I recently reviewed
a large number of CD from this very eclectic Russian Label. In August, I received another group of bands
from Russia I had never heard of besides the excellent Disen Gage, all the
others are totally new to me. Again, much of the text below is taken from the
promo materials provided by the label. Thanks.
DEKONSTRUKTOR- Eating the Universe (Addicted 711 )
Dekonstruktor is a trio consisting of Garish (guitars,
effects, bass, vocals), Memphisdead (bass, guitars, noises, vocals) and Mitya
DHS (drums, vocals). The band was founded in Moscow, Russia in 2009 under the
name The Moon Mistress. In April 2010 the band released a four-track demo - raw
and stoned doom with traditional lyrics for the genre. The logo of the band was
created by black crystal mind of Alex Held. To the band’s surprise in 2013
Golden Procession from Japan made an offer to release the record on cassettes
and it was done the same year.
After CD split with Ukrainian Snakerider (2011),
released on Pestis Insaniae owned by Mitya DHS, in the same cave the next year
the Moon Mistress released the debut album Silent Voice Inside. With their
first full-length release, the band has truly come of age with 63 minutes of
captivating, atmospheric stoner/doom metal that goes way beyond what many
listeners were expecting. The album received a good response and afterwards was
re-released as double LP via Swedish label Demonized Records and on cassettes
on Russian one called Nomos Dei. The next year, the EP Simla was released on
CDr in a very limited edition for completely silent minds. In July 2013 the
Moon Mistress played for the first time in Eastern and Western Europe during a 2
week tour.
Somewhere along 2013 hypnotic mechanical konstruktions
arose from the depths and melodious riffs of the previous period stepped away.
Accordingly together with new touches and outside experiences the band changed
its name to Dekonstruktor in the beginning of 2014. Under the new name the
hypnotic album Eating the Universe was out in 2014 - pure acid metal as
Dekonstruktor names itself since then. Heavier than before with monotonous
beats which take the addicts into the red void. This record has a long release’
history - cassettes by Freak Friendly DIY (allied Ukrainian label, 2014),CD by
Voron NEST/Addicted Label(2017), and finally cassette re-release by French
Visceral Circuitry (2018).
In 2015 Fuck Life We Go Further EP is out on tapes by
Pestis Insaniae - a banner of black'n'white nihilism: spining heavy march in
vein of Hellhammer and Amebix in the beginning combined with mechanical opium
contemplation till the end. New visions of Dekonstruktor within life-death
ritual. Addicted Label/Voron NEST made CD release of Fuck Life.. in 2017. That
year was rather efficient: besides Fuck Life.. cassette split with Sdoba was
self-released and in the end of the year Dekonstruktor presented 3 noisy beats
on Kislie Mini CD: the compilation from Moscow-based underground metal/noise/ electronic
circle. Raw, acid and freaky bands, which had created their own scene and sound
surrounded by technological temples and other abandoned holes of the russian
capital. Also in March 2015 Mitya DHS and Garish performed as Dekonstruktor in
Bangalore, India. Need to say that intensive concerts are integral part of
Dekonstruktor, so the band had played in many Russian and European cities.
2016-2017 were not such productive years for Dekonstruktor
recordings as before. A split with Malad, released on tapes by Freak Friendly
DIY was the only one. The band has been preparing their next full-length for 2
years and finally it was out in the beginning of 2018 by Pestis Insaniae (tapes)
and Hymns of Apocalypse (CD).
I have not heard the other releases but Eating the
Universe is one hell of a heavy noisy trip to the dark side. 6 track, 60mins
with a mix of doom, noise, atomospheric passages, etc… Deep and sludgy stuff with some psychedelic
vocals ala Sons of Otis on the 2nd track! Track 3 is a short fast one before it goes
into track 4, a more stoner doom like track but features some really cool
effected guitar at times. Great over 11min track. Track 6 slows it down a bit but keeps it
brutally heavy with some spaced out stuff happening in the background as
well. Cool album..
The Moon Mistress: http://themoonmistress.bandcamp.com
Detieti- Detieti в общих чертях CD (Addicted 702)
Detieti was formed in 2004 in Moscow by bassist
Mikhail "Han" Ivanov and drummer Roman Karandaev. Ivan
"Vanish" Khvorostukhin, who had already played in stoner-rock group
Stone Cold Boys joined the band soon. Initially, in the early years Detieti was
almost homemade project and didn’t show a lot of activity. The first demo was
recorded in 2010 with new band's drummer Viktor Tikhonov (Kshettra band).
Sometimes Roman still participates in concerts and recordings as a vocalist and
showman. The music of the band is an avant-prog, that have foundation in mix of
alternative rock, funk, psychedelia and punk rock. Mike Patton's projects,
funk-metal, early Queen, improvisational music of different genres, comics,
circus and 80's films can also be named as important sources of
inspiration.
