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Artist:	GULTSKRA ARTIKLER
Title:	Pofigistka
Label:	LAMPSE AUDIOVISUAL RECORDINGS (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LAMP 004CD

"The latest emission from the gorgeous Lampse imprint, Pofigistka is the product of Alexey Devyanin (Stud) and Dmitry Garin (engineer_ garin) who (positioned at opposing ends of the Russian tundra) have joined forces to create the two-headed beast that is Gultskra Atrikler. Raking influences through a bed of hot coals, Pofigistka is cinematic in scope whilst retaining a level of immediacy that renders it achingly personal; alternating between broad sweeps of sound one moment and finely wrought aural dissertations the next. Opening through the glitch-fed guitars of 'Fizik Dydya Kolya,' Garin & Devyanin blend a shimmering palate of chiming frets and percussion, resulting in a sound that, whilst overtly diffused, can nonetheless unite a spectrum of sounds into a compelling whole which is both fantastic, catchy and totally bewitching. Elsewhere the likes of 'Siluet Kollet' and 'Otpusk Navesgda' manage to sound both contemporary and nostalgic at the same time -- the kind of music which gives sonic innovation a (very) good name. Backed up by some remixery from the likes of Xela, Svarte Greiner (Erik K. Skodvin of Deaf Center no less!) and Marcus Fjellstrom, Pofigistka is like a shot of vodka for the soul."

Artist:	GULTSKRA ARTIKLER
Title:	Kasha Iz Topora
Label:	MIASMAH (UK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	MIA 006CD

Last time we came across Russian pranksters Gultskra Artikler, they were a duo comprising of Alexey Devyanin and Dmitry Garin, but since the release of the haunting Pofigistka on the Lampse label in 2006, Garin has left the band leaving Devyanin to come up with the most definitive Gultskra Artikler statement to date; Kasha Iz Topora. The entire record, which plays continuously through its hour-long duration, is set to a fairytale written by a friend of Devayanin, detailing the adventures of a man with an axe that makes flying porridge (based on a traditional Russian tale). The macabre elements of the disc's storyline provides ample source material for Devayanin to weave his processed darkness in and out of folk-tinged guitar parts, knee-trembling vocals and all manner of other obscure instrumentation. Kasha Iz Topora is one of those records that truly sounds on its own in an overpopulated music scene, and Devyanin has truly developed his windswept sound stories over years of careful experimentation and fine-tuning. Hailing from Novosibirsk in Siberia, he has much to draw influence from -- wrapping up warm and constructing choppy experimental music on an archaic personal computer was only one way of keeping his mind off the intense world outside, drawing influence from such artists as Leafcutter John, Jackie-O Motherfucker and Tod Dockstader. This record is a new stage in the development of not only Gultskra Artikler, but in the ever-growing Miasmah label. If you give this album the time and let yourself fall into its cryptic story, you may find this the strangest and most involving record you'll hear this year.

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