Dear friends!
We are happy to announce four new releases on
ZHELEZOBETON label:
A.T.M.O.M. "Andromeda" CDR [ltd. 77]
A.T.M.O.M. (At The Moment Of Madness) was founded by
Taras Voloschuk in 2009, and has released many works on such web labels as
GV Sound and
DNA Production including a couple of collaborations with
Bardoseneticcube. Experts of the Russian experimental scene might also know his other projects
Toxi-X (harsh noise),
Nano Synthetic (rhythmic noise) and
Fractal Flints (noisecore). Taras is also the organiser of a series of festivals called
Noise Pollution, featuring many acts of the Russian noise underground. However he is not only into noise music, and the
A.T.M.O.M. project shows the more atmospheric side of his versatile talent.
"Andromeda" starts with tranquil and quite canonical space ambient. Unobtrusive contemplative melodies and flashes of electronic signals gradually turn into dense layers of synthesizer drones, enwrapping in a dark sonic abyss like the irresistible force of gravitation. And this hypnotic minimalism of airless space outlined by mild noisy spirals finally transforms into rhythmical dashes and sketches bringing us back to the near-Earth orbit.
A couple of tracks were recorded together with
Glasberg and
O.N.E. projects, mastering done by the sonic magician
Kshatriy (
kshatriy.pro). The physical release is made on quality pro-CDRs in an edition of 77 copies in a sleeve of designer cardboard.
http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-xlii.htmlhttp://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/andromeda
OGNI VIDENIY "Sounding Emptiness" CDR [ltd. 77]
The Northern city of Archangelsk has given the Russian ambient scene several beautiful projects and among them is certainly
Ogni Videniy (Russian for "Fires of Visions"). Their previous releases came out on such labels as
Vetvei and
BioSonar^Labyrinth and this is already the fourth album, not counting a collab with
Six Dead Bulgarians "2137" (
Vetvei, 2011).
The album is dedicated to the phenomenon of emptiness in its Buddhist meaning: not as absolute "nothingness" but rather as endless potential manifestation of everything existent in the world. Unlike previous works with more ritualistic feeling, this album shows
Peter A. experimenting with more abstract electronic sound. Here one finds almost complete absence of traditional singing bowls, bells and pipes - instead the space is seized by home-made analogue sound generators, processed field recordings and mysterious textures. Plangent background drones fixate the perception and the forefront is filled by gurgling, croaking and swarming microsounds creating an utterly psychoactive shroomy atmosphere inhabited by enigmatic entities.
http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-xliii.htmlhttp://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/sounding-emptiness
S36NZ-OKH "Meditzina Katastrof" CDR [ltd. 77]
S36NZ-Okh is the solo project of the St. Petersburg-based musician, painter and illustrator
Kirill Rozhkov, also known for his joint work with
Alexander Lebedev-Frontov in
T.A.U. and
Stalnoy Pakt projects. Two previous
S36NZ-Okh albums were released by the
Ultra label in 2000 and 2002 and the material for the third album "Meditzina Katastrof" was recorded in 2003-2004 and kept in archive for ten years waiting to be released.
As the title suggests ("Medicine of Disasters" as translated from Russian) the album is dedicated to the medical theme, particularly to medicine as a tool for healing social problems: anthropogenic, biological and other disasters, although practically useless in our reality. Musically this is a saturated mixture of dark electronics and dramatic old school industrial. Each composition is a separate story filled with tangible cinematic images. Every track features exclusive samples such as the fragments of correspondence of a German cannibal with his victim eaten in parts by mutual agreement, or a functional description of a "Snegir'" onboard recorder from the "Kursk" submarine, etc. All this is skillfully combined with industrial noises, sound loops, synthesizers and electronic rhythms making a solid collage filled with a sense of collapse of the modern social model, fatigue and the impending doom of humanity.
http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-xliv.htmlhttp://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/meditzina-katastrof
UMPIO "Opium Electronix Vol. IV" CDR [ltd. 111]
Umpio means "vacuum" in Finnish. This is a project founded by
Pentti Dassum in 2006. Pentti has been playing guitar and bass in a variety of punk, death-metal, rock, jazz and experimental bands since the early 90-ies, and also has a huge sound engineering experience obtained from working within the Finnish musical underground. However in his own project
Umpio he devotes attention to making sounds from metal junk, contact mics, circuit bending, various analogue and digital electronics and whatever comes in his hands, recording extraordinary material from harsh noise to hypnotic ambient.
The "Opium Electronics" falls right into the latter category. The first cassette "Opium Electronics Vol. I" was released by the Russian label
Rokot in 2012, then two CD-Rs followed on Pentti's own imprint
Nekorecords and now the fourth installment comes out on our label. Four tracks mold in a single sonic flow. Soft enveloping electronics that sounds like a plush cocoon wrapped around one's head. Background textures humming gently, waves of mild noises rolling softly, forefront sounds slightly scratching the ears... detachment and abstraction not providing any determined images but giving free scope to the listener's imagination.
http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-xlv.htmlhttp://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/opium-electronix-vol-ivContact address: mm at radionoise dot ru
