COUNT ASH - all instruments, music & vocal; TOLOKA - vocal; ANEA - vocal (1995-2000); ANASTASIA - vocal (2001-2007).
MFA CONTACT: moonfar@bk.ru ICQ: 474195906
Influences
The main: The Nature of White Sea coast and Soulovetsk islands.
European Dark Ages culture, esotericism and romanticism;
St. Francisk, St. Alexander Nevskij, St. Andrei Rublev, St. Serafim of Sarov, Sts Zosima, Savvatij and German of Soulovetsk Islands, St. Eleazar of Anzer, St. Johann of Krondshtadt.
NSK
Great Russian culture, history and spirituality in general;
Music: European neo-classic and dark-folk scene;
Gods of 4AD;
Music of Ortodox Christianity Church;
Northern Russian folk-music;
Ritual industrial and military-pop;
Ethereal & ambient;
Henry Purcell, Sergey Prokofiev, Olivier Messiaen, Arvo Part, Vladimir Martynov, Anton Batagov.
Philosophy: Daniil Andreev and his "The Rose Of The World", Rene Guenon, Nikolai Danilevsky, Hazrat Inayat Khan, Yury Mamleev, Alexander Dugin, "The Project Russia".
Literature: "Slovo O Polku Igoreve", Fedor Dostoevsky, Gustav Meyrink, Pavel Krusanov, Milorad Pavic, Orhan Pamuk, Boris Shergin, Stepan Pisahov.
Painting: Icons of Ortodox Christianity, preraphaelites, M.K. Ciurlionis.
Cinema: Andrey Tarkovsky, Federiko Fellini, Pavel Lungin, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Terry Gilliam, Emir Kusturica, Alexander Ivanov.
MOON FAR AWAY is a music project denying limiting borders of space, time and society. It creates mystical and ritual soundscapes in the framework of Gothic music and ritual neo-folk.
Behind the consciously faceless visual image of the project there is the desire of the project members to create a unified audio and semantic image as free from any human origin as possible. No matter how the Project members live or what they do outside MFA, it has no significance whatsoever for adequate understanding MOON FAR AWAY music.
A combination of classical traditional European culture and modern select avant-garde tradition, along with technology and mass-media development of modern civilization, merged with strict obedience to traditions reflecting the mentality of Russian North sea regions are the basis of MOON FAR AWAY philosophy…
Spirit, Service, Will,
Tradition, Power,
ART.
MOON FAR AWAY's discography:
- "THE SLOVISHA'S SONGS" self-released demo, 1995 (tape)
- "PRA" self-released demo, 1996 (tape)
- "LADO WORLD" Exotica, 1997 CD
- "SATOR" Brudenia, 2000; Shadowplay Release, 2006 CD
- "WITCHCRAFT BY A SINGING" self-released, 2002 CD-R single
- "PRUTENA: Live at Fort Stein 04.05.2002" Fight Muzik, 2003 2CD (live CD-R + video CD)
- "BELOVODIE" Prikosnovenie / Shadowplay Release, 2005 CD
- "LADO WORLD / ANTI-LADO WORLD" Shadowplay Release, 2005 2CD (second CD is a kind of “tribute”, - 17 bands from all over the world plays MFA’s music)
- "SATOR" (+ bonus video) Shadowplay Release, 2006 CD
- SIX DEAD BULGARIANS vs MOON FAR AWAY "MATITSA" Shadowplay Release, 2007 CD
Compilation appearances:
- V/A "DARK AGES III", track: "A Scorpion Domain" Arborlon Music, 1998
- V/A "GOTHIC ENIGMA II", track: "Praesagium" Triton Records, 1999
- V/A "RESULTS, part III", track: "To The Heaven Rhuanda" Results, 1999
- V/A "TELL TSCHAIKOWSKY THE NEWS", track: “Man Is A Birdstower” Exotica, 1999
- V/A "EDGE OF THE NIGHT: Russian gothic compilation", track: "December of Times" Russian Gothic Project, 2000
- V/A "TRITON II", track: "Architects Of Immortality" Triton, 2000
- V/A "RESULTS IV", track: "Na Zore" Results, 2001
- V/A "EXOTHEQUE", track: “Praesagium” Exotica, 2002
- V/A "BULLDOZER Compilation", track: "Na Zore" Fulldozer Mag/ AnTrop Records, 2002
- SIX DEAD BULGARS "Arch Angelsk", hidden MFA track: "Fuero De Cuenca" Fight Muzik, 2002
- V/A "COLOURS OF BLACK: Russian dark scene compilation", track: "Witchcraft By A Singing" Shadowplay Release, 2004
- ROMOWE RIKOITO "Austradeiwa", MFA track: "Blueberry Song" (recorded by Count Ash and ROMOWE RIKOITO musicians), 2005
- V/A "FAERY WORLD II", track: "Zvetiki" Prikosnovenie, 2005
- V/A "NASHE RADIO ARCHANGELSK Compilation, part I", track: "Sobiraetse Liubeznoy" Nashe Radio Archangelsk, 2005
- V/A "SHADOWSIDE", track: "Zhito Zhala" Shadowplay Release, 2006
- V/A "COLOURS OF BLACK: Russian dark scene Compilation vol.2", track: "An Invisible Step of World History" Shadowplay Release, 2006
- V/A “INFLUENCE”, track: “Deus Amet Puellam” Shadowplay Release 2006
- V/A "HATYN: Tacet, Sed Loquitur", track: "Volna Shumit" (male version) Stigmata, 2007
- THEODOR BASTARD "MIR" single, track: MFA vs TB "Budem Zhit' ", Q-Code, october 2008
- V/A "Stereo & Video" Magazine CD-compilation. MFA tracks: "Sobiraetse Liubeznoi", "Tsvetiki", "Zhito Zhala", "Mama Rus' ". November 2008.
- V/A "ENEMIES": A Collection Of Wartime Lyrical Tunes", track: "Temnaja Noch", Der Angriff / IndieState, 9 of may, 2009
Olde skozey fetisch performance newly posted @ YouTube. It was the first ever Noise Pancakes at Pubis Noir. There were three audience members in attendance.
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