Cyclotimia – The Invisible Hand Of Market
Label: Shadowplay Release – SPR 148, Zhelezobeton – ZHB-XXXVIII, Monopoly Records – none
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Russia
Released: Apr 22, 2014
Style: Ambient, Dark Ambient, Downtempo, Experimental, Minimal
The Moscow-based project Cyclotimia, well-known for its long-standing interest for the world of global finance, stockmarket speculators and multinational corporations, presents its new work «The Invisible Hand of Market». According to the musicians, this is not a conceptual album dedicated to the economic term of Adam Smith. In this case it’s rather a metaphor “invisibly” linking together various compositions created during 2010-2013.
The album’s program consists of ten polystylistical tracks combining such genres as «post-industrial», «minimal(ism)», «dark ambient», «experimental» and «downtempo». The main line is a connection between the “sacral” and the “futuristic”, a combination of a liturgical atmosphere and electronic music based on the above-mentioned styles.
A separate part of the disc belongs to a 20 min. long electro-acoustic suite “Oil & Gas Colony” in five acts. Parts of vocal, classical string, wind and percussion instruments were recorded inside a dome of an abandoned radar station – a carbon fiber sphere 20 meters in diameter with a unique acoustic environment. This monumental work tells about the malignant nature of the resource-based economic model in modern Russia.
