First official release from a new Moscow-based power duo. Lovozero + Kira Weinstein is an improvised ambient outfit that merges celestial female chants, electro-acoustics and programming into florid emotional flares.
Lovozero is Anastasia Tolchneva, best known for her striking solo EP on Monoleak and Tikhie Kamni duo with Moa Pillar. She’s an active force in the current Moscow scene, taking part in numerous multi-disciplinary projects ranging from chemical experiments to underground dance performances. Her second solo record is due 2017 on Full of Nothing.
Kira Weinstein has extensive experience in the Russian indie-pop and rock circles but is currently re-imagining her oeuvre in favor of sound art deviations, coding, improv ambient and outer boundaries collaborations.
Together the ladies craft an impeccable buoyant stream of sound that is equally traditional and fresh. This languid 16-minute session is just a taste of what they have in store for the upcoming LP on Kotä label.
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released November 24, 2016
Recording by Mikhail Myasoedov. Artwork by Daria Beskorsaya.
Something wonderfully abstracted about this song. The feeling that one is somehow extricated from the idea, which is entirely fitting with the idea itself. This was the most conventional Love Cult track I've ever heard, and yet it still managed to trace some distant feeling without alluding directly to that feeling. Like listening to pain echoing though a cavernous hole, or seeing it reflected in a hall of mirrors. Michael Keerdo-Dawson