I wrote this poem when I was 20 years old. And it's dedicated to my mom.

CRAZY COMPASS: Moscow, Russia (march 2021)

music: Sergey Kobzev @Jasny-Svetly, @Assembly-Of-Honey
photo, text, vocal, fr mixing: Nata Boundariver @CrazyCompass

~

ТАКСИ

Я пыталась поймать такси.
Остановилась машина.
Моя мама сидела за рулем.
Двадцать лет назад.
Я сказала: подбрось по пути.
Она ответила: садись, буду рада.
И мне было так просто, так легко и уютно внутри.

Я пыталась поймать такси.

~

TAXI

I tried to catch a taxi.
The car stopped.
My mom was driving.
Twenty years ago.
I said: give me a ride on the way.
She answered: sit down, I'll be glad.
And it was so simple, so easy and quiet inside.

I tried to catch a taxi.

~

from: http://jasny-svetly.ru/faq/2-1#24

download

ТАКСИ / taxi (with Ясный-Svetly)

Crazy Compass - Поклонение Духам Огня, Земли, Воды и Ветра / Worshiping to the Spirits of Fire, Earth, Water and Wind https://meticulousmidgets.bandcamp.com/album/worshiping-to-the-spirits-of-fire-earth-water-and-wind

CRAZY COMPASS: Penza-Moscow, Russia (spring 2021)

Alexander Bozhday / @Somebody-Bo - shaman tambourine, ocarina, hang, bass, electric guitar, vargan, percussion, bells, effects
Sergey Kobzev / @Assembly-of-honey - bass, acoustic guitar, flute, vocals, sound mixing, mastering
Nata Boundariver / @CrazyCompass - vocals, drawing

About it on Meticulous Midgets label: http://stopcran.ru/blog/2021-05-04-217

Exhibition of six paintings: http://stopcran.ru/news/2021-05-15-291

full CD & art book

from: Поклонение Духам / Worshiping to the Spirits (art book + CD)

Peoples Friendship Orchestra "CRAZY COMPASS Planet Band" presents its new track "Round Dance", recorded jointly by members of the @Meticulous-Midgets label from around the world.

CRAZY COMPASS: Russia, Spain, Argentina, Ukraine, USA (summer 2021)

Pedro Acevedo @eco-rem (Spain): small calimba that became the source of a flurry of sound (calimba)
Zach Schneider @zach-schneider-1 (USA): perky trills of natural whistles and chimes of all kinds (Irish bouzouki, tenor banjo, two tin whistles and a glockenspiel)
Oleksandr Zuzuk @oleksandrzuzuk (Argentina): delightful violin from a distant sunny land (violin)
Steve Layton @niwosound (USA): mind-blowing synth solo and the cosmic warmth of the padding spaces (synth)
Alexander Bozhday @somebody-bo (Russia): incredible unique bubnofuzz (shaman tambourine and guitar gibride)
Alan Ingall @newshoe (USA): pretty kind accordion play (accordion)
Serega @assembly-of-honey (Russia): wild ocarina, trash and scrap drums, some guitars and bass, synth and a magic saucepan lid...) (mixing, mastering etc.)
Nata Boundariver @jasny-svetly (Russia): sincere singing, intuitive painting, positive opposition to common sense, fireweed tea (art, vocals)

Picture: "Хоровод" 50 x 50 cm (canvas, oil)

CRAZY COMPASS Planet Band - Хоровод / Round Dance

Track from our joint CD released recently on @Meticulous-Midgets: https://meticulousmidgets.bandcamp.com/album/tele-vision
More about: http://stopcran.ru/blog/2021-10-07-226

CRAZY COMPASS: United States - Russia (october 2017)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/drowned-by-milk

music: Michael VanderMallie / @The-Black-Diamond-Train
text/vocals: Nata Boundariver / @CrazyCompass

ЗИМА

Мокрая бабочка летала по дому.
Шевелила руками усталые мысли.
Глаза опустелые о зеркала спотыкались
и брызгали острыми скользкими искрами.
Мокрое дерево стучало в окно,
бабочку дохлую выманивая из меня.
Прирастая к стеклу отражения,
двигалось длинное белое облако.

Молоко заливает поля.
Всё. Всё тонет в молоке.

Наступила зима.

---

WINTER (pidgin-version)

A wet butterfly flew around the house and wiggled by hands tired thoughts.
The emptied eyes stumbled of the mirrors and splashed with sharp, slippery sparks.

A wet tree knocked in the window, luring out of me the dead butterfly.
A long white cloud moved, growing to a glass reflection.

Milk floods the fields.
Everything. Everything is drowning in milk.

Winter came.

