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SIJ & SERGEY GABBASOV - Perseides

Format: CD Label & Cat.Number: Gterma 049 Release Year: 2016 Note: these gifted Russian ambient musicians/ethnologists created an almost 80 min. long "world/ethno ambience" soundtrack full of floating flute sounds, tribal percussion, evolving synths, humming drones, field recordings from water streams, birds, etc. and deep throat singing.. a guide 'through the dusty backwater trails of the Mongol steppe..' - comes with full colour booklet Price (incl. 19% VAT): €13.00 More Info Welcome along on another trip into the forgotten hinterlands of the Eurasian plateau. Sergey and Vladimir once again skillfully guide us through the dusty backwater trails of the Mongol steppe, along the winding mountain roads that slither through the steep valleys of the Central Asian mountain ranges past crumbling old villages where hardship and beauty go hand in hand. No manmade light disturbs the eternal slumber of the starry nightsky and every cave, every hill, seems under the influence of some forgotten deity or spirit being. Sergey Gabbasov is a social anthropologist specialized in hunter-gathers of Central and East Africa. He has made many ethnographical expeditions in different parts of Africa, Asia and Europe, produced several films about indigenous peoples and studied their native music. SiJ is an ambient music project founded on March 27th 2011 by self-taught artist Vladislav Sikach from Sevastopol. His sound incorporates a variety of themes expressed in the dark and light colors. SiJ uses great number of instruments such as various guitars, drums and synthetizers as well as handmade mechanical or electromachanical sound devices. Recently SiJ started to use field recordings made in various places from urban streets to abandoned military and industrial facilities. credits released July 22, 2016 Sergey Gabbasov – Hadza malimba, Maasai throat singing, Indian bansuri, Kyrgyz temir-khomus and sybyzgy, Armenian blul, Bashkir quray, Tuvan shoor and overtone singing “kargyraa”, Tatar kubyz, Arabic and Persian ethnic percussion, Moldavian kaval, Bulgarian duduk, sound engineering and processing, programming, recordings, synthesizers. SiJ - synthesizer/keyboards, contact microphones, field recordings, acoustic guitar, percussion, bells, toy-piano, sound engineering & processing, programming, voice. https://gterma.bandcamp.com/album/perseides " “Perseides” is the second ethnographical aural journey by Vladislav Sikach (aka SiJ) and Sergey Gabbasov on the Swedish Gterma label. This time around, the continuous, almost 80-minute outcome is a blend 12 tracks, all travelling on the mystery road to places far away in the Mongol region. The music of often led by ethnic percussion and flutes, to which a large array of acoustic sound sources, elevating electronic soundscapes, occasional throat singing and moody field recordings are added. On several spots though, like on “Armenia, the use of flutes could have been less in favor of the spacious textural dwellings. Overall, synths play a minor role on this tribal recording while the electronics add a gritty, crispy flavor (like on “Braj”) to the acoustic and flute-dominated ethno-scapes, which ends in a kind of groovy ethno-beat." [Sonic Immersion]