Z.O.A burst into existence in the 1990s, sweeping the scene instantly with their inventive and radical musicality before vanishing just as quickly.īoris emerged right around the same time, almost as if stepping in to fill the void they left. It is a musical suite from both bands that surpasses space and time in a single 33-minute composition. Recommended track: "METIC - Tape Birth (JESWA'S WET MAJESTIC RMX)" It's so subtle! That little chirping sound that seems to take the entire song to finish descending! Those little electric piano noises! I've been thinking about this song for two decades straight now! If you can listen to this on large speakers do so."Refrain", the first conceptual collaboration album from Z.O.A x Boris, is complete. It turns out it's on Bandcamp! It was real! You can now be haunted by the strange clicky sounds that once haunted me. I never encountered anyone else who'd heard of this collection and, after it got stolen from my car a few years later, I basically had no evidence it had ever even existed. Anyway this CD wound up being foundational for me, as it's the best snapshot I've ever found of that one particular microgenre I've never known how to describe except "it sounds kind of like Push Button Objects", but also was always sort of a mysterious artifact. I think they'd bound together and started a record label ("Schematic Music"?), and released this CD as a promotional item? Most of the tracks don't even have names. I was never totally certain what it was it seemed to be a mixtape of mostly Phoenicia, Push Button Objects and Richard Devine tracks.
I found this CD for like a dollar in a discount bin at a record store in Ireland sometime around the year 2000.
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