CD & book

ЗИМА / drowned by milk (with The Black Diamond Train)

This is a solo recording made live in real time using a looper. 
Here I play some ethnic instruments and sing a spontaneous melody. 
I dedicate this track to my Mom.

Crazy Compass solo (live 25.04.2021)

Music, vocals, drawing: Nata Boundariver
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofiAgZus4y4

Lullaby for Mom (Crazy Compass solo - live 25.04.2021) + video

This song about the Gifts that are given to us throughout life. 
Priceless gifts of existence, knowledge, awareness and love.

Nata Boundariver @CrazyCompass (Moscow, Russia) > singing, painting
Luciole Langevine @Luciole-Langevine (France)  > singing
Sergey Kobzev @Assembly-of-Honey (Moscow, Russia) > drums, bass, acoustic guitar
Samy Ben Rabah @samybr (Near Pazin, Croatia) > mandolin
Steve Layton @NiwoSound (Seattle, United States) > synth
Laurent Donckers @Deep-Man-2-121969062 (Belgium) > vocal, guitar
Alan Ingall @NewShoe (North Carolina, United States) > accordion
Hilary Dirlam @Hilary-Dirlam (Mars Hill, United States) > melodica
Корней @Vladimir-Kornienko-409386936 (Moscow, Russia) > guitar
Gautam Karnik @GautamKarnik (Edmonton, Canada) > violin 
Alexander Bozhday @Somebody-Bo (Penza, Russia) > ocarina, guitar

CRAZY COMPASS: Russia, France, Belgium, Croatia, USA, Canada (8 march 2022)

Picture: "Дары" 60 x 60 cm (canvas, oil)

CRAZY COMPASS planet band - Дары / Gifts

Collaboration with KONOKUNOK & the Seven Babes from the Sunny Cave =  https://soundcloud.com/discratebye:
shaman drums, gongs, vargan, conchshells, chime & etc. / full lenght live recordings as usual /

CRAZY COMPASS: Szabadbattyán, Hungary - Moscow, Russia (august 2015)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/planet-song-with-konokunok

all music: Gyula Bódis
vocal: Nata Boundariver

pic for: http://jasny-svetly.ru/photo/29-0-423

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Недра / planet song (with KONOKUNOK)

Deep ambient from https://soundcloud.com/discratebye "Venundatus Nexu" >>> https://soundcloud.com/sweetrepeat/szosznat

CRAZY COMPASS collaboration: Szabadbattyán, Hungary - Moscow, Russia (september 2015)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/lullaby-march-with-discratebye

sound: Gyula Bódis https://soundcloud.com/discratebye
text & vocal: Nata Boundariver https://soundcloud.com/crazycompass

Original text in Russian: 

ВАЛЬС

под робкие звуки довоенного вальса в такт телам колышутся свечи на столах опьяненных народов танцующих праздник до кончиков пяток пронизанных воздухом будущего

пыль городов усыпляемых звуками вальса в огнях догорающих клеточек окон оседая на спящих на дно и навечно хранит их застывшие отпечатки

не коснувшийся улиц тусклый свет фонарей растворяет стеклянные перегородки между между и между и тихо течет мимо улиц своих берегов не касаясь

убаюканный звуками вальса ведущего счет не ночам и не дням отдающий приказы жидкий воздух столетий колышет тени крошечных тел пламя ярких свечей за стеклом безвозвратных событий

English version:

WALTZ

To the timid sounds of prewar waltz 
Candles are flickering to the beat of bodies 
On the tables of besotted peoples 
Which dance the festival to the tips of heels 
Which are permeated with the air of the future 

In lights of burning window cells 
Dust of cities which lulled by waltz sounds 
Settles on sleepers on the bottom 
And forever keeps their frozen prints 

Without touching the streets 
Dim lantern light dissolves the glass partitions 
Between, between and between… 
And quietly flows through the streets 
Without touching own shores 

Liquid air of centuries is lulled by waltz sounds 
Keeping count of neither nights nor days 
Giving orders 
Stirs the shadows of tiny bodies 
Sways the bright candle lights 
Beyond the glass of irretrievable events 

translation & photo: Alexander Bozhday https://soundcloud.com/somebody-bo

ВАЛЬС / lullaby march (with DiscRateBye)

Gamaun - magic bird which singing reminds the people about paradise.

