STYLE...... EBM, Electro-Industrial LABEL...... ScentAir Records
QUALITY..... 320kbps / FLAC
COUNTRY... Russia
The 6th album of the Moscow intelligent body music project ZOЙD is a report on the work done from 2013 to 2024. None of the group's releases since 1996 have been prepared for so long. One of the participants, Pavel Shchepetov, to whom the composition "Pavel" is dedicated, managed to die. Ivan Kirichenko, a long-time collaborator and artist-designer of several previous albums, has actually gone into the shadows. His guitar sounds "Ein Fichtenbaum (На Севере Диком)" to the poems of Heine and Lermontov, "Pavel (Павел)". In 2019, Alexey Melnikov came, bringing the ideas of DAW sequencing to the previously purely "hardware" midi ZOЙD, adding to Oleg Kotov's headaches from crashing drivers and the joy of acquiring new arrays of synthesizers and other devices. At the final stage, violinist Anna-Violanna appeared in "Hello (Здравствуй)", "Kursk (Курск)", "Ein Fichtenbaum (На Севере Диком)", "Son (Сын)". As a result - a very eclectic album. Here is "Hello (Здравствуй)" with "Kursk (Курск)" as an EBM legacy, the gloomy "How?! (Как?!)" - a combination of dark, EBМ, trip-hop and synth, "Summer (Лето)" - a future pop anthem, and finally "Ein Fichtenbaum (На Севере Диком)" with gothic and Heine's German style. Somewhere at the end, the instrumental "Anything, Angel, Beauty, Coming" - typical IDM, and the ambient "Abkhazia 2007 (Абхазия 2007)" with field recordings of the Abkhazian choir, and the resort dog "singing along" to it. The track that gave the album its name, “ZONA SVETA”, is hard to describe stylistically at all, with its set of acoustic loops, guitars, cheerful vocals and distant ambient layers. What unites all this? Ideas, language, places where all this was written. We are northern people. Snow, ice, sometimes the sun and green grass. Then again darkness and light, reflecting from the cold night earth. A Russian person enjoys everything. Life, death, love. We laugh and cry, and move forward. In spite of everything. Into eternity.
Tracklist:
1. Здравствуй (4:15) 2. КАК?! (5:58) 3. Курск (9:25) 4. Лето (5:18) 5. На Севере Диком… Ein Fichtenbaum (5:01) 6. Сын (7:54) 7. Павел (7:37) 8. Anything/Angel/Beauty/Coming (7:45) 9. Zona Sveta (6:07) 10. Абхазия 2007 (3:25) 11. Давление (2020) (5:31) 12. В Сумраке Странствий (v2.0 2020) (7:05) 13. Ты — Человек (v2.1 2019) (6:48)
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