ZGA VS FIGS — Who has stolen the Air ?

Format: CD
Label & Cat.Number: Some Bizarre SBZ76
Release Year: 2008
Price (incl. 19% VAT): €14.50
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"Russland? Postrock? Oh ja! ZGA haben sich in all den Jahren nicht unterkriegen lassen. Durch unzählige Personalwechsel und andere Hindernisse hat Nick Sudnick es immer wieder geschafft, seine Vision beizubehalten und asymmetrische Rhythmen, minimalistische Melodien, verzerrte Gitarre und selbstgebaute Instrumente in einen einzigartigen Kontext zu rücken und am Ende bei einer Verherrlichung des Industrial zu landen. Während ZGA ein obskures russisches Wort ist, das etwas Winzigkleines beschreibt und noch im Wortstamm zu "stockdunkel" zu finden ist, ist FIGS ein Akronym aus den Namen von vier Musikern: die Bandleader Sudnick und Fedorova und zwei Drummer: Alexei Ivanov und Marcus Godwyn, ein Brite, der seit Jahren in St. Peterburg lebt. / / ZGA is a unique phenomenon in Russian post-rock music. There’s never been a band that would for so long, so consistently and with such dogged perseverance and dedication pursue the non-compromised approach to music. ZGA pretty much equals Nick Sudnick. Throughout countless personnel changes Nick has always been there - the mind, the heart, the soul, the creator and inventor of this unparalleled music. On first listen ZGA’s music is by no means sounded obsolete but obscure it very well is: asymmetrical rhythms, hardly any melody, distorted guitar paired with Nick’s homemade instruments. The result is an apotheosis of rhythmic industrial sound. “ZGA” is a very obscure, obsolete, and peculiar Russian word. It means something really miniscule and in the contemporary language it survived only as a part of an expression "ni zgi ne vidno" - “pitch dark”. FIGS is an acronym that stands for the names of four musicians: apart from bandleaders Sudnick and Fedorova there are two drummers: Alexei Ivanov and Marcus Godwyn (a Brit who has lived in St. Petersburg for many years now)." [press release]