Behind the name Milky Toad stands a young musician from the Siberian city of Omsk. He produces lo-fi, brief, and self-effacing instrumentals in ways that underscore his appreciation of the surrounding world // Андрей Митрошин - молодой музыкант из города Омск, кто определяет свою музыку как "lo-fi и electronic." Больше рассказывать не хочет. Вообще...
Four beautiful instrumentals have been published by Vlad Kudriavtsev and Aleksandr Kumach, aka Monokle. Those compositions owe much to the northern Russian port where they were written // "Седьмой по счету релиз нет-лейбла Passage представляет проект Monokle. Влад Кудрявцев и Александр Кумач уже успели прославиться своими работами, характерной особенностью которых является комбинирование электроники и различных музыкальных элементов..."
A level-headed overview of DJ Arshanitsa's work should begin by adding his Christian name, Artem. Any aura of Moscow razzmatazz is immediately lessened; even greater degrees of objectivity can be reached by bringing some dull biographical data into play. Arshanitsa has been working in the capital'...
Late in 2007, Galia Chikiss released a mini-album with the title of "Zoloto oseni" (Autumn Gold); at the time, we said: "Autumn Gold is part of an ongoing four-part project, with the remaining three sections - understandably enough - being dedicated to the other seasons. If they’re as good a...
Andrey Kiritchenko is a well-respected, constantly impressive instrumentalist from the Ukrainian city of Kharkov. Writing of his work is always something of a challenge, since the range of available recordings is so broad - and the quality so consistent. We turned therefore to the musician himse...
There would be something inappropriate about a long, involved text dedicated to the work of Scaly Whale. The keyword here is "simplicity": Scaly Whale is a one-man outfit whose music is replete with the naive hopes and fears of childhood. Although, by way of example, a fair collection of his wor...
Netlabel Subwise has just released a virtually anonymous 28-minute EP, available for free download, by Nearfield. Almost all geographical information regarding the project is absent; the ensemble is even missing from the label's list of accredited artists. The one thing we know for certain is th...
Varia Demidova is a new signing to the Moscow label Snegiri; so new, in fact, that virtually all materials relating to this singer come from two different sources. On the one hand we have official materials produced by Demidova's label; on the other, a collection of bloggers and forum members wh...
In the first few days of February, a new compilation CD appeared in Moscow with the title of "No Oil, No Stress, No Noise." It was - and remains - the editorial work of Snegiri Records and music journalist Aleksandr Gorbachev. Mr. Gorbachev contextualizes the CD - in Russian - as follows: "This co...
I/Dex is the pseudonym of Vitaliy Harmash, a remarkable musician from the Belarusian town of Novopolotsk. Relatively small though that location may be, with perhaps 100,000 residents today, it has already provided us with another artist, namely DJ Letkoben, about whom we wrote in June 2009. As w...
