[SBWS021] Little Nastya - Afrika EP

============================================= ВНИМАНИЕ!!! ЭТО НЕ ВЕЧЕРИНКА И НЕ КОНЦЕРТ!!! ЭТО РЕКЛАМА ИНТЕРНЕТ-РЕЛИЗА ОТ ЛЕЙБЛА SUBWISE!!! ЕСЛИ ВЫ НЕ ЗАИНТЕРЕСОВАНЫ В ЭТОЙ МУЗЫКЕ ИЛИ ПОЛУЧИЛИ ПРИГЛАШЕНИЕ СЛУЧАЙНО, ТО ПРОСТО ОТКЛОНИТЕ ЕГО И НЕ ПИШИТЕ ВСЯКУЮ ЕРУНДУ НА СТЕНЕ!!! ============================================= [SBWS021] Little Nastya - Afrika EP tracklist: 01. Intro (Afrika Space) 02. Easy Programmm... (Food) 03. Afrikan Robot (Oila-O) 04. Light Reall Sun (Afrikan Woman) 05. Outro (1st December) Genre: Abstract, Glitch-Hop Length: 7 min 48 sec MPEG-1 layer 3 320kbit http://subwise.net/sbws021.html DOWNLOAD => http://subwise.net/music/%5bSBWS021%5d_Little_Nastya-Afrika_EP.zip DOWNLOAD and LISTEN at archive.org => http://www.archive.org/details/sbws021LittleNastya-AfrikaEp "Nastya – is quite obviously not female. Neither is he very little, being sufficiently mature to have half a decade’s worth of musical experience behind him already, both with the underground hip-hop label 2-99 (of which we’ve written previously) and St Petersburg’s net-project Subwise. Most of his output he defines as “glitch-hop.” This same style undoubtedly rolls on into the new release – and does so in fascinating ways. We’ve been lucky enough to get a pre-release copy of the recording, which goes by the title of “Afrika.” The “Intro” track, over a mere 1:18 seconds, combines decelerated, slurred speech (of what appears to be a radio presenter) with some ethnic pipes, evocative not only of African stereotypes, but even the endless steppe of Russia’s Asian lands. This, in other words, is a deliberately vague/wantonly hackneyed evocation of some underpopulated, underdeveloped expanse. In fact, the track is even subtitled as “Afrika Space”: this could be a reference to Africa seen purely in terms of open wilderness (with no apparent limit) or to the fact that such boundlessness conceivably mirrors outer space, in that it robs its few inhabitants of any orientation whatsoever. Whatever the case may be, there’s a sonic association of slurred, almost ambient sounds with a blank, open canvas. Only towards the end of the track do drums punctuate this backdrop – and the EP kicks into gear. This, in short, is a soundtrack to incipient effort in the middle of nowhere. Throughout these five brief numbers, with a total running time of less than 8 minutes, Russian/Siberian/African motifs all fall together, once more underscoring the idea that the EP as a whole is designed to grapple with a certain dilemma – and express some inexpressible geographic dimensions. In other words, it hopes – through a merger of existing sonic tools (i.e., sounds that are universally recognized as “African,” say) – to articulate something so big or distant, almost nobody has encountered its edge, extent, or end. To talk or sing of something that has not been seen in its entirety will obviously be difficult(!); Uvarovskii attempts to do so by gathering some generalized, if not cliched sounds of big, untraversed spaces (like African drums or haunting flutes of the Taiga) and combining them. After all, if those same drums stand in metaphorically for “all of Africa” – in some nonspecific, almost trite manner – then maybe the equally nondescript melodies of “all Siberia” – if added! – will evoke an even bigger realm. more at http://www.moscow.ucla.edu/electronic/2009/10/16/little-nastya-and-aagsf-the-african-sounds-of-increasing-distance/