Sekta Phoenixa

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Секта Феникса [Sekta Phoenixa], The Sect of the Phoenix Location: Tomsk Years active: 1999 – 2003 Styles: post-industrial, noise-improv, techno-punk, dark folk, post-rock Sekta Phoenixa, a musical & extra-musical formation, arose in Tomsk in 1999 and dissolved in 2003. The name was taken after a Jorge Luis Borges’ short story describing a secret society, the members of which, “indistinguishable from the rest of the world”, had nothing in common, neither language nor memory – nothing but “the Secret”, constituted of a trivial rite, – “the Secret”, which was sacred and ridiculous at the same time. Sekta Phoenixa, having initially started as a noise-improvisational, cold sounding techno-punk band, shortly developed into a form of musical, artistic, poetical, and even social and religious experiment. The key ideas of musical and extra-musical activities of the Sect were spontaneity, impersonality and ambiguity; the output of these activities was an intersection of sound and textual series, and their process had the moment for its element. Avoiding any predetermination or program, as well as any apparent leadership, and being open to miscellaneous chance factors, the Sect produced mostly improvised music, which could vary stylistically from minimalistic or meditative ambient pieces to industrial mixed with some avant-jazz elements, and from brutal noise – especially live – to dark folk songs, and to “post-rock” of sorts (in a broad sense) – or, trying to say it more definitel

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