New project – mycenae bottom (Israel/Russia) is joining NCTMMRN family!
We are happy to announce that the new project mycenae bottom (Israel/Russia) is joining our NCTMMRN family!
mycenae bottom is a collaboration of Feliks Mirensky (Brom, Drojji, Catatonic Leisure) and Konstantin Samolovov (Dogs Bite Back, Wozzeck, Mars-96).
Feliks and Konstantin have performed as a duo only a few times, but their collaboration began many years ago. In the spring of 2016, the Spina!rec label in St. Petersburg (Russia), where Konstantin was one of the curators, organized an experimental music festival. The festival’s lineup, in the label’s typical fashion, was formed by unexpected, fresh, and meticulously crafted collaborations in terms of sound and stage concepts. This led to a joint performance by Konstantin and the Moscow trio Lichna Nega (Andrey Guryanov, Anastasia Kuzmina, Feliks Mirensky), which marked the beginning of a friendship and ongoing collaboration between the musicians.
In 2017, Feliks and Konstantin played as a duo for the first time and recorded the track “Garain” – a garage improvisation in every sense. Feliks dissected the guitar while Konstantin played an old drum kit, all taking place in an actual garage amidst a summer Moscow downpour. In the following years, the duo played together in various formations, such as a quartet with Ilia Belorukov and Andrey Guryanov in a St. Petersburg studio, and as a trio with Alexey Sysoev in a studio session at the Moscow Dom; they also performed as part of the Dogs Bite Back trio, where Feliks supported the group during a concert at Ionoteka.
Finally, in 2021, the musicians deliberately met again, first in a Moscow studio and then in St. Petersburg.
The material selected from these two recordings became the album “enormous height above us” accompanied by the following text by Ilia Belorukov:
“[This] duo is all about electroacoustic improvisation, or more precisely, free improvisation with percussion and electronics, which implies an active, reactive music – and this is evident to the fullest extent.”
The album “enormous height above us” will be released earlier next month on NCTMMRN (Australia). Stay tuned!
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