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From the Mascot LP by Bichkraft!  Order your LP or CD at www.wharfcatrecords.com!

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Release Date:  4/21/2015
Personnel:  Dima Novichenko, Jenia Bichowski, Serzh Kupriychuk, Jenia Machina

RIYL:  The Jesus and Mary Chain, early Velvet Underground, Big Black, Sonic Youth

From Kiev to Kansas City, 20-somethings the world over tend to traffic in the same sort of distractions from modern life: clothes, sneakers, cars, love. Mascot, the debut LP from Ukranian guitar and drum machine noise makers, Bichcraft, holds these things for what they are: fleeting diversions from the bleak realities of modern times and an increasingly uncertain political landscape. That the band composed, wrote and recorded Mascot’s eight songs in its hometown of Kiev only adds to their authority on the matter.  As Dima Novichenko sings in the album opener ‘Didn’t Know,’ “There are erased numbers on your road… We better cover our heads.”  
This is heavy, paranoid music in the shape of frenetic jams like “A4,” in which waves of dual-guitar noise accompany a digitized howl, chanting from deep inside the mix. Often, guitar interludes emerge quickly and take a song in a new direction as they do in "Might Night Dicks."  On this track Novichenko and Bichowski display an extensive post-punk guitar vocabulary. They are as fluent in Psychocandy as they are early SY.  After hearing the record’s interwoven guitar lines, it should come as no surprise that the two originally met up to play garage jazz before Serzh Kupriychuk and Jenia Machina joined to handle bass and drum machines, respectively.   
For its brutality and chaos, Mascot has some undeniably pretty moments: the lilting guitar refrain that kicks off “Bushes,” for example, or the often poetic imagery in Novichenko and Bichowski’s lyrics about the natural world, love and decay. Still, these nods to beauty always lead back to fractured songs about suburban scenes where mankind’s disregard for nature is just a warning of greater dangers looming on the edge of town. 

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'First track sounds like dark twisted fantasy about carnival in some cheap tropical spa. The other one will reach your guts and throw them upside down.' 

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V. Dashkevich — from “Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson” — “Acquaintance”
M. Dunaevsky — from “Mary Poppins, goodbye” — “Lady Perfection”
Е. Krylatov — from “the adventures of Electronic” — “clocks are beating on the old tower”
A. Rybnikov — from “the adventures of Buratino”
A. Rybnikov  — from Nanny with a mustach
G. Gladkov — from “Fullstop Fullstop Comma”
G. Gladkov — from “An ordinary Miracle Foxtrot”
A. Petrov — from “Watch out for the Automobile”
A. Petrov — from “Walking the streets of Moscow”
S. Gubadulina — from “Mowgli”
A. Schnittke — from “A fairy tale of travels”
Е. Krylatov — from “Sorcerers”— “Snowflake”
Y. Chernavski — from ”Above the Rainbow”— “Islands”
M. Dunaevsky — from “Mary Poppins, goodbye” —  Waltz
Е. Krylatov — from “Oh, That Nastya”
A. Zacepin —from “31st of June”
A. Zacepin — from ”Secrets of a third planet” — “Ouverture”
S. Gubadulina — from “Mowgli”
G. Gladkov — “An ordinary Miracle” — “An Ending song”
V. Lebedev — from “Gardemarines go ahead!” —“Song About Friendship”
A. Rybnikov — from “the adventures of Buratino” —BU RA TI NO
G. Gladkov — from “Fullstop Fullstop Comma”
V. Dashkevich — from “Sherlock Holmes and doctor Watson” — “Ending”

GMA11 - Kate NV

The wonderfully talented and ever rising Russian producer Kate NV joins us this week with perfectly curated trip to the many corners of abstract electronica and experimental pop. Absolutely wonderful work from one of the finest artists around.

Click on the Métron button to see the full feature including tracklist and an interview with Kate. Or just head to metronmusik.com for more of our mixes and features.

Soundcloud: @kate-nv
Facebook: /nv4real
Artwork: Jack Hardwicke

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With the release of her new album, Room for the Moon, due on RVNG Intl in less than a month, Moscow based artist Kate NV mines her collection of obscure Russian and Japanese pop and disco for an uplifting dose of brightness this Sunday. Find out more → https://crackm.ag/3675vEF

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Sunday Mix: Kate NV

Electric Africa

Pata Piya (Remastered)

Further information: bleep.com/features/bleep-mix-143-kate-nv

In her contribution to Bleep’s mix series, art-pop luminary Kate NV delivers a selection of tunes which provide a window into her singular musical style. The Russian artist proclaims these tracks to be “for those lazy days when you can’t get out of the bed cause you are tired and the sky is grey, but you are still in a good mood and don’t mind listening to some cheerful music while being in [a] horizontal position". Cuts from Annie Anxiety and Frank Zappa are among the selections here, but what’s really notable is how one can draw links between all of this music and the synthetic songcraft of NV’s own albums. From Talk Talk-esque post-punk to post-minimalist rhythm pieces, fourth world soundscapes to early synth composition, this is a delightful and fascinating hour of listening.

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