Zopar recenzii na Jamka, Pari Passu CD, nech je to uz pohromade ;)
http://urbsounds.sk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=189&Itemid=17




Recenzia na Pari Passu na SoundProjectore:
http://www.thesoundprojector.com/2012/01/14/rest-from-breathing/

Step we gaily, on we go
The Slovakian electronics duo Jama first came our way with a blistering LP in 2008, and continue to operate the Urbsounds Collective label to showcase their work and that of like-minded noise-punk techno beasts of Eastern Europe. Very encouraging to see they’ve got a release on the high-class Belgian label Sub Rosa as part of that label’s New Series Framework. Pari Passu (SUB ROSA SR333) is eight tracks of new work fashioned using their very intuitive, primitive and enthusiastic approach to working with synths and samplers, and each track occupies a twilight zone between tabletop noise music and whatever species of blackened techno dance music is played in underground nightclubs at 5AM in the seediest part of a pitiless urban zone, for the entertainment of futuristic vacant-eyed outcasts. Jamka have dazzled us before with their speedy and off-kiltre rhythms, but what I like so far about Pari Passu is its general slowness, many tracks emerging as a turgid electronic dirge and stumbling out of the tarpits like a new-born sabretooth tiger with tusks made of lava and whose rear end happens to be that of a young woolly mammoth. The title’s meaning, helpfully translated on the back cover, is “with an equal step”, and although Monika Subrtova and Daniel Korda are totally in step with each other as musicians, successfully anticipating each other’s every thought and move, what emerges is something that you or I would struggle to engage with at a walking pace, let alone when wearing our dancing shoes. One personal favourite here is the six-minute ‘Sland’, a grisly excursion from one end of an oil can to the other, punctuated with a deliciously clunky and racketty metal-drum beat that barely passes muster as a backbeat. You may also enjoy ‘Zyren’ where the dense and thick rhythm tracks form a tasty counterpoint to the more subtle toplines, which veer from wispy atmospheres to the drones of soaring helicopters on the attack. ‘Dashla’ shows the duo have lost none of their élan when it comes to piling up renegade elements on the mixing desk of chaos until the situation is on the verge of teetering out of control, and there’s even some melodic piano patches and synth tones drifting through the final track ‘Elma’, but even with this attempt at a John Carpenter soundtrack the album’s overall caste of gloom and anxiety is not dissipated by one iota. As cover photo demonstrates, this is an album that can induce a howl of anguish while at the same time it delivers a punch as solidly as Monika’s fist.




Recenzia na Pari Passu na blog.monsieurdelire:
http://blog.monsieurdelire.com/2011/11/normal-0-0-1-997-5685-47-11-6981-11.html

JAMKA / Pari Passu (Sub Rosa - merci à/thanks to Forced Exposure)
Numéro 10 dans la “New Series Framework” de Sub Rosa. Jamka est un duo originaire de Slovaquie, mais maintenant établi à Londres. Pari Passu, leur quatrième album est tout simplement remarquable. À l’aide de synthétiseurs, de séquenceurs et d’échantillonneurs, Monika Subrtova et Daniel Kordik bâtissent des compositions audacieuses qui empruntent à la kosmiche musik, au krautrock, à la techno gothique, à l’industriel et au bruitisme. Mélodies répétitives, rythmes déglingués, déferlements électroniques - ce disque offre tout ça, ensemble, et laisse à l’auditeur le soin d’en tirer un sens. Pensez à Emeralds en moins lysergique ou à Oneohtrix Point Never en moins nombriliste. [Ci-dessous: Deux extraits à écouter sur cette page.]
Number 10 in Sub Rosa’s “New Series Framework.” Jamka is a duo from Slovakia, though now residing in London. Pari Passu is their fourth album, and it is quite remarkable. Using synthesizers, sequencers and samplers, Monika Subrtova and Daniel Kordik are building bold compositions borrowing from kosmische musik, krautrock, Gothic techno, industrial, and noise music. Repetitive melodies, haphazard beats, wild flurries of noise – this album has it all and puts it all together, letting the listener draw meaning from the heap. Think Emeralds without the psychedelia, or a less self-centred Oneohtrix Point Never. [Below: Listen to two audio clips on this page.]
http://subrosa.itcmedia.net/en/catalogue/new-series-framework/jamka.html




Recenzia na Pari Passu na YellowGreenRed:
http://www.yellowgreenred.com/?p=4209

If you’re a social person, and you live near an art space that puts on occasional noise shows, I can guarantee that in the past five years you’ve seen some person or group perform in the style of Jamka. Electronics are fun to torture (it’s not like they can fight back), so plenty of folks have been abusing synths, drum machines and other electronic instruments without retribution, particularly in recent times. Jamka aren’t particularly great at it, but they’re no slouches, either – this is disjointed mutant techno that grew from a Wolf Eyes bacteria sample. It’s all pretty slow-going for the first few songs, but as the album winds down, Jamka make good on the rhythmic end of things, offering music that could conceivably be danced to. Not sure how many CDs you can sell of this sort of thing, the market being what it is, but Jamka are cool and I have enjoyed my time with Pari Passu. I swear this sort of music has replaced monetary currency deep within some of Baltimore and Providence’s squat-houses – I’d probably trade a grilled cheese or some new shoelaces for a solid Jamka jam.