EXIT IN GREY "Control Points" CD / DLhttps://muzykavoln.bandcamp.com/album/control-pointsThe new album by the Moscow region based drone ambient project Exit In Grey is released by joint forces of the labels Muzyka Voln and Frozen Light. It represents the completion of the symbolic trilogy started by "Shadows of Stillness" (2013, Muzyka Voln) and continued by "One Lumen from the Past" (2016, Frozen Light).
Exit In Grey stays true to his creative method: using an electric guitar, voice, effects, field recordings, radio waves & digital synthesizers he creates spatial sound canvases immersing the listener in gentle melancholic and contemplative atmospheres and dissolving his attention in endless fields of sonic vibrations.
The CD is released in an edition of 300 copies in 6-panel matte digisleeve, digital version is available at bandcamp.
MIRA DREVO "Dreams of Abandoned Villages"https://zhbd.bandcamp.com/album/dreams-of-abandoned-villagesThe second full-length album of the St. Petersburg folk ambient project Mira Drevo is dedicated to the numerous abandoned villages of the Russian North. The idea of this work came to the author during ethnographic trips inspired by the interest in Russian folklore and village culture.
In these expeditions many field recordings were collected: the stories of the elderly – about an uneasy life, war, beliefs and traditions, about what's around and what's inside; creaking floorboards of abandoned houses; dogs barking in the neighbourhood; rustling of spirits in the branches of dead apple trees; sounds of a cranberry swamp...
Additional recordings were made on Solovki, on the Vottovaara mountain and in the Karelian woods. Some of the acoustic instruments were captured during these trips on a portable recorder and later woven into the fabric of minimalistic synthesizer ambient. A significant contribution to the sound of this album was made by the soulful vocals of Anastasiya Kharchenko who sang several folk songs and lyric poems.
The album is released on a factory-pressed CD in an edition of 100 hand-numbered copies in matte-finished 4-panel digipaks, a tape version produced by the Electrotapes Archive label is also available. Digital version can be found on bandcamp.
