система | system continues to act in wartime anyway!
Right now this is the most difficult time for Ukraine we decided to continue to share and promote Ukrainian artists' music and to develop the Ukrainian electronic scene. So today we're back to our audience with an incredible album "Kombimezon" by Ukrainian Odesa-based artist Polje aka Viktor Konstantinov. Here is what the artist's saying about his own material:
~ "My name is Viktor, I am a self-taught musician from Odesa, Ukraine. I started recording and posting my first songs on the Internet somewhere around 2013.
Polje is my main alias, under which I release music and perform in the format of electronic live or as a DJ since 2017.
"Kombinezon" (“jumpsuit” in English) is the first LP under this name. This album is a soup that took time to gather ingredients: traveling, sitting at home, trying to experience life in the capital, the opportunity to look at the context of the hometown from the outside, catching influences from art, literature, and more.
It turns out that I belong to the type of musicians who find it difficult to work in one style. I rarely manage to do something whole and at the same time relatively large in volume. But this time I solved this problem for myself: gradually I identified the basic set of sounds, instruments, and ways to use them. Then the sound produced easily absorbed the rest of the colorful community - as a comfortable jumpsuit.
Kyiv / Odesa 2021-2022"
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система | system все одно продовжує діяти у військовий час!
Зараз це найскладніший час для України, та ми вирішили продовжувати релізити та просувати музику українських артистів і розвивати українську електронну сцену. Тож сьогодні ми повертаємося до нашої аудиторії з неймовірним альбомом «Kombinezon» українського одеського виконавця Polje aka Віктора Константинова. Ось що артист каже про власний матеріал:
~ "Мене звати Віктор, я - музикант-самоук із Одеси. Свої перші пісні почав записувати і викладати в інтернет десь у 2013-му році.
Polje - мій основний псевдонім, під яким я публікую свою музику та виступаю в форматі електронного лайву або як ді-джей з 2017-го.
«Kombinezon» - це перший LP під цим ім'ям. Цей альбом є таким супом, збір інгредієнтів до якого потребував часу: мандрування, сидіння вдома, спроби відчути життя в столиці, можливість подивитися на контекст рідного міста зі сторони, виловлювання впливів з мистецтва, літератури тощо.
Так вийшло, що я відношуся до того типу музикантів, яким важко працювати в одному напрямі. Мені рідко вдається зробити щось цільне і водночас відносно велике за обсягом. Але цього разу я вирішив для себе цю проблему: поступово я визначив основний набір звуків, інструментів та шляхів їхнього використання. Далі вироблене звучання легко вдягло в себе решту різнобарвної спільноти - як зручний комбінезон.
Київ / Одеса 2021-2022"
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Album cover - Oleksandr Naselenko (photo), Alina Radomska (design), Kseniia Shcherbakova (artist), Dasha Chechushkova (model), Stanislove (trident)
Lyrics and music are written, recorded, performed, and mixed by Viktor Konstantinov, except:
Track 1
~ a sample from the song "Nich Yaka Misiachna" by Kobza was used,
~ a fragment from the poem “Foxtrot” by Mykola Bazhan was used, reads Maria Zadvorna
Track 7
~ fragments from Maik Yohansen's poem "Lullaby" are used
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Обкладинка - Олександр Населенко (фото), Аліна Радомська (дизайн), Ксенія Щербакова (художниця), Даша Чечушкова (модель), Stanislove (тризуб)
Слова і музика (запис, виконання і зведення) - Віктор Константінов, окрім:
Трек 1
~ використано семпл із пісні “Ніч яка місячна” гурту Кобза
~ використано фрагмент із віршу “Фокстроти” Миколи Бажана, читає Марія Задворна
Трек 7
~ використано фрагменти з віршу “Колискова” Майка Йогансена

Kombimezon

Polje - Yasne Mi

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Good friends from Décalé. Records are back with another awesome reissue, this time with "Le Disque De l'Art Gué", a 10-track compilation, highlighting the avant-garde and dreamlike work of Swiss Artist Fizzè. In between medieval ballad, acoustic industrial and psychedelic world music, the reissue includes original tracks from "Kulu Hatha Mamnua" and "Manoeuvres d'Automne" albums released in 1987, along with unreleased materials and remixes by Fizzè.

Out on March 17 in vinyl and digital:
https://decalerecords.bandcamp.com/album/fizz-le-disque-de-lart-gu

Le Disque de l'Art Gué

℘ཞɛɱıɛཞɛ ≈ Fizzè - Kayannica [Décalé. Records]

Felt

Taken from Roma Vjazemski — Golden Microphone From Rainy Sicily
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Golden Microphone From Rainy Sicily is a debut LP by Estonian musician Roma Vjazemski. Roma is a co-founder of the lovely SAD FUN record label and the duo Fruit Express. Golden Microphone From Rainy Sicily first appeared as a two-track 8” dubplate single with an edition of 85 copies (SAD FUN, 2020).

