History of Metamorphosis
Contaminated Chamber Music
With the excellent musicianship of a modern classical quartet and the high vibrating energy of a punkband Metamorphosis appeared first time 1996 on the scene and found their way very fast to stages all over Europe.
A new style of String Quartet using acoustic and electric instruments and soundprocessing, blending influences from contemporary music, punkrock, pop and ethnic music in a so far unheared manner.
It was around ten years ago in Vienna, when Martin Alacam, Christoph Pajer, Richard Deutsch and Julide Canca arranged their first songs together and started to play a lots of concerts in clubs and on festivals of the Czech and Austrian underground scene. A bit later Julide Canca had to move to Istanbul and Christof Rothaler, a cello-player from Austria, joined them. They recorded their debut album "Contaminated Chamber Music", which was released 1999 by the Czech label Rachot/Behemot, which was a host for a lots of artists from the very vital Czech music-scene, such as Iva Bittova or Dunaj.
"Der Standard" wrote about their album: "Their Music can be localized somewhere between the Penguin Cafe Orchestra and the Kronos Quartet, inspired by the modern classic of Bela Bartok as well as by repetetive minimalsim ..."
"The Wire" quoted that they are " ...executing a successful cross-polination between the traditional and the experimental with considerable verve".
After releasing their first album, the quartet was touring for several years all over Europe, from Belgrad to Paris, from St.Petersburg to Marseilles. The band found their new home at the British label Leo-Records (a host for artists like Sun Ra, Anthony Braxton, Pago Libre...) which continued to promote the band as a new highlight of the European scene. Being a stringquartet which has influences from punk music as well as from contemporary music, it was always hard to label them. They attracted the audience on avantgarde-festivals, in jazz-, punk- and rockclubs as well as on stages for classical music like Knitting Factory in New York (USA), Club Dom in Moscow (Russia), the RingRing Festival in Belgrade (Serbia and Montenegro), Festival Alternativa in Prague (CZ), the festival Les Nuits Europeennes in Strasbourg (F), Festival des Musiques Innovatrices in Saint Etienne (F), Empty Bottle in Chicago (USA), the Club Worm in Rotterdam (NL) and many more.
Their second cd - "Dip" (released 2002, LEO Records), "features brilliant string playing and arrangements" the Downtown Musicgallery wrote and continued: " What is truly incredible is that this release works as one unified work which unfolds like a story or soundtrack paints scenery and lets the action unfold our (mind's) eye." all about jazz.com published: " these folks have designed a signature style of their own" , " a magical beauty permeates this superb offering!" and "...few have attained the far-reaching realizations that this ensemble brings to the table."
In the year 2003 Jan Kavan (cello) joined Metamorphosis.
Together with him Metamorphosis created a new program and just recently released their third album LUFF, again in cooperation with the renowned British label Leo Records.
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