PANDA RHEI

Panda Rhei is a music project led by Ivan Kolar. What started as an intimate singer-songwriter outlet soon became a musically diverse project built patiently in and out of the studio. The project aimed to combine small and simple musical fragments with big electronic music production and more complex arrangements. The process results in a 10-song album that is energetic and dynamic, filled with narrative and sometimes unarticulated vocals, bright burning guitars, layered synths, and sturdy beats.

The album called ‘Save Your Souls You Fucking Monsters‘ is a collaborative piece between Ivan Kolar and music producer Luka Dabro. The two jointly wrote all the tracks and put the album together bit by piece. The collaboration gave way to an authentic sound on the rock music spectrum by merging different and sometimes opposite principles to songwriting and production. Uncompromisingly, they had to compromise and exchange countless demos before settling on what we can hear now; otherwise, the album would never be finished. We have an alternative but radiophonic rock record leaning on post-punk and indie while maintaining the comprehensive electronic production throughout.