Uhushuhu | Ogni Videniy | Svetlo111 | Six Dead Bulgarians

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M.M.

Hello! Here are the 6 new releases from ZHELEZOBETON:



UHUSHUHU "Long Songs Pleasant for Hearing" C-50 [ltd. 55]

"U'hu! Shu'hu!" - hoot owls in a forest, as told by Daniil Kharms, and in the sky, above a rainbow, long songs pleasant for hearing are sung to a cherubim. Uhushuhu is a name of a project run by members of the creative group "Utrovortu" and their "Long Songs..." is the first studio record made after a few interesting performances at small underground city clubs and forest open-air festivals in the Leningrad region.

Following these songs we set off on a journey through structures and surfaces in a shell of experimental drone ambient. We will face sonic anomalies, random wanderings in unstable and unpredictable spheres, vague rustles and semblant echoes, spaces of various densities, mood and nature, hidden dead-ends, spontaneous phonations and labyrinths enclosed in themselves.

Second edition - 55 copies on white cassettes with stickers, two-sided full-colour cover.

http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-xli.html
http://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/long-songs-pleasant-for-hearing



UHUSHUHU "Geoscience" C-50 [ltd. 55]

The third studio album by the St. Petersburg-based group Uhushuhu continues the line of the two previous works: "Long Songs Pleasant For Hearing" (Zhelezobeton, 2014) and "Onega" (ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ, 2015), namely - long spatial tapestries filled with a whole host of electronic and organic events drifting on a leisurely contemplative wave.

One can listen to this music endlessly, it seems to be created of several layers of semi-transparent mirrors reflecting everything that comes in the field of the musicians' imagination: smooth synthetic pads, singing birds and (perhaps?) whales, radiowaves and a heavenly female voice, lurking whispers, instrumental loops, field recordings and various found sounds. All this creates a complex electro-acoustic image, surely still pleasant for hearing to the connoisseurs of the ambient genre.

Analogue version - 55 copies on black audio cassettes with stickers, two-sided full-colour cover.

http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-xlvii.html
http://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/geoscience



UHUSHUHU "Onega" C-84 [ltd. 55]

Together with the ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ label we are happy to present the cassette reissue of the second album by Uhushuhu - "Onega". The first release was made by ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ in January 2015 on CD-R, a small edition of 33 copies in beautiful handmade packaging. It was sold out very quickly and now we've decided to re-release this recording on cassette along with two other albums ("Long Songs Pleasant for Hearing" and "Geoscience").

The sound of "Onega" was described by ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ as "archaic earth hum; water ripple near dusk; stones dancing in the dark; tales about moss and its inhabitants. Ease of predawn dew, heady spirality of snails." We can only agree with these laconic and concise characteristics.

Besides the album itself the original disk contained a bonus track - a remix by Creation VI who stand behind the ΠΑΝΘΕΟΝ label. It is also included on the B-side of this cassette and even more - there is an exclusive 27-minute reshape version from Uhushuhu themselves mixed in a different tonality.

Artwork - clear cassettes with stickers, two-sided full-colour cover, outer cardboard slipcase.

http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-lii.html
http://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/onega



OGNI VIDENIY & SVETLO111 "Synapse" CD-R [ltd. 77]

A collaboration of the two projects now based in St. Petersburg and often performing together at city gigs and forest festivals. Three long psychoactive tracks filled with gritty analogue noise, farced with scraps of electronic signals and soaked in a syrup of harmonious drones. Despite the abrasive texture of sound and use of rather sharp effects, the atmosphere of the album is quite contemplative. Like the severely frosty northern night with polar lights: the air bites your skin and burns your lungs, but you just can't stop staring. The key point is the right adjustment of perception and selection of warming elements!

http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-liii.html
http://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/synapse



OGNI VIDENIY "Skeleton in the Closet for God" CD-R [ltd. 77]

The new album from Ogni Videniy following the "Sounding Emptiness" disc delves again into Buddhist themes, this time - the spatial Buddhist cosmology. Every track is dedicated to a certain state of mind and its corresponding plane of existence of sentient beings, from material worlds to the realms of pure consciousness.

Nine compositions with intense sonic structures, like fractal canvases with no end and no beginning. Each of them with its own atmosphere: from mild and rarefied to dense, noisy and pulsating; all being pierced by elastic electric drones with lots of hues and parallel resonating forms.

Perhaps this is a kind of music that devas are hearing in the depths of their meditative absorptions. However, no matter how high the level of their staying in non-material worlds is, the most valuable is still human life because it has the best opportunities to make decisions and choose the right path.

http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-liv.html
http://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/skeleton-in-the-closet-for-god



SIX DEAD BULGARIANS "Distributive for Installation" CD-R [ltd. 77]

It's hardly necessary to present the Arkhangelsk-based project Six Dead Bulgarians, for anyone familiar with the Russian experimental scene must have probably heard some of their numerous works recorded over the 20 years of the band's existence. Aside from the project's permanent mastermind Alexander Chulkov the recording of this album also featured Mikhail Karlos (acoustic instruments) and Pyotr Abysov (Ogni Videniy project, electronics).

The album's title is connected with its concept according to which consciousness is seen as software of a human being subject to accumulation of errors and demanding for adjustments and updating. The material of this recording is a kind of distributive which one can install in his consciousness to improve its work without having to reinstall the whole system. The aim for the musicians is finding the optimal parameters of all systems suitable for building the network which connects human beings.

It's always a pleasure to appreciate a nice theory and in practice this recording will surely fit the taste of lovers of calm and serene music with a meditative touch. Eight relaxed and sometimes minimalistic compositions in a wide range from ultra-mild ambient with ethnic percussion to raw analogue electronics and pulsating downtempo rhythms.

http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-lv.html
http://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/distributive-for-installation