MATSUTAKE - "Singin' Skin"

co-released with MATHKA label, MTHK02


Oh, how tempting for a musician a path of imitating the effect of the music that inspires him. However, the result of such activities is usually a dopey, flat, diffident epigone which stands for "I can also do that" rather than for "This is my music!" The others' fire can't burn you down, but simply keeps you warm.

To an inattentive ear the music of Matsutake might sound a bit like 70s prog- and kraut-rock, a bit like electronics from 90s with a touch of shoegaze... But something is wrong on all levels: while the details are quite bizzare (the textures are holey, the rhythms stumble upon themselves, and the dissonant stumps stick out from every second melodic passage), on a higher level this wild bush is actually very well groomed. Its seemingly unbridled, pert and uncontrolled character in fact hides a bunch of energy, which is highly confident in its development and never doubts about the direction where to make the next step.

And, well, that's the thing - it is not just "all is possible" approach, but is organic or - if you prefer - ecological imitation. In other words - it's not an imitation of some particular music, but taking its very essence, processing by (milled through?) author's aesthetic sensors and giving birth to a new independently functioning organism. Not a genetically modified product, but organically raised mutant claiming his own place under the sun.

This kind of imitation is not an acknowledgment of creative helplessness and not a surrender to the problem of self-expression - it's rather letting the music from the past intrude naturally into creative process. But nobody kneel down before it - instead it's being honestly and saucily exploited. It's highly recommended to feel sincere curiosity and optimism towards an ecological imitation.

written by Denis Kolokol


Tracklist:

PART I:
1. red gems kingdom
2. dangerous wind
3. the legend of singin' skin
4. the lord of the eggs
5. secrets of the black water
6. old prophecy
7. leaving home

PART II:
8. creatures in the forrest
9. running through the trees
10. dark ritual
11. the spellbook
12. giant iron bird
13. singin' skin in the glass caves
14. strange features of the singin' skin

PART III:
15. in the cocoon
16. the man with the singin' skin and the empty heart
17. under the melting skies
18. flaming mountains
19. singing beasts
20. glowing clouds
21. battle against reality, running with the wind





Music written, played and recorded by Jenya Gorbunov / Matsutake.

Recorded in Moscow, Russia, in 2009.
Dedicated to Kate.



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