#staraya derevnya

[bluetapes]

Happy Staraya Derevnya day!

blue forty-nine is out NOW on tape and digital

A deeply evocative set that will appeal to fans of Blue Tapes artists such as Minaru, Richard Youngs and Stuart Chalmers/Taming Power.

[whtaever]

[sovietpostcards]

Visited one of my go-to spots in St Petersburg, a used book store on Staraya Derevnya. Promised myself to not buy anything heavy, but still walked out with a backpack and a plastic bag full of books. >_<

[cyanidetooth]

No Tongues! Firm Friends! Umarell & Zdaura! Squad! Nick & The Nod! The Lloyd Pack! We Be Echo! Big Blood! Phil & The Tiles! The Cosmopolitans! Rolex! Butcher's Laugh! Todd Killings And The Contracts! Phantom! Graven Image! Sooks! Persher! Ani Klang! Shareholder! Moral Crime! Bentley Anderson! Diana Rogerson! Staraya Derevnya! Primitive Knot! Club Moral!

[snackpointcharlie]

It’s that time of year again, so tune in as we here at Snackpoint Towers do our best to sculpt an improvised international soundscape of peace and good will and Ceasefire Now, without so much as a jingly bell in sight (that’s triggering, y’all). My Xmas gift to ya’ll is early! Don’t worry, you don’t have to give me anything in return except for your ears, on occasion…. and if you like it, send a gift donation in our name to our tireless hosts at WGXC, they’ve earned it in ways I could never repay

Snackpoint Charlie - Transmission 129 - 2023.12.20 https://wavefarm.org/wf/archive/n82yfh [ ^ click for download ^ ]

PLAYLIST

1) Cieba Coqui - “3a” from COQUI OF CEIBA, PUERTO RICO, 2002 https://fredlonberg-holm.bandcamp.com/album/coqui-of-ceiba-puerto-rico-2002

2) Skimi Radio - “02 الزش: W.H. Auden - Funeral Blues” https://soundcloud.com/skimi-radio/02-wh-auden-funeral-blues

3) The Space Cadet - “Dollhouse Exorcism” from FORGOTTEN MELODIES https://thespacecadetmusic.bandcamp.com/album/forgotten-melodies

(underbed:) Pinchas Gurevich - “Glompaperil”

4) Shatz - “Cosmic Rebirth” from NOTEBOOK 4 https://www.discogs.com/release/29247277-Shatz-Van-Sant-Notebook

5) Popol Vuh - “Spirit of Peace” from SPIRIT OF PEACE https://www.discogs.com/master/345268-Popol-Vuh-Spirit-Of-Peace

6) The Singing Friars - “Green Stamps” from INTRODUCTION https://www.discogs.com/release/7305184-The-Singing-Friars-Introduction

7) Bashin - “Fluctuations” from SONIC RUSSIAN DOCUMENTS. NEW AMBIENT AND RITUAL AESTHETIC VISIONS 2000-2016 https://unexplainedsoundsgroup.bandcamp.com/album/sonic-russian-documents-new-ambient-and-ritual-aesthetic-visions-2000-2016

8) Emily Sprague - “Woven” from HILL, FLOWER, FOG https://mlesprg.bandcamp.com/album/hill-flower-fog-2

9) Grimble Grumble - “Blistered” from GRIMBLE GRUMBLE https://www.discogs.com/release/727146-Grimble-Grumble-Grimble-Grumble

10) Evan Lindorff-Ellery - “Swimming in a Pool in Accord with Pebble Performance from Saw Kill Playing” from WATER RECORDINGS FROM THE HUDSON VALLEY 2020-2021 https://evanlindorffellery.bandcamp.com/album/water-recordings-from-the-hudson-valley-2020-2021

11) Jeff Economy - “Firework Echo at Little Pond (2022.09.10)” from FIELD RECORDINGS

(underbed:) Pinchas Gurevich - “Fsckingmajor”

12) Lydia Carey - “Trash Collection” from THE SOUNDS OF MEXICO CITY REVEALED http://mexicocitystreets.com/2016/09/29/sounds-mexico-city-revealed/

13) Sahel Sounds - “Bambara affirmations, relaxation cassette” from UCHRONIA – FIELD RECORDINGS FROM ALTERNATE REALITIES https://sahelsounds.bandcamp.com/album/uchronia-field-recordings-from-alternate-realities

