VETROPHONIA "Dadacacophonia Dao" C-67https://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/dadacacophonia-daoAlmost 10 years have passed since the release of the last album of the St. Petersburg project Vetrophonia "Formula of War" (Der Angriff, 2011). Of course the duet of Alexander Lebedev-Frontov and Nick Sudnick hasn't been idle all this time: they recorded and released the soundtrack to the movie
"A Page of Madness" (Zhelezobeton Film, 2014), the multimedia compilation
"Vizualizacija" (Ultrasomnambula U, 2017) and the [urlhttp://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-lxxii.html]
"Russian Universal Robots"[/url] EP (Zhelezobeton, 2017), not taking into consideration multiple solo ventures of both musicians – but the truly new full-length audio work is being released only now.
"Dadacacophonia Dao" was recorded over three years: from 2017 to 2020, and unlike many other recordings of the duet it's not really a conceptual work. In its form, it is a complex collage of a great number of sounds: samples, percussion instruments, fragments of TV and radio programmes, musical pieces and anti-musical noises varying from subtle yet annoying crackles to blustering industrial clatter. Like always with Vetrophonia, all this is composed utterly meticulously, thoughtfully, and spiced up with perculiar humour. This album isn't easy for listening, yet it will surely reward a curious listener with its uniqueness.
The work found its physical embodiment in the form of an audio cassette, released in an edition of 70 hand-numbered copies. The digital version is available on bandcamp:
https://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com/album/dadacacophonia-dao
PETROGRAD DRONE GATHERING "Puerhwave" CDhttps://zhbd.bandcamp.com/album/puerhwaveTogether with
BioSonar^Labyrint we are pleased to present the third release of Petrograd Drone Gathering after
"Live at Electro-Mechanica 2018" (Zhelezobeton, 2019) and "17022017" (Status Prod., 2020), with two pieces recorded live in 2016-2019.
The first track is a 20-minute fragment of the very first live performance of the Gathering on October 28th, 2016 at the St. Petersburg Sound Museum (ex-GEZ-21). At that time the project consisted of Evgeniy Savenko (
Lunar Abyss), М.М. (
Kryptogen Rundfunk), Pavel Dombrovskiy (
Uhushuhu) and Pyotr Abysov (
Ogni Videniy). From the very beginning the ensemble acquired their trademark sound – a dense psychedelic cocktail of experimental ambient character, based on vibrating guitar drones, processed acoustic instruments, shamanic incantations, analogue synthesizers and field recordings.
The second track is a 45-minute set recorded at the tea club "Know The Tea" on November 30, 2019 with an extended line-up: Evgeniy Savenko (Lunar Abyss), Dmitry Maslyakov (
Mira Drevo), Alexey Korablin (
Reconstruction Of Moss), Pavel Dombrovskiy (Uhushuhu), Lilia Tkachuk (
Tremorkikimor), Anton Sonda-Junglov & Sergey Shmykov (
w i i). A gentle stream of sound, enveloping the listener with layers of abstract patterns, into which one can plunge entirely and have a good trip, or simply use it as background for a tea party with hatters of any degree of madness.
The physical manifestation of the album is presented as a limited edition CD of 112 copies, packed in cardboard boxes with silk-screened covers and some inserts hand-made by project members. Digital version is available on bandcamp:
https://zhbd.bandcamp.com/album/puerhwave
