Hi 2 all,
I've good news. The album by EU has been released about 2 months ago.
And I hope it will be available via Safety In Numbers, HardWax, FE,
etc soon.
Here is a press release:
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Artist: EU
Title: EU_Soft
Label: ArT-TeK
Cat.No: ART011CD
Lenght: Long Play
Format: CD
This new release from ArT-TeK records presents the first ever
full-length album by electronic music duo from St.Petersbourg - the EU
(Christmass Toys). By releasing the album EU_Soft Art-Tek is carrying
on presenting to all fans of electronic music the most innovative and
avantgard music from the post-Soviet space.
The band consists of Alexander Zaitsev, a mathematician (PhD), and
Ilya Baramiya, who is also working his PhD in architecture. They
became interested in modern electronic music in the early 90-ies, when
both started listening to a lot of electronic music from lables such
as Warp, Ninja Tunes, Rephlex etc. Common interest in music and
records exchange became the main motivation for their friendship and
collaboration. Their first experiments in sound and composition began
in autumn of 1997, when they recorded the first track for
St.Petersbourg label Perforated.
On October the 7th the project EU will be three years old and the
album, according to the authors, is a complete report of their
experiments during that period. They create and record all their music
in a garage, which they transformed into a studio full of strange
equipment including old rare analogue synthesisers, drum machines,
computer and old mixing desk giving a distinct hiss, which they
learned to use to add special colour to the sound.
Musicians managed to create quite significant amount of audio material
and their tracks appeared on numerous compilations in Russia and
abroad. Not surprisingly, their music atracted attention of the
Art-Tek records long time ago and the track `Chi' by EU has already
appeared the famous Artefacts compilation in 1999. Approximately at
the same time the band signed with Art-Tek to release their debut
album. After the Artefacts the band attracted attention of several
western record labels. This year British label Pause_2 released 7"
vinyl by EU with two new tracks.
The album is full of unusual rhythmic structures and soundscapes. A
lot of warm harmonies and melodic variations may appeal even to
classical music heads. The authors, speaking about their music,
explain that ``it has three components: sound, rhythm and melody. The
rhythm is initiated by the everyday life: it is what we are doing and
what we are listening to. The melodies usually come from the past:
what is in our memory, what we used to listen to brings the harmonies.
The sound itself is the most complicated component and it is the most
interesting for us. We spend working on it the greatest ammount of
time. We think this component is leading us into the future."
We are glad to present you this album. Listen and perceive!
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Thanks,
Roman
PS: All releases from art-tek records are available for trade from me.
Please write me privately, if it's interesting.
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