14) Dave Clarkson - “Here is a Box, a Musical Box” from GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS PAST (MUSIC FROM VINTAGE TOYS) https://mortalitytables.bandcamp.com/album/ghosts-of-christmas-past-music-from-vintage-toys

15) Staraya Derevnya - excerpt from 13.10.17 (OTO 123) https://www.cafeoto.co.uk/shop/staraya-derevnya-131017/

16) Robert Fripp - “Silent Night” https://www.discogs.com/release/2460323-Robert-Fripp-Silent-Night

17) Aaron Dilloway - excerpt from RADIO NEPAL VOL. 3 https://aarondilloway.bandcamp.com/album/radio-nepal-vol-3

18) Richard Devine - “Tornado Sirens” soundcloud.com/richarddevine/recording-of-tornado-sirens

19) Willie Dixon - “Weak Brain! Narrow Mind!” from CHICAGO BLUES - A BONANZA ALL STAR BLUES LP https://www.discogs.com/master/2029789-Various-Chicago-Blues

20) Jesse Paul Miller - excerpt from ASIA RADIO ENVIRONMENTS https://jessepaulmiller.bandcamp.com/album/asia-radio-environments

21) Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - “Mother’s Love” from EMAHOY TSEGE MARIAM GEBRU https://emahoytsegemariamgebru.bandcamp.com/album/emahoy-tsege-mariam-gebru

22) Planetary Peace - “I Am Om” from SYNTHESIS https://loveallday.bandcamp.com/album/synthesis

23) Silver Apples & Makoto Kawabata - “Mirage” from MIRAGE https://imprec.bandcamp.com/album/mirage

24) Tengger - “Vortex” from TENGGER https://tengger.bandcamp.com/album/tengger-3

25) Peter Cusack - “Chernobyl Dawn” from AUTUMN LEAVES http://www.gruenrekorder.de/?page_id=181

[bluestownmusic]

Review: Staraya Derevnya - Boulder Blues

  Review: Staraya Derevnya – Boulder Blues   Staraya Derevnya – Boulder Blues Format: CD / Label: Ramble Records Release: 2022 Tekst: Peter Marinus Het is haast onbegonnen werk om de muzikale stijl van de Brits-Israelische band Staraya Derevnya te omschrijven. Na beluistering van hun nieuwe album ‘Boulder Blues’ kom ik tot de conclusie dat dit geluid het resultaat is als je invloeden als…

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[bluetapes]

People out there are vibing to Staraya Derevnya. You should be, too.

Thanks to Bearded Gentlemen Music for the review. Go here for more recommendations!

[continuo-docs]

Music reviews by Laurent Fairon, September 2020

Glands Of External Secretion –  Do Not Disturb (July 2020) Christina Vantzou – Multi Natural (July 2020) Mouchoir Étanche – Kommuniqué Zéro (July 2020) Mark Leckey – In This Lingering Twilight Sparkle (August 2020) Lucrecia Dalt – No era sólida (September 2020) Staraya Derevnya – Inwards Opened the Floor (September 2020) .   .   .   .   .   .   .

Glands Of External Secretion –  Do Not Disturb (Butte County Free Music Society) https://glandsofexternalsecretion.bandcamp.com/album/do-not-disturb The music on Do Not Disturb is made of stuttering interview excerpts, media audio detritus, spoken word, musique concrète, non-descript electronic sounds and loops, plus backward playing guitar or what sounds like studio outtakes. Californian duo of Barbara Manning and Seymour Glass (Bananafish magazine founder), Glands Of External Secretion build their tracks from bits and pieces of found sounds, without progression nor development but with frequent U-turns and aimless sound collages. The collage for them is not so much an avantgarde artistic gesture, as a means to make sense of sound scraps and aural leftovers. They're carving a freedom niche for themselves where they can progress inside a track with a frolic of their own but no apparent logic. Part of the pleasure derived from listening to Do Not Disturb is to experience this freedom other bands usually deny themselves. Glands Of External Secretion are part of this US libertarian tradition including Los Angeles Free Music Society or early Idea Fire Company, the duo of Scott Foust and Karla Borecky.

