{"id":11642,"date":"2025-10-10T16:46:15","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T16:46:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/?p=11642"},"modified":"2026-04-20T15:02:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T15:02:15","slug":"cyclotimia-the-invisible-hand-of-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/?p=11642","title":{"rendered":"Cyclotimia \u2013 The Invisible Hand Of Market"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Cyclotimia \u2013 The Invisible Hand Of Marke<\/strong>t<br>Label: Shadowplay Release \u2013 SPR 148, Zhelezobeton \u2013 ZHB-XXXVIII, Monopoly Records \u2013 none<br>Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition<br>Country: Russia<br>Released: Apr 22, 2014<br>Style: Ambient, Dark Ambient, Downtempo, Experimental, Minimal<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>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 \u00abThe Invisible Hand of Market\u00bb. According to the musicians, this is not a conceptual album dedicated to the economic term of Adam Smith. In this case it\u2019s rather a metaphor \u201cinvisibly\u201d linking together various compositions created during 2010-2013.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album\u2019s program consists of ten polystylistical tracks combining such genres as \u00abpost-industrial\u00bb, \u00abminimal(ism)\u00bb, \u00abdark ambient\u00bb, \u00abexperimental\u00bb and \u00abdowntempo\u00bb. The main line is a connection between the \u201csacral\u201d and the \u201cfuturistic\u201d, a combination of a liturgical atmosphere and electronic music based on the above-mentioned styles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A separate part of the disc belongs to a 20 min. long electro-acoustic suite \u201cOil &amp; Gas Colony\u201d in five acts. Parts of vocal, classical string, wind and percussion instruments were recorded inside a dome of an abandoned radar station \u2013 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-spotify wp-block-embed-spotify wp-embed-aspect-21-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Spotify Embed: The Invisible Hand of Market\" style=\"border-radius: 12px\" width=\"100%\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/7wjNvPaIOJ5wGScPbw3hJn?si=l7Xp81TrQ9qjKydBpLSOQw&#038;utm_source=oembed\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.discogs.com\/seller\/gradual\/profile\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"128\" src=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-1024x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-12954\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-1024x128.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-500x63.jpg 500w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-768x96.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs-1140x143.jpg 1140w, https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Buy_It_Discogs.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cyclotimia \u2013 The Invisible Hand Of MarketLabel: Shadowplay Release \u2013 SPR 148, Zhelezobeton \u2013 ZHB-XXXVIII, Monopoly Records \u2013 noneFormat: CD, Album, Limited EditionCountry: RussiaReleased: Apr 22, 2014Style: 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 \u00abThe Invisible Hand of Market\u00bb. According to the musicians, this is not a conceptual album dedicated to the economic term of Adam Smith. In this case it\u2019s rather a metaphor \u201cinvisibly\u201d linking together various compositions created during 2010-2013. The album\u2019s program consists of ten polystylistical tracks combining such genres as \u00abpost-industrial\u00bb, \u00abminimal(ism)\u00bb, \u00abdark ambient\u00bb, \u00abexperimental\u00bb and \u00abdowntempo\u00bb. The main line is a connection between the \u201csacral\u201d and the \u201cfuturistic\u201d, 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 \u201cOil &amp; Gas Colony\u201d in five acts. Parts of vocal, classical string, wind and percussion instruments were recorded inside a dome of an abandoned radar station \u2013 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14144,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1033,118],"tags":[82,16,433,67,45],"class_list":["post-11642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cd","category-distribution","tag-ambient","tag-dark-ambient","tag-downtempo","tag-experimental","tag-minimal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11642"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14145,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11642\/revisions\/14145"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gradualhate.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}