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International Festivals:
Audio Art ( Seoul, Korea) ....SKIF (St Petersburg)... DOM ( Moscow)... Moers ( Germany)... Dour ( Belgium ) ... Unlimited ( Austria )... Mulhouse ( France) State X New Forms ( Den Haag, NL) ... Rumor ( Tillburg, NL ) ...Musique Actuelle ( St Etienne ), Bad Bonn Kilbi ( Dudingen, CH ), Beta Festival ( Pau, France, Zu & Peter Brotzmann )... Alternativa (Praha, Czech rep )... No-Fi ( Newcastle, UK ) Zedno Uho (Zagreb , Croatia)... Vimmel 02 ( Lund, Sweden)... Skrite note ( Maribor, Slovenja)...Audio Art ( Krakow, Poland)... Belluard Contemporary Art, ( Freiburg CH, with MegaZu orchestra) , Graz Jazz ( Austria ) ... Ljubliana Jazz ( Slovenia) Vooruit ( Gent, Belgium ) ... Kortrjk ( Belgium)... RingRing ( Beograd, Yugoslavia)... Recyclart ( Bruxelles, Belgium) ... Ghost Days ( Italy) ... Traffic ( Italy) .... Musica 90 (Italy) ... Arezzo Wave ( Italy) ... Tora Tora ( Italy) ... Cave Sonore ( Italy) ... Newton ( Italy)... Eurojazz ( Italy) ...
".. short and sharp and ultra precise, like Naked City playing the Ruins but the feeling here is free and wild. So fucking great!" -- AQUARIUS RECORDS
" ...unembellished, raucous, and exceptional." -- Allaboutjazz
" This collaboration proves, upon first listen, to be some of the most innovative, evocative instrumental music to be found anywhere." -- Just Add Noise
"... right when you think there's "nothing new under the sun", right then the real outsider comes out with something great and unexpected." -- www.chaindlk.com
"But what really makes Zu break from the norm is its readiness to wrangle around a song, articulate it with strings at fucked-up angles and go beyond the symplistic take on chunk-based music. Go and grab it now!" -- Helder Gomes, LAS magazine
"Never has such an ugly beauty of a free-for-all sounded so appealing, so dynamic, so completely, mind-numbingly delightful. Since there has been nothing like it since Last Exit, it's irresistible, addictive, and perhaps even evil! -- ALLMUSIC
"Zu prove that, like the best of the purveyors of what we call "post rock," music, when pushed to its boundaries, needn't fit the standard "songwriting" template to grab you by the ears and shake you." -- Tinymixtapes
"...combining the abstractions of Sonic Youth with the out-there explorations of the best free jazz" -- THE TIMES
"They are the Melvins of funk. Zu have discovered a profound realm of phrasal abstraction and timbral nuance by slowing the music down to an abject crawl where the ugliest sound can become an oasis of motion." -- Downtown Music Gallery
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