Terrible chaos

In Russia, there are tours of the Swiss team KaOS Protokoll , which combines a free jazz with a punk-and generally with everything she wants.

“I had a terrible chaos in my head,” the bassist Benedict Viland admits. “I thought something like:“ Damn, how can I combine all these ideas, well, you know, all this music, what I hear? ” This is one of the reasons that my group is called Kaos Protokoll : our compositions are the result of a chaotic creative process. When we worked on them, we were often so fond of that we were generally losing a sense of direction. Therefore, I usually say that this project is something like a playground for us. ”

A tight dinner and a light breakfast are found on the same plate.

In fact, the music of Kaos Protokoll is a game. She has no transcendental or political goals, which often she has a related freest and its derivatives. Its rhythmic complexity and polystylistic sulfate are dictated primarily by the pleasure that the musicians receive from overcoming their own erected obstacles. The technical fueling of these Swiss people is such that commercial jazz, rock, funk or hip-hop, which they are engaged in their other projects, they can not play that they cannot realize all their potential in these contexts. In general, Udal's young man does not give rest, hands itch - so such a complicated environment is born, for the existence in which a well -known dexterity is required. The compositions of Kaos Protokoll are like a field for playing classics (all on the same “playground”), but drawn so that the musicians often have to walk in their arms and ride a wheel.

Kaos Protokoll - Live At Cully Jazz 2012

It is not surprising that one of his main characters Viland calls John Zorn, a well -known adherent of game improvisational music. His name is even placed in the tags field on the Kaos Protokoll , the Frank Frank, Secret Chiefs 3 , the Ribot Ceramic Dog and The Bad Plus ) group. I would suggest that the name of one of the compositions of the Trio, “Scharmützel” , in which the ironic SKA is crowned with a free-jazz finger, refers us to one of the most famous albums of Zorn- “The Big Gundown” . But what's the matter.

The compositions of Kaos Protokoll are like a field for playing classics, but drawn so that musicians have to walk in their arms.

If we assume that in the rapid shifts of styles and combination of Naked City incompatible on the albums of the Zornov group, the frantic speed of life and the information overload of New York were reflected, the following question arises. Where does all the same features in the music of the inhabitants of Switzerland, a country that - thanks - from afar seems to be a harmonious combination of alpine meadows, satisfied cows, elite chocolate and the most reliable army knives, banks and watches in the world? The contradiction is removed if we recall that KaOS is not somewhere, but in the heads and that for its occurrence, for example, a stable connection to the Internet, which, with certain tendencies, guarantees an excess of musical files on a hard drive.

The only KaOS Protokoll album is called “Quick & Dirty” and opens with a track called “Poulet Mit Joghurt” : a tight dinner and a light breakfast are found on the same plate, jazz turns a punk (and a jazz and a jazz again). In such a combination at first glance, alien elements are the whole essence of the music of these Swiss. There is something in this from children's table experiments like mixing in one glass of different soda varieties and to separate and choose a children's refusal when it comes to pleasures. Like adolescents, jamming with potatoes Free, Kaos Protokoll have found a way to combine all the things that they love. Their musical credo was quite accurately formulated by one omnivorous hero of the cartoon: "both of them, and you can without bread."