| Zita Swoon are cultural nomads. Their music‚ on record as well as on stage‚ is a journey through a long tradition of popular music. On this road they have encountered folk and blues‚ even seeking their way to eighties disco‚ making leaps between past and future‚ no real regularity kept in mind… multi-angled music going from the absurd funk as Frank Zappa or Funkadelic know to express it‚ over the tradition of singer-songwriters as Bob Dylan‚ Neil Young‚ Joni Mitchell towards the eclecticism of Tom Waits or Einstürzende Neubauten and the programmed sounds of artists as Aphex Twins‚ DJ Shadow | or Howie B. In a single song a total musical trip experience is to be discovered. It sometimes seems that singer Stef Kamil Carlens appears as a shaman‚ fiercely dancing‚ invoking demons and transforming a concert in a kind of ritual. And then all of a sudden‚ the next song winks at glamrock‚ or new wave‚ or techno. Do not expect Zita Swoon to be a living jukebox though. Their symbiotic music mingles a force of nature with influences of tradition‚ so that these two approaches fortify each other and form a new unity. |
