Gultska Artikler — Kasha IZ Topora

Kasha Iz Topora is musically & audio interruption/ soundtrack for a bizarre Old Russian fairytale that details the exploits of a man with an axe, who can make porridge fly. Built from synth washers, seemly steam powered electroncia, bizarre sampled rhythmic and noise elements, sampled Russian & classical string work, folk traces and darker trip-hop beat moments.

Though sadly the music is not as bizarre or out-there as the story it’s based on, it’s a rewarding enough ride. The thing that really impressers here is the rhythmic and noise textures that pan around the rich and wavering string drifts and saws, there very quirky and inventive using all manner of sounds such as; multiple flesh slaps, door creaking, apples bites, weird breathing elements, etc. All cut up into beat like patterns & textures, which bring many of the 'nice enough but not spectacular' melodic tracks above par to make them something a little different above the gulch of classical string meets electronica releases that’s been appearing of late. There’s also nice darts into more slow and gloomy territory with doomy junkyard jazz elements, minor cord piano dwells and sinister/ cracked ambient drags.

Certainly an attempt to do something a little different & often a little disorientating with the electronics meets classical genre with some very rewarding moments along the way, though a few of the melodies sound a little bit too familiar for their own good.