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name: Lezet
country: Serbia
bio:
Lezet is a one-man experimental band from Pozega,Serbia ,created in 2005 by Igor Jovanovic.Prior to that Igor was involved in his studies of Philology and entering exhibitions with his "visual" art and has never been involved in a single music undertaking.
Drawing upon many music genres, a great many bands have influenced Lezet and galvanized Igor into activity: The Residents,Mike Patton,Amon Tobin, Begnagrad, Ground Zero, Chick Corea, Brothomstates, Mr Bungle, Primus, Iva Bittova, Meshuggah, Depeche Mode, Kid Koala,Cynic, Uz Jsme Doma, Evan Parker,Moondog, Material, Weather Report, Rambo Amadeus, Henry Cow, Moloko, John Zorn, Fantomas, Tomahawk, MedeskiMartin&Wood, Fred Frith's Massacre, Samla Mammas Manna, Shunatao, Magma, Squarepusher, Sade,Merzbow, Blue Man Group, King Crimson, Chroma Key, Bjork, Nils Petter Molvaer, Ephel Duath,Zeena Parkins, Jagga Jazzist, Infectious Grooves, Meredith Monk, Frank Zappa, Patricia Barber, Peter Gabriel, The Jazz Passengers, Nudist with Laptop,Louis Sclavis,5 uu's,Gutbucket,Last Exit,Frank Pahl,Henry Threadgill,Gateway,Jon Hassell,First House,Gisburg, Chicago Underground Trio,Ikue Mori,Elliott Sharp,Melt Banana,Bratko Bibich and the Medleys, Strapping Young Lad, Cecil
Taylor,Tears for Fears, Serge Gainsbourg, Attention Deficit, Eyvind Kang, Rypdal/Vitous/DeJohnette,Karlheinz Stockhausen, Pink Floyd's Ummagumma, Oysterhead, Erik Satie, Isis, The Farlanders, Last Exit, Masqualero, Chris Burn's Ensemble, Hubbub, Erik Truffaz, Fred Frith, Matthew Herbert big band, Dave Holland quintet , Kimmo Pohjonen,Univers Zero,Third Person, The Gathering, Flying Luttenbachers, John Cage,The Lonely Bears, Guapo,Xerophonics, Bruford/Levin Upper Extremities, Trilok Gurtu,Hella,Diamanda Galas, Explosions In The Sky,Sotos, Cul De Sac,Chris Cutler,Naftule's Dream,Dog Fashion Disco,Bill Brovold,Flanger,Marc Ribot,the Great Jewish music series,Kid Koala, Die Like a Dog Quartet,Otomo Yoshihide, Sun Ra,Accordeon Tribe,Bill Brovold, Sigur Ros,Sikth,Happy Apple,Kraftwerk, Cyro Baptista,The Lounge Lizards,Kimmo Pohjonen, Curlew, Chris Speed's Yeah No, Bobby McFerrin,Sakis Papadmitriou,Cuong Vu, Exploding Customer,Carla Bozulic,Trevor Dunn's Trio
Convulsant, Zero 7, Only A Mother, Henry Kaiser,Leo Alves Vieira,Peter Brotzmann Octet, Futbol,Ryoji Ikeda,Sausage, Lars Hollmer, Alvin Curran, Sun City Girls, David Torn,Joanne Brackeen,Rational Diet,The Mahavishnu Orchestra,Steve Reich,Bogus Blimp,Chris Cutler,Alexander von Schlippenbach Quartet,Sun Ra,The Muffins,Electric Masada,The New Klezmer Trio ,John Adams,Kate Bush,Oxes,Kampec Dolores,The Bad Plus,Arnold Dreyblatt & The Orchestra Of Excited Strings,Raccomandata Ricevuta Ritorno ,Swans,J.K.Randall, George Gershwin,Shake Ray Turbine,Magic Malik,Wim Mertens,Kamikaze Ground Crew,4 Walls,Gilles Gobeil, For No One In Particular,Orchestra NJervudarov,Nguyen Le,Broun Fellinis,Mike Nock,Agata, Heiner Goebbels,The Mars Volta,The Herbaliser, Morton Feldman,Mieskuoro Huutajat Choir,Earle Brown,Sam Rivers, Maya Homburger and Barry Guy's "Ceremony" album!!!!!!,Down,Dave Weckl,Banda Elastica, Frederic Rzewski,DJ Logic,US Maple,Carl Stalling,Francois
