BARDOSENETICCUBE & SHINKIRO -- "Beyond the Edge of the Universe" -- CD / CS / DL2019 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXXVIII
The Russian prophet of dark sonic surrealism
Igor Potsukailo (
Bardoseneticcube) once again teams up with the Japanese master of dark ambience
Manabu Hiramoto (
Shinkiro). "Beyond the Edge of the Universe" is their third collaboration work after "Four Noble Truths" (
2011, Athanor) and "Inner and Outer Space" (
2015, Zhelezobeton). Like both previous albums, the new release continues to explore the ghostly dichotomy of inner and outer worlds, this time shifting the focus to the border of the known universe and beyond.
Unknown landscapes full of diverse acoustic phenomena are slowly unfolding before the aural gaze of the listener: from dense layers of synthetic sound and industrial samples to the finest emotional melodies, sensual female voices and echoes of a prepared koto. Such a rich sound palette allows the musicians to create incredible images, in the intricacies of which listeners can spend hours each time discovering something new. Beautiful, delicate and complex cosmic dark ambient music.
Artwork was created by the St. Petersburg based designer
Cyril Kazanov. The physical edition of the album is presented in two versions: a CD limited to 300 copies in a glossy 4-panel digisleeve and an audio cassette limited to 50 copies. The digital version is available on bandcamp.
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NOTUM -- "Nihil Est In Intellectu" -- CD / CS / DL2019 ZHELEZOBETON, ZHB-LXXIX
We are pleased to present the debut full-length album of the Berlin-based project
Notum! Despite releasing a debut full-length only now,
Notum is not a newcomer to the world of experimental music. The first digital EP "Wooden Grandmother" was released back in 2015 and was followed by a series of self-released EPs, last year there was a joint cassette with
Neznamo, and a while back the project's mastermind
Ikk Ygg even played a couple of times in a live line-up of
Lunar Abyss Deus Organum.
It's damn hard to describe the music of
Notum in just a couple of succinct words, although the author himself uses the terms "experimental / free-form". The unwillingness to follow any particular musical style creates an interesting multiverse in which the listener moves from room to room, sometimes without even noticing how this happens. Here you are crinkling from noise and shrill frequencies (one track is recorded with the drone-noise project
Kryptogen Rundfunk), then you are relaxing from a soft piano, totally sinking in an odorous floral drone – and bam! – jumping from an unexpected sample, foolishly giggling, and then starting to tap your foot, sometimes breaking into a real dance.
It all sounds like a psychedelic labyrinth built by a sonic architect with a brisk imagination and a peculiar sense of humor, or a bright morning dream in which scenes are changing in an unpredictable way, completely absorbing the dreamer. The oneiric theme is also emphasized by the incredible artwork created by the Californian artist and musician
Matthew Waldron (
irr. app. (ext.)). The physical edition of the album is available in two versions: a CD limited to 100 copies in a glossy 4-panel digisleeve and an audio cassette limited to 30 copies. Digital version is available on bandcamp.
http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-lxxix.htmlhttp://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/nihil-est-in-intellectu
