This
is the debut CD of Archangel goths MOON FAR AWAY, that was released by a
Moscow label, EXOTICA.
On this page you can read some CD
reviews and listen to a couple of tracks from the album in MP3.
You can order the CD on our distribution page.
MOON FAR AWAY "Lado World" Reviews
A couple of tracks from the album in MP3
MOON FAR AWAY "Lado World" Reviews
In 1996 a band from Archangel, MOON FAR AWAY, became very famous
in Russia on the level of demos. In search of the truth, the band is wandering
in the culture labyrinths of various ethnos and epochs, trying to combine
some incompatible cultural layers, that are in fact bound by deep relationship,
the threads that go from one and the same Origin. The debut CD is a mixture of
ethnic melodies and elements of European mediaeval culture, they use the
principles of open improvisation and a good deal of esoteric.
EXOTICA Press-release
MOON FAR AWAY come from Archangel. But they produce such an
impression that they have lived somewhere in the neighbourhood of Dead Can Dance:
their album Lado World is a kaleidoscope of a variety of musical traditions
from around the planet. I don't feel like saying "conceptual" about
this album, but all the twelve tracks should be listened to at once. They are
not connected, so to speak, formally, but all together they produce a very
solid impression. Lomonosov would be very pleased.
Jacob Jacob, Komsomolskaya Pravda
Archangel is the city of bizarre electronics. Each street gives
you a new myth, a new sound, a new view. the musical face of the city is
Alexey Sheptunoff, who produced a couple of underground projects and who is
the coryphaeus of Archangel home-taping. The rational spread of exotical space
far beyond Moscow into the gothic vast of the North. It is strange that such
beautiful music wasn't written in Moscow or Saint-Petersburg. Probably Muscovites
are afraid of being accused of imitating Dead Can Dance.
Ptyuch
Ambient goths from Archangel (which is already exotic), whose pseudonyms
are Anea, Heleg and Count Ash, have just released their first
album, on the Exotica label. They use texts by Cicero, Steiner, Nietzsche as
their lyrics. It is clear that they are similar to Dead Can Dance - to the
point of cover art. Nevertheless, it cannot but satisfy us that there are
people in our country who are not afraid of playing and release good music,
that is out of fashion.
Vlad Slavin, Homme
This band can hardly be called Archangel-ish. Yes, they live here.
But their music can't be bound to some particular place. They are as
cosmopolitan as the Moon in their name. And they have gone too far the way
that was laid by Dead Can Dance. And from that faraway country they cannot see
Archangel. But this doesn't matter. Moon Far Away feel very comfortable in
their trip to European Middle ages. They seem to be so familiarized with this
world that it's hard to surprise them. Like all experienced travelers, Moon Far Away
simply fix their impressions from different countries and cultures. While we
an only hear. Listen. Think. It is impossible to relax under this music. There
are always some new features you didn't mention last time. The process of
listening to the album rather reminds of an excursion: you are very
constrained, afraid of missing even a word from the guide's explanation. (The
latter is, of course, Moon Far Away.) Interesting, but difficult. Very hard it
is to perceive such an amount of ideas at once. But a little later you
understand that, notwithstanding the gothic blackness, the album is most airy
and light. Notwithstanding its original conceptual eclectics, it's very solid
and integral. And Sheptunoff himself is a wonderful melodist, notwithstanding
all his thingamajigs with visionary and culture triggering. It will be a
great pity if Moon Far Away remain another byword for local boys and girls.
This band deserves a better lot.
Alexander, The New Gazette of Archangel
A couple of tracks from the album in MP3
Praesagium (4:18)
Amusements of Demiurg (3:43)
Noch Einmal (7:26)
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