All music for this song, except the drums, was made by Eco Rem (@eco-rem), who played mandolina, spanish guitar, fujara, erhu, kalimba and microkorg... and i sang the part of the bird)

CRAZY COMPASS: Moscow, Russia - Avilés, Spain (December 2015)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/gamaun

mandolina, spanish guitar, fujara, erhu, kalimba, microkorg: Pedro Acevedo
one-man-choir: Nata Boundariver
percussion: @jasny-svetly

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2nVhYN0znY

Гамаюн / Gamaun (with Eco Rem)

Collab with @softwalls / CRAZY COMPASS: Moscow - St. Petersburg, Russia (February 2016)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/understanding-with-softwalls

ПОНИМАНИЕ

Переплетение плоскостей, 
где мы ещё можем друг друга понимать, 
заканчивается вспышкой света, после которой 
всё кажется таким мимолётным и таким прекрасным,
что понимание уже не имеет смысла.

(http://jasny-svetly.ru/faq/1-1#17)

UNDERSTANDING (pidgin-version)

Interlacement of all planes, 
where we can still understand each other,
ends with the flash of light, after which
everything seems so fleeting and so beautiful,
what understanding no longer makes sense.

music: @Softwalls
text & voice: Nata Boundariver

Понимание / understanding (with Softwalls)

CRAZY COMPASS: Penza, Russia - Schwarzenberg, Austria - Moscow, Russia (February 2016)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/deep-walk-with-augenmerk-somebody-bo

music: Alexander Bozhday @somebody-bo
german texts: Karin Tarabochia @augenmerk
russian texts: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass

DEEP WALK (pidgin-version)

I walking carefully, knowing that each of meeting can be my friend.
And so, on one of turns I see - the street is completely empty.
From these thoughts - the cars are stopping.
From these thoughts - the windows are opening.
And people look at me.

And so strongly remind of something their songs.
And so familiar seems their voices.
But nearness is lost forever.

It's just the air movement.

*

Full of doubts I go by night through the garden,
because fear uses (wastes) courage and feeds worries.
For the fifth time I run to the beach to look the wild sea,
fascinatedly watching the water mountains, which are scudding.
Hard to let go the doubts, because my heart is deaf.
However, only the bright window counts.

*

The memory - there on the bottom of the lake.
The deep black lake.
On watersides of the forgotten
grows the new days
and bright new smiles.
And in the eyes of people
there are nothing,
what would reminded me

that i losed.

*

The night has made off, 
A few feathers still in the field 
in the morning sun.
Night plumage, dark-black, bluish black,
and heavy cloths, velvet and taffeta – 
now they lie somewhere else.
I am seeking the step from yesterday,
that lead me here,  but don't go him any more.
I see the scarp in the stone,
in the rock  I understand the night,
why and how she changed me 
and I hand over her dress to the morning.
New territory in which my breath writes.

*

Believing that something has changed
in these new faces,
looking as the old,
I'm going through one street,
second,
third,
stop in order not to get lost,
and the past does not matter,
because I don't see it:
my eyes are filled with the light of a new day.
Houses shiftes imperceptibly,
Trees moves with spurts of my steps.
I wonder again. Carefully.

In order to pass through myself.

*

Stranded and come upon land,
Cat's tail which came from far away.
I roll my words across rocks to the silver valley
and rise newborn from the spirals of dark night,
encased in morning light and morning mood.
Golden eyes release me
to light and shade, to the sparkling shine.
Thousand voices call me into the day.

Photo: Alexander Bozhday (more: http://bozhday.livejournal.com)

deep walk (with Augenmerk & Somebody Bo)

Fire birth and blossom. Collaboration with Pedro Acevedo (@eco-rem)

CRAZY COMPASS: Moscow, Russia - Avilés, Spain (spring 2016)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/flower-fire

drums: @jasny-svetly
vocal: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass
doromb, spanish guitar, mandolin, nose whistle, erhu & little percussion: Pedro Acevedo @eco-rem

pics: http://jasny-svetly.ru/photo/29

Тюльпан Огня / flower fire (with Eco Rem)

CRAZY COMPASS: Tokyo, Japan - Moscow, Russia - Schwarzenberg, Austria  (May 2016) https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/world-trip-with-augenmerk-yamagishi

music: S.Yamagishi @esuyamagishi
russian text: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass
german text: Karin Tarabochia @augenmerk

Augenmerk & S.Yamagishi jnt-project @slingingwain

V

КОСМОНАВТИК (Nata Boundariver)

Узенькие лестницы, ведущие вверх, 
не бывают тесными. 
Они бывают одинокими, пустыми и бесконечными. 
Когда какой-нибудь космонавт 
поднимается по ним в полной тишине, 
ему кажется, что мир — это дыхание, 
что мир очень твёрдый, 
и всё это никогда не закончится.

/ему кажется
что мир — это дыхание
что мир очень твердый
и все это никогда не закончится/

Но наступает мгновение, 
когда весь пройденный путь 
скручивается в клубок — его не остановишь. 
И маленький космонавтик 
повисает в воздухе, как в невесомости, 
и забывает даже те тревоги, 
какие ему и не снились.

