Tree Bosier / Дерево, Бозье

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Adult contemporary, Ambient, Chillout / Chillwave, Downbeat, Electro-/technopop, Electroacoustic, Indie-pop, Instrumental, Jazz-funk, Leftfield, Minimal, Pop

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Vague Distances: Shampoo Voyagers, Kinnel, Micbeatz, and Volodey

Scattered right across the Slavic map - from Minsk to Khabarovsk - four releases focus on the meaning of separation and how some awful distances might be overcome with sound or hard-won sentiment.

The Sound of Spaces: Coldflare, dEEPoint, Alexey Volkov, and Datamode

House tracks from Khabarovsk, Rostov-na-Donu, and Nizhny Novgorod this week all link their "welcoming" sounds to a hometown. When, however, we turn to some new techno, things are very different.

Escape: Diamos Roll, Shampoo Voyagers, Solar Witcher, and D. Glushenko

The sounds on display here stretch all the way from Minsk to the Chinese border. Not surprisingly, themes of distance appear from time to time. The search continues for a balance between noisy cities and crippling isolation.

Sounds of Natural Slumber: Alexander Daf, Eugene Kha, and Tree Bosier

From opposite ends of Russia come three recordings designed to celebrate the benefits of slumber - and dreams of a kinder, more caring environment. Inspiration begins with nature, not surprisingly

Cocaine or Distant Coastlines: The Music of Triangle Sun and Tree, Bosier

Triangle Sun and Tree, Bosier are both known for a gentle downtempo sound. What, though, does that mean in a Russian setting?

Amurekimuri and Palms on Fire: Scottish Roots, Slavic Rationale

"Amurekimuri" are from the Ukrainian port of Odessa; "Palms on Fire" reside in the city of Izhevsk. Both use Scottish pop traditions in ways that shed light upon some very local experiences

"Tree, Bosier": The Surprise Benefits of Improvisation (and Grumpiness)

In many ways, the city of Khabarovsk symbolizes a lot of what makes Russia such a romantic location. Khabarovsk is home to more than half a million people - all located so unimaginably far from the nation's European territory that a mere 20-mile drive will take you to the Chinese border. A few h...

Andrey Nailer, "Tree, Boise," and Yoko Absorbing

A quick overview of instrumental music in Anglo pop culture shows that its heyday as a marketable format on 45s was arguably in the 1960s and '70s. The subsequent evolution of electronica and club culture led to longer instrumental forms that were unsuitable for radio. In Russia, too (if we excl...