Christina Vantzou – Multi Natural (Edições CN) https://edicoescn.bandcamp.com/album/multi-natural Full disclosure: I have a soft spot for psychoacoustic sounds – give me howling wolves, children at play, female laughing or sea surf and I'm carried far away from the contingencies of ordinary life. So I might be partial to Christina Vantzou's new album, which has plenty of that. Multi Natural is a collection of remarkably evocative aural miniatures built with the simplest of means – natural found sounds, lonely acoustic instrument or spoken word, associated with basic, reverb-coated synth pads. These are elusive tracks coming out of a haze as inchoate thoughts just before waking up, exploring the liminal state between dream and real life, like Maya Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon movie. Akin to lucid dreaming, the music invites free associations in the mind of the listener as does psychoanalysis or Surrealism. This kind of effect couldn't be achieved with mere ambient music, which tends to focus the mind of the listener on (pretty much) nothing. It requires a talented composer to come up with an aural equivalent of a Dream Machine – just spinning around and creating images in your head. That's what Multi Natural does for me.

Mouchoir Étanche – Kommuniqué Zéro (Dekorder) https://blacktocomm.bandcamp.com/album/kommuniqu-z-ro Mouchoir Étanche [waterproof handkerchief] is a side project of Hamburg-based, German composer Marc Richter, better known as Black To Comm and Jemh Circs. As Black To Comm he released 2 superb albums on Thrill Jockey in 2019. This one-sided 12inch record has one 11mn-track which style is actually typical of previous Black To Comm's loop-based music. In Kommuniqué Zéro, samples of orchestral classical music are looped and left to accumulate over a slow, pulsating rhythm to create a fascinating repetitive, gloomy atmosphere, complete with operatic vocals and spoken word. The entire track can be considered both an homage to, and an update on, Holger Czukay's legendary Boat Woman Song, recorded in Köln in 1968.

Mark Leckey – In This Lingering Twilight Sparkle (Boomkat Editions) https://boomkat.com/products/in-this-lingering-twilight-sparkle https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PsFqzj45Llo There's nothing like collage music done right – unrelated sounds bursting out of your speakers at strange angles, inexplicable transitions, sounds jumping from place to place yet not really progressing... what's not to love in this cornucopia? British composer Mark Leckey does it brilliantly on this 32mn album. Using amateur-ish music excerpts, found sounds, street recordings, internet aural detritus, as well as great found vocals by actors, children, video game soundtracks and the likes, all exploited with appropriate sound processing and dramaturgy. There's no irony or mass media criticism in there, just a feast of sounds collected from various sources. The human voice is omnipresent throughout, confering the album a very moving, gripping atmosphere, unusual in collage music.

Lucrecia Dalt – No era sólida (RVNG) https://lucreciadalt.bandcamp.com/album/no-era-s-lida This album represents a kind of departure for Lucrecia Dalt. Gone are the niceties of Anticlines, her previous acclaimed album – gone the sexy voice, the sweet synth sequences and reassuring song form. As far as I'm aware of, No era sólida is her darkest effort to date and her most experimental release, likely to sound rather impenetrable to many. Mostly composed of short, skeletal tracks, the album actually plays like one long suite with seamless transitions and great cohesion throughout. The music is build on simple synth sequences and carefully crafted sound textures with that Lucrecia's sound signature: synth sounds with unstable pitch, like a detuned computer left to rot on loop mode. Except for the concluding track, the music is wordless, but occasional, processed vocal samples emerge here and there. Other than that, this is rather abstract music – no melody, no rhythm, no lyrics. Yet the album is also a reacquaintance with her native tongue for Lucrecia – she once told me she was at odds with Spanish language these days, but here track titles are in Castillan and the last track is a long spoken word piece in that language, delivered over a mesmerizing hushed voice loop. The next moment it is gone, and you're left at a sensory threshold between hypnagogia and bewilderment, with no solid ground beneath your feet – No era sólida, indeed.

Staraya Derevnya – Inwards Opened the Floor (self release) https://starayaderevnya.bandcamp.com/album/inwards-opened-the-floor-2 British-Israeli collective led by Gosha Hniu recorded in both countries with local musicians, some from Russian origin. Staraya Derevnya are allegedly around since 1994, but it's the first time I come across their music. Songs are build on collective live jams performed on traditional instruments like dulcimer, double bass, kazoo, synth or sampler, with homemade percussion, toys and found objects. These are then reworked and expanded in studio to create intense Surrealist excursions propelled by weird arrangements. Occasional vocals by Hniu include lyrics in Russian from the poetry of Arthur Molev, but most of the time consist of spoken word, wordless chanting, shouts or invented language. Staraya Derevnya inhabit a territory between 1980s post-punk and Rock in Opposition, with echoes of Red Balune, UR Kaos, Psi Vojaci, SRP, Metabolists or Zamla Mammaz Manna. Great album.

