New release: VEREVKA – ROTONDA | NCT014 is out NOW!

New release: VEREVKA – ROTONDA | NCT014 is out NOW! Listen/buy: https://nctmmrn.bandcamp.com/album/rotonda

The Verevka project was found as a “horizontal” project, with the aim of bringing improvising musicians together to work on microtonal music and to experiment with the acoustics of various rooms. Through the unity of the instrumentation (acoustic guitars and electronic bows), the project has eliminated the loudness and timbre inequality inherent in various musical instruments.

Thus, each musician in the project has the same “amount of sound” and an equal margin for deviations and improvisation, which consists of a slight change in pitch. The presented concert in the rotunda was an interesting experience in a room with a very rich natural acoustics. The musicians were located in the choirs, where the organ used to stand, and the audience was at the bottom, which made it possible to perceive not individual “sound threads”, but the entire musical canvas at once.

Credits: Vladimir Grig, Christine Kazarian, Alexander Korotkov, Vladimir Luchanskiy, Alexander Markvart, Pavel Miheev, Andrey Popovskiy, Denis Sorokin – acoustic guitars, electronic bows

Live at Rotonda of Mayakovsky library on 18 March 2019. Saint-Petersburg, Russia.

Recording, mixing, mastering by Ilia Belorukov

Cover artwork by Sergei Tumanov, original photos by Andrey Popovskiy