02. Prometheus
Previously unreleased track recorded in 2004 for Prometheus
series compilation (Der Angriff / Indiestate) that never came
out. Features voice of Ivan Polikarov reading his sketch
'Sleeping Heart of Young Pioneer Movement' / «Спящее сердце пионерии». 
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"Wer spricht von Siegen? Überstehn ist alles"

kultFRONT and ZHELEZOBETON labels are glad to announce the new CD by one of the most outstanding Russian post-industrial projects - Sal Solaris. This release follows the logic of the "Der Ruf" compilation CD (2006, Der Angriff) and collects the tracks recorded at different times on various occasions. Among other tracks the disc contains compositions from the compilations "The Black Square" (2006, kultFRONT), "Iznutri" (2007, Ewers Tonkunst), "Rush for Black Celebration" (2008, kultFRONT), "Heliophagia III" (2009, Heliophagia), "Art of Caring the Dead" (2009, Dodozavr), "Heliolatria" (2010, Heliophagia), also tracks from the split 10" record with Stahlwerk 9 (2004, Der Angriff) and several previously unreleased compositions.

When describing the sound of Sal Solaris reviewers often mention the neologism "power ambient" and we can't but agree with this term. The music of this duet coming from Rostov-on-Don and Moscow combines the elements of dark, often space ambient, post-industrial and power electronics, a collage approach and a dense saturated atmosphere, not relaxing but rather stimulating the listener. A collection of works created during various years allows to trace the live dynamics of the project - from the austere ideological persistence of the "early National-Bolshevist period" to the more sculpturesque and psychedelic compositions, including some naive but remarkable exercises.

The works feature contributions from many band friends, including Russian cosmist writer Ivan Polikarov, lead artist of "Crazy Pierrot Cabaret" Sergey Vasilyev, piano player & composer Anna Antropova, decadent cynic and erudite DJ Deutschmark, master of noises Nikolay Lepesa, trombone player Seung-hui Cho and even Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskiy.

The artwork is done by the famous visual artist and media philosopher Oleg 'cmart' Paschenko (http://holesk.in | http://www.conclave.ru). You can see artwork here: http://olegpaschenko.livejournal.com/688620.html

More info (eng): http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-xxxvii.html
More info (rus): http://zhb.radionoise.ru/rus/zhb-xxxvii.html
Buy CD release: http://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com
kultFRONT: http://kultfront.bandcamp.com
Band website: http://salsolaris.ru | http://salsolaris.bandcamp.com

Prometheus

08. Pripadok
Previously unreleased track recorded in 2008. Voice courtesy
by Seung-hui Cho. 
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"Wer spricht von Siegen? Überstehn ist alles"

kultFRONT and ZHELEZOBETON labels are glad to announce the new CD by one of the most outstanding Russian post-industrial projects - Sal Solaris. This release follows the logic of the "Der Ruf" compilation CD (2006, Der Angriff) and collects the tracks recorded at different times on various occasions. Among other tracks the disc contains compositions from the compilations "The Black Square" (2006, kultFRONT), "Iznutri" (2007, Ewers Tonkunst), "Rush for Black Celebration" (2008, kultFRONT), "Heliophagia III" (2009, Heliophagia), "Art of Caring the Dead" (2009, Dodozavr), "Heliolatria" (2010, Heliophagia), also tracks from the split 10" record with Stahlwerk 9 (2004, Der Angriff) and several previously unreleased compositions.

When describing the sound of Sal Solaris reviewers often mention the neologism "power ambient" and we can't but agree with this term. The music of this duet coming from Rostov-on-Don and Moscow combines the elements of dark, often space ambient, post-industrial and power electronics, a collage approach and a dense saturated atmosphere, not relaxing but rather stimulating the listener. A collection of works created during various years allows to trace the live dynamics of the project - from the austere ideological persistence of the "early National-Bolshevist period" to the more sculpturesque and psychedelic compositions, including some naive but remarkable exercises.

The works feature contributions from many band friends, including Russian cosmist writer Ivan Polikarov, lead artist of "Crazy Pierrot Cabaret" Sergey Vasilyev, piano player & composer Anna Antropova, decadent cynic and erudite DJ Deutschmark, master of noises Nikolay Lepesa, trombone player Seung-hui Cho and even Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskiy.

