7 June 2012

Vitaliy Baldych - The Seagull

Record: 2009-2011 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1206.0060
New Age, Relax

“The sea is everything. It covers seven tenths of the terrestrial globe. Its breath is pure and healthy. It is an immense desert, where man is never lonely, for he feels life stirring on all sides. The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. It is nothing but love and emotion; it is the Living Infinite.”
— Jules Verne, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

6 June 2012

Tornfly - Bronze Ox

Record: 2012 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1206.0059
Traditional Electronic, Psy-Ambient

People of many nations always had a popular belief in an ox as symbol of good fortune and fertility. They imagined him looking at them from the night sky and asked him to bring happiness to their home. They called him Bronze Ox by bright orange color of stars in a large horn-shaped constellation. It's immense beauty is conveyed in fantastic sound scenes, which change their characters from quiet and slightly dark to harsh, synthetic, with bright rhythm, like sudden dreams, nevertheless linked by the one logic thread... Even if it's just an imagination.

2 June 2012

WMRI - Minor Objects

Record: 2006-2007 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1206.0058
Traditional Electronic

The historic collection that gathers early tracks, originally released as singles. This curious part of WMRI discography was nearly unknown for most listeners until now. Different interpretations of album tracks and accompanying b-sides are written in various styles of melodic synthesizer music, sometimes more psychedelic and sometimes epic or even acoustic. The compilation is not a simple sequence of the singles, all tracks are ordered to get better perception.

25 May 2012

Mr. Gaus - Cutting Edge

Record: 2009 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1205.0057
Ambient, Industrial

Step by step goes the time. Cog beats cog is a turn. Be on the bleeding edge of a progress or be a cogwheel if you want. Not possible to catch a moment - you think while it's gone. Hold the pulse for an instant to comprehend. See the wonders with your eyes on the run. Take the bliss - nobody would do this for you. Optimum is maximum at a minimum. Don't take much - take the whole. Don't stay long - better go. Get it fast - this is how.

20 May 2012

Rigel Centaurus - Зона обитаемости (Habitable Zone)

Record: 2011-2012 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1205.0056
Space, Drone Ambient

The time has come to leave the dear planet and human slipped from the cradle of Earth to lay the path to far stars. Floating through dimensions on the wings of light the man draws his mind and creativity to new worlds transforming them into the glorious islands of life in full swing. All these unseen wonders are perfectly created using deep complex soundscapes mixed with endless drones and eternal calmness.

Dmitriy Samoylenko - Exciting Meetings with Mom Nature

Record: 2010 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1205.0055
Ambient, New Age

Discover the wonders of our Mother Nature with this colorful ambient music. Transparent silence of summer morning and enchantment of the night on a seashore give a sense of quietness. You can feel a little bit alone, but your solitude soon is broken by voices of birds and whispers of forest. Music becomes more rhythmic like a shamanic songs and pulls you into magic atmosphere of beauty and harmony.

14 May 2012

Ptarkh - Dark Position

Record: 2011 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1205.0054
Dark Ambient, Industrial

Rustle of broken branches and fallen leaves, whisper of sad spirits, near and distant noises come along with you in the endless walk through the land of the dead. Abandoned mechanical structures corrode under the rain. Murmurous streams run under heavy-clouded skies. Only the sound of heartbeat binds the stranger with the world of living, but soon the inevitable darkness absorbs it without a trace.

Ptarkh - Угасание (Extinction)

Record: 2011 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1205.0053
Dark Ambient

This is the end. The life finishes its cyclic process and gathers all the memories. Like an ancient bells they resound in one's mind with crisp reflections of past times. All the vigil affairs are gone and the light of other side comes closer with every heartbeat. This is the end...

7 May 2012

Antalio - US/SU

Record: 2012 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1205.0052
Spacesynth, Synthpop

A retrospective in the era of confrontation between two powerful empires - the USSR and the USA - in space, in the air, on land and at sea. The middle and the end of the 20th century: science and technological progress and the arms race. Different sides of melodic synthesizer music are colliding to create nostalgic and thrilling images of the past.

5 May 2012

sokpb avabodha - Величие гор (Majesty of Mountains)

Record: 2010 • Edition: 2012 • USC-WR-1205.0051
Drone Ambient

Slowly drifting sound flow reveals majesty and monumentality of mountain domains. Shining peaks and foggy contours come out from the fog and vanish again. Combining everytime differently, simple elements create infinitely morphing shapes which are forming and drowning within ghostly guitar ambient sounds. That grandeur scape is created with generous dabs and fined with gentle strokes of a celestial architect.