Detieti transformed into a quartet with keyboardist
Peter "Peyote-R" Bolotov in 2011. This line-up recorded two albums -
"Ne eP" (2013) and "Detieti в общих чертях" (2015). Music
of this period is characterized by uncontrollable polystylistics, citation and
humor. The compositions are developing very chaotically, all of this is
combined by the love of the band members to different musical universes only.
Nevertheless, the music became a little less insane some songs on second album,
more logic began to appear in the structure.
Vanish quit the band in 2016, Alexander Kosarenko
became the new guitar player. He brought in new colors to the band's sound. Detieti
recorded the new album "Progressive Punk" in the summer and autumn of
2017. It will be released in May 2018.
Discography:
2010 - Детиети (EP, Zlurad)
2013 - Ne eP (Album, BNiL / Zlurad)
2015 - В общих чертях (Album, BNiL / Zlurad)
2018 - Progressive Punk (Album, BNiL / Zlurad)
Line-up:
Han — bass, vocals
Vanish — guitars, vocals
Viktor Tikhonov — drums, percussion, vocals, samples
Peyote-R — synths, samples
Vanish — guitars, vocals
Viktor Tikhonov — drums, percussion, vocals, samples
Peyote-R — synths, samples
Detieti в общих чертях is the 2nd album by
the band and like the other one I reviewed, Progressive Punk, this is also a
diverse set of tracks and the band can go from reggae-ska to punk to prog all
in one track. Sometimes the vocal is quite normal and other times crazy. The band is sometimes maybe a bit too
eclectic. I wonder who you remember songs that have so many changes in them.
Takes a lot of rehearsing. You can hear the entire album below.
DISEN
GAGE- THE SCREW CD (RUSSIA 2004/2019)
Disen Gage is a fantastic Russian band and I
have a number of their releases but I had never heard this first one from 2004
before which was originally released on RAIG in 2004 but now newly released by
Addicted in 2019 with 3 bonus live tracks. The current line of the band is:
2019 album line-up:
2019 album line-up:
Konstantin Mochalov — guitar
Eugeny Kudryashov — drums
Nikolai Syrtsev — bass
Sergei Bagin — guitar &
synth
Current (Nature) line-up:
Konstantin Mochalov — guitar
Anton Efimov — guitar (since
2017)
“DISEN GAGE's debut offers a
highly concentrated twist on instrumental rock - a musical journey that leads
listeners through the entire range of emotions without even needing words. The
songs that form the record rely heavily on the interplay of two guitars
directed by upright bass and drums. This marriage produces surprisingly
colorful musical passages that craftily intersect with occasional electronic.
Judging from the nature of the guitar-work which is the main attraction, the
musicians appear to own a lot both of mid 70s - early 80s prog-classics
(especially King Crimson) and world-flavored fusion-rock (Irakere, Ketame). The
whole thing carries the carnival, playful, sometimes ironic, yet complex sides
of instrumental music. The occasional saxophone appearance makes it clear that
the quartet is seeking out to expand in a more jazzier direction or at least
make music that is diverse in sound and mood. While there aren`t exactly any
conceptualism or epic, the record as a single piece of music works very well.
The music only get better from this point on, and even the first listening
shows that the potential and creativeness are here from the start. The album
contains three live out-takes as bonus-tracks.
This is a great album. I
loaned it to my friend Martin and he really liked it as well.
GROGGY- Distant Lands CD-EP (Addicted 107)
I love this EP. Really cool Tom Waits at times inspired stuff from this
duo from Omsk. The bio describes them as acoustic, moog, folk rock,
southern rock, blues. The band features:
Max Ryabikov — vocal, guitar, bass, moog minitaur and Vitalii Dorofeichik on drums.
The titles are in Russian on the CD so I have them
listed below here.
Tracklist:
1 Тридевятьземель 26:11
1 Тридевятьземель 26:11
3 Times The 9 Lands
a) Дорога | The Road
b) Север | The North
c) Бездна | The Abyss
d) Сокол | The Falcon
a) Дорога | The Road
b) Север | The North
c) Бездна | The Abyss
d) Сокол | The Falcon
The CD plays as one long 26min track and starts with the The Road. It
has some spacey synths and sounds, followed by a spoken word in Russian and then
slowly the guitar and drums enter and the mood is totally different. A laid
back slow vocal accompanies the slow pace of the guitar and drums. Some
additional sounds appear at times. I dig the vibe a lot. The first track was 8 ½ mins long and now we
start a new track with a simple repeated guitar line and spoken word. After a minute it stops and a new guitar line
and drums start with some synths as well.