The artwork is done by the famous visual artist and media philosopher Oleg 'cmart' Paschenko (http://holesk.in | http://www.conclave.ru). You can see artwork here: http://olegpaschenko.livejournal.com/688620.html

More info (eng): http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-xxxvii.html
More info (rus): http://zhb.radionoise.ru/rus/zhb-xxxvii.html
Buy CD release: http://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com
kultFRONT: http://kultfront.bandcamp.com
Band website: http://salsolaris.ru | http://salsolaris.bandcamp.com

Pripadok

04. Class on Dreaming / Урок сна
Taken from ‘Heliophagia III’ CD-R compilation (2009,
Heliophagia). Voice by Sergey ‘Pierrot le Fou’ Vasilyev, piano by
Anna Antropova, lyrics by Pavel Pepperstein.
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"Wer spricht von Siegen? Überstehn ist alles"

kultFRONT and ZHELEZOBETON labels are glad to announce the new CD by one of the most outstanding Russian post-industrial projects - Sal Solaris. This release follows the logic of the "Der Ruf" compilation CD (2006, Der Angriff) and collects the tracks recorded at different times on various occasions. Among other tracks the disc contains compositions from the compilations "The Black Square" (2006, kultFRONT), "Iznutri" (2007, Ewers Tonkunst), "Rush for Black Celebration" (2008, kultFRONT), "Heliophagia III" (2009, Heliophagia), "Art of Caring the Dead" (2009, Dodozavr), "Heliolatria" (2010, Heliophagia), also tracks from the split 10" record with Stahlwerk 9 (2004, Der Angriff) and several previously unreleased compositions.

When describing the sound of Sal Solaris reviewers often mention the neologism "power ambient" and we can't but agree with this term. The music of this duet coming from Rostov-on-Don and Moscow combines the elements of dark, often space ambient, post-industrial and power electronics, a collage approach and a dense saturated atmosphere, not relaxing but rather stimulating the listener. A collection of works created during various years allows to trace the live dynamics of the project - from the austere ideological persistence of the "early National-Bolshevist period" to the more sculpturesque and psychedelic compositions, including some naive but remarkable exercises.

The works feature contributions from many band friends, including Russian cosmist writer Ivan Polikarov, lead artist of "Crazy Pierrot Cabaret" Sergey Vasilyev, piano player & composer Anna Antropova, decadent cynic and erudite DJ Deutschmark, master of noises Nikolay Lepesa, trombone player Seung-hui Cho and even Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovskiy.

The artwork is done by the famous visual artist and media philosopher Oleg 'cmart' Paschenko (http://holesk.in | http://www.conclave.ru). You can see artwork here: http://olegpaschenko.livejournal.com/688620.html

More info (eng): http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-xxxvii.html
More info (rus): http://zhb.radionoise.ru/rus/zhb-xxxvii.html
Buy CD release: http://zhelezobeton.bandcamp.com
kultFRONT: http://kultfront.bandcamp.com
Band website: http://salsolaris.ru | http://salsolaris.bandcamp.com

Class on Dreaming

Music of experimental Russian duo Sal Solaris resembles a 'black box', at input - strict engineering approach, at output - deeply emotional product. The contrast is seeming: science, that delivers material for reflection, tries to grasp the complexity of the world - and thus shifts limits of the reasonable mixing incompatible components.
The mini-album 'Tautology and Paradox' is also full of seeming contrasts, collapsing tautologies and paradoxes. 17 minutes of noise psychedelia and weird-understood techno on 'observing observers who observe themselves as observers'.

Recorded by Konstantin Mezer and Ivan Napreenko in January/April 2015, Moscow/Rostov-on-Don. Featuring Nikolay Lepesa. Cover photo: Polina Vrublevskaya.

released 05 April 2015

NEN Records 

Paradox

Zwielicht is a sketch for Tenebrae – the album in collaboration with Majdanek Waltz and Sal Solaris. This work is devoted to the German poet Paul Celan. Tenebrae was released in spring of 2011 as a result of consecutive processing of the material. This is a sound interpretation by Sal Solaris of the material which was recorded by Majdanek Waltz.

In opinion of publishers of Zwielicht, sometimes we need to stop in the way to gain one’s end. Intermediate material seemed to them so original, and they adopted a decision to release it by an individual CD in the end of 2011.

The publishers think this sketch for Tenebrae characterized by not only complete form. Also, this recordings help a listener to feel an authority of illusion – so important term for the XXI century.

Zwielicht (german)
1. Double light; simultaneous illumination by natural and artificial light.
2. Twilight

Tenebrae (latin)
1. Darkness, pitch black.
2. Prime and loudes on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday during the Passion week in Roman-Catholic church. On custom candles are extinguished gradually during the reading of psalms, and then darkness comes symbolizing the death of Jesus.

