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Joan Silver Pin - Chiaroscuro (R.A.I.G.)
Joan Silver Pin is an experimental electro-acoustic / jazz fusion band from Moscow, with core members also active in other bands. While "jazz fusion" usually results in a mental alarm blaring off in my head, this album couldn't be further away from the pompous noodlings that the tag might evoke. This is gorgeous and seductive music that shape-shifts from post-rock to electronic ambient to jazz, but cleverly enough to avoid the pitfalls of a confused mish-mash of genres. The arrangements are atypical but never aimless, and the combination of electronics, female vocalizations and traditional instruments (namely the trumpet) inspired and carefully crafted. In short, a great reward for adventurous ears courtesy of RAIG.
(CD, multi-paneled sleeve, out of stock)
[ experimental ]
Kryptogen Rundfunk & Hladna - Rokton & Formanta (Zhelezobeton)
Label info: "Hladna and Kryptogen Rundfunk - behind these names stand two St. Petersburg-based musicians playing experimental noise music. They both nourish a tender passion for old electronic instruments and often use them at their concerts and on recordings. One warm sunny day they gathered and decided to play on two analogue rhythm synthesizers "Rokton" and "Formanta". These are actually two identical instruments which were produced in the Soviet Union by two different factories. Each of them is the "brain" for electronic drum-kit, but can also be used separately - as a multi-channel tone-noise-generator or rhytm-machine.
Kryptogen Rundfunk used his device smoothly, evenly and calmly while Hladna expelled from his more sharp and unpredictable sounds. Worth mentioning are Hladna's non-standard ways of making sound - on the last two tracks he opened the back plate of his synth and played not only using knobs but also getting inside and abridging contacts with his own hands (for which he was incidentally struck by the current a couple of times).
Live recording without any processing, with all it's natural crackles and tasty overloads. Abstract electronics, minimalism and a little noise."
(3"CD-R in mini-gatefold sleeve, $7.00)
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[ analog electronics ] [ experimental ] [ minimal electronics ]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum - Tuntury (Aquarellist)
New 2009 release from St Petersburg's finest purveyor of shamanistic ambient. Psychedelic drones, rustling bells and clear melodic tones are overlaid over natural field recordings of rain, crackling fire and bird calls, but the more animated pace of these 6 tracks makes for an active hallucinatory listening experience rather than a strictly laid-back "ambient" affair.
For this release, Evgeny Savenko was joined by M.M. of Zhelezobeton / Kryptogen Rundfunk on processed guitars, synths and tapes.
(CD, digisleeve, $14.00)
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[ ambient ] [ esoteric ] [ experimental ] [ field recordings ]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum - Snovidenie (BioSonar Labirint)
First full-length CD album from the new incarnation of the long-active St Petersburg project known as Lunar Abyss Quartet. The material presented here is in the vein of the Brusnika 7" released on Drone Records and the Sleeping in the Sleep mini-album, with a similarly haunting and ethereal atmosphere. Ritual percussion, traditional Russian folk instruments and field recordings come together to form these incantations for forest spirits over a background of hazy drones and discreet electronics. A personal favorite that comes highly recommended.
Each copy comes in a different hand-made cardboard package.
(CD, hand-made cardboard sleeve, $14.50)
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[ dark ambient ] [ esoteric ] [ experimental ] [ field recordings ] [ ritual ]
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum - Uzor (Biosonar Labirint)
The third CD release from LADO gathers compilation and EP tracks from 2002-2004 (namely the tracks featured on "Heilige Feuer III", "Thalamus II", the "Holy Mother Russia" LP on Steinklang, "Listopad Vot On" and the "Brusnika" Drone Records 7-inch).
A perfect entry point for those uninitiated to Lunar Abyss Deus Organum, and a much needed compendium of particularly strong material for those already entranced by Evgeny Savenko's works.
(CD, handmade sleeve with color print, $15.00)
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[ ambient ] [ esoteric ] [ experimental ]
Magicicada - Everyone is Everyone (Public Guilt)
Label info: "Everyone is Everyone is an organic, experimental work that blends traditional, as well as folk and eastern instruments with found objects, samplers and field recordings to create a work that varies from delicate, cinematic soundscapes to harsh electronic environments. The instrumentation includes (but is not limited to): pump organ, voice, contact mics on faulty electrical lines, melodica, toys, iron balls rolling on wooden floors, accordion, cellophane, air cans, tape decks for the blind, guitar, shruti box, MARTA (Atlanta’s public transit), synths, oven door (percussion,) cellos, zurna, paper, frogs in the backyard, and the remains of Hurricane Denis shaking the roof."
(CD, Arigato pak with inserts, $7.00, on sale, last copy)
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[ experimental ] [ field recordings ]
Mattias Frisk - Ett Liv I Väntan På Döden (Self-released)
Second part of what is announced as a trilogy of releases by Swedish artist Mattias Frisk, whose eerie and colorful paintings and collages are just as attention-worthy as his musical output.
Exploring the themes of "time, death and apathy", this second chapter shifts to slower and more dispiriting sounds, with gloomy piano melodies and ghostly drones pierced by brittle noise shards. Solemn and somber like it should be, this definitely comes highly recommended. Packaged like the first volume in an envelope with a hand-written letter in Swedish.
(CD-R in envelope, $8.00)
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[ collage ] [ experimental ] [ noise ]
Maurizio Bianchi & Telepherique - The House Of Mourning (Radiotarab / Cold Current)
New collaboration release from these almost excessively prolific projects, this being the second one to be put out on CD if I'm not mistaken. The title pretty much indicates what the theme is here, and the mood is generally somber and meditative. On a side-note, the Greek Rembetica music and chants sampled by Telepherique on certain tracks sound amazingly close to some traditional Egyptian music.
(CD, digisleeve, $13.00)
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[ dark ambient ] [ experimental ]
Nick Soudnick - Pas de Trois (Ultra)
2008 release from Nick Soudnick, also known for his activities as ZGA and as one half of Vetrophonia. "Pas de Trois" was recorded during multiple live performances involving two dancers, and its tracks vary from structured dirge-like compositions with percussive metal that ZGA is known for to more atmospheric pieces that graft subterranean horns, creaking steel and heavily processed loops. A much noisier and less orchestrated experience than the "Akhe" releases.
(CD, cardboard sleeve, $15.00)
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[ electro-acoustic ] [ experimental ] [ percussive industrial ]
Nick Soudnick - Depot of Genius Delusions (Ultra)
New chapter in the series of soundtracks produced by Nick Soudnick for the Akhe theater group. Mechanized orchestral scores, ZGA-like bass plucks and percussive metal, mangled cello murmurs and countless other artifacts are used to construct this highly detailed and idiosyncratic work by one of the masters of the Russian experimental scene.
(multi-paneled digipak, $16.00, last copy)
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[ experimental ] [ industrial ] [ scrapyard ritual ]
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