Kee Avil + Aki Traar

Kee Avil balances between experiment and pop – he combines guitar, voice and electronics into fragile, disturbing avant-pop songs, while Aki Traar mixes avant-pop, distorted guitars and club energy into emotional, pulsating songs that he will present together with the band in Nova Cvernovka.

Kee Avil moves on the border between experiment and pop, songs and surfaces. He combines guitar, voice, electro-acoustic and electronic production to create songs that teeter on the edge of collapse. Her music carries a feeling for avant-pop, glitch and experimental folk - intimate yet disturbing, fragile and raw industrial. Her debut album Crease (Constellation, 2022) immediately gained critical attention. Bandcamp Daily named it Album of the Day - "Kee Avil has created a debut full of diabolical creative energy, filled with uniquely subtle horrors." Kee Avil confirmed her position as a prominent personality of experimental songwriting with the album Spine (Constellation, 2024) and the current album Vapor. The latter is being released on the New York label NNA Tapes during this year - gradually, song by song, as a sound diary that captures fleeting moments of creativity.

Aki Traar is an Austrian producer, composer and sound designer, who today profiles himself primarily as a writer of avant-pop songs, in which he organically combines his past in deconstructed club, industrial and theater sound design with the aesthetics of indie sleaze and songwriting. form. His current work is more straightforward, but still full of detailed work with sound - distorted guitars, digital noises, layered beats and raw emotionality meet in songs that have a clear structure, but at the same time retain an experimental edge. After years of producing club tracks (debut at Ashida Park) and composing for the theater, he moved to songwriting, which immediately found a place in the radio charts. His latest album Hound represents a sensitive yet determined avant-pop arc – from intimate, introspective moments with an autobiographical charge to euphoric, urgent anthems driven by distorted guitars and pulsating energy.