Started in 2005 by Artem Galkin, KRUZR KEN was conceived as a vehicle for exploring territories of live and improvised electro-acoustics, harsh drone, experimental noise. Soon, Pavel Eremeev, a bass-player and sound-engineer for I AM ABOVE ON THE LEFT joined, and the project got shaped as a duo of Galkin and Eremeev handling guitars, hand-made devices, and drums. The next two years saw Artem Galkin and Pavel Eremeev teaming up with Sergei Ledovski, IAAOTL’s drummer, as a furious avant-core trio called uSSSy. After finishing work in the recording studio, Ledovski left and Pavel Bogachev from PREA HRADA came on board. Now uSSSy is a duo of Artem (baritone) and Pavel (drums).
uSSSy / uSSSy (2009) / (self-released)
"Recorded in autumn 2008 with Sergei Ledovsky on drums (who soon retired both from I AM ABOVE ON THE LEFT and USSSY), this album features three-quarters of the IAAOTL line-up and shows the most frenetic approach to modern avant-garde rock/metal. It’s music for baritone guitar, electric guitar, drums, and barely audible gargled vocals. Everything sounds like tightly wound mainspring and gets bigger and bigger as it goes. The various brutal-prog or avant-core comparisons have a certain sense here, but there's no proud boast, just a conscious harnessing of fury punk energy to distil souls and ruin a stasis of complacency. Compared to recent KRUZR KEN outing, the freewheeling exercises by Artem Galkin and Pavel Eremeev has been toned down and their USSSY sounds more like real songs with defined structures (except of extended dirdge-drone ending of the final track). No wonder they share ground with their primary I AM ABOVE ON THE LEFT band, though the musical pulse is more rapid and the mass is closer to critical. It's heavy, explosive, rushed and exciting… and it’s still a hard nut to crack. (11 tracks - 65 min.)" - by Raigor. reviews: Sea Of Tranquility (USA)
Perte Et Fracas (France)
Sonic Frontiers (USA)
DisAgreement (Luxembourg) Monochrom-Cracked (Austria) Пётр Попов (Россия) Indievid (Россия)
Kruzr Ken / Addicts & Satan (2008) / CD / R.A.I.G.
"What do the official anti-alcohol campaigns have to do with alcohol consumption? They scare normal people away from drinking, make people to think that drinking is not normal, and… make drinking more difficult and expensive. In fact, people don’t stop to consume alcohols: some definitely get ready to pay more for alcohols while others switch to cheap surrogates. What do Kruzr Ken have to do with alcohol consumption? Try their Addicts & Satan to learn… Not only they scare normal people (as well as alcohol abusers) to death by inventively reproduced feedback noise-droning waves and spasmodic drum-fitting… they send a special suggestive treatment for addiction to alcohol (note: it works internationally, one doesn’t have to speak Russian to get it). If you searching for in some way “la meme musique” you’d better stay away from this collection of titlelessly numerical pieces. But if you want to hear a new voice of social dissension and dissonance… here it sounds! (8 tracks - 64 min.)" - by Raigor. reviews: Heathen Harvest (USA) Cosmos Gaming (USA) Far from Moscow (USA) Monochrom-Cracked (Austria) Raigor (Россия) Пётр Попов (Россия)
Лейбл O[k]hlupeng при поддержке DualpLOVER представляет Yeti Potlatch 2009, 30 sept -11 oct
Объединение Acid Pop Birds расширяет свои границы. В 2007 был проведен первый фест и закончился он оргией в Москве у станции метро Баррикадная. Приезд милиции был закономерным финалом. В 2008 С. Ханолайнен, уфолог и агент Обезьяньей Великой и Вольной Палаты разоблачает ряд участников феста в тайной деятельности, после чего бежит за рубеж. Acid Pop Birds продолжают активность под видом фестивальной организации, и в 2009 хэдлайнером выбирается легендарный австралиец Лукас Абель, играющий на стеклах собственным лицом. Ключевая фигура международной экстремальной сцены, он обладает широкой агентурной сетью по всему свету. Абель изобрел магическое стеклоедство пятнадцать лет назад, гастролировал в 40 странах мира, записывался и выступал с Bob Ostertag, Jon Rose, Anthony Pateras, Maja Ratkje, Otomo Yoshihide, Masami Akita, Yamatsuka Eye и др.
Yeti Potlatch пройдет в Литве, Эстонии и 7 городах России и вовлечет в свой круг более 20 ключевых коллективов радикально-мистической направленности. По слухам, участники фестиваля собирются в туре найти Священного Йети. Учитывая то, что потлач является одним из самых странных индейских ритуалов, зрители вправе ожидать новых существ, процессий и событий.
Started in 2005 by Artem Galkin, KRUZR KEN was conceived as a vehicle for exploring territories of live and improvised electro-acoustics, harsh drone, experimental noise. Soon, Pavel Eremeev, a bass-player and sound-engineer for I AM ABOVE ON THE LEFT joined, and the project got shaped as a duo of Galkin and Eremeev handling guitars, hand-made devices, and drums. The next two years saw Artem Galkin and Pavel Eremeev teaming up with Sergei Ledovski, IAAOTL’s drummer, as a furious avant-core trio called uSSSy. After finishing work in the recording studio, Ledovski left and Pavel Bogachev from PREA HRADA came on board. Now uSSSy is a duo of Artem (baritone) and Pavel (drums).
LP10 @ 2009 (drone | 64-69) CDR
LP9 @ 2009 (drone | 56-63) CDR
LP8 @ 2009 (drone&noise | 48-55) CDR
LP7 @ 2008 (drone&noise | 43-47) CDR
LP6 @ 2007 (drone | 38-42) CDR
LP5 @ 2007 (drone | 31-37) CDR
LP4 @ 2007 (pop-noise-rock | 28-30) CDR
LP3 @ 2007 (drone | 25-27) CDR
LP2 @ 2007 (noise-punk | 18-24) CDR
LP1 @ 2007 (noise-punk | 1-17) CDR
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