THE LITTLE ASTRONAUT 
(pidgin-version)

The narrow stairs leading up
is never happen crowded.
They happen to be lonely, empty and endless.
When some astronaut 
is climbing these stairs in a complete silence,
it seems to him that the world is a breath,
that the world is solid 
and all of this will never come to end.

/it seems to him
that the world is a breath,
that the world is solid 
and all of this will never come to end/

But once there comes a moment, 
when the whole road traveled 
curls up into a ball - it can't be stopped.
And the little astronaut 
hangs in a space, like in weightlessness, 
and he forgets all trouble
even those, which he never dreamed.

V

DIE ROSE DORT HINTER WOLKEN (Karin Tarabochia)

Die Rose dort hinter Wolken im Wind…
Wir gehen und gehen, als erfüllten wir Bestimmung,  
überspringen den Graben, der uns vom Ziel trennt.
Wir betreten Räume und verlassen sie 
und finden im nächsten Raum das gleiche vor. 
Die Rose dort hinter Wolken im Wind …
Der Weltspiegel gaukelt, schwätzt, füllt uns mit Bildern, 
schaut uns beim Nicht-Erkennen zu.
Hineinschwingen in den Punkt, in dem sich alles dreht.  

Wir sitzen am Zug,  der Leben heißt. 
Keine  Notbremse, kein Ausstieg, 
wenn uns nicht passt, was wir sehen, 
Der Film, der grad läuft, ist das Hauptprogramm 
und wir sind Held und Heldin.
Uns gehört die Welt, solang bis der Traum zerfällt 
und wir uns am Strand wiederfinden,
von wilder Reise an Land gespült. 
Als züngelten Flammen greift das Wasser nach uns, 
leckt uns salzig ab. Die Sonne brennt. 
Ist’s Genuss? Ist’s Kampf? 
Und immer geht das Spiel weiter.   

///
(english-version)

The rose there behind clouds in the wind …
We go and go, as if we fulfill destiny,  
jump over the ditch thhat separates us from the aim.
We enter rooms and leave them 
and find in the next room the same. 
The rose there behind clouds in the wind …
The world mirror flutters, talks, fills us with pictures, 
watches us while non-recognising.
Swing into the point in which everything rotates.  

We sit in the train which is called life. 
No emergency brake, no  exit, 
if to us does not fit what we see.
The film, that is running, is the main program
and we are hero and heroine.
The world belongs to us, until the dream decays 
and we find ourselves on the beach,
from wild trip washed ashore 
As if flames were flickering, the water reaches for us, 
licking us salty. The sun burns. 
Is it pleasure? Is it fight? 
And always the play goes on.

world trip (with Augenmerk & Yamagishi)

This track was recorded in stages over several months. Poem was written in last century. Let the past go.

CRAZY COMPASS: Moscow, Russia (july 2016)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/yesterday-with-softwalls

music: @softwalls
photo, translation and swifts: @somebody-bo
text, vocal: @crazycompass

YESTERDAY*

Yesterday, while talking with my fellow villagers, I realized how lonely I was. 
Yesterday, while standing in a field, I realized how lonely I was. 
Yesterday, while trampling the snow, I became lonely. 
Yesterday, after coming out of the house, I stayed lonely. 

But no one can see it. 

I don't love anyone. 

Yesterday, while seeing my acquaintance, I realized how lonely she was.
But she didn't realize it. 
Yesterday, while watching the noisy company, I realized how lonely they were.
And how quiet around. 
Yesterday, while turning on the TV, I saw the lonely people on the other end of the globe.
Yesterday I realized that all of them do not exist. 
So they are lonely.

But I won't tell anyone about it.

I don't love anyone. 

They are lonely, because they don't exist. 
They don't exist, because I don't love them. 
I don't love them, because they don't exist. 
They don't exist, because they are lonely. 

Yesterday I saw a child in my dream. 
He smiled. 
He seemed so real. 
And I was happy, looking at him. 

Yesterday I realized that no one’s going to stop me. 
Because there is no one. 
And if someone potters near 
I take this tolerantly: 
maybe it's the noise of leaves 
or something like that. 

Something almost imperceptible. 

Yesterday, while talking with my fellow villagers, I realized that they are almost imperceptible. 
Yesterday, while standing in a field, I realized that it is almost imperceptible. 
Yesterday, while trampling the snow, I realized that I’m almost imperceptible. 
Yesterday, after coming out of the house, I became imperceptible. 

But no one can see it. 

Yesterday I realized that I do not exist.
Because no one loves me. 

I’m lonely. 
No one loves me. 
I'm imperceptible. 
I don't exist. 