Rabbath,Tom Waits,Akinetón Retard,Pharaoh Sanders, Ruins,La Monte Young,Tango Crash,Kaoru Abe,Avishai Cohen,Death,Christian Wolff,Briggan Krauss,Geduldig un Thimann,Pelé,Camille,Arto Lindsay,AMM,Luigi Russolo, Brotherhood Of Breath,Joseph Jarman,Tara Fuki,Mum,Débile Menthol,Art Zoid,Barry Truax,Zu,Zu Quartet,Tryo,Hans Reichel,Indukti,Arthur Jones,Area, Stolen Babies, Arrested Development,Frog Brigade,O.S.I.,The Thing,Jin Hi Kim ,Ned Rothenberg, Can, Dagmar Kraus,OOIOO,Zao, Annie Gosfied,Edvard Grieg,Univeria Zekt ,Sergei Rachmaninov,Morton Subotnick,Hardscore,Oingo Boingo,Sleepytime Gorilla Museum,Toshio Hosokawa (and Gagaku music in general), Goldfrapp, Pantera,Paul Schütze,New Klezmer Trio,Frederic Rzewski , Ted Reichman,György Ligeti,Kazutoki Umezu,Death Ambient,Oskar Sala,Coldcut, Zohara, French TV,Kultivator,Throuroof,Bernard Parmegiani ,Pablo Furman, Skeleton Crew,New Hip Stilen ,Nya Ljudbolaget ,Virgule IV,Michel Camilo,Make Believe,Jo
Kondo,Volta do Mar,Clikatat Ikatowi,The Police,Purple Trap,Slapp Happy ,This Heat,Ahleuchatistas, Kaada,Jerry Hunt,Sleepytime Gorilla Museum,Robert Wyatt,Kultivator,Herman Szobel,Xabier Iriondo, Goon Moon,f!, Marc Sabbat,Richard Felciano,Arthur Kreiger,Ferrante and Teicher,Geduldig un Thimann,Sonny Sharrock,Pierluigi Billone,Pablo Koonce,Novo Tono,Porcupine Tree,Fout Tet,The Nice,George Crumb,ZNR,Kazutoki Umezu, Keith Jarrett, Bonobo,P.O.N.,Colonel Claypool's Bucket of Bernie Brains,KTU,Ruins,To Live and Shave in LA,Napalm Death,Danilo Perez,Ned Rothenberg, Don Cherry,Rip Rig and Panic,Hot Lotta,Misha Mengelberg,One to (Two), Yo Miles!, Area,Masada,Clifford Thorton,Derek Bailey,Bela Bartok,The Now Orchestra, Elvind Aaarset,A Qui Avec Gabriel,Matching Mole,Arve Henriksen,Shirim Kletzmer Orchestra,Present,Nils Wogram, Isotope, Bojan Z,Osterhead,Christian Wallumrod Ensemble,ProjeKct X,Ellery Eskelin,Dirty Three,Toshinori Kondo,N.O.R.M.A.,Aziza Mustafa
Zadeh,The Keith Tippett,Pieranunzi-Johnson-Baron, Milford Graves, Glerum Omnibus, and every other Han Bennink's engagement, John Balke & Magnetic North Orchestra,Napalm Death,The Melvins,Tim Berne,Ben Perowsky,Big Chief,I'm not a Gun, Myra Melford,Babkas,Iskra 1903,Aaly Trio,Pavel Fajt & Pluto,Robert Fripp's The League of Gentlemenm,Ken Wandermark,Edward Wesala,Motorpsycho,Trygve Seim,Satoko Fuji,Terumasa Hino,Tara Fuki,Plastic People of the Universe,Birdsongs of the Mesozoic, Renaud Garcia-Fons, Tm Berne's Bloodcount, God is an Astronaut,Joni Mithel, No-man, The Tango Saloon, Faith no More, Thomas Demenga,Tosha Suiho,Werner Pirchner,Wayne Horvitz,Mum,Cocorosie,Behold...the Arctopus, E.S.T.,Arild Andersen, Bob Burger,Bugges Wesseltoft,Benny Maupin,Victor Bailey,John Surman, Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez,Karin Krogg ,Brad Shepik,Scolohofo, Bela Fleck and the Flecktones, Giancarlo Schiaffini,John Taylor,Charles Mingus, Ensemble Nuove Forme Sonore, Paul
