PRESS QUOTES
“PHH!K” go the critics
| “This is experimental music in the best possible sense, with compositions that are made from previously unheard-of combinations of tones and textures. There’s an otherworldly quality to it as well, especially when the performers build slippery, pulsating banks of theremin-generated sine waves. But what distinguishes phh!k from other academic electronic acts is its earthiness...The disc is marvellous and the concert was too... the event was like stumbling into a small college theatre and discovering Björk or Laurie Anderson in full flight: phh!k’s that challenging, accomplished, and funny.” Alexander Varty Georgia Straight, Vancouver |
“I sorta hated Songs the first few times I listened to it, but it grew on me after a while. The trick is to imagine them as goofy nerds having fun and not take it too seriously. Phh!k have what some might call a populist approach to experimental music, drawing from jazz and pop and borrowing certain elements from DJ culture. The disparate influences mesh better than you'd think...” |
“Composers Peter Hannan (Vancouver) and Henry Kucharzyk (Toronto) play an array of wibbly, wobbly and funky electronic devices and write music that fuses the classically based art song with IDM...The sonic textures are consistently inventive (even more so on the bonus quadraphonic DVD)... wonderfully original music...” eye magazine, Toronto “The recorded sound is beautiful, sheer and pristine, and it flows around your speakers and in your ears triggering vivid fantasies of imagination. Makes the band in the intergalactic biker bar in Star Wars sound like a primary school kazoo ensemble.” Stephen Pedersen, Halifax |
" Phh!k is a total delight to listen to. It is easy to lose yourself in these fantasy landscapes. Highly recommended for anyone whose brain has not yet ossified into stiff resistance to anything new." Halifax Sunday Herald |
“...the work was a sonic journey along a screaming freeway with stops at a ‘70s style disco, an african festival, a middle eastern bazaar, and a bump and grind palace. So what was it all about? Phh!k beats me...Whatever it was , it gave me a lift, and it made me laugh.” Georgia Straight |