Artists>>Kateryna Zavoloka
Zavoloka is an electronic musician and graphic designer from Kyiv City, Ukraine. She was born in 1981 and started making electronic music in 2000. A couple of her tracks close to idm and downtempo appeared first on the compilation 'Metropolitan Fairytales' (Innertion/Rostok Records, 2002). The way she turned to later sounds like her compisitions shifted towards more abstract and unpredictable kind of music. As a result of her 3 years experiments she issued an mp3-release "Suspenzia" on Nexsound, which declared Zavoloka's own unique statement, her special view. Besides, she has a 3" CD-R EP "I" published by Zeromoon (USA). She has 2 full-length CD "Plavyna"(2005) by Nexsound (Ukraine) / Laton (Austria) and "Suspenzia" (2003-2005) by Nexsound. Takes part in many cd, vinyl, mp3 compilations.
Zavoloka mainly explores digital synthesis, sometimes she uses recorded herself songs, separate phrases, words, instruments, etc. One of her big influences is the traditional Ukrainian culture. She traveling by Ukraine and recording native traditional ethnic folk songs, which singing old people in country-sides of Ukraine. But nevertheless it's not about world-music. The aim is to reach interplay between the electronic context and rough unprocessed voices that common people sing with. This produces a very 'human' outcome (owing to the spirit that unaffected voices bring), yet staying electronically saturated, post-sounding and edgy.