khoma - tsunami

.:: Khoma is yet another bastard child of Umeå's raging music scene. Founded in 2002, the members have known each other for years- sharing dreams, rehearsal rooms, vans and a musical kindship that has survived the birth and death of a thousand bands.
Anything but a conventional band, Khoma is a few friends sharing a musical and political vision. Khoma is what won't fit the frame. A crashing wave of angst, desperation, anger and beautiful love.

Despite starting as a side project originally, a few months in things were beginning to take off for the band. A limited 1000-disc run of debut album Tsunami was released and quickly sold out. It was reprinted and quickly sold out again.

Without having signed a record deal, Khoma started to work on the follow-up to Tsunami. In creating their most recent music, the band have broadened their perspective and introduced new elements; most notably cello and piano.

It seems like an incompatible alliance. Members of musically divided bands such as Cult of Luna, The Perishers, Scared, Refused and Plastic Pride merge togheter in a reheasal room. Solid darkness meets melodious sadness, musical precision and the creative forces of anarchist politics.

Brutality and tender frailty surrounded by four walls – but there is a theme: Koma is a breathing space where the different styles fuse, says the band´s singer Jan Jämte. We have a vision of creating heavy music that reflects more feelings than sheer aggression. Sometimes whispering can be more powerful than screaming. The debut album from the band now known as Khoma, this is as big and brilliant as the Roadrunner follow up “Second Wave”.

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