SOL BRUCE RANDALL

oursonrecords2022@gmail.com

metaphorical rhetorical oracle

Future Nuggets is a Bucharest label endeavoured with searching or inventing a local psychedelic scene informed by the past but made for the times to come. In the upside-down music world we  encounter shadows of an industry that never fully expired yet never consistently existed. A realm where reality is made out of fictions, out of fragments, rumours, populated sometimes only by names with no bodies. Sole reminders of a future endlessly coming together.

90s, Drum & Bass, Asian Undergroud, Dub, Soul, Gospel, Ska, Techno

БALKANSKY is an audio-visual art project that combines traditional Bulgarian music with electronic sound and vision. It is realized in collaboration between Ivo Christov and Ivan Shopov. Later on the musical legend Theodosii Spassov joined the project and nowadays, all three of them present the project live all around the world. When the project is presented as a live act it includes music performed by Theodosii Spassov, mixed with electronic sounds and beats by Ivan Shopov and interactive visuals from Ivo Christov.

Three years after their debut album "Kuker" and its huge success, БALKANSKY present their new album "ORENDA", featuring the guest musicians Yanka Rupkina (Vocal), Haig Yazdjian (Oud, Vocal), Ivan Georgiev (Kaba Bagpipe) and Milen Kirov (Piano).

"ORENDA" contains 10 tracks and it was released on CD and limited edition 180 gram red vinyl by Kuker Music.

Vinyl & CD mastered by Shawn Hatfield at Audible Oddities Studio.

Recorded 2011 - 2012 at БALKANSKY studio.
Released - 18 October 2012

БALKANSKY are:
THEODOSII SPASSOV / kaval, trumpet & voice / www.theodosiispassov.com
IVAN SHOPOV / programming and mixing / www.ivanshopov.com
IVO CHRISTOV / arrangements and concept / www.ivochristov.com
contact : info@balkansky.bg
Online Store : www.store.balkansky.bg

KUKER MUSIC is an independent Bulgarian record label and music publisher founded in 1999 by music producer and graphic designer Ivo Christov, music manager Dimiter Panev and sound engeneer and musician Roumen Spassov. 
For more than 10 years Kuker Music have released albums of the most notable artists in contemporary Bulgarian music history - Theodosii Spassov, Antoni Donchev, Eva Quartet and many others. In 2005 the album "Fairground" by Ivo Papasov produced and published by Kuker Music have won the Audience Award at the traditional BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music. Currently the company has ceased its activities and its founders are dealing with individual projects.

Ivo "Kuker" Christov is a Bulgarian graphic designer, music producer and photographer currently based in Sofia, Bulgaria. Since 1989 he has worked as a graphic designer of musical products. Ivo is best known for his design works for various releases by famous Bulgarian and foreign musicians and bands. He has done artwork for over 300 albums so far.

TERRABEATS CONCEPT SIDE PROJECT - Sonic experiment from the heart of the dark laboratories of science fiction and burlesque, where electronics meet the dark depths of the human mind. This musical project delivers a unique fusion of glitch electronic drumbeat rhythms, ambient landscapes, and drone sounds, shaped by precise sound design, synthesizers, and modular systems that bring every note to life live.

Behind the project is a fictional character — Dr. Zilisaw Zbigniew, a mentally ill scientist with a dark past, an experimenter who manipulated his audience using sound waves of different frequencies in the hope of modifying perception and reality itself. His story tells of his escape from Russia and a new life in Poland where he continues his experiments alongside his wife Katarzyna, his partner in crime and science.

The sounds of this project are not just music. They are audio journeys through worlds of mental shifts, science on the edge of madness, and visual images reminiscent of old comic book fantasy. Prepare for a unique experience that breaks genre boundaries and introduces you to the dark world of Dr. Zilisaw and his obsessive quest for sonic transcendence.
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TERRABEATS CONCEPT SIDE PROJECT - Dr Zilisaw Zbigniew to dźwiękowy eksperyment wywodzący się z mrocznych laboratoriów science fiction i burleski, gdzie elektronika łączy się z głębiami ludzkiego umysłu. Ten muzyczny projekt to unikalna fuzja glitchowych beatów elektronicznych, ambientowych pejzaży i dźwięków drone, ukształtowanych precyzyjnym designem dźwięku, syntezatorami i systemami modularnymi, które ożywiają każdy dźwięk na żywo.

Za tym nazwiskiem kryje się fikcyjna postać — Dr Zilisaw Zbigniew, psychicznie chory naukowiec z mroczną przeszłością, eksperymentujący z dźwiękowymi falami o różnych częstotliwościach, mając nadzieję na modyfikację percepcji i samej rzeczywistości. Jego historia opowiada o ucieczce z Rosji oraz nowym życiu w Polsce, gdzie kontynuuje swoje eksperymenty wraz z żoną Katarzyną, partnerką w zbrodni i nauce.

Dźwięki tego projektu to nie tylko muzyka; to audio-podróże przez świat mentalnych przemian, nauki na granicy szaleństwa i wizualnych obrazów starej, komiksowej fantazji. Przygotujcie się na niezwykłe doświadczenie, które przekracza granice gatunków i wprowadza w mroczny świat Dr Zilisa i jego obsesyjnej pogoni za dźwiękowym transcendencją.
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TERRABEATS CONCEPT SIDE PROJECT-  Zvučni eksperiment iz srca mračnih laboratorija naučne fantastike i burleske, gde se elektronika susreće sa mračnim dubinama ljudskog uma. Ovaj muzički projekt donosi jedinstvenu fuziju glitch elektronskih drumbeat ritmova, ambijentalnih pejzaža i drone zvukova, oblikovanih preciznim dizajnom zvuka, sintisajzerima i modularnim sistemima koji oživljavaju svaku notu uživo.

Iza projekta krije se fiktivni lik — Dr Zilisaw Zbigniew, duševno bolestan naučnik sa mračnom prošlošću, eksperimentator koji je manipulisao auditorijumom pomoću zvučnih talasa različitih frekvencija u nadi da će modifikovati percepciju i samu stvarnost. Njegova priča govori o bekstvu iz Rusije i novom životu u Poljskoj gde nastavlja svoje eksperimente zajedno sa suprugom Kataryznom, partnerkom u zločinu i nauci.

Zvukovi ovog projekta nisu samo muzika.To su audio putovanja kroz svetove mentalnih promena, nauke na ivici ludila i vizualnih slika stare stripovske fantazije. Pripremite se za jedinstveno iskustvo koje razbija granice žanrova i uvodi vas u mračni svet Dr Zilisawa i njegove opsesivne potrage za zvučnom transcendencijom.

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