00:00 @cottonpills - landscape-012 
01:04 @cottonpills - landscape-arp2 
03:19 @41_30 - gate 13 
16:19 @ccntrr - passage of time 
20:17 @atoraye - kaleidoscope 
25:00 @celte_music - exospheric beetle

Space is a territory of unpredictable landscapes, in which it is unthinkable to find a person without external protection from the harsh natural conditions. The spacesuit separates the person from the dangerous environment, thereby ensuring their coexistence.
In the “Landscape” collection, Kappa and Kruzhok form a futuristic idea of a utilitarian spacesuit that allows one to be in the inner space of a person.

The “Landscape” collection coexists in three natural spaces - in the mountains, forest and sea. Each being a separate ecosystem, once again points us to the infinity of the world, to how individual phenomena are repeated in all its parts.
Kappa and Kruzhok go beyond conventional boundaries in an attempt to overcome space-time constraints.

released October 23, 2021

mixed and mastered with alexey litovchenko (false blusher)

144 rec. / cotton tapes / kruzhok

Landscape

Kruzhok x Kappa: Landscape (full album) // [KR002]

Just put on this track in the morning when you are so zorked and no longer understand what is happening.

10 AM

Manipulations of Bevissthet

What is the sound of the Russian dub? There is a storied history of attempts to adapt roots music to Russian soil, but most of them can be attributed to reggae (the so-called ‘northern’ variety) rather than dub. Gost has a history with the town of Smolensk. It’s home to Gamayun, whose great album Filterealism was released on our label last year. Now Anton, one of Gamayun’s members, presents his new duo Dubovaya Kolesnitsa (The Oaken Chariot). In his words, it has no connection to his other band at all and is an attempt to go back to the roots of a genre that doesn’t truly exist.

The Russian word for oak, ‘dub,’ looks exactly like the genre, and the chariot emerged from the name for the group’s jams – ‘telega’ – which can be translated as a cart. All the music here is the result of live improvisations: no samples, just instruments (notably Vasiliy Shilov's bass). These recordings have been slightly edited, and even the almost indecipherable texts are freestyle. There’s no place for real riddims in Russian dub: sometimes this record sounds like something akin to dub variations on underground Russian hip hop (and we mean that in the best possible way).

We should also remember that dub and reggae (and hip hop as well) all started as the voice of people. The voice of those who are always in the minority and try not to be silent. The most prominent dub producers and reggae performers were against hierarchy, imperialism, and colonialism — and their music was born out of the desire to protest against it. As Anton puts it, Oaken Chariot, the “Russian mutation of dub,” is an attempt of voicing the concern. And he links this attempt to a historic Russian tradition of Foolishness for Christ, also known as yurodstvo. The “fool” in question is not naïve at all; he’s trying to seem lunatic on purpose. For Anton, the music of Oaken Chariot is a rebellion with a cut-off tongue. Here, illegible speech, full of inarticulate sounds, is a sign of the inability of the statement. But this inability represents a statement itself that is inevitable.

Yet, the music of Oaken Chariot is genuinely fun, free, and mesmerizing (like the happenings of holy “fools”), but we could also approach it more conceptually. Theoretician Michael E. Veal describes dub as a ‘postsong’, taking the form of “linguistic, formal and symbolic indeterminacy.” The duo’s faintly eerie compositions call back to the notion of musical hauntology. There is an attempt, without any direct references, to reconstruct the feeling of something that was never there at all. A little nostalgic and very forward-thinking at the same time, the music of Oaken Chariot is best described in its own words. In the opening track, a voice can be heard saying “eto delo v lob,” which means something like “it’s a straight-on thing.” This is very direct, almost in the vein of folk music. This is a great – and, it must be said, successful – experiment in searching for the soul of Russian dub. Simple as that.

GOST018 Oaken Chariot "Biznes Time"

Side 1

A1: They are looking at us from above
A2: BIZNES TIME 08:39
A3: Free Poetry 01:51

Side 2
B1: Splendor of Wasteland
B2: Purer Than Love
B3: Volchok
B4: Random Regularities

Music and recording — Anton Dvoenko, Vasiliy Shilov
Mix — Anton Dvoenko
Mastering — @poducedbyflaty
Executive producer — Ildar Zaynetdinov
Cover – Eduard Kulemin "Field" 1988

12" LP full-color sleeve.
October 7, 2022

© «ГОСТ ЗВУК»

GOST018: Дубовая Колесница "Biznes Time"

Собранная из личных архивов аудиоработа отражает историческую и культурную многослойность Дома Наркомфина.

Участники музыкального проекта Kosaya Gora — Кедр Ливанский и Флати — создали коллаж из найденных в семейных архивах пленок, собственных полевых записей и новой музыки, записанной после посещения Дома Наркомфина. Меланхолический саундскейп вплетает голоса прошлого в тревожную звуковую ткань настоящего, совпадая с ощущением нестройности и нелинейности времени в здании, хранящем следы своей непростой истории. Там, где историко-культурные слои сосуществуют одновременно (как старая проводка соседствует с современной отделкой), прошлое оживает из небытия. Оживает и на уровне совмещения техник звукозаписи — в соседстве записей со старых бобин и с диктофона на смартфоне. ‍

Paperwall story — греза, обратная мрачной фантазии авангардного художника и поэта Велимира Хлебникова о «радио будущего», разносящем «стаи вестей из жизни духа», человеческую речь и неземное пение «молнийных птиц», но обладающая той же чарующей силой.

Kosaya Gora — инди-проект электронного продюсера и певицы Кедра Ливанского и экспериментального продюсера и визуального художника Флати. Для обоих участников проект задает новые направления художественных практик. Дебютный альбом проекта — Kosogor — гитарный фолк, соединенный с призрачным дрим-попом и гипнотическим вокалом.

Kosaya Gora: Paperwall story

B_O_O

Track from "Spade" LP
Released Jan 2016
https://oblastrec.bandcamp.com/album/spade

Spade. 93

A6 — East

Kyiv blues

Первый Солнечный

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Sun Rubber

faxxe or facsimile sound transmission
(un)existing free form fauna with niche electronic sound
ex-kruzhok radio (2019-2023)

watch our latest collaboration with "faux" gallery space, featuring @spraelle live: 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkKfLvxxyJY&t=1009s

STOP WAR IN UKRAINE
STOP WAR IN PALESTINE

Kruzhok x Kappa: Landscape (full album) // [KR002]

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