Preaching their sonic gospel in european venues for more than 10 years, ITHAK (Institut Techno Harmonique d’Accordage Kosmique) distills a multilingual fusion based on psychedelic rock, dub, Turkish-pop, industrial music, jazz...
Created in 2005, the band is composed of globe-trotter, composer and multi-instrumentist Seb El Zin, and musicians bred in the worldwide sound system. Together, they aim at inventing the new century’s music.
ITHAK draws its inspiration from all kinds of music : traditional, classical, electronic , international pop , but also from literature: Orwell, Burroughs, surrealist poetry...
From an album to the other, the band reinvents itself, challenges meanings, and offers a journey into today’s music – a sound that is emancipated, cosmopolitan, poetic and often militant.
Sharp texts, unexpected melodies, heavy bass played on baritone saxophone and punchy drums are the key to this organic maelstrom that gives rise to a new, unclassifiable and borderless sound.
« In my whole life as a musician, I’ve never heard anything like this !!!! ITHAK don’t imitate anybody and nobody can imitate them !!! THIS is tomorrow’s music ! Thanks guys, you exploded music’s boundaries… It’s unique »
Felix Sabal-Lecco sur myspace (drummer – Prince, Jeff Beck, Peter Gabriel, Herbie Hancock…)
« Very original and quite avant-garde »
Steve Hillage (Gong, System 7…)
« Complex trippy grooves, skillful psychedelism, rage, sweat, Dada, Zappa and French prose…I vote ITHAK… »
Chassol
