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Zavoloka (aka Kateryna Zavoloka) is an experimental electronic composer, musician and graphic designer from Kyiv, Ukraine. Word "Zavoloka" means "deep fog" and also "maverick" in Ukrainian. In 2003 the label Nexsound released her first free downloadable release Suspenzia, that was the most frequently downloaded piece in the Internet. At the end of 2003 the CD-R I appeared on the American label Zeromoon. Her first full-length CD Plavyna appeared at the beginning of 2005 under the Austrian label Laton and under Ukrainian label Nexsound. The CD was highly acclaimed and took a Honorary Mention in the most Grammy-like festival in cyber arts Prix Ars Electronica 2005. For now, in 2007 Zavoloka has released "Viter" CD on Kvitnu label, first from series of albums dedicated to each Universe Elements. Zavoloka collaborates with: * Mark Clifford (from Seefeel, Disjecta, Warp records, Polyfusia) musician from United Kingdom. In 2007 they released "Split01" CDep on Polyfusia records. * AGF, a.k.a Antye Greie German poetess and musician. In 2006 they released the full-length CD Nature never produces the same beat twice on Nexsound * Kotra and they have released CD Wag the Swing, released on Ukrainian Kvitnu label in 2006. * Katya Chilly - famous Ukrainian pop singer * Anders Dahl - Swedish musician from Hapna label Zavoloka takes part in international border crossing art project Move with contemporary choreographers/dancers Charlotta Ruth, Alexandr Andriyashkin, musician/designer Johannes Burstrom, light-designer Tobias Leira. Zavoloka performed live-sets on different international festivals like Presences Electronique (Groupe de Recherches Musicales, INA-GRM), Club Transmediale, Detali Zvuku, Being the future, Les urbaines, Garage, Unsound, Femmes, Cimatics, Interferenze, Radius, La Nuit Blue, EME07 and many many others. Discography: * 2007 Zavoloka "Viter" (CD), Kvitnu * 2007 Mark Clifford (from Seefeel) & Zavoloka "Split01" (CD), Polyfusia * 2006 Kotra & Zavoloka "Wag the Swing" (CD), Kvitnu * 2006 Zavoloka-Agf "Nature Never Produces The Same Beat Twice" (CD), Nexsound * 2006 Zavoloka versus Kotra "To kill the tiny groovy cat" (CD/Mp3), Nexsound * 2006 Zavoloka "Nata" (MP3), Surreal Madrid * 2005 Zavoloka & Kotra "Untitled Live" (CDr), Live Reports * 2005 Zavoloka "Suspenzia" (CD), Nexsound * 2005 Zavoloka "Plavyna" (CD), Nexsound with Laton * 2004 Zavoloka "I" (CDr 3"), Zeromoon * 2003 Zavoloka "Suspenzia" (MP3), Nexsound text from wikipedia.org ___________________________________________________________________________________ Kateryna Zavoloka is an electronic musician and graphic designer from Kyiv, Ukraine. She was born in 1981 and started to make electronic music in 2000. A couple of her tracks close to idm and downtempo first appeared on the compilation called 'Metropolitan Fairytales' (Rostok Records, 2002). Later she turned to more abstract and unpredictable kind of music. As a result of her 3 years of 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 CDs "Plavyna"(2005) by Nexsound (Ukraine) / Laton(Austria) and "Suspenzia Extra" (2003-2005) by Nexsound. Her tracks can be found on many cd, vinyl, mp3 compilations. Zavoloka's album "Plavyna" was Honorary Mentioned on Prix Ars Electronica in 2005. She is involved in collaboration with AGF, Berlin-based poetess and musician. Together they have released a full album "Nature never produces the same beat twice" CD on Nexsound. Zavoloka also collaborates with different videoartists. Zavoloka actively performs and takes part in european festivals, such as "Being the future" in Palast der Republik at Berlin, "Unsound" at Krakow, "Les Urbaines" in Lausanne, Switzerland, "Cimatics" in Brussels, "Minimax", Bratislava, "Garage" festival in Stralsund, Germany, "La nuit bleue", Besancon, France, "Kontra-musik" in Malmo, Sweden, "Radius" festival, Vienna, Austria, "Ambush!" in Lublin, Poland, "Femmes" in Hasselt, Belgium, "Clubtransmediale" in Berlin, "Detali Zvuku", Kyiv and others. Zavoloka's music consists of intensive varied sound motions and unexpected combinations piped into carefully controlled electronic flows. "Never try to predict anything, it can turn out in what one just cannot predict". Some of Zavoloka's friends amongst musicians admit, that her music is very unusual from the structural point of view. She is a very open-minded person, so her creative works are a good picture of her vital energy. When asked about the motive of building such a diverse and complicated constructions, she explained her intention to produce more and more frank music that could reflect her momentary shades of feelings and emotions. She also pointed out that her music is intended to be a natural expression of her private freedom. Zavoloka mainly explores digital synthesis, sometimes she uses self-recorded songs, separate phrases, words, instruments, etc. One of her big influences is traditional Ukrainian culture. She has used samples of ethnic songs sung by old people in rural Ukraine. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License and may also be available under the GNU FDL.