: NEXSOUND.ORG / CAT: NS44 + AGF PRODUCKTION 005 WEB: http://www.zavoloka-agf.com RELEASE: januar 2006 HANDMADE BIO BEATS this is a collaboration between ukrainian musician, producer and graphic designer ZAVOLOKA aka KATERYNA ZAVOLOKA and german vocalist, poet, musician and producer AGF aka ANTYE GREIE AGF contacted ZAVOLOKA in 2003 after hearing her tracks on the internet and they soon realized a passion for each others music and decided to work together. during several live collaborations, for instance in belgium and france, and some sound material exchanges they developed the concept of creating TECHNO LIKE TREES. nature beats. the idea was to extract sounds from existing and form a variation of beats and vocal snippets to make powerful techno of nature which can be seen as identical and not similar as structure of plants and nature. repeating of otherness and repeating of difference. both artists can be seen as huge fans and admirers of nature and the inspiration evolved out of structure of forest leaves and berries translated into musical rhythm and moods. one technique they used to produce these irregular but repetitive patterns was setting up an old school metronome tik tak at xxx beat per minute and count in and start to battle the beat with drumming on self designed sound banks directly recording into powerful converters the structure of the pieces are woody, spicy, discontinuous, recurrent, flavor, like: grain, sappiness, chime, species, extraction and vitality. the CD: NATURE NEVER PRODUCES THE SAME BEAT TWICE contains 50 one minute compositions each dedicated to a certain plant. the tracks are split into 5 subgroups: trees/ bushes/ meadow/ flowers / spices. the language the artists communicate in is english but both bring in their native tongue by naming plants and both are singing and speaking ukrainian as well as interpreting ukrainian traditional folk lyrics. the record was mainly recorded in AGF's studio in berlin kreuzberg in july 2005. edited and crafted in kyiv, ukraine at ZAVOLOKAÕs studio and mastered and completed in berlin prenzlauer berg in vladislav delays studio the white room in autumn 2005. The material is strictly female touch and without comparison to existing sound on planet earth The design, photos, ornaments and packing are made by ZAVOLOKA TRACKLISTING MEADOW 01 ROZMAI 02 SUNYTSIA 03 AIR 04 DO DIVCHYNY 05 NUDE BRAIN 06 MYNALISOVOGO 07 TAPFERMOHN 08 MAK 09 ZELENA 10 KORIN 11 SCHAFGABE 12 DISTEL 13 ORDINARY GRASS 14 LIONTEETH 15 UNKRAUT TREES 16 V LISI 17 BRUSNITSIA 18 LYSHCHYNA 19 ZHURAVLYNA 20 KASHTAN 21 SOSNA 22 KLJON 23 BEREZA 24 BLATTLAUS 25 ZEDER_VODOROSTI 26 OLDTALKINTREES 27 DUBEICHE 28 LINDE 29 BEE IN THE TREE 30 VOGELBEERE 31 AFFENBROTBAUM 32 KIEFER 33 VYSHNJA SPICES 34 KOHAJU 35 RAPS 36 MELISSA 37 MINZE 38 MAVKA 39 KORIANDER 40 BOHNENKRAUT BUSHES 41 EFEU 44 WEIN 43 NUDE BRAINNITA II 44 MINIKAKTUS 45 STAR 46 KUST 47 HASELNUSS FLOWERS 48 KONVALIJA 49 LYNMOVGORY 50 DARKFLOWERBRAINNITA