Expression and abstraction are the common threads running through tonight’s four performances. Perceptive music that moves and stirs up the audience, its primary concern is to explore unusual musical structures. Zavoloka offers stumbling, unpredictable poly-rhythmics coupled with warped sonic objects, somewhere between Noise and Melodic: an unstable and unwieldy sound in permanent transition. Is it the reflection of fleeting impressions or the attempt to take stock of a persona that is always in flux? Complex rhythmics also from Apparat, whose clicking, crackling beats fuse with the overwhelming melancholy of their background melodies to create fantastic Pop arrangements. Benzo combines constant electronic beats and noises with elements drawn from the Russian folklore that haunts his minimal compositions, making them a seismograph of Russian sensibilities. Dark audio miniatures conjure up a train-ride through the wastes of Siberia, Moscow’s choking petrol fumes or a lonely travelling salesman, drowning his sorrows in Vodka. Finally, the outbreak and the taming of chaos with Kill’s Abstract Death Metal: the four soloists’ passion for raising anarchistic hell combines with their seriously concerted musical precision. Expect high velocity sparks! Deathly outbreaks of energy that are then roped back in – Anger Management.