Praznina / Emptiness, by Iztok Koren

Praznina / Emptiness

by Iztok Koren

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dulcimerboy Had a chat with Iztok at café Oto after Sirom played there and he came across as a very generous and thoughtful musician. I am very much part of my own local musical tradition but I am drawn more and more towards this much more free approach to music. I have bought a violin bow to use on my dulcimer!

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released April 1, 2023

TRT014

Emptiness is the second solo record by multi-instrumentalist Iztok Koren, a member of the bands Širom, Škm banda and Hexenbrutal.
A result of an outpouring of pent-up creative energy, the album came about after a last-minute force majeure cancellation of a Širom trip to Sarajevo, where the band was to make music for the theatre show Bordel Eden by director Mirjana Medojević. The musician decided to channel his blocked creative flow into new solo material and ended up recording Emptiness in a single day, 7 May 2022, at a secluded hut in the hills of the Zasavje region. The music from Emptiness was eventually used in Bordel Eden.
In addition to the mentioned venting, Iztok’s explorations on the album address the issue of oversaturation, personal moral dilemmas, internal conflicts and the search for a way out of them, overload problems and the urge to introduce changes that cannot happen unless space is secured first – i.e. unless harmful elements are removed and a state of emptiness is created. Emptiness is a necessary condition to stop the damage, to reconnect with oneself, to be cleansed and make a sober ethical assessment of one's actions, to take responsibility for one's actions, to find out who and what you really belong to and how to steer your life in the right direction.
The record is being sent out into the world with the intention of having the music created in that period live an independent second life and become detached from the author’s personal circumstances at the time. Art should be part of the commons.
All the tracks on the record were performed by Iztok Koren without overdubs, using a banjo, a three-string banjo, a guembri, electric guitar, modular synthesizer, effects pedals, contact microphones, percussion, a steel drum and a balafon.
The cover artwork was created by Klara Vrtačnik and the album designed by Tommaso Rolando.
Mixing and mastering by Dejan Lapanja.
Emptiness will be released on 1 April 2023 with the Italian label Torto Editions, which previously released Koren's debut album Lonely Hymns and Pillars of Emptiness and a vinyl version of the debut record by the band Širom.

All songs performed by

Iztok Koren on

banjo, tree string banjo, gembri, electric guitar, modular synth, effect pedals, contact mics, percussions, steel drum and balafon

Artwork: Klara Vrtačnik

Design: Tommaso Rolando

Recording: Iztok Koren

Mix and mastering: Dejan Lapanja

All compositions by Iztok Koren

Recorded without overdubbing in remote cabin in Slovenian hills on 7th may 2022

Torto Editions 2023

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Iztok Koren Ljubljana, Slovenia

Multi-instrumentalist. Feels existential emptiness. Stepmother Ljubljana, mother Beltinci, both from Slovenia. Likes sweet taste of sadness. Musical path started in 2000. Moves between intimate-minimalistic-zen solo project, imaginary-dreamy-"worldy" Širom, dynamic-playfully-melancholic Škm banda, loud-expressive-chaotic Hexenbrutal and other occasional musical projects. ... more

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