Nostalgia Por Mesozóica by Nikolaienko

Format: 12"LP
Catalogue number: Muscut 16LP
Release date: May 6, 2022
Limited to 300 copies

Format: Cassette
Catalogue number: Muscut 16C
Release date: May 6, 2022
Limited to 50 copies

“Nostalgia Por Mesozóica” is an exploration of "experimental exotica" consisted of synthesized tropical attributes — an artificial landscape isolated behind the glass frame. Reminiscent of recording techniques and sonorities ubiquitous in the 60’s and 70’s, it could conceivably have been intended as a soundtrack for the Mesozoic Era exhibition at your favorite Natural History museum. Limited to 1OO copies. Includes hand-numbered and stamped postcard.


Tracklist:
A1 Muzak For Mesozoic Showreel (feat. Arthur Mine)
A2 Troglodytes (feat. Arthur Mine)
A3 The Ancient Musical Complex Of Mammoth Bones
A4 Glass Flowers
A5 Sacrifice I
B1 Misantropicalia
B2 Dark Archeo
B3 Sacrifice II (Curse of Snakes Valley)
B4 ExotiCon
B5 Yalta (feat. Amphibian Man II)


Nikolaienko: modular synth percussion, tape manipulations, processing, effects.
Arthur Mine: Arp Odyssey (track A1), Venta synth-organ (track B2)
Composed by Nikolaienko and Arthur Mine and recorded at Labyrint Of Echoes Studio in Kyiv during 2017—2019.
Mastering by Flaty
Photos by Dmytro Nikolaienko
Muscut 16, 2020/2022

Reviews:
Nikolaienko has described Muscut’s mission as a kind of “audio archaeology”—perhaps in reference to the dusty, cryptic air of the label’s music, which takes inspiration from the abstracted sounds that Daphne Oram and Delia Derbyshire were creating with the BBC Radiophonic Workshop in the ’60s. On the label founder’s upcoming record, due out in May, he extends his archaeological obsession to the natural history museum. Nostalgia por Mesozócia is framed as an imaginary soundtrack for fossil exhibitions and dinosaur dioramas. Its nostalgia is many-layered: Analog chirps and liquid gurgles summon images of 200-million-year-old rainforests, while wheezing organs and clanking marimbas evoke the easy-listening exotica made popular in the ’50s by artists like Arthur Lyman. Mingling kitsch with surrealism, it makes for a fanciful and engrossing trip into the past. — Pitchfork (Philip Sherburne)﻿

'Nostalgia Por Mesozóica' is Nikolaienko's attempt to recreate an exotik mood while channeling the imagined world of the dinosaurs. He wanted to produce a Natural History museum soundtrack to the Mesozoic Era (the "Age of Reptiles" comprising the Triassic, Jurassic and Cretaceous periods), and has managed it by combining the quirky organ music and Fourth World-adjacent percussion that became the staples of the exotica genre. In Nikolaienko's hands, it's approached with love and care - his sound sources are familiar and funny - with clearly a lot of genuine love for the subject matter.
'The Ancient Musical Complex Of Mammoth Bones' deploys bargain basement plastic rhythms offset by Nikolaienko's odd electronic treatments and hypnotic synths. 'Misantropicalia' is a swampy approximation of a distant era, using nostalgic memories of the past to connect the dots between aesthetic oldness, archaic global musical traditions and a collapsing culture. At its best, the album sounds like the high points of ex-Skater Spencer Clark's varied catalog (think Vodka Soap or Monopoly Child Star Searchers) and harmonizes with Christina Vantzou's bizarre and brilliant "Multi Natural" full-length. — Boomkat

Nostalgia Por Mesozóica (LP)

Nostalgia Por Mesozóica (LP) by Nikolaienko (Muscut 16LP, 12"/Cass, 2022) Excerpts

And the cares of this world, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

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VA Test Pressing II
Muscut 10
12" LP
Release date: 10 Nov 2018

Ukrainian label Muscut celebrates its anniversary - Muscut X (10) Test Pressign II - is the tenth record in a row. The first release was published in 2012 on 7 inches and was called simply Test Pressing. Like six years ago, the current vinyl is a compilation of Muscut's “residents”, as well as  new friends of the label. Test Pressing II is 12 inches on which there are exactly ten tracks.
Both sides are significantly different in color of mood. Party A starts with dub-drone sketches of key figures of the Odessa underground - Wildstyle Crew and Bryozone. Then we hear the mantra-like  M2 - the work of the creative union of Nicola Ratti, Mads Emil Nielsen together with Nikolaenko. The Canadian sound-artist Mark Templeton continues the line of rhythmic textures crowned with unhurried percussion - it is in all senses of Soft Education at number four. The first part is completed by an exquisite curtsy from the Andrew Pekler label frequenter called Underwater Nocturne as a soundtrack for the perfect tea ceremony.
The second side confidently sets a completely different compilation rhythm from the very start - the tribal tribal dance from the Berlin project Native Instrument instantly introduces into a trance. It is followed by a warm, enveloping minimal synth track from the Ukrainian trio Nisantashi Primary School. The middle of the second side is decorated with the pensive house-ballad of St. Petersburg producer Fadeev known as AEM Rhythm Cascade. Another Russian settled next to him - Muscovite Oleg Buyanov, aka OL, with a massive broken dub Nutmeg. The final composition consists of burning afrosint motifs from luminary Odessan Vakula.