And I began to live.

---------------------------
*original: http://jasny-svetly.ru/faq/2-0-30

ВЧЕРА / yesterday (with Softwalls)

Unheralded record from suddenly detected track.
Исполняет чукотско-африканский хор имени Дружбы Народов.

CRAZY COMPASS: Avilés, Spain - Moscow, Russia (summer 2016)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/new-era-dance

all music: Pedro Acevedo @eco-rem (doromb, kalimba, mandoline, udu, egg)
vocal: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efhUrVSd0g8

new era dance (with Eco Rem)

This track i recorded to the music of great russian guitarist Pavel Eremeev (@HolyPalms). 
The song is dedicated to the dances of the peoples of the world! Assa!!!

CRAZY COMPASS: Moscow, Russia (january 2017)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/assa-with-holy-palms

Music: Pavel Eremeev @holypalms
Vocals: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass

Everybody Dance!

Picture fragment "Ukrainian Dance" the artist Natalia Papirna

Full album by Holy Palms "Jungle Judge": https://holypalms.bandcamp.com/album/jungle-judge

assa! (with Holy Palms)

It was a strategic reserve of energy from May) Thanks to Samy for sweet mandolin!
Original track: https://soundcloud.com/samybr/aym-ceegeedee-twenty-four

CRAZY COMPASS: Near Pazin, Croatia - Moscow, Russia (september 2017)

all music: Samy Ben Rabah @samybr
choir: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass

Listen all album by Samy Ben Rabah - "Mandolin Thoughts" (2017): 
https://soundcloud.com/meticulous-midgets/sets/samy-ben-rabah-mandolin

sign shine (with Samy Ben Rabah)

CRAZY COMPASS: Eureka, California, United States - Moscow, Russia (january 2018) https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/tele-vision

music: Michael VanderMallie @the-black-diamond-train
text/vocals: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass

---

ТЕЛЕ ВИДЕНИЕ

Я потеряла звук. 
И вижу теперь только немые деревья. 
Вижу проплывающие облака. 
Каменные дома и каменные улицы, застывшие навсегда. 
Вижу пустые поля, глядящие в небо.

И одного человека, пересекающего пейзаж. 

Я потеряла изображение. 
И слышу теперь только звуки из подворотни, 
шум проезжающих мимо машин, 
беседу каких-то людей, обсуждающих жизнь, 
тихий радиоголос в соседней комнате.

И шаги одного человека, пересекающего пейзаж.

---

TELE VISION (pidgin-version)

I lost the sound.
And now see only mute trees.
See floating clouds.
Stone houses and stone streets, frozen forever.
See empty fields looking up at the sky.

And one person, crossing the landscape.

I lost the image.
And now  hear only sounds from the gateway,
the noise of cars passing by,
conversation of some people discussing life,
a quiet radio voice in the next room.

And the steps of the one person, crossing the landscape.

---

more photos: http://jasny-svetly.ru/load/10-1-0-38

ТЕЛЕ ВИДЕНИЕ / tele vision (with The Black Diamond Train)

This track has been waiting for it's time for several months)

CRAZY COMPASS: Eureka, California, United States - Moscow, Russia (may 2018 - january 2019) https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/traces-only-digital

music: Michael VanderMallie @the-black-diamond-train
text/vocal: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass

СЛЕДЫ 

Следы уходящих струятся по всем направлениям. 
Мешают уснуть. 
Острый ветер перелистывает страницы, проникая всюду. 
Запутывает путь. 
Время вдыхает события и трогает за плечо.
Выдыхает тоже события. 
Ставни пустого дома стучат, призывая к себе усталых. 

--- 

TRACES 

Traces of outgoing are streamed in all directions. 
They prevent sleep. 
A sharp wind turns over the pages, penetrating everywhere. 
Entangles the path. 
Time breathes events and touches shoulder.
Exhales too events. 
The shutters of an empty house are knocking, calling to oneself all of tired.

---

Sorry for my pidgin-english)

Photo by Alexander Bozhday @Somebody-Bo

СЛЕДЫ / traces (with The Black Diamond Train)

Suddenly found in my closet 10-years-old poem and was very surprised by its content.
Original track by Alexander Bozhday: https://soundcloud.com/somebody-bo/baku-passing 
from "Passing" album: https://soundcloud.com/somebody-bo/sets/passing

CRAZY COMPASS: Penza - Moscow, Russia (july 2019)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/labyrinth-with-somebody-bo

music, photo: Alexander Bozhday @somebody-bo
poem, vocal: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass 

ЛАБИРИНТ

Выглядывая из своего лабиринта
инкогнито-анонимно,
снимаю слепки,
коллекционирую гипсовые статуэтки.
Увлекаюсь Тибетом - 
отстраненно:
нет денег на билеты.

