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Мох — проект художественной группы Солнцецветы.
Это непроизвольный шепот взволнованного звуком разума, который покачиваясь и испуская розовые волны, движется в облаке мерцающего, современного мира.

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Byzantine Songs for Every Season: The Aquarium Anniversary Tribute

Two Russian web projects have combined resources to celebrate the (ongoing) career of Aquarium, arguably the nation's greatest rock band. The cover versions submitted thus far span a wide range of years and places.

Flashbacks and Quips: Dandyskills, Chikiss, Arm Author, and Coca Color

Any music that invokes the style of late '80s synth-pop will have a special resonance in the Russian context. Put mildly, a lot was happening in the country. That same sense of heady expectation is now handled with mild irony.

Simplicity: Odin v Kanoe, Blackpaperplanes, Mox, and Solntsetsvety

Three bands from Belarus and Ukraine offer new recordings in a range of unrelated styles from acoustic pop to post- and drone-rock. Across them all, however, lies a shared celebration of simplicity in a complex world.

Local Stories: Docha Fingers, Photoindustries, Gorq Lana, and SBPCh

Three projects from three cities all make use of a Western rap heritage in order to fashion a locally relevant worldview. Those same local contexts, however, turn the raison d'être of any such narratives into something very different.

Grand Flights of Wordless Fancy: Milktune, Mooncake, and Solntsetsvety

Three fundamentally instrumental releases from Latvia, Belarus, and Russia all share some enduring doubts over the validity of language. In different ways, these projects gaze beyond the pages of a thesaurus - towards silence.

Voices from Faraway Valleys: WPCWE, Mox, Little Nastya, and Love Cult

A series of recent downtempo and drone recordings from northern Russia have adopted a common outlook. Dismayed by urban triviality, they consider some existential challenges as embodied by an unending paysage

The White Noise of Lo-Fi Fantasy: "Gems of the Volga Region"

From Minsk this week comes a compilation to celebrate the work of distant artists along the Volga. So distant, in fact, the whole project may be a fantasy...

From Folklore to Fantasy: Bubamara, Chorny Busel, and DakhaBrakha

Three projects from Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus are currently offering some new interpretations of folklore. Tales of the countryside become tales of fantasy: landscapes become dreamscapes

Skweee: Pointless Gestures from a Hellish Landscape

A new collection of skweee tracks has just been published, pushing the gloom of witch house into even grander forms of fatalism. No matter the creative freedom of various remixes, a sense of inevitability persists

Mox: Clouds of Flickering Light and the Charm of Huge Acoustic Fuzz

Mox is the stage name of Anton Krivulia from Minsk, whose new/debut album celebrates the philosophical benefits of lo-fi hiss and "acoustic fuzz." Distortion is foregrounded to great effect

"Rats in the Thorax" and Other Speech Defects

Until recently there existed an instrumental project from Moscow called Monroe's Pills (Tabletki dlia Monro); sadly, they have recently disbanded. The resulting dissipation of effort, however, is already taking new and productive forms in a couple of ventures. One of these is the young ensemble kn...

Magical Unicellular Music: The Benefits of "Painfully Dull Music"

To a certain degree, this article grows out of something we published in December, 2009. On December 20th, to be precise, we wrote about a new release from the excellent Minsk outfit, Mox, who themselves are a side-project of the art group Solntsetsvety (“Sun Flowers”). Both Mox and the Soln...

Mox: Music Designed to Evoke a Feeling of "Slipping and Immersion"

An impressive EP has stumbled onto the web from the cold streets of Minsk, Belarus. It comes under the guise of Mox (i.e., "Mokh" or the Russian word for "Moss." It rhymes with "loch."). That stage name hides a side-project of the art group Solntsetsvety ("Sun Flowers"). The relationship between...