Brinstaar + Bred Blondie - Dream of Stone (2016) Kotä Records

СОН КАМНЯ (DREAM OF STONE) is a soundtrack made by two kotä artists for our long-time friends' exhibition of granite sculpture. 0331c and Grisha (the artist behind Silk Saw album illustrations) did this sculptures, and we did this soundtrack which was playing in the gallery all the time trough the exhibition. 

"MAKING OF" DESCRIPTION: 

In their work Brinstaar and Bred Blondie started out from the most obvious thing: the work of the artist with the stone. Just as well as the artists, taking into account the shape of a piece of granite, not overcome it but interact with it, and as a result it becomes a co-participant in subsequent works, the same is in the audio accompaniment: sound “theme” of granite is connected with musical “theme” of stone carving. 

BRINSTAAR EXPLANATION: 

“I took the composition of granite, with which operates 0331c and Grisha, and broke it down into elements. There turned out about 11 compounds that enter into the composition of the stone in different proportions: some consist 70%, some – 3%, some – 0.12%... The spectral lines of emission of each element correspond to the spectrum of the sound of drone loops. The modulation amplitude of the sound is dependent on the percentage of the element in the stone.” In such a way appeared “drone”, gradually changing sound that we hear. When this part was finished, there began work on the sound directly of the creation of sculptures and consolidation of sound. 

BRED BLONDIE EXPLANATION: 

“0331C and Grisha use different pointing chisels, which emit different tone. At the same time we can hear different rhythmic patterns during carving as well, not to mentioning a range of overtones which can be heard after the strike, which forms not only the conceptually comprehended transmission (sound portrait of the artist’s work on a stone), but also interesting to listen musically. I was interested not only in “strikes”, I recorded separately a noise of various types of interaction of pointing chisel with a stone, which reflect the preparation before the strike, it can be even seen as action of artist’s admiring the stone.”

Released June 1, 2016

1. Сон Камня (Dream of Stone)

Drone by Brinstaar 

Field recordings and loops by Bred Blondie 

Mixed and mastered by Brinstaar 

Artwork by Mikhail Myasoedov 

© + Ⓟ 2016, Kotä Records

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Vlad Dobrovolski - Concert at Dom (2016) Kotä Records

It’s winter time in Moscow, we all gathered in “DOM”, the significant place for Moscow underground and avant-garde community, where Kotä Records holds the label night. The “DOM” was founded by Nik Dmitriev, who, along with another salient figure from Leningrad, Sergey Kuryokhin, did many good things for Russian experimental scene in 80s-00s period. Including this venue, where many was playing, and as before many of international avant-garde and free-jazz individuals and bands are having their shows in Moscow. Now Vlad Dobrovolski is on the stage with his modular synthesizer, performing his show. Vlad always masterfully constructs his sound narration, and now he is getting us right there immediately from the very beginning of his set, carry us away out of “DOM”, winter in Moscow and all that and carefully land us down approximately 28 minutes later. Beautiful journey. 

Here also we have to say that Vlad is a long-standing figure in Russian electronic music filed. In 00s, under Fitz Ellarald moniker, he was involved in the international work in Japan, making collage music for Tokyo based label Amorfon, whom Yoshio Machida starts his label’s international roster with, also during this time Vlad is participating in a several musical collectives in Moscow focusing on improvisational approach in music performance. At 2014 a tape-duo S A D was initiated and nearly since this time Vlad and Kotä friendship starts on.

 

This release is a foregoer of the full length LP of Vlad’s works, scheduled to be released by Kotä on vinyl later this year. And “Live Document” series is for memorising some live performances, that we find distinct. Which is quite important when we are about improvisational music.

Released May 6, 2016 

1. Сoncert at DOM

Performed by Vlad Dobrovolski, Live, DOM (Moscow), 2015 

Recorded by Kotä 

Mastered by Mikhail Myasoedov 

Artwork by Jack Snow 

© + Ⓟ 2016, Kotä Records

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