Format: C40, cassette / Digital
Catalog: Muscut 29C / Muscut 29
Edition: 50, hand-numbered
File under: ambient, dub, experimental
Release day: 26 May 2023

Side A: 
Golden Microphone From Rainy Sicily Pt.1 
Waiting For Her To Get Ready
Bluesman`s Blues 
Horses of Uhum 
Science And Alchemy in Uraniborg

Side B: 
Golden Microphone From Rainy Sicily Pt.2 
Sammal 
I Used To Have (feat. Tapes) 
Suurupis 
Car to L.A (Gone Forever)

Mastering by Gennadiy Boychenko 
Artwork by Anna Makarchuk
Photo by Kristopher Luigend
Graphic design by (DN) daynight.info 
Riso print by Hands on Press 
Muscut, 2023

Golden Microphone From Rainy Sicily

Waiting For Her To Get Ready

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Roma Vjazemski - Waiting For Her To Get Ready (Muscut 29 Cass, 2023)

100 copies are available on undyed natural color vinyl directly from ImportantRecords.com 

Christina Kubisch’s Stromsänger finds this legendary sound artist at the top of her game mixing electromagnetic wave recordings with a score for six voices, creating powerful results. 

Stromsänger is based on a collaboration with the Norwegian vocal ensemble Trondheim Voices and on a special experience while researching and recording electromagnetic waves in the city of Trondheim.

“The general theme of the composition is the idea of sounds which travel. During a tram ride from the city up to the hills with an old tram I discovered not only stunning views of the surrounding landscape but as well a special soundscape. Wearing a custom made induction headphones, I could hear the normally hidden electromagnetic fields of the tram, which were so impressive and musical to me that I immediately decided to base my piece for Trondheim Voices on this discovery.

As a start, a series of pure vocal recordings were produced by Trondheim Voices while listening to a choice of electromagnetic tram sounds and following score instructions. This material was mixed in my Berlin studio and afterward was played back through a multi-loudspeaker setup into the room of the Elisabeth Church in Berlin and was instantaneously recorded. The emerged recording was played back and recorded again. The process of playing back the previous recording was repeated numerous times, generating numerous “re-recordings”, until the voices sounded aethereal and abstract. The last one of these recordings became the very beginning of the Stromsänger piece.

Part A is based on the electromagnetic sounds of the waiting tram and previously recorded voices. The singers come on stage and start to sing together with their recorded part which slowly fades out while the live singing takes over: a kind of choral for electrical tram waves and voices.

Part B is based on the actual tram ride with strong and intense electromagnetic sounds.  The single recordings were treated electronically and were divided into six channels. Each singer has chosen one of these files and improvises with the magnetic sounds as a soloist or in duos or trios.

Part C is based on the itinerary of the tram ride to Lian, where a pilgrim's path starts. The names of the single stops, which have very beautiful and poetic names, are performed together as a kind of "sound poetry". The singers walk around on stage and/or can choose special positions for their performance. The recording of the word "Lian", the final stop, was recorded beforehand and played back and re-recorded several times in the open Norwegian landscape near the final tram stop. The voices slowly disappear and fade out.”

- Christina Kubisch, 2024

Trondheim Voices:  Sissel Vera Pettersen, Ingrid Lode, Siri Gjære, Anita Kaasbøll, Heidi Skjerve, Natali Abrahamsen Garner

Voice recordings: Daniel Formo, Eckehard Güther, Lars Ove Fossheim
Electromagnetic recordings: Christina Kubisch
Electronic editing of electromagnetic recordings: Tom Thiel
Sound design and mixing in  Berlin, sound director concert in Trondheim: Ecki Güther  

The premiere of Stromsänger was in the Radhussalen Trondheim August 20th, 2022.

Christina Kubisch & Trondheim Voices Stromsänger LP - April 26. 2024

Nocture

02 Part 2

Recorded live at The Storeroom, Letchworth on 1st November 2025

Eat Their Own Young - Live At The Storeroom

A journey from Earth to new galaxies, inspired by todays hypnotic synth pioneers in anticipation of Merrin Karras' upcoming album, Apex. Available for pre-order now: http://www.astrangelyisolatedplace.com/asipv005-merrin-karras-apex

More info on the mix: http://asip.me/journeyupwards

01. ASIP - Ground
02. Abul Mogard - Bound Universe
03. Steve Moore - Aldebran Exchange
04. Merrin Karras - Apex
05. Alessandro Cortini - Retta
06. Oneohtrix Point Never - Months
07. Donnacha Costello - Ten Ton
08. Merrin Karras - Isolation
09. Majeure - Solar Maximum 2
10. Stellardrone - The Belt of Orion
11. Steve Moore - Light Echoes II

Buy 'Apex'

ASIP - Journey Upwards

Deftones - Be Quiet And Drive - Rain Dog Refix

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Ambient & electronica music blog, mix series, record label and radio station. Est. 2008.