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Using video projection and live instruments (including 10 string touchguitar, keyboards, and electronic percussion) Quodia creates an experience that is part movie, part theatre, and part concert.

Quodia has toured in Russia, Norway, Spain, Italy, Chile,Argentina, Mexico and the USA. Each Quodia show is a little different, with improvisation as built into the score and performance adaptations to the given space and the particular audience.

The new double-disc CD/DVD, "The Arrow", is divided into seven chapters.The CD contains the full piece in audio form, while the DVD adds the visual aspects of the story along with an innovative approach to sound placement in the 5.1 surround sound mixes. In addition, the DVD included a children's audio commentary track (which is a fascinating perspective on the piqued imaginations of our youth when fertilized by modern/ancient storytelling) and special performance-only videos of the "Water Woman" story told in Russian by Regina Spektor and in Spanish by Nadia Valencia Mazuela.

The Arrow weaves an intricate tale with myth-like characters who seem to exist outside of time: A boy who finds a gold hand, a woman who consumes water to her own undoing, a dark presence that builds sculptures in the forest, six plotting birds...

Special guests on the discs include:

Azam Ali

Regina Spektor

Pat Mastelotto (King Crimson, XTC)

Matt Chamberlain (Bill Frissell, Tori Amos)

Dave Revelli

Michele Kinney

Gino Yevjedevich (Kultur Shock)

The music acts as a narcotic. It penetrates you, speakingthe language of orginal symbols and energies.The performance subordinates toitself your thoughts and feelings, conducted by the paths of thesubconsciousness. Inside the mystical cloth of the compositions intertwine thesounds of nature, the timbres of intricate rare Arabic and African tools, andstrange electronics.

-- Rossiya News-Central Artists House Moscow, Russia

On the screen, words arose then vanished, sometimes developed in phrases. Pictures replaced one another: A waving seaweed...a rusty ancient anchor circuit...ominously black lightnings in the bright-red sky... a girl with a violin...such video releases consciousness into free flight...

-- Samara Today - Opera Theater St. Petersburg, Russia



An authentic engagement between the word and the sound;musician and poet were one single voice. A great night and a powerful spectacle.

-- La Nacion -Teatro ND Ateneo -Buenos Aires, Argentina