Tracklist:

A1 Wildstyle Crew - Intro (edit)
A2 Bryozone - Juicy Quiddity
A3 Ratti Nielsen Nikolaienko - M2
A4 Mark Templeton - Soft Education
A5 Andrew Pekler - Underwater Nocturne

B1 Native Instrument - Thud
B2 Nisantashi Primary School - Flaneur 
B3 AEM Rhythm Cascade - Biruza
B4 OL - Nutmeg
B5 Vakula - Afromadness

Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Graphic design by Jugoceania

Order

VA Test Pressing II, Muscut 10 (12'', 2018)

Following the comprehensive introduction Le Raccourci, Julien Dechery delves further into Sebastian Gandera’s seemingly endless archive to present Contre-Sens. Culling from various cassette albums, rehearsal tapes, demos and answering machine recordings, the two part mix collages some of the French composer’s earliest work, when the sampler was a core component of his apparatus; tender passages disrupted by moments of lunacy. Returning the source material to it’s intended form, the physical release is limited to 100 metallic silver C60s, with sleeve design from Steele Bonus.

Exclusive to Efficient Space, Commend (New York), Balades Sonores (Paris) and Skydiver (Melbourne)

SEBASTIAN GANDERA - Contre Sens (Excerpt) (ES008.5) OUT NOW

New track out on @12th-isle 's V.A comp 'Inkosi' alongside Nikolaienko, Cru Servers, Robert Bergman and Luar Domatrix.

https://soundcloud.com/12th-isle/va-inkosi-isle0075

In shops worldwide in early October, limited to 300 copies.
Distribution by Rubadub
Artwork by Al White

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from the "Pilgrimage" LP (NNF366)
Not Not Fun / 2020

PILGRIMS PROGRESS: 
https://xyrmusic.bandcamp.com/album/pilgrimage
https://midheaven.com/item/pilgrimage-by-xyr

X.Y.R. "Black Monk In The Dunes"

https://12thisle.bandcamp.com/album/on-nature

We've decided to take a brief traipse away from our typical release schedule to present this digital exclusive from Athens based multi-instrumentalist Christos Chondropoulos. We're currently crossing the t's and dotting the i's on a forthcoming double LP, but such is the quality and quantity of his archive we opted to release these 9 recordings with a coinciding riso print from Crud* for you to do with as you please. Strictly available via Bandcamp, releases August 25th. From Christos:

"Philosophically you can regard this music as a fresh view of the ideas of Ferdinand de Saussure - Structuralism and Deconstruction. It is a new approach when it comes to linguistics, the traditional music of the area, where Greece stands as a crossroads and future intelligences. I was interested to hide a fundamental philosophical question in music which would have the same qualities and immediacy as the authentic local music of the area."

*Slow-to-cop chumps beware: The prints are a one-off run. Once they're gone, they're gone.

On Nature (12th Isle Masters)

Christos Chrondropoulos - On Nature (ISLE-DR01)

from  Museum festival 2020/Odessa

https://www.buymeacoffee.com/mlnptz

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We're very pleased to announce the simultaneous launch of our new division, Ediciones Capablanca, which will focus on DIY limited editions while expanding the label's format output into carefully crafted tapes, prints, zines and clothing, and its first reference, Madrid’s “k-jazz” combo Metametal, which offer us ‘Desgasta Meseta’. 

A daring, beautiful album which sounds unlike anything else you’ve heard. Borja’s granular synthesis experiments having endless after hours poetic conversations with Jacobo’s mutant sax, a puerta cerrada. Nada Bien makes sure the meaning is not in the words but in the nonssence. Melancolía tries to find them but No Hay Futuro has wrapped Garage Hermético into an ethereal, invisible blanket. 

Housed in a transparent cassette + snapbox with Riso printed sleeve on handcrafted Michel paper and dymo spine designed by Pablo Mirón.

releases November 1, 2020 

Música improvisada por Metametal entre 2017 y 2019 
Effectos de guitarra en Jenz Jazz Montemor por Beni Bratchel 
Voz y letra en Futile por Nada Bien 
Diseño por Pablo Mirón 

Gracias a SVS, Emil Saiz, Damián Schwartz y Natxo Checa.

Metametal - Desgasta Meseta (album medley)

Taken from I Stumble And Then I Fall, the first release in a new series of Intimations by A Colourful Storm. Out now on digital formats and December 30, 2020 on cassette.

Purchase: https://acolourfulstorm.bandcamp.com/album/i-stumble-and-then-i-fall

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