Three new releases from
ZHELEZOBETON and
Muzyka Voln camp!
ANTHESTERIA "Eis" CD / download
https://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/eisAnthesteria "Eis" is the third CD in the
"Znaki" series tracing the "parallel life" of
Zhelezobeton and
kultFRONT label residents. This collection of
Anthesteria works includes compositions created in 2003-2010. Some of them were released on various compilations, others were published by the author in his web diary and some of the tracks are released for the first time. All compositions are woven into a single semantic stream showing the cardiogram of the author's experiences. These are contours of images surrounding the musician during seven years of activity. Since 2010 the project has been de facto "frozen" except for work on the track "Alone" for which
Sergey Vasilyev (
"Insane Pierrot Cabaret" / "Electrocabaret") read the poem by
Edgar Allan Poe in 2016.
Anthesteria is music of St. Petersburg - the dusky city standing on water and wind where most of the year one has to know how to keep warm. The theme of Winter is heard in every composition of the album in one way or another. Winter is either already here or inevitably comes in the future. Whether it is the opening autumnal track "Eidolon II" or the track "Exodus" dedicated to the Chernobyl disaster. This part of Europe knows what "nuclear winter" is... However Winter here is not only a sign of desolation and death. Rays of the frozen sun in "First Winter Day" find a direct way to the eyes of the listener who is enjoying the laughter of happy people in "We Are So Inspired That We Glow" and feeling the fresh breeze from the Gulf of Finland...
The artwork is done by the famous visual artist and media philosopher
Oleg 'cmart' Paschenko (
http://humanimalien.ru) who has rethought the classical
Anthesteria logo specially for this project. The CD is released in an edition of 345 copies.
First album in the series -
Sal Solaris "Die Scherben 2004-2010".
Second album in the series -
DMT "Ultimatum".
CLOSING THE ETERNITY "Forever and a Day" CD
https://muzykavoln.bandcamp.com/album/forever-and-a-dayThe Russian project
Closing The Eternity hardly needs an introduction. Since the beginning of its activity 15 years ago, in 2001, it has released a good amount of recordings on various respected labels both in Russia and abroad. In its music the project aims to digress from everything earthly and mundane, bringing attention to the phenomena and processes lying outside of the realm of human existence.
The material of this album was recorded back in 2004 and has long been awaiting the right moment for manifestation. It seems as if this work was specially created for the
Muzyka Voln label (the title of which translates as "music of waves") as these two words describe it best. Three long tracks flowing one into another dissolve the listener's attention in endless tides of gentle electronic ambience. An absolutely pacifying and tranquil work imbued with a majestic contemplative atmosphere.
The artwork of the album features a series of photographs by
Arseniy Vinovarov made literally on the edge of the Earth - at the shore of the Arctic Ocean, where one unwillingly faces the inhuman flow of time, where eternity meets infinity...
CREATION VI & UHUSHUHU "Δ" CD / download
https://muzykavoln.bandcamp.com/album/-Masters of the new wave of Russian drone ambient present their collaboration work. A narrative streaming out of the green thicket of a fictional forest as a cloud of purple fog pierced by flashes of resonating harmonies and ghostly echoes. A dense organic cobweb of field recordings, voices, acoustic instruments and electronic manipulations. A dream filled with bright colours or a psychedelic slumber with a whirling kaleidoscope of asymmetric images and visions. A sonic fantasy so pleasant to dive into together with the musicians and spend some time in the company of your own subconscious mind...
