[K&K 28] No Pavarotti - Season of the Weak

Czech experimental duo No Pavarotti, whose stylistic ambivalence undermines genre, re-emerges with a new record Season of the Weak. It’s the next step in their endless underground showbiz struggle after a lengthy period of time. In fact, years have passed since their last releases No Pavarotti and Too Late to Care.
 
Behind a band name full of pretense and perhaps some well-invested sadness are hiding two musicians (to be exact: two projects) k!amm and Rouilleux. Their mostly improvised music consisting of guitar and organ layers, electronic hum and voices of both members can be described as a mixture of drone-ambient, noise, post-psychedelia and pop, all in a common and variously deformed space defined predominantly by echo. The seeming opposites such as aggression and ambient, or pop and experiment, are transformed into corners of one conveniently sounding room. The sound of this music never completely renounces laziness but naturally reverberates. The initial impulse, despite all the blurriness openly intimate, remains – loneliness doubled.
 
The new record, this time sentimentally released on 12-inch vinyl, is not so much a new work after a pause but a new phrasing of the pause itself. After all, a simple comparison of recording date and release date suggests that this is the kind of work where perfect, though constantly pushed away musicality naturally meets the lack of need for action. This only adds to the relentlessness of final production steps. As if the disturbance in the universal time of possibilities and delays (“season of the helpless”) had to be compensated by the austere form of the final record. This time was successfully valued.
 
The album was released by KLaNGundKRaCH and Letmo Productions in edition of 250 vinyl copies.
 
http://klangundkrach.net/no.pavarotti
http://nopavarotti.bandcamp.com