microphones in the trees: anya kuts
Showing posts with label anya kuts. Show all posts
Showing posts with label anya kuts. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 04, 2012

lichen gumbo


"Lichen Gumbo is a rock’n'roll duo from unmapped rural Finland, where mystical muddy swamps and aurora borealis lit skylines mix with low signal sitcoms from overseas. no time for mumbo jumbo, just straight forward shredding here. these songs are about existential longing for god forsaken roadhouses and weird bohemian parties. Lichen Gumbo is the sound of blasting through the dusty roads of Savo with Pappa-Tunturi. recorded with dictaphones, tape decks, a reel to reel machine and an mp3 player bought from Lidl. from the damaged minds of Olli Aarni (Nuojuva, Ous Mal) and Ville Oinonen (Vo Motars, Tanec Hrac). Blue see-through tapes with full-colour J-cards designed by Anya Kuts. Edition of 100." fon


recuerdo aquel post, tiempo ha, en el que adrián nos descubría el snow-folk de ous mal, y desde entonces y de forma recurrente no puedo evitar escuchar y seguir los pasos de olli aarni. lo que hace a lichen gumbo tan especial como nuojuva, aún siendo tan distintos, es su belleza inexplicable, ese clima indescriptible, el toque mágico, la sensación de atemporalidad.

zoom zoom ohm umpha suena a clásico sin serlo, y me recuerda a the fall y the lyres versión crepuscular. hay desvaríos psicodélicos, wow wows, guitarras anti-folk, canciones cortas y pequeñitas que se mezclan de forma caprichosa con el universo ducktails vs gorky's zygotic mynci y con sonidos más orgánicos y bucólicos: el trino de los pájaros, el kikirikí de gallos vespertinos y  el eco celestial de unas voces que viven y juegan en el mismo bosque encantado de matthew himes. pero sobre todo me recuerda a los discos de wild gunmen y the cherry blossoms (the hank tapes!), ése es el espíritu, naif, crujiente, nashville, casi infantil. 'orange myrtle' me hace sonreir de felicidad, tan bonita, lisérgica, radiante. 'goggles' es absolutamente keijo virtanen y unos rambling boys entusiasmados y acelerados. 'bertha', de temperatura cálida y acogedora, es danzarina, optimista y tropical, aunque mi corazón pertenece a 'swampaye', bonita con mayúsculas, única e irrepetible. pero ojo a las guitarras macguire~julian lynch de 'typical dreamer'. zoom zoom es como un cuento para niños, dibuja paisajes tropicales pero con ruidos de fondo, es cavernoso y al mismo tiempo ensoñador, es travieso e inmediato como el primer disco de ganglians. es jangle pop, es jangle folk, garage atmosférico, lo-fi, surf, new wave...pero ante todo es exaltación y felicidad

Tuesday, June 19, 2012

woodpecker wooliams & golden cup meet love cult


"In April 2011 Full of Nothing proudly presented an original Russian tour of 3 projects from different pockets of the world: Woodpecker Wooliams, UK femme-folk experimentalist; Golden Cup, Italian psychedelic guru and ex-Jooklo member and Love Cult, label’s very own hypnotic family duo. The company played unforgettable shows in Moscow, Saransk and Saint Petersburg, as well as continued to The Baltics. This release captures the unexpected collective improvisations from Saransk and Saint Petersburg. Wild, ecstatic weirdo soundscapes relying solely on intuition, sensation, culture shock and friendship. Sonic celebration of the new and strange, sleeper trains, Russian soul and maybe vodka." fon

foto: new legs

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

nuojuva


"Olli Aarni, the young Finnish mastermind behind the Ous Mal project has shed his former skin and settled comfortably into the Nuojuva moniker. his pastoral loops are further enhanced with vocals from Anya Kuts (Love Cult) and Rachel Evans (Motion Sickness of Time Travel)." hooker vision

cómo describir dos canciones como 'punapuola kankahalla' o 'ikina'. es hooker vision, el astronauta olli aarni (todo lo que hace es bonito, no importa el estilo), rachel evans y anya kuts en las voces. como acercarse a leyland kirby a través de jonna karanka, sala~arhimo o los delfines del futuro. envolvente, cinemático, ensoñador,...y muchísimoss adjetivos atmosféricos más

foto: laura kiernan

Tuesday, October 18, 2011

easy feelings

"Like the name suggests, Easy Feelings is intuitive & ethereal psychedelic ambient music to make love to or dream an autumnal afternoon away. It’s a collaboration of Love Cult & Bedroom Bear (Sergei Dmitriev, Anya Kuts & Ivan Afanasyev) from the Republic of Karelia, Russia. The mellow synthwaves, the dreamy voices & the trippy guitarplay of this trippy three piece channel your innermost emotional states of peace & balance." sicsic tapes

Thursday, May 05, 2011

love cult

"Hailing from deep within the songlands of Karelia, Love Cult is the duo of Anya Kuts and Ivan Afanasyev. When asked to tell us a bit more about these sessions, the duo only told us things that made us feel even more alien and confused than we were when we knew nothing at all. These are truly sounds of a thoughtfully intimate and exclusive nature, like the soft concentration of singing lullabies to your first love. Using only acoustic guitar, voice, bells, kantele, lap slide, kazoo and effects, Love Cult construct two side-long epics that are fully enveloping...While fragile acoustics are fingered in pensive circular patterns, sinewy loops wrap themselves around the shimmering esophagus gently intoning it's mantras. The expansive atmosphere of these workings give extra blur to the ghostly strands of melody slowly arching over fully hollow spaces between and around each note. Welcome to the shadowy bliss of the songlands." brave mysteries

foto: anya by nick post