Artist : Gultskra Artikler
Title : Kasha Iz Topora
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2007
Date : 10/2007
Bitrate : VBR kbps
Tracks : 01
Label : Miasmah MIACD006
Source : CDDA
Encoder : Lame 3.97
Length : 67:50 min
Size : 95,9 MB
Tracklist:
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67:50 min
Russian electronic artist Alexey Devyanin has just gone and
made one of the strangest albums you're likely to come across
in 2007.
Having already graced the Lampse roster with the excellent
Pofigistka, the incomparable, unpronounceable Gultskra Artikler
has now delivered Kasha Iz Topora, a scrapbook of odd, wintry
sonic postcards.
The album seems to be coated in the kind of archaic vinyl crackle
and ancient hiss that Phillip Jeck and Janek Schaefer pursue, and
as with those two artists, Devyanin doesn't use these sounds as
a mere fast track to nostalgia. Instead, the clouds of texture and
grainy noise that hang over Kasha Iz Topora make the whole thing
come across as some bizarre, dusty document that's been perishing
away in an attic somewhere for the last thirty years or so.
In fact, you might say that the single defining characteristic of this
album is that it doesn't really sound like anything so mundane as an
actual author was responsible for it. While it certainly sounds like a
single, specific vision, the various recorded elements and bizarre,
disembodied instrumentation that shape the flow of sound on this
album make it seem almost (for want of a better word) accidental,
as if someone had inadvertently dubbed all kinds of disparate
fragments of audio on top of one another, somehow resulting in a
ghostly archive of weird acousmatics, unidentifiable bowed screeching
and things that go bump in the night.
You might align Kasha Iz Topora with the sort of folksy psychedelia
and general fumbling around that characterises the Fonal label's output,
but there's undeniably a more visionary, experimental mindset behind
all this.
The very fact that the album (despite being divided into eighteen discreet
tracks) takes the form of a continuous whole suggests a vastness of
scope, and the breadth of sources here (one moment you'll hear recordings
of passing trains, or creaking floorboards, the next some lonely piano
passages mauled by wayward electronics) lend Gultskra Artikler's work
a sense of poetry and adventurousness.
Highly Recommended.
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