Speak Your Body, by Rok Zalokar

Speak Your Body

by Rok Zalokar

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1.	Doors and Staircases of Perception 05:07	buy track
2.	Back Pocket 02:17	buy track
3.	Emotional Blanket 05:59	buy track
4.	Racoon Hymn 03:15	buy track
5.	Keep Up the Good Work 02:30	buy track
6.	Eleusinian 04:25	buy track
7.	Samurai Groove 02:54	buy track
8.	I Can See Why That Guy Gets Into a Lot of Trouble 03:35	buy track
9.	Dualogue 02:26	buy track
10.	Can We Try Something Else 01:02	buy track
11.	Sidereal Time 02:52	buy track
12.	People Laugh at You, But You Just Smile 04:06	buy track
13.	Before the Word 04:27	buy track
14.	Restart the Pulse 03:18	buy track
15.	Mathenesserweg 03:31	buy track
16.	Gotta 03:59	buy track
17.	McBeing 03:11	buy track
18.	Reverse the Past 01:27	buy track
19.	Shadow of Emily 04:00	buy track
20.	Speak Your Body 06:54	buy track

about

Rok Zalokar (pianist / composer / producer) is an integral part of the Ljubljana jazz scene. He led his jazz piano trio for a decade, experimenting with the Zhlehtet collective while continuing to develop a personalised solo piano expression, this recently culminated in the release of a solo pipe organ album ‘Spaces VIII’.

Now he presents his debut electroacoustic album 'Speak your body' - 20 tracks made between 2019 and 2021. The material comes from different sources; sound sculpting, beat making, spontaneous sessions with friends and moments of exploration with a given instrument, which he connects with a surrealist cut-up narrative. The album has a strong foundation in synths and piano sounds but each song features different instrumentation, modern orchestration, jazz solos, field recordings and vocals that appear as an inner-voice.
There is an improvisational approach injected into this of which the complexity of free improv moments are left unedited. Added layerings act as an additional stimulus to underline the idea of every song and connect these with the rich sonic landscape. Topics range from childhood memories, body / mind duality, reflections of emotional pain and the idea of this music serving as an archive of moods and thoughts that can translate to others.

“This album was a personal search to unify my expressions and bridge the gap between improvised and produced music. For me all these different expressions naturally interact, but it's much harder to create a coherent work from them. Do we accept the beautiful complexity of the moment or is there a way to carry the change with us and let it grow?”

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released May 6, 2022

Composed, mixed & produced by Rok Zalokar
Executive Producer - Alastair McNeill

Viola on tracks 1,4 by Peter Ugrin
Drums on track 3, 9, 11, 14, 17, 20 by Žiga Smrdel
Drums on track 1, 2, by Elvis Homan
Strings on track 8, 17 by Nina Pečar
Saxophone on track 2, 5, 7, 19 and modular synth on track 7, 16 by Boštjan Simon
Percussions on track 6, 15 by Alja Petric

Mastered by Alastair McNeill @ Nature Scene Studios

Artwork by Blaž Rojs

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Rok Zalokar Ljubljana, Slovenia

Pianist/composer/producer from Slovenia, solo piano & pipe organ, electroacoustic production, leading Zhlehtet collective, is a half of hiphop-noise duo Million Ear.

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