zykado
Matthias Loibner: hurdy-gurdy, live looping
Tunji Beier: percussion, noise, live looping
Zykado is a friendly game inside and outside the bounds of music. rules: none.
In playful experiments with musical and emotional parameters Matthias Loibner and Tunji Beier achieve a multilayered simultaneity of sounds, styles and feelings.
Fragility and hardness, acoustic and electronic meet organically in the archaic-modern sounds of the hurdy-gurdy, drums, stones and bells.
Tunji Beiers roots are african (Yoruba), southindian and jazz, Matthias Loibner studied classical and traditional european and african (Buganda) music. The essence of these experiences is source for zykado.
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Matthias Loibner and Tunji Beier have worked together since 1995 in various projects in Europe and Australia with deishovida, Linsey Pollak, Ross Daly the Sandy Lopiæiæ Orkestar and others. The geographical distance from Weststeiermark to the Sunshine Coast Hinterland could neither affect their musical exchange nor their friendship.