I like his dark, deep voice even though I have no idea what he sings
about! Later the keyboard plays a much
more important role as the guitar disappears for a while. Strange and
intriguing changes. Another track grows
out of this one with a quite dark vibe and then a more happy vocal and guitar
changes the mood totally. Another spoken
word section and more happy track to end the CD with an almost southern rock
vibe.
You can hear the entire album below. Great stuff and quite unique.
JAHROOM- Cut Price Goods
(Addicted 701)
Moscow noise-rock driving trio flow on neopsychedelia
waves with improv scene guests from such bands as Brom (Anton, Konstantin), Topot Arkestra (Konstantin)
& B as in Bullshit (Ivan)
Here is their story:
Alexander Nenashev (bass) and Timur Dzhanzakov (drums) found each other
using the site musicforums.ru in the end of 2010. Both were heavily influenced
by Bad Brains. After few months of jams guitarist Rasel Rahman was found at the
same website.
“We improvised a lot and made a decision to stay instrumental
trio“. After some rehearsals Jahroom started to structure the jams and recorded
first EP "Nyx" in 2012. Band often played at local underground venues
and improvisation always was an important part in their shows. Because of
unique style they managed to play at festivals of various genres.
After one of their shows in Saint-Petersburg in 2014
they recorded live an album "Cut-Price Goods". In some tracks were
added parties of sax and trumpet. Album self-released in April, 2015. In 2016
addicted label BNiL released 2CD compilation “Cut-Price Goods + Nyx”. In
2017 Jahroom presented EP "Snigeri" via dependent label BNiL.
Discography:
2012 - Nyx (EP, Self-released)
2015 - Cut-Price Goods (Album, Self-released)
2016 - Cut-Price Goods + Nyx (2CD, addicted label)
2017 - Snegiri (EP, addicted label)
Anyway, Cut Priced Goods features 7 songs on CD1 and 3
on CD2. The band has several special guests on trumpet or saxophone on various
tracks on CD 1 including Konstantin Sukhan on tracks 2 and 4, Ivan Shanin on
track 6 and Anton Ponomarev on track 7. I had thought the music with be reggae
or dub or something but they only enter into this realm a few times. The song
titles are all cut 32, Cut 23 Cut 34, which I am guessing are the jam numbers..
Anyway cut 32 starts things off with a short intense track under 3mins. Cut 23 is next and a totally different almost
dreamy vibe to the guitar lines. The bass reminds me a bit of Papir, maybe even
some of the music. This track features a bit of trumpet but goes completely mad
and free jazz like after the laid back dreamy start. Wow… that was unexpected. Cut 34 is next and a bit
more like the first track, short, intense and well played. Track 4 , cut 07
features some saxophone and is the first to have a hint of reggae- dub thrown
into the mix!! Cut 35 brings back back the more melodic side in this track that
slowly builds up over time. Cut 02 features Ivan. It starts laid back with some
nice guitar and bird sounds and then the bass and drums slowly enter. This
track features a really nice guitar solo with quite some delay on it to
compliment the sax which starts relaxed but then get more and more intense and
then it sort of dies down to just just birds and sax but then the rest of the
band slowly builds the pieces up over the next 5mins and they really go for it
again at 10 mins. This track lasts 21 minutes! Cut 34 (same title as track 3)
but with sax ends CD1.
CD2 only features about 15mins of music and starts
with a quite intense bass driven track and a sort of post rock like guitar as
it builds up. Track 2 is one of my faves
of the entire lot. I just dig the push and pull of the bass and drums and the
way the guitar is mixed in and played. Great stuff. Cut 27, the last track brings back the intensity!
As a bonus the CD comes in a very nice full colour artwork with all the info
about the band.
Soom was founded in Kharkiv at the end of 2013 and has
released quite a lot of music. I reviewed their 2018 album in the last
overview. This is an older album from 2014. It features 10 tracks.
Soom was founded in Kharkiv at the end of 2013 and has released quite a lot of music. I reviewed their 2018 album in the last overview. This is an older album from 2014. It features 10 tracks. The opening is a 6 min disturbing soundscape that sets the feeling for the record, then the heavy sludgey doom begins. At 4:40, a new vocal appears that is layered with the darker more evil one. Track 3 is really trippy with some effected vocals, and dark noise in the background that then leads into the next heavy experience. Track 5 is another spoken word with dark threads of dissonant sound before the clean guitar starts the next track. Wow.. the silence, only for a minute and then a very flangy effected track starts to crawl out of the gutter. Later a really cool guitar solo is played. This is probably my favorite track as I really like the psychedelic vocals as well. One more intro track and the last final doom number. Slow and more classic. Some great stuff by this band.
http://soom.bandcamp.com
https://facebook.com/soomdoom
http://soom.bandcamp.com
https://facebook.com/soomdoom
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