VAlentina Goncharova’s luminous production offers a window into a lesser-known Soviet history of experimental music, based on classical, jazz and electronic sounds of the new era behind the Iron Curtain. The first volume Goncharova’s enveloping music came out in 2020 on the Estonian label Shukai; the second brings together duets with the late Finnish experimental musician Pekka Airaksinen, theater director and instrumentalist Alexander Aksenov and Russian composer Sergey Letov. The focus is on the remarkable music they made together, self-recorded at home jams, in jazz cafes, apartments, and studios in Tallinn, Riga, Helsinki, and Moscow between 1987 and 1991. With Airaksinen, the music is upbeat and eccentric on the three tracks of surprisingly unusual synth jams. All the recordings give the feeling that we are listening to games and private exchanges.

Source: The Guardian January 07, 2022 11:02 UTC