Cyclotimia – Regnum Label: Zhelezobeton – ZHB-LXXXII Format: Cassette, Album, Limited Edition Country: Russia Released: 2020 Style: Downtempo, Electro, Synthwave
More than five years of silence could suggest that the album «The Invisible Hand of Market» released in 2014 was the last sign of life of this Russian project. However, the musicians of the Cyclotimia duo, who consistently create soundtracks for a society of global capital dominance in their works, still have something to say, as it turns out… The album “Regnum” consists of six tracks and lasts for about half an hour. The compositions have a distinctive vibe of “the blessed 80ies” typical for the synthwave genre that has been in fashion in recent years, yet they distinctively go beyond the borders of this predominantly stereotyped style towards rhythmic post-industrial… «Regnum» comes out in turbulent times. Perhaps it’s no coincidence that the cover shows a man walking on a deserted night street into the unknown? And although the musical atmosphere doesn’t inspire anything optimistic in the end, the opening track with the characteristic name “Battlefield” is apparently intended to set the listener in a combat mood in relation to the future.
Vetrophonia – Vizualizacija Label: Ultrasomnambula U – USU 01 Format: DVD, DVD-Video, Compilation, Limited Edition, Numbered Country: Russia Released: Apr 2017 Style: Experimental, Industrial, Noise
Tracklist 1 – Тридцать Три И Одна Треть – Шумовизуальная Поэза (2014-2016) 33:40 2 – Столетие Манифеста «Искусство Шумов» Луиджи Руссоло (Концерт В ГЭЗ-21. 11.03.2013) 31:22 3 – Обращение Дев Непорочных Голубицами Небесными (Концерт На Пушкинской-10. 03.08.1996) 49:00
The video disc «Vizualizacija» by St. Petersburg-based project Vetrophonia (Alexander Lebedev-Frontov & Nick Soudnick) consists of several parts. First of all, this is the completely new multimedia album created in 2013-2016 with the help of Yuri Kovalskiy (Worms, Monument Straha), entitled «33 1/3». The album is comprised of the carefully crafted half-hour long collage of various industrial and retro-futuristic sketches, analogue video-noises and meticulously constructed soundtrack perfectly matching the visual part. Despite the quite abstract nature of this work, it keeps the viewer in suspense during all its length and dense saturation of images is compensated by the peculiar sense of humour. The disc also contains the digital version of the live material «Turning Virgings Into Doves» originally released in 1996 on VHS, and the recording of a gig in Experimental Sound Gallery (ESG-21), St. Petersburg, played on 11.03.2013 to celebrate the 100-year anniversary of publication of the famous «L’arte dei Rumori» manifesto by Luigi Russolo.
Desde 2006 y a lo largo de los últimos quince años, el Incubismo surge y resurge de la mezcla de elementos estéticos, filosóficos y culturales que flotan y vuelan sobre un humus contradictorio y extraño. Su misión es desfigurar y transfigurar símbolos, ideas y objetos de la anodina cotidianeidad.
El Incubismo es una meta y un proceso. Objeto fractal. Grimorio fallido.
El Incubismo fue, es y será.
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«Los Sonidos del Rito» es un compendio y un inquietante legado de quince años de Incubismo, interpretado por escultores sonoros como Fluor (Fuente Luminica Universal Oscuridad Recíproca), Darío Martínez, Djinn7 y Avral. Sus obras habitan promiscuamente con los textos incubistas de Diego Arandojo.
Paisajes postindustriales, música concreta, electrónica experimental, ruidismo y atisbos de post-rock y shoegaze. Cada pista significa una comunión con la suciedad y la trascendencia. Cada sonido y cada palabra reflejan la monstruosidad que un incubo seductor y horrendo impregna en el incauto testigo / oyente / lector de la obra incubista.
Una cruel invitación a descender, gozar y sufrir.
Arte como Rito. Magia y Estética.
Pistas 1 y 2 son parte de “Ciclo de Thule” (2006) incluido en “Trilogía Incubica” (DVD/CD, 2011) editado por GH Records.
Pistas 3 y 4 son parte de “El Panóptico del Incubo” (2006) incluido en “Trilogía Incubica” (DVD/CD, 2011) editado por GH Records.
Pistas 5 y 6 son parte de “Opus 23” (2007) incluido en “Trilogía Incubica” (DVD/CD, 2011) editado por GH Records.
Pista 10 es inédita y fue compuesta en 2008 y remasterizada en 2021.
Since 2006 and over the last fifteen years, Incubismo arises and resurfaces from the mixture of aesthetic, philosophical and cultural elements that float and fly on a contradictory and strange humus. Its mission is to disfigure and transfigure symbols, ideas and objects of nondescript everyday life.
Incubismo is a goal and a process. Fractal object. Failed grimoire.
Incubismo was, is and will be.
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«Los Sonidos del Rito» (The Sounds of the Rite) is a compendium and a disturbing legacy of fifteen years of Incubismo, performed by sound sculptors such as Fluor (Fuente Luminica Universal Oscuridad Recíproca), Darío Martínez, Djinn7 and Avral. Their works inhabit promiscuously with the incubist texts of Diego Arandojo.
Post-industrial landscapes, concrete music, experimental electronic, noise and glimpses of post-rock and shoegaze. Every track means a communion with dirt and transcendence. Every sound and every word reflect the monstrosity that a seductive and horrendous incubus impregnate in the unsuspecting witness / listener / reader of the incubist work.
A cruel invitation to descend, enjoy and suffer.
Art like Rite. Magick and Aesthetics.
Tracks 1 and 2 are part of “Ciclo de Thule” (2006) included in “Trilogía Incubica” (DVD / CD, 2011) issued by GH Records.
Tracks 3 and 4 are part of «El Panóptico del Incubo» (2006) included in «Trilogía Incubica» (DVD / CD, 2011) issued by GH Records.
Tracks 5 and 6 are part of “Opus 23” (2007) included in “Trilogía Incubica” (DVD / CD, 2011) issued by GH Records.
Track 7 is previously unreleased and composed in 2009.
Track 8 was included in “Las Playa de los Muertos” (2019), digital edition by Incubico Sonoro: incubicosonoro.bandcamp.com/album/la-playa-de-los-muertos
Track 9 was included in “Trilogy I: El Goce del Silencio” (2019), digital edition by Incubico Sonoro (2019): incubicosonoro.bandcamp.com/album/avral-el-goce-del-silencio-trilog-a-i
Track 10 is previously unreleased. Composed in 2008 and remastered in 2021.
Todos los textos son de Diego Arandojo. Material compilado y masterizado por Fluor y Darío Martínez.
All texts by Diego Arandojo. Compilated and masterized by Fluor and Darío Martínez.
