Sunday, August 14, 2016

VLADIMIR COSMA ~ INSOLITE AND CO. (1969, PSI, FRANCE)


1. Pavane Spatiale    
2. Psychoshisme    
3. Informatique    
4. Hypotension    
5. Mecanissimo   
6. Batiskafka   
7. Anticorps  
8. Transmutations  
9. Obsexion  
10. Cristallisation   
11. Etherisation  

Romanian-born Vladimir Cosma wrote compositions for films by likes of Jean Luc-Godard and Terry Gilliam along with several notable orchestras, etc...but besides his long list of enforcing credentials, I simply think this album is profoundly moving! It captures a certain stillness in its moments and guides you along its rigidity before it unexpectedly bends.


Saturday, August 13, 2016

YURI MOROZOV ~ HUMAN EXTINCTION (1979, UNKNOWN, RUSSIA)


1. Ария демона (demon aria)
2. Катастрофы (accidents)
3. Фиолетовая вибрация  (purple vibration)
4. Летающие тарелки (flying saucers)
5. Мистерия эроса (the mystery of eros)
6. Битва бронтозавров (battle brontosauruses)
7. Пляски машин (dance machines)
8. Сигналы помощи (aid signals)
9. Агония  (agony)

There is not much information to be found on Yuri Morozov, for the exception of a brief interview where when asked how many albums he recorded he responded with "14,7 kilos (tapes)"! That's 45 albums! Since then, there've been sixty altogether all recorded in his cluttered St. Petersburg apartment. This one was released in 1975 in the USSR, making it unfathomable that such a brilliant mess could ever be realized under a communist regime. His music is ethereal, dreamy, totally crazed, and is reminiscent of Edward Artemiev, going four nights without sleep, and seeing light for the first time. It's fucking far-out and I hope you enjoy human extinction as much as I do.