3 + 2 + 2 = 6: May 2009

Sunday, May 31, 2009

"One of the musical editions that is worth to be mentioned is the second album “Izohronija” of the Macedonian five piece band, String Forces. “Izohronija” is taken as a base of its originality and sound phantasmagoria, which separates them from the rest, even in wider fields.
In this second appearance, offering 13 compositions, String Forces makes step forward, evolutionary, do not remain immune of the infection, which in wide fields, in the years behind, is developing in two directions: revival of the origins and implementation of any compatible electronic sound. Different than some other musical formations, the synthesis and directions of String Forces, speaking for their revivals of the traditional sound, are wide in matter of influences, at the same time making attempt to insert sound fragments that belong at the musical traditions from “the rest of the world”. Electronic sound is also present in this edition, and it is some kind of refreshment that gives completely different look than the expected. The hide sensual motives in composition and often in the text, had the purpose to explain everyday events, offering in the same time identification for the listener, or start from the same experience, with the same conciseness’, but leaving the area immediate.
”Izohronija” is a conceptually different from the first album, not becouse of the instruments, which gives special mark for the acoustic, direction and for the energy, but also becouse of the language. In some sensual way they import their first ideas from six years ago" .
P+C 2003 PROFUNDUS
TINA IVANOVA

String Forces "String Forces" [1998]

“String Forces” can be realized as a soundtrack for some vanguard movie which never had been recorded. No matter where the music begins- from the art- rock tension of “ Lateral Fight” or from the funk speech of “ Levitate” , always develops in some sonic paint book which tells story, the story of the strings. The enumeration of the tracks and the cooperation between the instruments ( including vocals) are just confirming this feeling. Pay attention to the relation between introduction with “ Sensi” and concluding with “ TranceG”. The first is like introduction before the movie title- short, focused and strong as a slap which takes your attention at once. Second, is a long, chaotic and tensed till the end when the duel between distorted guitar of Saso Trendafilovski and the aggressive violin of Alfrida Tozieva, will announce the status quo situation of the disentanglement…”
P+C 1998 PROFUNDUS
fragment by IVICA DUKOVSKI