About 15 years ago, while dumpster diving around Manhattan, I scored a nice big stack of Soviet-era 78rpm records of the 30s-40s. And lucky for me, I had a gramophone to play them on. Some of them had been so well-loved by their former owner, that the grooves were worn out, making the records more scratch and hiss than coherent music. This is the feeling I get from these recordings. Like looking at history through binoculars held backwards, rendering the details into something more like moods. The interplay of ambient element with the processed samples of vintage russian recordings bouys the listener through a meditation on a rather complex period of history. A strong production cpmcdill [Webbed Hand] 2008-01-18 04:11:47 2008-01-18 04:11:47 5 1 5.00