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Evolution

by Vilk Collective

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Alan Hall
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Alan Hall Like all of GOL's music this takes you into their past and present Persian world. It carries on the emotion of being born of two nations reflected so clearly in their song Roots. A soundscape at its best when voice and music overlaps as it does in two parts. Wish I'd seen the exhibition.
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Evolution 42:24

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A Vilk Collective collaboration with the amazing architects and thinkers from Studio INTEGRATE

A 42 min 24 second original Music and sound design score written and composed by Roxana Vilk and Peter Vilk for the ‘Evolution’ Exhibition.

The starting point of our creative process was the natural power of the wind and how it has been used in the vernacular architecture of Iran.

For our composition we imagined taking a sonic journey by being the wind itself as it travelled across different landscapes and architectural spaces across Iran reflecting the images and themes of the Evolution exhibition.

The sound design and music experiments with actually being the wind; being the particles of the architectural structures as they interact with the wind; and ultimately our interpretation of being on a journey deep inside the sounds of Iran.

We take a journey in sound from the hustle and bustle of a market in Minab to the mesmerising reverberations inside the infamous Jameh mosque of Isfahan.

From the disorientating quiet of the sea mangroves on Quesm Island in the Persian Gulf, to the busy downtown traffic of Tehran.

From the trance inducing drum beats of the ancient healing “Zar” ceremony of Southern Iran, that celebrates and honours the spirits carried and affected by the wind, to children singing on the beach in Bander Abbas. From the morning birdsong in Shiraz gardens, to the polyrhythmic metallic hammering of busy blacksmiths of Isfahan market...

All of these audio samples are draw from our own archive of field recordings in Iran, over the last 15 years. It is amazing to give them the space to breathe. We layer and weave this with our own sonic and musical interpretations, including Pete on percussion and piano and Roxana on vocals...

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released April 14, 2015

Roxana Vilk
Peter Vilk

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“Vilk Collective are an utterly unique proposition, there are musical elements of Persia, dub, jazz, funk and North Africa that combine so well its testament to the skill of the bands members and the music itself.
Most importantly though, Vilk Collective have a groove that anyone can lock into.”
Chris Knight, Astrojazz

Vilk Collective are a Jazz World Electronica duet & group based in Bristol
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