Wogulow

These collectives live in varied surroundings, ranging from an Estonian forest to the noisy streets of Moscow. Nonetheless, they all seek alternative, sometimes complex registers to match their disorienting experience.

These quiet compositions come from suburban Moscow, southern Ukraine, and the Crimea. Their authors all hope to capture the gentle, precious sentiments that are so often manhandled by commercially-driven storytelling.

The Russian Association of Independent Genres (RAIG) has today turned back time by approximately 18 months. The association has dragged from its vaults a "lost album" by Aleksei Taroutz (i.e., Taruts) entitled - fittingly enough - "Eternal Number of Repeats." It consists of ten instrumental trac...

This month a wonderfully unexpected EP has appeared from Evgeny Grinko (aka Evgenii Grin'ko) entitled "Cinematic Melodies." The artist is question is well known to us as the drummer of several ensembles. He may be most familiar to Moscow audiences as the driving force behind math-rock/free-jazz...

Two new Creative Commons releases have just been placed on line by the equally novel "Accessory Takes" project, a net-based endeavor affiliated with the Russian Association of Independent Genres (RAIG).  This valuable organization, having already compiled a fine catalog of avant-garde releases,...