The Kirbi

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Clicks, Downbeat, Electroacoustic, Electronic, Glitch, Glitch-Hop, Idm, Instrumental, Lo-fi, Minimal

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Interweaving Softness and Severity: Kött, Yan Lofy, Vxlam, and The Kirbi

A range of warm and inviting instrumentals appear this week from across Russia, yet they cannot advertise an easy-going worldview. Elements of unease and anxiety remain constantly foregrounded.

Glo-Fi Flashbacks: Neon Lights, Electrosound, Sunday Morning, and RTFM

Several Russian synth-pop releases this week draw upon the traditions of the 1980s - duplicating the lo-fi sound of that same decade. As a result, Western glitz, low-grade tape, and late Soviet society all merge.

Three Recordings in Search of Silence: Revshark, The Kirbi, and Briem

Toying with aspects of dub techno, glitch-hop, and other forms of understatement, these artists from Siberia, St Petersburg, and Kiev all speak in praise of humility. That validation of smallness and silence helps to amplify other, grander issues...

New Downtempo and Trip-Hop Releases: The Architecture of Happiness

Four fresh downtempo and trip-hop releases this month share a common emphasis upon solitude and adult disenchantment. They do so through a rejection of urban experience - and the buildings thereof

Sport & Music/The Kirbi: New Tunes to Mark the Passage of Time

Once upon a time there was a little-known Ukrainian electronic outfit by the name of Korrupted. Conceived in the city of Donetsk, it appeared, grew, and then fell apart. In its place appeared the duo Sport & Music, giving physical expression to a single promo-phrase that accompanies these mu...

The Kirbi: Death-Metal versus a Baby Girl

A couple of months ago we covered the small electronic outfit from Barnaul, Siberia known as The Kirbi. The project now centers primarily on the solo efforts of Denis Fomenko, shown below. In that earlier post we focused on the recent leanings of Fomenko towards a more ambient sound, somethi...

The Kirbi: "Where There Were No Birds"

The Kirbi are an electronic project from Barnaul in Western Siberia; their activities center around the role of founding member, Denis Fomenko (below). Established in 1997, The Kirbi were initially a trio of Fomenko and two friends, Sergei Antoshkin and Sviatoslav Kostrikin; this lineup would ch...