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St. Petersburg metro station Staraya Derevnya by Yuri Depeche

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St. Petersburg metro station Staraya Derevnya by Yuri Depeche https://ift.tt/2ZCKZN4

[cyanidetooth]

The Necks! Pole! Dredd Foole & The Din! My Dad Is Dead! The Hated! Spike In Vain! Blatant Dissent! Graven Image! Ingrates! Ervin Berlin! No Brains! Haevner! Bootlicker! Public Acid! Mclusky! Umarell & Zdaura! Phil & The Tiles! Heavy Metal! Psychic Graveyard! GG King! Campingsex! VAQO! Naujawanana Baider! Bogdan Raczynski! Valentina Goncharova! staraya derevnya! Honestly Same!

[dancing-bear-tours]

Historical things to know about The Hermitage Museum Tour in St Petersburg

The Hermitage was founded in 1764 as a private museum of Russian tsarina, Catherine The Great.

Catherine was never interested in painting but to have a collection was a matter of prestige- all European monarchs had their own ones, why should she be an exception?

Each next Russian tsar contributed to the treasures   and by the end of the XX century it became one of  the best in the world!

In 1837 Royal collection became available for the wide public: a special building, New Hermitage, was created by order of Nicholas I

1917 October Revolution, from one hand,   enriched the collection greatly as many masterpieces from private collections of Russian nobility became part of the museum, from the other hand, Bolsheviks started selling treasures abroad as young soviet state was in need of money

Right now the collection is more than 3mln pieces of art and  a visitor have to spend  9 years inside the museum if he wish to enjoy  each piece of art during 1 minute

Any standard tour includes a visit to 5 buildings of the The Hermitage Museum complex in St Petersburg : The Winter Palace with fantastically beautiful Gala Rooms, New Hermitage, Old Hermitage, Small Hermitage with masterpieces of European Paintings and the Hermitage Theatre’lobby.

Art lovers wishing to enjoy impressionists/ post impressionists collections should let us know about it in advance – the collection is situated in a separate General Stuff Building, just opposite the main museum complex.

For the second time  visitors we recommend  to visit Russian Porcelain Museum( the Hermitage’ department situated on the Porcelain factory founded in 1744 ) , The Staraya Derevnya Hermitage Repository( murals, carriages, furniture, stain glasses and much, much more !)  

For History Lovers – Menshikov palace and Palace of Peter the Great – both considered to be part of the Hermitage Museum Complex and are never included in the standard Hermitage tour.

[blogovision]

my blogovision #1 staraya derevnya - inwards opened the floor http://popularmodernthemes.blogspot.com/2020/12/blog-post_20.html

[grundik]

Staraya Derevnya at Tusk Virtual 2020

Sunday 4th October 2020

https://tuskfestival.com/

[adrianivashk0v]

HISTORY MEME → [2/2] places: Hermitage Museum

The State Hermitage Museum is a museum of art and culture in Saint Petersburg, Russia. One of the largest and oldest museums in the world, it was founded in 1754 by Catherine the Great and has been open to the public since 1852. Its collections, of which only a small part is on permanent display, comprise over three million items (the numismatic collection accounts for about one third of them) including the largest collection of paintings in the world. The collections occupy a large complex of six historic buildings along Palace Embankment, including the Winter Palace, a former residence of Russian emperors. Apart from them, the Menshikov Palace, Museum of Porcelain, Storage Facility at Staraya Derevnya and the eastern wing of the General Staff Building are also part of the museum. The museum has several exhibition centers abroad. The Hermitage is a federal state property. Since July 1992, the director of the museum has been Mikhail Piotrovsky. Of the six buildings in the main museum complex, five, namely the Winter Palace, Small Hermitage, Old Hermitage, New Hermitage and Hermitage Theatre, are open to the public. The entrance ticket for foreign tourists costs more than the fee paid by citizens of Russia and Belarus. However, entrance is free of charge the first Thursday of every month for all visitors, and free daily for students and children. The museum is closed on Mondays. The entrance for individual visitors is located in the Winter Palace, accessible from the Courtyard.