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

Мамонов И Алексей - Автобус МОА (Koyil Edit)

Sorang, the debut album of Yalta native Wulffius (@wulffius), represents his work over the last eight years. The playful creature on the cover, Stone Eater, is based on childhood sketches of the producer's father. The album's name alludes to the first collection of his father's poems, which took its name from a short story by Konstantin Paustovsky, a master of nature writing in Russian prose. Sorang is the name of the south wind that "blows once in centuries," and you can hear its unique warmth in these tracks. There is a sense of wholeness here, a palpable style and atmosphere that permeates the individual pieces.

Wulffius creates what he refers to as "B-sides": something too strange to be danceable, with "complex ease" and rhythmical variety. The music has a charming serenity and beauty thanks to Wulffius' intuitive approach, which is childlike and whimsical in the best possible sense. By the way, Paustovsky wrote Sorang in an hour and a half at a speed writing competition. You can hear a similar spontaneity here, but make no mistake, this is the work of a master that has been crafted over a period of years. It all comes from experience.

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«Sorang» — дебютный альбом ялтинца Wulffius, собранный из его работ последних 8 лет. Забавный персонаж на обложке, Камнеед, основан на детских рисунках его отца, а слово «Sorang» дублирует название первого отцовского поэтического сборника. Впервые появилось оно в коротком рассказе Константина Паустовского. Соранг — это название жаркого южного ветра, который «дует один раз за многие сотни лет». Вы действительно можете почувствовать тепло от предложенных музыкальных композиций. Точно так же вы можете ощутить цельность альбома, его особый стиль и атмосферу, которая передается от трека к треку.

Wulffius создает музыку, которую сам называет «би-сайдами»: слишком странными в своей «сложной простоте» и ритмическом разнообразии, чтобы быть обычными танцевальными треками. Спокойствие и красота этих композиций очаровывают — в том числе благодаря интуитивному подходу Wulffius к музыке, по-хорошему непосредственному, детскому. К слову, Паустовский написал «Соранг» на конкурсе по письму как упражнение в скорости — и всего за полтора часа. В музыке Wulffius вы тоже можете услышать спонтанность, но не ошибайтесь — это работа мастера, которая с годами становилась все лучше и лучше. Все приходит с опытом.

GOST017 Wulffius "Sorang"

Side 1
A1: Monotone in G minor	
A2: My Cosmic Synthesizer	
A3: Frequency Piano Jam	
A4: See That. Are That	

Side 2
B1: Heels At The Pebble Beach	
B2: Typ Sounds Deep	
B3: Grape Bounce	
B4: I Am Weird

music – Dmytrij Wulffius
mastering – Simon Davey
design – Dmytrij Wulffius
compilation – Flaty & Ildar Zaynetdinov
executive producer – Ildar Zaynetdinov

12" LP full-color sleeve. 
November 19, 2021, Moscow, Russian Federation.
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GOST017: Wulffius "Sorang"

Dj Kassir – Synth Talk (from "22" lp)

Трек лета 22 года "Прогульщик" от магического Keroz (жми - @keroz_one )
"Progulshik" by Keroz

mastering - Sergey Luginin 
cover - Daniil Mochalov

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SIL на ВРАГ! Трек "СVC"
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Artist: Sostoyanie Siyaniya / @ssiyaniya
Title: "Big Time Rush Vol. 3"
Label: FU FU Recordz! / @thefinestfufu
Release date: 2022
Format: digital
Buy: https://fufurecordz.bandcamp.com/album/big-time-rush-vol-3

Label's words: "Do you know anything about the rushing crew? Our team went on a journey and discovered a special place… A Dimension Where Samples Meet Rhythm & Melody…".

PREMIERE: Sostoyanie Siyaniya — slo #2 (FU FU Recordz!, 2022)

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

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GOST018: Дубовая Колесница "Biznes Time"

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Released Jan 2016
https://oblastrec.bandcamp.com/album/spade

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