The split EP is a phenomenon of the indie media, so you already know the territory; this is rarely heard sound, oblique sound, not necessarily accessible sound, sort of the holy grail of music afficandos, unless you are searching for mutual appreciation society of the popular. Of course obliqueness, rareness for its own sake is a trap in itself. To preface description of Gultskra Artikler’s Berezka with such words is in a sense to set it up as obscurest, however it is to a greater degree of such a wide scope that it could be considered cluttered, overly full and brimming with sound.
Gultskra Artikler is Alexey Devyanin a player on the netlabel scene having had releases on Autoplate, Hyperboloid, Nexsound and more material releases on Lampse and Please do something. The inclination is to a certain degree environmental music, not in the naturalistic sense but in a wider composition of sound palate from the mechanical, the device of recording, the instrument, found sound and happenstance. Key being that the sounds have a sense and actual form of composition, so that the apparently random nature of the environment is nurtured into form that equally sits Russian folk singing next to sonic crackle and tonal harmonies.
Lanterns differ, in a sense more traditionalists they have maintained their instruments and added prolific effects manipulation to create sonic chance into shapes and forms anew. Guitars and pedals in thunderous quite and noise of the diverse array manipulators adding noise and motion to a semblance of form. Holding and releasing tone, bleeding sound through to its nth degree and building, reforming along the same tangents. Monkey Lament, plays technique against random noise experimentation, effects frenzy and thematic encapsulation.
What both hold in common is a sense of the psychedelic folk aspects of the works, high sonic assault on your senses along with a technical literacy, which has eschewed formalism in the search for new found ground.
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