Where to start on this one? First of all, this is not what I normally listen to or where my knowledge is. Second, I am not planning to do a lot of these, so please don’t suddenly start sending music in this style. But yes, I will review this one because there is something about it.
Who is behind the projects? Let’s start with Necromishka. This is a duo from Israel Michael Molotov from Kadaver and his (lovely) wife Tamar. This is their second output as a duo with the first one also on 999 Cuts. But on “Animal God” they work with Vera Agnivolok, a neofolk artist whose first (split) release hails from the previous century. Agnivolok used to be Vera with two others creating drones and additional sounds and that part is now done by Tamar and Michael. So there is a lot of neofolk on this album and many textures from a different background. All tracks flow into each other, generating a magical journey through the minds of this Russian / Israeli collective.
I don’t speak any Russian, I don’t know what it’s all about. But the atmosphere is nice. I had an excellent 45 minutes. The ambient parts between the tracks are more my taste then the neofolk parts and “Yellow-Eyed Town, Part 2” is my favorite part of the CD. But I THINK I can hear the touch of Michael / Kadaver in that part. So that’s not a real surprise. Music wise – as said – I can’t compare it to anything because I don’t know this scene. But find the collaborative work “Clown’s Way” in this week’s mix and you’ll find a track where the title is so beautifully found together with the created atmosphere. The circus is over, and the clown sits on a stack of hay, tired from working too hard the last days, closer to crying than laughing … Russian tradition is filled with contradictions like these.
The final words are for the AMAZING drawings by Vera herself, which are used for the artwork. Really. Chapeau.
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