About DVA

by Pier Marton | Jan 8, 2010 | Music

DVA
Czech electro-acoustic duo Dva consisting of a married couple Barbora Kratochvílová and Jan Kratochvíl is a new discovery on experimental music scene. Dva combine human voices with acoustic instruments in loops and sing in artificial languages. Their debut album Fonók was recorded in summer 2008 in a small North Bohemian village Padouchov where no sophisticated recording equipment existed. This and the cooperation with a well-known Berlin musician and producer Jayrope caused that the sound of the album is quiet specific and original. However, not only the sound quality is noteworthy. Fonók also offers some nice compositions which makes it a complex album worth listening to. // Jan Kyncl
In the glorious lineage of Tom Zé and Ekova…
With a sample of songs from their CD.

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BREAK THE SURFACE
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To ride the unbalance* between:
1. excellence and a kind, singular and porous identity that contains some of the scruples, humor, humility, musicality & the beauty of a harsh and confusing, yet benign and rich reality – away from distractions.
2. the stupidity and blindness of complacency, violence, injustice, pretense, egos, short-term… wishful… and group “thinking,” and empty talk – in all of their surprising embodiments. And the false sense of fullness all of this provides.
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An appeal for a world NOT so caught up in anthropo/ego/euro/ethno/oculo/esthetico -CENTRISM.
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1. Beware of those who claim to be strong – they are often dangerous.
2. Unmask the hoax of “centrality” – ask an “EX-centric” for assistance?
3. Perceive the arrogance of normalcy: everybody, in one way or another, is handicapped… which brings us back to 1.
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*Not unrelated to “There is beauty and there are the humiliated. Whatever difficulties the enterprise may present, I should like never to be unfaithful either to the second or the first.” — Albert Camus