Billiam Wutler Yea

Three new drone and glitch recordings from northern Russia consider the nature of music without authorial or editorial control. Sounds prior to human intervention are used and celebrated - at an increasing distance from "handicraft."

The common ground between these projects (from Togliatti, Kudymkar, and Dmitrov) lies in their use of ambient noise. They find promising, yet disconcerting liberties beyond social, spatial, and even mortal limits. The results can be worrying.

Full of Nothing is a label based in the forests between Russia and Finland. From these liminal spaces come the sounds of yearning for a sense of community. Those same noises are fading fast