New releases on
ZHELEZOBETON:
MELODIE DES VERGESSENS "Palustre Genesis" CD-R / download
https://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/palustre-genesishttp://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-lxviii.htmlMelodie Des Vergessens was formed by
Igor 'The Ghost' Tumanniy in 2012 in Volgograd, Russia, and the idea of the project was based on the processed sound of a live accordion. With this instrument Igor recorded several experimental dark ambient albums notable for particular surrealistic sound and detached atmosphere of loneliness. The project ceased its existence in January 2017 with the death of the author.
The accordion is not the most convenient instrument to carry but Igor recorded the material for this work in summer 2015 alone with nature, in thickets of forests and swamps, while later working on it in his mobile studio. This resulted in six dissociative dark ambient compositions in which abstract textures morph into harmonic consonances, get overgrown by viscous layers of electronic processings and turn into rhythmic patterns created from looped acoustic noises. Often one can hear the characteristic timbre of the instrument, but sometimes it transforms into something chemically otherworldly as if coming from another dimension. Here one can feel the subtle personal moments when one's left alone with himself, surrounded by dark woods and looking in the abysmal mirror of infinity.
The recording was originally published in 2016 as a web-release by
Eternal Return Records, but for this reissue the author considered making new mastering to fully reveal all the details of sound. Mastering was done by
Ralax @ Coiled Ear Studio. This physical edition is made on quality pro-CDRs, packed in designer cardboard sleeves and limited to 77 numbered copies.
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HUM / KRYPTOGEN RUNDFUNK "Wolf's Fluid / Daytrip Express" 7" lathe-cut / download
https://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/wolfs-fluid-daytrip-expresshttp://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-lxix.htmlTwo Russian projects reworking each other's materials.
Hum uses the archive live recordings of
Kryptogen Rundfunk's gig from 2006, made on a dictaphone with jammed tape. The result is a viscous boiling mass of sound of an unidentified origin... In return,
Kryptogen Rundfunk creates an audio collage from old tape field recordings made by
Hum, providing an eventful track with a plot leading nowhere...
The artwork is made in the style of neat lo-fi fetishism. A lathe-cut 7" record with mono sound, covers made of translucent paper, an insert with information and download code. Numbered edition of 33 copies. Digital version is also available on bandcamp.
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VARIOUS ARTISTS "The Owls Are Not What They Seem: David Lynch Tribute Remixes" 2CD / download
https://zhbd.bandcamp.com/album/the-owls-are-not-what-they-seem-david-lynch-tribute-remixeshttp://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhbd-14.html"The Owls Are Not What They Seem: David Lynch Tribute Remixes" is the continuation of the project
"Now It's Dark: David Lynch Tribute" dedicated to the work of the filmmaker and musician
David Lynch. The new release contains a double-CD collection of remixes of original compositions included in the first album.
Like on the previous disc, new remixed versions were created by the musicians from different directions of the Russian dark scene: from ambient, noise and pure experimentalism to sharp rhythmic dark techno and post-industrial. The participants are:
Arcuation, Regulär, Uhushuhu, Notum, Wunderblock, Neznamo, Sal Solaris, Mortart, Bionoid, Light Collapse, Reutoff, Mira Drevo, Riddika, Svetlo111, Alex Schultz, Lokodepo, Majdanek Waltz, Relic Radiation, Zima23, Lunar Abyss, Kshatriy.
Each disc starts with a special "intro" written by the St. Petersburg-based project
Anthesteria and the theremin player
Peter Theremin - the great-grandson of the famous inventor who continues the popularization of his ancestor's instrument.
Overall sound mastering was done by
Arnold_pR (
Reutoff). Artwork features images created by
Barrett Biggers (
barrettbiggers.com). The edition is limited to 300 copies.
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VARIOUS ARTISTS "Now It's Dark: David Lynch Tribute" CD / download
https://zhbd.bandcamp.com/album/now-its-dark-david-lynch-tributehttp://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhbd-11.html"Now It's Dark: David Lynch Tribute" is an album made by Russian experimental sound artists dedicated to the famous film director and musician
David Lynch, and produced by the
kultFRONT label with the support of Zhelezobeton Distribution Division.
The idea of a tribute to Lynch first appeared when
Sal Solaris recorded the track "With Me" for
"The Black Square" compilation (KF-VI, 2006), using samples from the movie "Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me". The digital EP
"Lynch" featuring compositions by
Tsaraas,
DMT and
Bardoseneticcube (KF-XVII, 2012) followed several years later but only now the time has come for a full-length album.
Eleven projects from the Russian dark underground scene have presented their own visions of the mysterious and meditative atmospheres pervading the works of the American tenebrous genius:
Reutoff, Light Collapse, Dvory, Skripp, Wunderblock, Relic Radiation, Kryptogen Rundfunk, Sal Solaris, Arcuation, Povarovo and DMT.
Overall sound mastering was done by
Arnold_pR (
Reutoff). Artwork of the 6-panel digipak features a fragment of the painting "Special Agent Gorgon Cole" by
Chris Mars. The original 2016 edition was limited to 200 copies and quickly sold out. Second edition is released along with the double-CD of remixes
"The Owls Are Not What They Seem: David Lynch Tribute Remixes" and limited to a hundred of numbered copies.
