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"In lokai's music tunes and tones merge and diverge. Guitar and software combine in compositions that stray to and fro across the borders between analogue and digital, structure and instability, music and sound. Parts of songs ? loops, melodies, chords ? float like moody jellyfish in electronic space. musical threads fly apart and reconvene in unresolved clusters. There´s always another twist of the kaleidoscope to come. With ears sharpened in Vienna, Stefan Németh and Florian Kmet carry their musical baggage lightly, edging their work into thickly textured explorations of states of uncertainty. The old advice still holds good: play loud." (Will Montgomery)

A basic impulse to form lokai was to combine and expand the sound spectrum of an electric guitar with the possibilities of electronic instruments on a structural and tonal level....tracks should oscillate between song formats and random-like situations. Within this scenario the dynamic range goes from extremely dense layers to fragile and ramified constructions of fragmented melodies and sounds. The components are rendered to instrumental music, thoroughly containing a certain impressionistic aspect. Lokai was founded in 2003 in Vienna.

Florian Kmet: guitars
Stefan Németh: electronics, additional guitars on 2 + 3

All tracks by lokai.
Recorded by lokai in May and October 2004.
Mixed and mastered by Martin Siewert at Motone Sound Services
Cover-design by re-p.org
Photographs by Gudrun Likar