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Ejeca - 4th November 2017

Ejeca has long been supplying music to make a dancefloor move but under his Trance Wax alias, his records have been finding their way into the recordbags of the world's most esteemed DJs.

His latest record has had support from *takes deep breath* Job Jobse, Bicep, Paul Woolford, Alan Fitzpatrick, Charlotte De Witte, Black Madonna, Jackmaster and Mall Grab.

It should come as no surprise then that we snapped up a premiere as quick as we could. Check out 'Trance 15' and see why everyone's raving so much.

If you want to catch him on his live tour, check out the dates below, including a stop at London's Hangar.

31 May - 24 Kitchen Street, Liverpool
01 June - Soup Kitchen, Manchester
16 June - Stealth, Nottingham
22 June - Hangar, London 
29 June - Paradise City, Belgium
07 July - Mass Festival, Ireland
21 July - Sugar, Derry
03 Aug - Garbicz Festival, Poland
11 Aug - Boardmasters Festival
16 Aug - Waking Life, Portgual
24 Aug - Berkeley Suite, Glasgow
25 Aug - TBA, Edinburgh

Premiere: Trance Wax 'Trance 15’

Для отечественной электроники Михаил Чекалин является не только важнейшим персонажем, повлиявшим на становление и развитие сцены, но и своего рода фигурой символической. На Западе его музыкой восхищались многие — от журналистов и критиков всех сортов до Фрэнка Заппы и Карлхайнца Штокхаузена. В родной же Москве имя Чекалина было долгое время изъято из официальной культурной повестки — его обвиняли в пропаганде чужой «прозападной» эстетики, вплоть до конца 1980-х не давали издавать свои произведения и блокировали выезд за границу. Что впрочем не помешало ему записать десятки новаторских, опередивших свое время электронных композиций и внести большой вклад в развитие неофициального советского искусства в целом — например, создавая звуковое оформление для знаменитых выставок «Двадцати московских художников» на Малой Грузинской или устраивая первые аудио-визуальные перформансы на специально сконструированном «световом органе». 

Впрочем, как и все большие художники, сам Михаил Чекалин предпочитает фокусироваться не на личных достижениях, а на творчестве. «У меня нет биографии — есть только дискография», — эта цитата автора может стать здесь своеобразной точкой входа в представленную компиляцию. Это архивный сборник работ, записанных в период с 1979 по 1987 года — полижанровые эксперименты Чекалина в радиусе от «пространственной музыки» (по сути, предтечи эмбиента) до более современных синтезаторных и пост-симфонических композиций.
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For Russian electronic music, Mikhail Chekalin is not only a major character, who has affected the scene's establishment and development, but also a kind of symbolic figure. His music has been praised by many in the West - from journalists and critics of all kinds to Frank Zappa and Karlheinz Stockhausen, while in Moscow Chekalin's name was excluded from the official cultural agenda for a long time: he was accused of propaganda of foreign 'pro-Western' aesthetics and up until the end of the 80's wasn't allowed to release his works or travel abroad. This, however, didn't interfere with him recording dozens of innovative electronic compositions and contributing greatly to the development of unofficial Soviet art in general - for example, providing sound design for the famous exhibitions of 'Twenty Moscow Artists' on Malaya Gruzinskaya or arranging the first audiovisual performances on a specially constructed 'light organ'.

However, just like all great artists, Mikhail himself prefers to focus not on personal achievements, but on creativity. 'I don't have a biography - only a discography' - this quote of the author may become an entry point of sorts into the compilation presented. This archival collection of works recorded within the period from 1978 to 1987 are Chekalin's multigenre experiments ranging from spatial music (in essence, ambient's precursor) to more contemporary synthesizer and post-symphonic compositions.

GAR001: Mikhail Chekalin – "Ecstatic Lullaby"

Side 1
А1 – A Vocalise in Rapid (4:21)
А2 – The Destructive Dream Dance (4:10)
А3 – Sympho-Break’84 (6:26)
A4 – As If It Was Not From Here (3:50)

Side 2
B1 – Ecstatic Lullaby (5:28)
B2 – Theme in 40sec (0:40)
B3 – Jazz Rock Vocalise (4:18)
B4 – A Passing Melody (1:02)
B5 – Sentimental Intermezzo (2:41)
B6 – Music 3 With Continuation (5:15)

Side 3
С1 – A Piece in Jazz-Rock Mode (4:16)
С2 – Song Without Words (4:37)
С3 – Torn Page (5:12)
С4 – Dream Dance (4:18) 

Side 4
D1 – Naive Song (3:02)
D2 – Slavdom Psychedelic March (2:37)
D3 – Vocalise in Blues (3:55)
D5 – Farewell to the Music in the Style of Rock (5:10)

music — M. Chekalin
photo – M. Chekalin
text – S. Sharifullin
english translation – E. Nemtsov
compilation – I. Zaynetdinov, E. Fadeev, A. Ryazanov
art direction – P. Milyakov
executive producer — I. Zaynetdinov

2 x 12" LP, full colour sleeve, 180 grams
© «ГОСТ ЗВУК», Moscow, Russia, 2018

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