Motherfathers

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Dark ambient, Drone, Electronic, Free jazz, Garage Rock, Grunge, Harsh Noise, Indie rock, Industrial, Instrumental, Jazz, Krautrock, Lo-fi, Math Rock, Minimal, Post-punk, Prog, Progressive Metal, Rockabilly, Ska punk, Stoner Rock

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Two Generations and Freedoms: Astma, Milinal, Deech, and Midimode

Alexei Borisov is one of Russia's most respected electronic musicians. With new recordings from Naples, what metaphors of creative liberty are transferred from Mr. Borisov to younger, maybe quieter artists?

Far Away: Spiraal Aurel, Sunbells Fenimore, and Alexei Borisov with Colleagues

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."

New Unease from Ancient Towns: ByZero, King Imagine, and Kitty Cat

From the storied streets of Pskov, Kiev, and Moscow come new recordings that begin relatively far from the rock canon. Once, however, these artists start to ponder the outside world, their style moprhs into something much darker...

The Sound and the Fury: Yankees of Moor, Klad Yada, Ninja Glam, and Kobyla

From Minsk, Moscow, and Togliatti, a handful of new recordings consider the kind of sounds needed to reflect everyday social experience In Russia and Belarus. Several of these musicians, having begun their career in rock music, now toy with harsher, less logical noises.

Primal Screams from a Local Garage: No Fuzz and Ninja Glam

No Fuzz and Ninja Glam have published new songs. Generically different in origin, these bands nonetheless form a useful, unified statement on the role of noise - pure and simple

Two Forms of Cultural Vacuum: Astma and Alexander Martovsky

New spoken-word and electroacoustic works from both Moscow and Minsk suggest how the workings of fiscal, financial, or political "gain" often lead to awful loss

Aleksei Borisov and Ol'ga Nosova: Severe Sounds, Armed with a Smile

Having recently looked at some archival recordings from the Thalamus III festival, we are now presented with a new release from one of that event's participants, Aleksei Borisov. On this occasion, he is accompanied by the very gifted drummer and percussionist, Ol'ga Nosova, who is usually associ...

Iad: Patti Smith Comes to the Rescue of Russian History

Late in August of this year, we posted new information about two side-projects that had spun off from the splendid Moscow outfit, Motherfathers. Both overseen by MF frontman Dmitrii Peich (above, center), these peripheral ensembles - Ninja Glam and Iad ("Poison") - always promised a great deal...

Ninja Glam and Posion: The Wonderful Sound of Impending Doom

Having returned to the work of Moscow's splendid Motherfathers a few days ago, we should also send our readers in the direction of two related and equally challenging ensembles: Ninja Glam and Iad (the Russian word for "Poison"). To some extent both can be seen as an extension of the former outf...

Motherfathers and Mari! Mari! - New Recordings From the Letter "M"

In essence, this site exists in order to showcase interesting or important music that has received absolutely no attention in the English language. Once, however, we've sketched the outlines of a given ensemble, contextualized some audio, and provided a handful of links, the band in question doe...

Motherfathers: Not the Mamas and Papas

For the optimistic or romantic among us, the most exciting aspects of contemporary music in Russia are its expressions of hope. Not the increasing ability to ape foreign trends or match western production standards, but the often failed attempts to realize a potential. With the explosio...