THE EVPATORIA REPORT

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THE EVPATORIA REPORT formed in 2002 in Yverdon-les-Bains located in the French speaking Vaud region of Switzerland. The band was active from 2002-2008 but broke up and then reformed in 2015 and is still together. This band consists of two guitarists (Laurent Quint, Simon Robert), one bassist (David Di Lorenzo), a drummer / glockenspiel player (Fabrice Berney) and another member (Daniel Bacsinszky) who double dips as a keyboardist and violinist. The moniker was adopted from the Crimean city of Yevpatoria which is where the radio telescope RT-70 P-2500 is located. The purpose of this large apparatus is to send messages into space.

The purpose of the band THE EVPATORIA REPORT however is to deliver a unique sound of post-rock that creates hypnotic polyrhythmic syncopated guitar riffs and layers them into ever increasing tempos while the bass and drums keep the melodic flow churning on. This eponymously titled EP debut only contained two tracks neither of which have been released on the band's two albums 'Golevka' or 'Maar.' The EP is only sixteen and a half minutes long but delivers a fine mix of guitar, bass and drum oriented post-rock with violin. As the references to space hint upon, this band is indeed spacey.

'Naptalan' is the simpler of the two tracks with a single guitar building up the melodic construct while a bass slower jumps in and then a drumbeat. This track reminds me a lot of the Mogwai playbook in that it slowly builds off of a guitar riff and adds ever increasing subtleties until a crescendo occurs minutes down the road. Unlike Mogwai, THE EVPATORIA REPORT likes to implement a more robust percussive display and a broader range of sounds as the guitar strums change it up as do the bass lines and drumming patterns. On this track there are very faint keyboard sounds in the background that add a bit of classical J.S. Bach baroque sounds to the mix.

'Voskhod Project' is the longer of the two tracks and starts with a jittery echoplex of guitars that usher in a boomy bass and strong cymbal action. This reminds me of some of the techniques used on the Buckethead Pikes but this band came first. This is the more bombastic of the two as it picks up the tempo and the guitars create super fast staccato polyrhythms while the drums and bass pound away. Heavy electric guitars also employ a distorted filthy rock feel but when the melancholic violin joins in the guitars slow down almost as if they're weeping. The track at nine and a half minutes long slowly builds but does it very well. This band is much more varied than Mogwai even though that band is the closest reference i can hear. Definitely one for the post-rockers who love more emotion pouring out of their speakers.

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