History Poetic Filharmony

Instrumental jazz fusion formation Poetic Filharmony was founded by Roman Hampacher, a guitarist from Prague, Roman Džačár, a Slovak bass guitarist, and Jan Červenka, a percussionist from Roudnice, in autumn 2004.

It was a love found through advertising. For the first few years, Poetic Filharmony performed as a guitar trio. They could be heard in clubs both in and outside Prague, participated in music competitions and various festivals.

In 2006 they produced their first CD called Űgor Stravinsky, which was well received by both fans and critics. Between 2007 and 2008, Poetic Filharmony performed as a quartet with Slovak keyboard player Matuš Tomek. Their EP Live session, which was released only online, comes from this period.

In the summer of 2009, the original trio Poetic Filharmony, well-rested after a several months' pause, was joined by Martin Cikánek, who brought the idea of playing only a monophone analog synthesizer Minimoog Voyager. This opened new, unthought-of dimensions for Poetic Filharmony.

Poetic Filharmony's music is characterised mainly by wild improvization unrestrained by form, combined with thought-out compositional techniques partly inspired by contemporary classical music (polyrythmic and polytonal forms, musical collage, minimal music, aleatorics). At the base, there is a relentlessly beating rhythm, originating both from jazz rock classics and modern dance styles (e.g., jungle, drum n bass, triphop), surrounded by a solid bigbeat guitar sound. An infinite diversity of sounds from the moog's palette attack from all sides, ranging from classical leads and basses through various modulations and offshoots to utterly abstract and hardly describable sonic creations. Poetic Filharmony like to experiment and search for sounds yet unheard. Clear formalist curtness is as important for them as unstoppably rolling rough sound animality. Poetic Filharmony see their role model in such bands as Tribal Tech, The Zawinul Syndicate, late Miles Davis, Jojo Mayer or Mahavishnu Orchestra in their original lineup with Jan Hammer.

The band split up in 2013 and the founding members now perform as Khaomatic.

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