7Hz records
http://eng.7hz.ru/d06.html
Released in cooperation with KultFront label.
http://www.discogs.com/label/KultFront

Catalog number: 7HZ 06 D / iD
Release date: December 15, 2011
Total length: 33:28
Medium: CD (ltd. 88 copies)
+ free mp3/flac downloads.

Entwurf zur Tenebrae V

Entwurf zur Tenebrae IV

Entwurf zur Tenebrae III

Entwurf zur Tenebrae II

Entwurf zur Tenebrae I

"Thresholds" is the first Sal Solaris solo album in 15 years marked by a variety of collaborations, splits and minor releases. From a musical point of view this is probably the most complex and certainly the most rhythmic work of the duo which opens a new chapter in its history.

The Sun radiates and cools down. Mountains erode and grind into sand. Any system tends to minimum energy and maximum entropy, that is to uniformity. But while chaos does not reign yet, the universe is a complex thermodynamic landscape filled with low grounds and peaks, ridges and valleys. To go from one valley to another we need a breakthrough. As when a match boosts energy to let reagents gain ability to cross the threshold, and continue to roll freely and independently.

"Thresholds" is an acoustic study of a breakthrough over the threshold. Therefore the album constantly crosses genre limits. The listener is taken from a thicket of dark techno to a rave meadow, and in the middle of dark ambient wasteland he or she gets thrust against a rock of minimal electro.

"Thresholds" is also an attempt to answer the question of what may be a match in human life situations. How to cross the pass, when the ridge is covered with clouds. The album can be regarded as a box of matches, or an experimental map of passes for those who feel confined in their valleys.

Authors can not guarantee its absolute accuracy.

Cassette version of the album with two exclusive remixes is released by NEN Records and available for purchasing at https://nenrecs.bandcamp.com/album/thresholds

https://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-lxii.html


Sal Solaris - Displaced (Vigook remix)

Sal Solaris - From Now to the New De Sitter Space (Ухушуху remix)

Sal Solaris - Tautology (Myrrman remix)

taken from Majdanek Waltz & Sal Solaris - Tenebrae

Label: Shadowplay Release – SPR 127, Zhelezobeton – ZHB-XXXIII
Format: CD, Album, Limited Edition
Country: Russia
Released: 28 May 2011

A collaboration album by two prominent Russian post-industrial projects Majdanek Waltz and Sal Solaris. The conceptual core of the record is the poetry of Paul Celan, one of the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era. His cryptic fractured lyrics spoken in a specific estranged way by Pavel Blumkin is enchased by a weird fusion of avant-garde neoclassic and dark ambient music.

This record will seem unusual even for those who are already familiar with the works of both projects. Here you won't find neither soulful neofolk songs, nor strong power ambient - instead the decadent sounds of violin, cello, clarinet, piano and bayan from Majdanek Waltz blend with shimmering electronic drones and uneasy soundscapes of Sal Solaris in paradoxical unity making your heart throb painfully. The last track features the haunting voice of Rada Anchevskaya (Rada & Ternovnik).

It won't be so easy to fall in love with this album from the first spin. It's like an eerie irrational dream able to frighten and cause a desire to wake up somewhat quicker. But the depth of this dream lures and makes you return and experience it again and again.

"This is time's eye: it squints out from under a seven-hued eyebrow. Its lid is washed clean by fires; its tear is hot stream. Towards it the blind star flies and melts at the eyelash that's hotter; it's growing warm in the world and the dead burgeon and flower".

Reviews: http://zhb.radionoise.ru/eng/zhb-xxxiii.html

Majdanek Waltz & Sal Solaris - Ливень

Majdanek Waltz & Sal Solaris - Я слышал, что внезапно расцвёл топор

Sal Solaris is a Russian electronic duo working since late 1990s. Starting its experiments with autistic ambient, the project moved to dark techno fused with industrial noise and fury. Collaborators mention among sources of their inspiration science fiction and philosophical concepts such as psychoanalysis, and say they practice audiotherapy for 'broken cohesion of the world', propaganda of neoteny, inner and outer space conquest. Last years Sal Solaris play live a lot sharing the scene with such different projects like Ancient Methods and Bad Sector, Demdike Stare and Ambidextrous, Inade and SHXCXCHCXSH. Duo has releases on such labels as Cyclic Law, Hau Ruck!, Zhelezobeton, Kultfront etc. Last album 'Thresholds' appeared in 2016 at their own label NEN Records.

Rostov-on-Don / Moscow

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