Билеты проданы абсолютно.
Заняты все места
в кинотеатрах
лабиринтов.
Мир тонет в рукоплесканиях
пассажиров,
увидевших краем глаза небо
в окне иллюминатора.

К чему такие траты?
Почем билеты?

Долой сомнения!

...И в лабиринте гаснет свет:
выходим на экран.

---

LABYRINTH

Looking out from own labyrinth
incognito-anonymously,
take off casts
collect plaster figurines.
Fond of Tibet -
detachedly:
no money for tickets.

Tickets sold out absolutely.
All places are occupied
in cinemas
of labyrinths.
The world is drowning in applause
of passengers, 
which saw the edge of the sky
in the window of the porthole.

Why such an expenses?
How much are the tickets?

Away of doubt!

...And in the labyrinth the lights go out:
we exit to the screen.

ЛАБИРИНТ / labyrinth (with Somebody Bo)

In early summer i recorded  several tracks to Samy's music. This is the second track. 
Original version with Jeff Wiedenfeld: https://soundcloud.com/samybr/meowing-tall 

CRAZY COMPASS: Near Pazin, Croatia - Moscow, Russia (summer 2019)

Music: Samy Ben Rabah @samybr & Jeff Wiedenfeld @jwiedenfeld
Chukchi-African choir visiting Tatar radio: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass

More mandolin here: soundcloud.com/meticulous-midgets/sets/samy-ben-rabah-mandolin

Большая Стирка / big washing (with Samy Ben Rabah & Jeff Wiedenfeld)

https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa/foreign-crazy-compass-ilaria-boffa

Our joint track with the Italian poet Ilaria Boffa. I don't read poetry - only sing. Her poem "Foreign" in English is read by Ilaria. It's very significant, and i subscribe to every word, as if they are mine!
At the end of the track, Ilaria’s childish voice sounds.

CRAZY COMPASS: Padua, Italy - Moscow, Russia (october 2019)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/ilaria-boffa-foreign-with-crazy-compass

Poem, words: Ilaria Boffa @ilaria_boffa
Singing and some induction: Nata Boundariver @CrazyCompass

FOREIGN

Re-imagine, re-design, reset, rewind, restore, rebuild, recover.
Everything I felt I knew is foreign to myself.
Everything that animates me separates itself from itself.
I am the signifier, the signified, the phoneme.

(Ilaria Boffa)

Ilaria Boffa - Foreign (with Crazy Compass)

There was a slowdown during recording) From may to january) Thank you, Michael! Without words...

CRAZY COMPASS: Eureka, California, United States - Moscow, Russia (january 2020) https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/no-sorrow-with-the-black-diamond-train

music: Michael VanderMallie @the-black-diamond-train
vocals: Nata Boundariver @crazycompass

no sorrow (with The Black Diamond Train)

CRAZY COMPASS: Penza, Russia - Belgium - France - Moscow, Russia (march 2020)

Music: Somebody Bo @somebody-bo & Deep Man @deep-man-2-121969062
Singing/words: Luciole Langevine @luciole-langevine & Nata Boundariver @crazycompass

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French text (Luciole Langevine):

I'm looking for words that slip away and wobble
Words
I'm looking for words that slip away and wobble
Words, words words
Black on white

I was looking for words
And here are colors that sparkle
Colours
I was looking for words
And here are colors

*

Russian text (Nata Boundariver):

I woke up.
And pure unminded world
opened before my eyes.
From viscous sounds -
straight, curved and spherical -
arose
High Day.

/

Original in Russian:

Я проснулась.
И перед глазами застыл
чистый неподуманный мир.
Из звуков вязких
прямых, кривых и шарообразных
возник
Праздник.

*

P.S. This flower grew on my windowsill from a bulb thrown by someone.

Free Download

ПРАЗДНИК / High Day (with Luciole Langevine, Deep Man & Somebody Bo)

We recorded this track for several months, forwarding it from one participant to another, until it changed beyond recognition! Recommended for childrens listening)

CRAZY COMPASS planet band: Russia Penza/Moscow, Croatia, United Kingdom (beginning of 2020)

Sergey from @jasny-svetly (Moscow, Russia) - drums, bass, guitar, male vocals
Somebody Bo @somebody-bo (Penza, Russia) - ocarina, jew's-harp
Samy Ben Rabah @samybr (Near Pazin, Croatia) - mandolin
Oliver Woods @oliver-woods-1 (United Kingdom) - guitar, ebow
Nata Boundariver @crazycompass (Moscow, Russia) - singing, drawing

P.S.

