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Artist
Luarvik Luarvik
12+ albums
Progressive rockexperimentalFusionestonianEesti
about
In the summer of 1998 Mihkel Kleis and Andres Lõo, both students of the Estonian Academy of Arts, decided to form a rock band as they needed to "experiment beyond boundaries of genres”. Luarvik Luarvik hao wave, spacerock and basically everything that has never cared to explain their message although it is obviously not plain arty-*arty "reflecting the cosmic unity in our souls" or scarcely the highbrow “deterritorialized mediums after the mirror phase”. Their musical background can be associated with various schools of avantrock rooted back in the early seventies, modern postrock, ns happened during the last 40 years in experimental music. But all this is just a stepping stone in creating their own unique vision. Some characteristics: dramatic, harsh, energizing, dynamic, playful, sarcastic, provocative... The name Luarvik Luarvik was taken from an Estonian sci-fi cult thriller "Hotel of the Perished Alpinist" based on brothers Strugatskis´ novel where Luarvik L. Luarvik was a charming alien pilot who was trapped in a malfunctioning human body. This serves as a metaphor for the band’s music as well because Luarvik Luarvik sounds just like if a bunch of aliens from outer space would interpret and mix pop music clichés from the past and the future in their own sophisticated way. In 2000 Luarvik Luarvik released their first demo album "Baltic Station Session". It was a documentation of their first period as the bass-synth-drums trio playing retrodelic synth-pop lo-fi garage
