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ZERO KAMA (AT)
Zero Kama, the musical solo project of Zoe Dewitt, has become famous in the 1980s with “The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H.”, an occult concept album recorded exclusively with instruments made from human bones and skulls. From 2015 Zoe prepared for a relaunch of Zero Kama, and in 2022, after almost 40 years of silence, celebrated their comeback at a New York City noise festival. The concept of this new manifestation of Zero Kama still remains strictly defined: Zoe uses for her music exclusively samples from the 1984 recordings of “The Secret Eye of L.A.Y.L.A.H.”, thus maintaining the essential Zero Kama sound which is now processed by modular synthesis. While the rhythms of skull drums are boosted to fast techno beats and the buzz of a bone oboe is transformed into acid-like basslines, more or less recognizable tunes of old Zero Kama tracks alternate with new decompositions of a rather harsh and experimental nature. Live visuals generated by video synthesis complete Zero Kama’s evocation of a multi-layered magical universe that draws from the dark realms of the underworld and emanates in strange atavisms and libidinous obsessions of a self-pleasuring ego that realizes itself in the endless diversity of existence.