DMT – Selected Funbient Works 1-4Label: KultFront – KF-XV, Zhelezobeton – ZHB-XXIV, Aquarellist – aquarel 13-09, Monochrome VisionFormat: 2 × CD, AlbumCountry: RussiaReleased: 30 Dec 2009Style: Dark Ambient, Abstract, IDM, Industrial Dmitriy Tolmatskiy (1970-2009) – a journalist and musician from the city of Saratov (south of Russia), one of the first popularizers of the alternative intellectual culture and particularly industrial music in post-Soviet Russia. He was the creator of the RWCDAX website which had certain influence on the mindset of many modern personalities of Russian post-industrial art. The musical project DMT was established in 1995 and released by the end of the 90s several limited-edition cassette albums, lapsing afterwards into…
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Astrowind – Semikarakory
Astrowind – SemikarakoryLabel: Frozen Light – FZL 019Format: CD, Mini-Album, Limited Edition, NumberedCountry: RussiaReleased: 27 May 2015Style: Dark Ambient,Psychedelic Ambient Latvian composer, musician and sound designer Kirils Lomunovs/Astrowind consistently develops alternative music style Paleopsychedelic Ambient f alling into the limits of the Dark Ambient genre, and still is being inspired with the art of an actor and director Alexander L. Kaidanovsky.The „Semikarakory” mini-album is delivered to the listeners by Russian label Frozen Light and is a logical sequel of the previous Astrowind album „Kaidanovsky”.The „Semikarakory” mini-album is dedicated to the full-length director’s work of Kaidanovsky – “Zhena kerosinshchika” [1989] (www.imdb.com/title/tt0096503/?ref_=fn_al_tt_9). This is an imagined walk in the dreary territory, where…
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Marc Behrens – Sleppet
Marc Behrens – SleppetLabel: CrónicaFormat:CD, AlbumCountry: PortugalReleased: 14 Oct 2009Style: Abstract, Musique Concrète, Experimental Sleppet originated from a sound art project in 2007, when six renowned artists — Natasha Barrett, Bjarne Kvinnsland, Steve Roden, Chris Watson, Jana Winderen and Marc Behrens — recorded sounds on a 10-day trip through the Norwegian Westlandet region and used the nature experience for a couple of sound installations and music pieces. Sleppet leads back to Norwegian composer Edvard Grieg, for whom contemplation of nature and its influence on the artistic creation had high significance. Sleppet deals with the energy and the transformation processes of the early springtime. In the frame of the composition, realized…
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Tomas Phillips & Luigi Turra – Vignettes Amplifié
Tomas Phillips & Luigi Turra – Vignettes AmplifiéLabel: Nitkie – patch fiveFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: RussiaReleased: 20 Apr 2011Style: Experimental Limited edition of 500 copies in a digisleeve.The first ever collaboration between prolific american composer Tomas Phillips and prominent italian newcomer Luigi Turra, “Vignettes Amplifie” presents a sequence of subtle sound constructions characterized by minimalistic and contemplative approach. Quiet field recordings, soft acoustic sounds and organic electronic arrangements builds panoramic view on two levels. The acoustic gestures like bells, manipulated objects and drone fragments are coming from silence and disappearing after some time. On the other hand, there is a kind of reflection of these sonic events in the…
