Iva Lirma by Thierry Zaboitzeff

IVA LIRMA
Remastered 2021

Music for Events, Dance & Theater.

This album was originally released on CD
for Margen Records (Spain) in 2007.
Digital Distribution from 2009 by Booster / Believe

Composed, played, recorded, mixed and mastered
between 2002 and 2007 by Thierry Zaboitzeff.
The soprano saxophone in track 16 (Last Supper) was kindly played by Herbert Könighofer

This music was commissioned by Editta Braun for
her performances: Luvos Vol. 2, manifest, oXalis,
Matches of Time, Coppercity.


ABOUT IVA LIRMA

BABYBLAUE SEITEN (D)
Thierry Zaboitzeff, one-time bassist and cellist, and, together with Gerard Hourbette, the creative force behind Art Zoyd, opens his archives. The Belgian’s new album has just been released (autumn 2007) by Spanish label Margen Records, where last year his cd debut came out. The new cd is subtitled ‘Archives 02-07’. ‘Iva Lirma’ contains 12 pieces which Zaboitzeff composed between 2002 and 2007. Each of them originally accompanied various dance theater performances by Edittta Braun such as ‘Luvos vol. 2’, ‘Manifest’, ‘oXalis’, ‘Matches of Time’ and ‘Coppercity’.
Those familiar with Zaboitzeff’s and Art Zoyd’s music won’t be surprised by what they find on ‘Iva Lirma’. The Frenchman creates with bass, cello, guitars, trumpets, various keyboards, percussion, assorted samples and electronic sounds dense, mostly sinister and threatening soundscapes, which flow out of the boxes in a sustained to very rhythmic way. Once again Zaboitzeff produces weird and hard-edged music. Compared to ‘Mïssa Furïosa’ or ‘Dr. Zab Vol. 2’, this cd presents more avantgarde and complex, if not complicated, compositions. The whole is simply more sparse and electronic, although now and again cello and bass dominate and define the sound.
Very rhythmic numbers (like the introductory ‘Matches of Time’), where Zaboitzeff thankfully abstained from the dancebeats which used to appear now and again, meet with threateningly sultry, dense sound waves, sustained ethno electronic and real Kammerprog, which occasionally reminds us of colleagues from Univers Zero and Present (listen to the second half of ‘Luvos vol. 2 Epilogue’). Zaboitzeff sings now and again, scratchy and rough as usual. The title song captivates with a hypnotically sinister refrain which bores itself into your brain. In the final ‘Crash’ Zaboitzeff sounds like Apocalyptica. Several cello grooves rock, accompanied dynamically by well-programmed percussion and brings the album to an almost hymnic end.
Zaboitzeff doesn’t necessarily offer anything new on ‘Iva Lirma’, but what he presents here is of good quality and interesting enough to be recommended by Electro-RIO-Avantgardists. Compared to his ex-colleagues from Art Zoyd, who are moving more and more onto contemporary-classic terrain, Zaboitzeff’s sound creations are clearly more lightweight and transparent. This may please the Proh listeners among us, who like more weird and complex music without going overboard.

BABYBLAUE SEITEN (D)
Achim Breitling


MIGHTYECHO.BLOGSPOT (A)
Another fine album of utterly captivating music from Zaboitzeff which is extremely inventive , challenging, bombastic, dreamy, cinematic........... i could go on! This is highly sampled music (also with great use of electric guitar and vocals) whch in the right hands, as here, can be manipulated into extraordinary flights of the imagination, musically speaking...
Zaboitzeffs creative genius seems to have no bounds and he was in my opinion the very heart of Art Zoyds sound. Since his departure his solo releases just seem to get better and better, which unfortunately cannot be said the same for the current Art Zoyd.That bands subsequent releases seem to be a mere shadow of there former glory since this mans absence.

HOWARD WHITING


TRAVERSES (F)
Voici une nouvelle preuve – s'il fallait encore en avancer – de la prolixité créatrice dont fait preuve « l'ex-ART ZOYD » depuis son départ dudit groupe.
C'est le label espagnol Margen Records, déjà auteur de la réédition CD de son premier LP, Prométhée, qui publie ce recueil pour le moins composite.
Iva Lirma compile en effet plusieurs musiques composées par Thierry ZABOITZEFF
pour des spectacles de la chorégraphe Editta BRAUN pendant la période 2002-2007
et qui n'étaient pas encore parues en CD.
S'agissant d'une compilation, l'homogénéité musicale n'est évidemment pas de mise,
mais je soupçonne l'auteur de ces musiques d'avoir sciemment orienté sa sélection en vue d'accroître cet aspect éclectique, comme il l'avait déjà fait avec d'autres précédents albums, comme Heartbeat, India ou The Fantomatick Bands.
Expérimentales ou plus accrocheuses, les musiques réunies dans Iva Lirma (nom du studio d'enregistrement du ZAB ') forment un bouquet très contrasté. Elles peuvent prendre la forme d'atmosphères troublantes et heurtées (oXalis 1), de thèmes néo-classiques entêtants aux claviers, violons et violoncelles (Crash), ou de pièces cultivant l'exotisme déviant (la pseudo-chinoiserie Gertrude, le mirage orientalisant de Coppercity)
ou encore d'un capharnäum excentrique mêlant rythmes électro, notes jazzy, riffs rock et... des ronflements (Matches of Time) ! La palme de l'extra-terrestrialité revient assurément à Luvos vol. 2, avec ses espaces hiératiques électroplanants subrepticement animés d'étrangetés sidérales. (Son épilogue, en revanche, lorgne du côté d'un UNIVERS ZERO qui aurait absorbé un euphorisant.) A l'opposé, et comme pour accentuer encore davantage le trouble de l'auditeur, se trouve une pochade à écouter au second degré, revisitant la ritournelle populaire Promenons-nous dans les bois... avec un chant de muezzin à l'horizon.
C'est donc un Thierry ZABOITZEFF totalement affranchi du cadre « artzoydien » qui s'exprime ici, cultivant les coqs-à-l'âne et les croisements musicaux les plus abrupts,
voire les plusincongrus, usant de la technologie électroacoustique pour créer des musiques qui se refusent à choisir entre l'abstraction contemporaine et l'accessibilité populaire, et font se cotôyer des scénarii sonores emphatiques, angoissants, oniriques ou ludiques.
N°23 (mars 2008)
TRAVERSES (F)
Stéphane Fougère

Composer and multi-instrumentalist, one of the heads of the group Art Zoyd from 1971 till 1997, Thierry Zaboitzeff writes nowadays for dance, theater, multimedia events, movies as well as for his own projects and performances.

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