Motian, Paul Giger, Peter Cowald, In the Country,Merzbow,Satlah,Eugene Chadbourne, Autopilote, Luciano Berio,Bob Downes,Lee Hyle, Ramon Zupko, Cracow Klezmer Band, Olivier Messiaen, Nils Landgren, Henri Texier, Lars Horntveth, Dmitri Shostakovich, The Hilliard Ensemble, Pierre Boulez, Sam Rivers, Alfred Schnittke,Erkki-Sven Tuur, Spring Heel Jack, Dino Saluzzi, Jans Peter Ostendorf, Harald Weiss, Michel Portal, Vandermark Five, David S.Ware , Trio3, Miroslav Tadic,World Saxophone Quartet, Tomasz Stanko, Barre Phillips, John Coltrane's "Interstellar Space" album,William Matthews, Elias Tanenbaum, Hasidic New Wave, ICP Orchestra,Richard Galliano,Louis Sclavis Quintet,Luigi Dallapiccola,Ernst Krenek, The Hat Shoes,Adam Sandler,Blankdisc Trio, Bun-Ching Lam,Venetian Snares,Black Pus,Dejan Ilijic,Richard Devine,Charles Hayward,Bill Dixon/Tony Oxley "Papirus" albums,Bernd Konrad,Terre Thaemlitz,Snakefinger, Geoff Leigh, PHAT,EKYU,Apeiron,Plaistow,Trio
BBW,Rosa Luxemburg New Quintet, Fist of Kong,Pamela's Parade,Ensemble Phase Drei,Tom Cora,Carla Bley,Crowdofone,Paolo Fresu,Wolf Eyes,Sylvie Courvoisier,Marilyn Mazur,Prima Materia, Virgil Moorefield, Daniel Goode,Norman Yamada,Pere Ubu,Mark de gli Antoni,Jerry Hunt, Philip Glass,Kevin Drumm,Rene Lussier,Russian Percussion,Koichi Makigami,Aka Moon,Änglagård,Weidorje,Harry Miller,Earle Brown.... and Igor's accordeon teacher,late Milan Ristovski (R.I.P.).There are 18 albums released through various (net)labels so far, some of them done in collaboration with incredible musicians that really helped Igor broaden his perspective.Lezet continues to put out experimental music albums and to be involved with a series of video works teamed with his long-time friend and fellow-artist,Vojkan Nedeljkovic.
"Someone's comment about the sound of Lezet was "like Zorn without saxophone"...And indeed, Lezet's work could remind the results of "the game theory", which John Zorn exercised on his debut "Locus Solus"", for example...The fact that LEZET don't use only live instruments will probably disconnect it from the avantgarde free jazz scene, but I suppose the coming under some specific style wasn't the intent in this case anyway. It's about free experiments with sound captures in search for the surprises.And it can't be pretentious as such... " (extract taken from issue2 of the "Black Syrup" zine (Serbia,2007).


album:
The "Intervals" album is sort of a sequel to "Lezet2" and it delves a bit more into the issue of track duration (15-sec track vs. a 60-minute track)."Lezet2" album was about presenting concise musical statements, and "Intervals" thrives on having a main-theme and variations interact within a 60-minute frame.The timbre builds communication blocks varying in pitch and duration that interlace at intervals.This album contains the first 60-minute track Lezet has ever created.

Lezet:
www.myspace.com/lezet1
www.lezet.blogspot.com