Two new releases from
ZHELEZOBETON:
SAL SOLARIS "Thresholds" CD [ltd. 333]
"Thresholds" is the first
Sal Solaris solo album in 15 years marked by a variety of collaborations, splits and minor releases. From a musical point of view this is probably the most complex and certainly the most rhythmic work of the duo which opens a new chapter in its history.
The Sun radiates and cools down. Mountains erode and grind into sand. Any system tends to minimum energy and maximum entropy, that is to uniformity. But while chaos does not reign yet, the universe is a complex thermodynamic landscape filled with low grounds and peaks, ridges and valleys. To go from one valley to another we need a breakthrough. As when a match boosts energy to let reagents gain ability to cross the threshold, and continue to roll freely and independently.
"Thresholds" is an acoustic study of a breakthrough over the threshold. Therefore the album constantly crosses genre limits. The listener is taken from a thicket of dark techno to a rave meadow, and in the middle of dark ambient wasteland he or she gets thrust against a rock of minimal electro.
"Thresholds" is also an attempt to answer the question of what may be a match in human life situations. How to cross the pass, when the ridge is covered with clouds. The album can be regarded as a box of matches, or an experimental map of passes for those who feel confined in their valleys.
Authors can not guarantee its absolute accuracy.
Cassette version of the album with two exclusive remixes is released by NEN Records and available for purchasing at their
bandcamp as well as in our
mailorder catalogue.
https://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/thresholdshttp://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-lxii.html
CHURCH OF HOWLING DOG "Umbra" CD [ltd. 300]
The talented multi-instrumentalist
Kein from Ekaterinburg, Russia has already proven himself in such projects as
Sol Mortuus,
Prognostic Zero and
Zinc Room, and now the time has come for his new incarnation -
Church Of Howling Dog. The labels
Evil Dead Productions and
Zhelezobeton Distribution Division present his first full-length work "Umbra".
"Umbra" is slow hypnotic instrumental psychedelic rock. Reverberated guitar chords, slides and coarse fuzz, a dispassionate drum machine and psychedelic string percussion, delicate organ pads, the hum of guitar amplifiers and the wheeze of cello - these are the elements creating this tapestry. Pleasantly enough, the author knows how to treat silence as it plays a significant role in his compositions - each note takes its time to fade away, mesmerizing the listener with its vibrations.
Some familiar musical landmarks to be mentioned here are
Earth albums "Hibernaculum" and "The Bee Made Honey in the Lion's Skull" (although
Earth is more monotonous and straightforward), and the famous OST for the
Jim Jarmush movie "Dead Man" by
Neil Young.
https://zhbd.bandcamp.com/album/umbrahttp://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhbd-09.html
