Comment:
I have found for myself that there is up two directions in music
which used to move me emotionally thoroughly. One of them is old
(indie) music which frequently is associated with certain events and
memories. The Smiths, My Bloody Valentine, Cocteau Twins, Kraftwerk,
CAN. Indeed, back to an old house. On the other side, since I met
with the music of Mark Nelson aka Pan American (Quiet City,
2004, Kranky), and early works of Tim Hecker I have been getting
eargasmic experiences by such sort of music which might seem way too
serious and solemn at the first sight. More profoundly, Black
Wanderer is Daniil Kazantsev, an artist from Russia, previously being
known to his other project _Algol_ and Stuzha. Undoubtedly it is one
of the most impressive issues I have heard from the ending year. The
first time I was listening to it was today's morning while I was
walking down the frozen street surrounded by half-darkness and trees
without the leaves. There were up some cars and human beings only to
create a proper visual backdrop for Daniil's music. It was ghastly
and exalting at the same time. One can imagine lonely chords of the
bass guitar, and a Korg synth vamped up by the high-spirited space of
surrounding it tightly. The way how an initial impulse get dissolved
throughout the course carries on a mesmerising effect for your brain
and soul. In spite of it, it is the sort of ambient music with
muscles. It is partly dark ambient/dystopbient. Some tracks used to
reach the longitude of more than 20 minutes yet these meandering
courses seem to be much shorter. The issue is a part of the
discography of Earth Mantra, headed up by another excellent musician
Scott Lawlor. In a word, these four ones are spiritualised fantasies
and descriptions of them thereafter per excellence.
