reviews
Denis Kolokol | 11/2004
I have to say beforehand, it's damn miraculous music!This is something very deep and carrying away. So damn obscure disorder inside it, the sound-crowds, the long-long chains of information, and each of them can carry a listener so far away that it could be hard to adapt to another kind of music. There are lots of things that can be described as sounding something-like-this-or-a-bit-like-that, but Gultskra Artikler sounds too differently. On the whole there's no sounding; both albums are just sets of surprises. There is nothing to catch in this music, it always leaves the listener out-of-date and constantly changes its scenario, and so it's not very clear what is happening inside it. In fine, Gultskra Artikler is highly an unusual thing. I stake my head!
This is something near to ethno-electro-avant-garde, with ethno as the least part. It's assembled brittle and unsteady, it's tearing and bursting out. It sounds sometimes with too much of the Siberian cold, but with no delving either into ethnic rumble or into electronic and always staying a complete abstraction, sometimes quite radical. The fact of occurrences of such "balanced" records on the demo-scene is very important.
Gultskra Artikler consists of Alexei Devyanin (also known as Stud) and Alexei Glazachev, the two studs from a Siberian city of Novosibirsk. Although I've got from some incomplete sources that Devyanin is now turning in Moscow. He released a heap of stuff as Stud through different net-labels such as Kikapu, Kahvi, AcediaMusic. Now he personally runs the label Please Do Something. One review of his album called Devyanin "the hope of the nation".