Solntsetsvety / Солнцецветы

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Adult contemporary, Anti-Folk, Baroque Pop, Drone, Electroacoustic, Field Recordings, Grunge, Indie rock, Indie-pop, Industrial, Instrumental, Leftfield, Lo-fi, Noise pop, Post-punk, Prog, Rock, Shoegazing, Skweee

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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.

A Long Look at Absurdity: Chushi, Alexander Haletski, and Wazuhiru

These young instrumentalists from Dmitrov, Moscow, and Minsk turn to significances beyond the ken of language. Through tools such as the Vocoder or the tricks of turntablism, they consider the role of silence within stuttering, faulty sentences.

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.

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...

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

Lo-fi and Lost for Words: The Batmen of Grand Ukraine and Wedontreallyknow

New recordings from Wedontreallyknow (Novosibirsk) and The Batmen of Grand Ukraine (Minsk) both shed light upon some enduring aspects of romanticism - including the ability to speak

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...