Slovenian experimental music compilation – first release in the Czech Republic

This particular edition of the magazine also featured an essay with the same title as the compilation.  The essay was written by Luka Zagoričnik (head editor of SIGIC's online music magazine Odzven - Echo), who prepared the selection of musicians and bands featured in the compilation. His selection includes a wide variety of contemporary works underpinning a heterogeneous array of different sound practices, which are today united under the often misused designation of »experimental music«. The latter has much deeper roots in Slovenia, though the selection focuses on music being made here and now, as seen through the individual prism of someone who has been monitoring the developments on this particular music scene for many years. The selection gives voice to different approaches, aesthetics and sound practices, from free improvisational playing, which has dramatically increased over the years and has tried the waters of international sound experimentation, to experimental noise rock, sound art, electro acoustic music and, finally, to the incorporation of  experimental principles into pop music, poetry and other genres. The compilation includes some pieces that have not been released to date. Many record companies cooperated in this release: Botanic Records, EatThis Production, LUD Literatura, Playdate Music, Zavod Atol, Zavod Sploh / L'innomable, as well as individual authors and artists.

With this release, SIGIC continues its mission and is fulfilling its promise to present different facets of Slovenian music production to international audiences. SIGIC started on this road with the releases of compilations Jazz Slovenia and Etno Slovenia in 2011. A Slovenian-English version of the compilation is in the making and will be released in the beginning of next year.

Collaborating artists:

Tomaž Grom, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Michel Doneda, Jonas Kocher, Marko Karlovčec, Bojana Šaljić Podešva, Trio Čučnik, Pepelnik, Grom, JakaundKiki, iT, Marko Batista, Vanilla Riot, Miha Ciglar, N'toko & Seijiro Murayama, Samo Kutin & Marko Jenič.

List of recordings in the compilation:
1.) Konstrukt – Tomaž Grom, Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec, Michel Doneda, Jonas Kocher (remixed by Giuseppe Ielasi)
Originally released on CD 'Udarnik' on Zavod Sploh/ L'innomable www.sploh.si  www.linnomable.wordpress.com

2.) Dissolve Your Clench In A Compost Heap, Even - Marko Karlovčec
Previously unreleased, courtesy of the artist and Botanic Records  http://botanic-records.blogspot.com

3.) Meditacija o bližini – Bojana Šaljić Podešva
Originally released on Luka Juhart's CD 'Dialog' on Zavod Sploh/ L'innomable www.sploh.si  www.linnomable.wordpress.com

4.) Din din – Čučnik, Pepelnik, Grom
Originally released on compilation CD 'Pri besedi z glasom in zvokom' on LUD Literatura  www.ludliteratura.si

5.) Dunji- JakaundKiki
Originally released on CD 'JakaundKiki' on EatThis Production

6.) Untitled – Tomaž Grom
Previously unreleased, courtesy of the artist and Zavod Sploh  www.sploh.si

7.) Question Of Good And Bad – iT
Originally released on iT's CD 'Crying Games' on Zavod Atol  http://makrolab.ljudmila.org/atol 

8.) Chem:Sys:Apparatus - Marko Batista
Previously unreleased, courtesy of the artist  www.project-data.info

9.) Chop - Vanilla Riot
Originally released on cassette 'Stretch' on Playdate Records  http://records.playdatemusic.net

10.) Early Composition 2006 – Miha Ciglar
Previously unreleased, courtesy of the artist   www.irzu.org

11.) Caressing The Studio (Bed, Table, Window, Chair) – Tao G. Vrhovec Sambolec
Previously unreleased, courtesy of the artist www.taogvs.org

12.) Ljubljana – Tokyo - N'toko & Seijiro Murayama
Previously unreleased, courtesy of the artists  www.ntoko.si

13.) Untitled- Samo Kutin & Marko Jenič
Future release on compilation CD 'Neposlušno' on Zavod Sploh www.sploh.si