Khrooshch by Brainhack Musicbox
Our trio proudly presents...
Every band needs a 2020 lockdown EP!
'brainhack musicbox' usually means modular synth - but timespace got warped so much this year - and this time our main musicbox was an old Sony TC-800B tape machine.
The main drone source was a shruti box played by Anton Boldenko - the tracks he sent in April were recorded to the crappy old tape, slowed down by 2, 4 and 8 - and recorded back into PC through Electro-Harmonix Graphic fuzz. As a result we got a shruti orchestra with a massive sound.
The same processing was applied to the sax tracks by Pavel Lisovsky. Even more - we make him play with himself in trio when the same notes played at different speeds simultaneously.
What’s unusual for this release is the minimum of synths: just a touch of Sidrax at the beginning and a bits of MS-20 at some points.
‘Khrooshch’ is a transliterated Ukrainian name of some beetles from the Scarabaeidae family known for their specific low buzz sounds.
Amphimallon larva is depicted on cover art by Lena Vnetlena
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphimallon_solstitiale
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melolontha
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Tracklist
| 1. | Amphimallon | 9:39 |
| 2. | Melolontha | 23:56 |
Credits
Pavel Lisovsky: sax
Anton Boldenko: shruti box, didgeridoo
Stanislav Bobrytsky: synths, tape