And also recall that the first issue of @Meticulous-Midgets Magazine was released: https://meticulousmidgets.bandcamp.com/album/meticulous-midgets-magazine-2020
About it: http://stopcran.ru/blog/2020-04-10-194

CRAZY COMPASS planet band - Домик для совы / Owl House

Seed germination and flowering) 🌻

CRAZY COMPASS: Russia Moscow/Penza, Spain, Croatia (summer 2020)

Sergey Kobzev @assembly-of-honey (Moscow, Russia) - drums, bass, flute
Pedro Acevedo / @eco-rem (Avilés, Spain) - jew's-harp
Alexander Bozhday @somebody-bo (Penza, Russia) - mysterious creaks
Samy Ben Rabah @samybr (Near Pazin, Croatia) - mandolin
Nata Boundariver @crazycompass (Moscow, Russia) - singing, drawing

P.S.

Soon the first Crazy Compass CD "Life Tree" will be released on @Meticulous-Midgets: https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/album/life-tree

CRAZY COMPASS planet band - Подсолнух / Sunflower

The track in support of MishuraMira's album (TinselOfTheWorld) by @Jasny-Svetly (2010) https://meticulousmidgets.bandcamp.com/album/mishuramira, released on CD at @Meticulous-Midgets: http://stopcran.ru/blog/2020-12-25-208 | World collaboration. Original 2010: https://soundcloud.com/jasny-svetly/the-way-to-the-sun

CRAZY COMPASS (2020):  Russia, Ukraine, Argentina, France, Germany, USA, Finland, Japan, Spain.
The collaboration involved 15 people from 9 countries:

Sergey Kobzev / @Assembly-of-honey (Russia): electric and acoustic guitars, tambourine, bass
@Zach-Schneider-1 (USA): tin whistle, tingsha bells, sleight bells, ankle bells
Heiko H.artmann / @h-artmann-1 (Germany): electric and acoustic guitars, handclapping & whistling, vocals, various stuff: metallofon, vargan,  percussion
Vladimir Kornienko / @user-705717370 (Russia): ukulele, vocals, gyro, electric guitar, various percussion
Oleksandr Zuzuk / @Deerevnia (Ukraine / Argentina): violin
@Janne-Nummela (Finland): percussions, fx guitar, sitar, mushrooms electronics)
@AngelOntalva (Spain): guitar solo
Steve Layton / @niwosound (USA): keyboards
@Henry-Koek (France): sansula, tibetian bowls, voices
Alexander Bozhday / @Somebody-Bo (Russia): electric guitar, ocarina, scythe
Alan Ingall / @newshoe (USA): accordion
@FuWatt (Japan): electric guitar
@Andjey-Wojciech (Russia): metallofon, vargan, ethnic drum, ocarina, harmonica, comb
@Alvaro-Barcala (Spain): invisible piano track!
Nata Boundariver / @CrazyCompass (Russia): magic, music, lyrics, painting, idea & unbending intent)

More about: http://stopcran.ru/news/2021-01-01-276

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WAY TO THE SUN (pidgin-english-version)

The way to the Sun,
which is laying in front,
splashes of the dance
spilling from the inside.
It will pour
in these bold eyes.
How are you live?
You can't live a simple.

How are you live?
How are you live?
How are you live?
How are you live?

The way to the Sun,
which is laying in the dark,
splashes of the dance
scattered on the ground.
It will pour
in these pale body.
How are you live?
How are you?

How are you live?
How are you live?
How are you?
How are you live?
How are you live?
How are you?

The way to the Sun,
which is from the within,
splashes of the dance
unreeling as tangles.
It will weave
in these subtle snares.
How are you live?
If you can - run away.

How are you live?
How are you live?
How are you live?
How are you live?

If you can - run away.

Lost - look for the Sun.
Lost - look for the Sun.
Lost - look for the Sun.
Lost - look for the Sun.
Lost - look for the Sun.
Lost - look for the Sun.
Lost - look for us...
look for us... look for us...
look for us... look for the Sun!

Look for us
Look for us
Look for us
Look for us
Look for us
Look for us
Look for us
Look for us

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Thank you all, my dears! We are together!!
Happy New Year and Merry Christmas!

МишураМира

CRAZY COMPASS planet band - WAY TO THE SUN  from МишураМира album by Ясный-Svetly (2020) see descr.

https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa/ilaria-boffa-crazy-compass-geography-of-translations

In support of the "Translations" album by @Ilaria_Boffa:  https://soundcloud.com/ilaria_boffa/sets/translations
On @Meticulous-Midgets label: http://stopcran.ru/news/2020-11-20-272

A year ago, we recorded our first joint track with Ilaria (https://soundcloud.com/crazycompass/ilaria-boffa-foreign), and then we agreed that we would do another one later in which each of us will read own poem in native language. Everything coincided. "We translated our voices into exact references and wording. Now, hear." 

