Kaburu
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Kaburu is a Swedish
Sweden
Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 free improvisation duo that was formed in 2004 by the multi-instrumentalist
Multi-instrumentalist
A multi-instrumentalist is a musician who plays a number of different instruments.The Bachelor of Music degree usually requires a second instrument to be learned , but people who double on another instrument are not usually seen as multi-instrumentalists.-Classical music:Music written for Symphony...

 Thomas Toivonen
Thomas Toivonen
Thomas Toivonen is a Sweden-Finnish free jazz guitarist and a multi-instrumentalist whose improvisational method is heavily influenced by Lennie Tristano and his followers in New York.Thomas was born in Skutskär, Sweden by Finnish immigrants in 1974...

 and the percussionist/actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

 Iggy Malmborg. According to them, 'Kaburu is a direct (re)action on the world that surrounds them and their musical expression is an attempt to go beyond the confinements of civilized behavior
Behavior
Behavior or behaviour refers to the actions and mannerisms made by organisms, systems, or artificial entities in conjunction with its environment, which includes the other systems or organisms around as well as the physical environment...

'. They are both outspoken critiques of civilization
Civilization
Civilization is a sometimes controversial term that has been used in several related ways. Primarily, the term has been used to refer to the material and instrumental side of human cultures that are complex in terms of technology, science, and division of labor. Such civilizations are generally...

.

Their main musical influences are free jazz
Free jazz
Free jazz is an approach to jazz music that was first developed in the 1950s and 1960s. Though the music produced by free jazz pioneers varied widely, the common feature was a dissatisfaction with the limitations of bebop, hard bop, and modal jazz, which had developed in the 1940s and 1950s...

, the European free improvisation
Free improvisation
Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any rules beyond the logic or inclination of the musician involved. The term can refer to both a technique and as a recognizable genre in its own right....

 scene, noise
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...

 and post-hardcore
Post-hardcore
Post-hardcore is a genre of music that developed from hardcore punk, itself an offshoot of the broader punk rock movement. Like post-punk, post-hardcore is a term for a broad constellation of groups...

. They have made one official release on the Swedish internet label Hwem
Hwem
Hwem is a Swedish netlabel dedicated to drone, noise and avantgarde/experimental music.The artists on Hwem are: Militant Fields, Sekvens, Martin Herterich, Tsukimono, Dead Letters Spell Out Dead Words, Kaburu and We Were Dancing....

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The music of Kaburu have been played on Anarchy
Anarchy
Anarchy , has more than one colloquial definition. In the United States, the term "anarchy" typically is meant to refer to a society which lacks publicly recognized government or violently enforced political authority...

 Radio http://greenanarchy.org/index.php?action=radio with John Zerzan
John Zerzan
John Zerzan is an American anarchist and primitivist philosopher and author. His works criticize agricultural civilization as inherently oppressive, and advocate drawing upon the ways of life of prehistoric humans as an inspiration for what a free society should look like...

in Eugene, Oregon.
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