Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer

Stevan Kovacs Tickmayer: Repetitive Selective Removal of One Protecting Group

by Matt Cibula
December 2, 2005

I have no idea what's going on here, but I kind of like it.

Steven Kovacs Tickmayer is a Hungarian multi-instrumentalist and composer from Yugoslavia who now lives in France, but mostly he appears to be a musical provocateur. This album features 21 short, weird pieces that combine jazz, avant-classical, ambient, rock, and electronic musics, jumbled all up together so that you can't tell what you are hearing. Some of it is old (Tickmayer was a founder of Science Group), ...