CRAZY COMPASS: Padua, Italy - Moscow, Russia (november 2020)
https://crazycompass.bandcamp.com/track/geography-of-translations-ilaria-boffa-crazy-compass

Poem in Italian: Ilaria Boffa @Ilaria_Boffa
Poem in Russian, field recording & photo (poplars & wind): Nata Boundariver @CrazyCompass
Music: Sergey Kobzev @Assembly-of-Honey

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TRADUZIONI (Ilaria Boffa)

Una precisa geografia di pioppi bianchi
frassini e aceri circonda quest’area fluviale.
Narrazione di fruscii, conversazioni rumorose.
Traduzioni. Ciò che sentiamo e il linguaggio
udibile implicano indagini
sui modi di ascolto dell’altro.
In dubbio l’affettività, il riverbero degli oggetti
che scontra soggetti oltre noi.
Dentro quei metri cubi di suolo e aria
il suono prende spazio, costruisce e colpisce.
Neuro-trasforma e impatta la plasticità
delle cose.
Abbiamo tradotto le nostre voci in
riferimenti e formulazioni. Ora, ascoltami.

TRANSLATIONS 

A clear geography of silver poplars
ashes and maples surrounds this fluvial area.
A narrative of rustles, chatting loudly.
Translations. What we hear and the language
that makes it audible imply investigations
on others’ listening modes.
We question affectivity, objects’ reverbs
crashing into beings beyond us.
Inside those cubic metres of soil and air
noise spacialises, builds and hits.
It neuroshapes and impacts the plasticity
of things.
We translated our voices into exact
references and wording. Now, hear.

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ГЕОГРАФИЯ (Nata Boundariver)

На свете так много мест, куда я не смогу попасть.
Попасть бы хотя бы туда, где я есть.
Почти нигде и почти никогда.
Забытое слово я.

GEOGRAPHY 

There are so many places in the world where I cannot get.
Get at least where I am.
Almost nowhere and almost never.
Forgotten word I'm.

Geography of Translations (Ilaria Boffa & Crazy Compass)

CRAZY COMPASS: Russia, Belgium, USA (january 2021)

"Rainbow from pole to equator" (chukchi reggae). I want to dedicate this track to my grandmother, who turned into a rainbow. This quilt is also dedicated to her. I sewed it last summer when she was still alive. The recording was attended by:

Sergey Kobzev @Jasny-Svetly @Assembly-of-Honey (Moscow, Russia)  > drums, bass, acoustic guitar  
Laurent Donckers @Deep-Man-2-121969062 (Belgium) > wind pipe, pvc, plastic, and some small guitar 
Alexander Bozhday @Somebody-Bo (Penza, Russia) > ukulele, ocarina
Steve Layton @NiwoSound (Seattle, United States) > organ
Zach Schneider @Zach-Schneider-1 (New Hampshire, United States) > flute
Alan Ingall @NewShoe (North Carolina, United States) > accordion 
Nata Boundariver @CrazyCompass (Moscow, Russia) > singing, sewing)

P.S.

One of the first CRAZY COMPASS tracks, recorded 5 years ago, was also dedicated to grandparents: https://soundcloud.com/crazycompass/Universal-Celebrations

Universal Celebrations (remix by Ясный — Svetly):
https://soundcloud.com/crazycompass/universal-celebrations-remix

CRAZY COMPASS planet band - Радуга от полюса до экватора / Rainbow from pole to equator

The track was included in the spring compilation of the Danish label @NatureTales (https://soundcloud.com/naturetales/va-spring-meditations-preview-nt002), the release of which is expected on April 30th: naturetales.bandcamp.com/album/spring-meditations

And we have prepared a whole album of shamanic songs, which will soon be released on @Meticulous-Midgets (http://stopcran.ru)

CRAZY COMPASS: Penza - Moscow, Russia (march 2021)


@Somebody-Bo - shaman tambourine, theremin
@Jasny-Svetly - kitchenware
@CrazyCompass - singing

https://naturetales.bandcamp.com/track/spring-awakening

Spring Awakening [for Spring Meditations of Nature Tales label]

Hi, friends! My name is Nata. I live in Moscow / Russia & want to make the PLANET BAND!

https://soundcloud.com/crazycompass/sets/poetry
https://soundcloud.com/crazycompass/sets/universal-songs 

&

Song-project https://soundcloud.com/jasny-svetly 
World-live https://soundcloud.com/crazycompass-live 
Moscow-live @StateLibrary
Home-live @assembly-of-honey
Solo @GlassBeadGame

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