A tribute to Pyotr Mamonov - musician, actor and a great soul

Мамонов И Алексей - Автобус МОА (Koyil Edit)

There is a fine line between day and night that seems visible on Fama87’s (@fama-87) debut cassette on Gost Zvuk, aptly named День, ночь (Day, Night). There is no difference between “daytime” and “nighttime” tracks. They are always somewhere in between. Fama87 is no stranger to the label family. He has frequently played at our parties, has collaborated with Flaty and Nocow as part of Wax Paper Cup and has done a few releases with Flaty alone (as Underwraps and FFAA). Both of them featured as guests on this tape. rforest seems like a dialogue between Flaty and Fama87, with a melancholic melody and a persistent beat. Nocow’s gentle voice enriches both Останься со Мной (Stay with Me) and Проснуться на Восходе (Awaken at Dawn).

Despite Fama87’s background in the world of instrumental hip-hop, it’s definitely not a beat tape. He just seamlessly glides back and forth between genres in a continuous stream. On the album you can feel the echoes of ambient, electro, house, hip-hop, R&B, IDM, field recordings and old film music. The hidden plot of the album reveals itself after a few listens. It’s all about the eternal cycle of time: day follows night and night follows day, and so on and so forth.

GZC005: Fama87 "Day, Night"

Side A
Airport Fog (2:47)
Chords Power Soul (3:06)
Stay With Me ft. @nocow (1:31)
Dub Gait (3:49)
rforest ft. @producedbyflaty (02:55)
Kak Son (4:23)
Tec Tes (4:05)

Side B
Raise On The Sun ft. Nocow (3:22)
Lirica (2:11)
Skazka (2:19)
Thank you (2:51)
Kalimba (1:53)
Itchi (1:57)
Chrome (3:39)
Den, Noch (1:04)
Ashes (3:25)

Music – Oleg Fomenko 
Mastering – Aleksei Nikitin
Word – Artem Makarskiy
Cover – "Kosogor" by N. Bisti, 1980
Executive Producer – Ildar Zaynetdinov

October 1st, 2021 
Lebyazhye, Russian Federation
© «ГОСТ ЗВУК»

GZC005: Фама87 "День, Ночь"

@bogdaaamn: «С детства мой самый любимый жанр в кино — это триллер. Детективы-расследования о серийных убийцах, похищениях, оккультных организациях и так далее. Конец 90-х и начало нулевых — особенный пласт кино с жанровым постоянством. "Семь", "8мм", "Пленницы", "Молчание ягнят", "Шестое чувство", "Пляж", "Игра", "Девятые врата", "На гребне волны", "Фарго", "Власть страха", "Щепка", "Ворон". Все фильмы на разные темы, но с общими стилевыми привязками. 

Наверное, правильнее назвать этот подкаст "микстейпом" — с саундтреком к неснятому фильму. Здесь есть вступление, где детектив B отправляется в город N, изучая подробности дела. Здесь есть завязка — знакомство с милым городишком и его странными жителями. Здесь есть первое тело, на осмотр которого наш детектив выехал наземедлительно после очередного допроса. Здесь есть тайна, хтонь, погоня и, конечно же, сцены в клубе.

Эмоциональный диапазон очень большой. Вся собранная музыка схожа с саундтреками к фильмам тех годов. Трип-хоп, даб и восточные мотивы, когда герой оказывается в самом криминальном районе штата»

Ушки на макушке 36: BOGDAMN — Музыка для неснятого триллера

Pavel Milyakov & Yana Pavlova — strong-willed

Премьера трека с нового релиза лейбла «ГОСТ ЗВУК» — приготовьтесь, вас целует Джа.

Biznes Time

Purer Than Love

Психопремьера: Oaken Chariot / Дубовая колесница — Purer Than Love

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"

Twinkling synths, brass horns and synthesizer joined to create a fusion of old and new, creating a sense of high drama.

High Fashion

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

GZC005: Фама87 "День, Ночь"

Gost Zvuk Records

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