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Two new Creative Commons releases have just been placed on line by the equally novel "Accessory Takes" project, a net-based endeavor affiliated with the Russian Association of Independent Genres (RAIG). This valuable organization, having already compiled a fine catalog of avant-garde releases, is now making a similarly bold gesture through Accessory Takes.
The content that'll be farmed out for public enjoyment will consist of "free downloads of full-length albums and EPs by RAIG and or other kindred artists. We'll also include out-of-print and lost archival albums, outtakes, and live sets, promo-sets, and so forth. Basically this is everything and anything that's not available on actual CDs - and might never be. We won’t complain about the genres or styles submitted to us, but they should be exciting - and experimental too."
The first two offerings come from the ensemble seen above: Wogulow, Taroutz, and Vermo. In essence they've grown from one member of the stunning I Am Above on the Left (Aleksei Taruts/Taroutz), and continue further down the same noisy path in the general direction of sonic collapse.
We've said a thing or two about Aleksei Taruts on the site before, but a quick and efficient snapshot of WTV can be gleaned from the video above: "Cows Are Born In the Fields"
The two WTV works now available for free download are "Omut" (Maelstrom) and "In My Previous Life I Was You!!!" This is fifth track from the former offering.
Recorded respectively in June and July of this year, WTV offer more of what we expect from the band: loosely structured noise punctuated by brief, irate intrusions of funk or the occasionally insistent drum machine that - for Anglo listeners - might suggest Andy Gill's guitar work in the Gang of Four.
The footage here shows how the relatively good behavior of "Cows" beccomes an entirely different animal when performed live.
Sonic Frontiers this July had the following to say about the discord and discorder that are WTV: "From noise-filled audio space to amorphous and abstract sounds and avant-garde arrangements, [with] a few rock references to electro-acoustic manifestations: there's a plethora of aural assaults on your brain"
From noise-filled audio space to amorphous and abstract sounds and avant-garde arrangements, [with] a few rock references to electro-acoustic manifestations: there's a plethora of aural assaults on your brain.
Wogulow, Taroutz, Vermo remain a very important element of Russian rock music, blurring the line between white noise and structure, event and object in a sea of feedback. The reduction of coherent text to endless, crowded fonts in their artwork does much to emphasize this stumbling into fluidity and flux.
Likewise RAIG remains a key source of bilingual information for all those wishing to stay abreast of new and unexpected developments in the field of Russian experimental music. It's less of a journal than a series of flood warnings.
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