A
debut self-released album of one of the most unusual bands at the Russian dark
scene. Recommended to all lovers of darkwave and necro-aesthetics :) On this page you can read some CD
reviews and listen to a couple of tracks from the album in MP3.
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NECRO STELLAR "Dlo Kwala Manyan" Reviews
A couple of tracks from the album in MP3
NECRO STELLAR "Dlo Kwala Manyan" Reviews
“Dlo Kwala Manyan” is the second long-play album recorded by Yura
Zvezdny and Co. under the name NECRO STELLAR (ex-DYKHANIE). Their first work
“Pulsing Zero” has never been officially released, but this never stopped the
truly creative musicians of the NECRO STELLAR trio, and here is their second
album, produced by the band itself. Thus, here is the first official NECRO
STELLAR release ‘Dlo Kwala Manyan’, consisting of two hundred CDR copies with
very beautiful typographic cover.
The presentation’s press-release claims that Dlo Kwala Manyan is
dedicated to «40 dead beauties whose weightless bodies rest at the
Preobrazhenskoye cemetery in Moscow, and whose eternal and unforgettable
beauty, forever frozen, penetrates and leads NECRO STELLAR music in dreams and
in reality». Such a dedication raised lots of positive emotions in me, and I
was looking forward to hearing the actual songs. I was even more enticed by
the metaphors the musicians had chosen to describe their style: from
ultra-morbid necro-biotics to infinite star and sky bio-necrotics. The latter
metaphor is clear to those who know that this is a pun involving the names of
two (of three) members of the band: Yury Zvezdny (Star Yury) and Anastasia
Podnebesnaya (Sky Anastasia) – but what could “morbid necro-biotics” refer to
was obscure to me. (Maybe it’s a hint to the third member of the band,
Clementiy Kurdyumoff?)
From a stylistic point of view, “Dlo Kwala Manyan” music material
can be described as interesting and varying voudoo-darkwave with lots of
unusual musical features. Why «voudoo»? But how to describe music which
involves percussion made of real human bones, and besides, as the musicians
say, is inhabited by the demons of the voodoo pandemonium Qinbanda Petro
VouDoo? Despite its “macabre” aesthetics, the album is extraordinarily live
and cheerful. «There are no such bad feelings as despair, loneliness,
depression, suffering... All this crap is not for us,» says Yura Zdezdny.
That’s great indeed, but there is a hint of sarcasm I hear in his words.
Expressive and tense, “sick” melodies with ritual percussion tunes, harsh
clangs of the scythe, demonic vocals project joking hallucinations into your
brain, but then they grow into maximum macabre seriousness... All this is
perceived like an incarnation, an echo of world’s dance macabre – a dance
where each second of the dancers is already dead.
The album contains 13 tracks, some of them are natural born dance
floor hits. I’d mention separately the titling song, which has two versions:
dance and “dark wood” version; I can’t decide which of them is better, for
both are great to me. Funny: one of the tracks is a remix of Bach, where a
beautiful aria is accompanied by samples of furer’s orations and sounds of
storm (recorded by Yura Zvezdny personally in summer 2003). Some songs’ lyrics
are in Russian, but it’s rather a plus than a minus, for the verses do not
irritate but help better understand the atmosphere and ideas of the music.
And a little sad story. Number eleven is track “Fluktuatsii
bessmyslennogo”, dedicated to the memory of Roman Sidoroff (STARUKHA MKHA),
deceased this summer. The song is indeed insane, it combines lots of noise,
vocal samples, birds’ carol, sound of a falling tree and above all that, a
poem about a lonely grave. And although this track is different from the rest
of the music, it combines wonderfully with the general mood of the album.
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A couple of tracks from the album in MP3
Like In A
Dream (03:07)
In
The Shadow Of The Big Cross (04:03)
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