Author: Easterndaze

Střed Světa – Rozmístění opakováním (Baba Vanga, 2017)

Three years after his brain-twisting, mind-expanding, lucid sonic opus that was his self-titled debut album on our sister label, Baba Vanga, the elusive Czech artist returns to our imprint with his new outing, deepening the fractured rhythmic structures while oscillating in a territory that touches upon “techno”, or “house”, but always ends up in a space that’s decidedly his own. It’s a type of music that falls within the cracks, and willingly so.

Published March, 2017

Arszyn/Duda & Paper Cuts – There is No Conclusion (Review)

The mysterious, obtuse and bare-knuckle avant-garde There Is No Conclusion is a release from the collective improvisations of Krzysztof ‘Arszyn’ Topolski, Tomasz Duda and the duo formerly recognized as Paper Cuts (Wojtek Kurek and Lukasz Kacperczyk), released on Warsaw based label Pawlacz Perski. It’s three pieces of abstract sounds and free jazz orientated improv music; two of which ascend the ten minute mark, fighting structure and linear characteristics of ‘traditional music’.

Published March, 2017

Emptiness as potential: An interview with Artyom Astrov

Artyom Astrov is a multifaceted artist whose area of interest transgresses music, visual arts and poetry. He currently lives and works in the Estonian capital Tallinn.

Published February, 2017

Primitive. Messy. Low Quality: An Interview with Latvian Artist Figūras

I read somewhere a little while ago about the link between electronic music and the historical and artistic movement of post-modernism; that some of the greatest and most interesting electronic music has deeply rooted influence and perhaps elements of post-modernism within it. Said elements were defined as heightened forms of musical abstraction, minimalism, avant-garde and experimental to counteract the ‘blandness’ of the previous period (Modernism), and many more.

Published February, 2017

The DIY Mythology of Won James Won (interview)

Won James Won is a collective of musicians based between St Petersburg and Moscow. Established in 2003, the noise/rock band has put out a number of releases, cementing their status as one of the most prolific artists on the Russian underground scene.

Published February, 2017

Asio otus – Visible

Asio otus’ latest album hovers on the liminal borders - oscillating in a ghostly non-space, a soundtrack to a landscape that is still and content with its non-suggestive desolateness. Asio otus is the moniker of Marton Toth, a Hungarian producer currently living and working in Portugal.

Published January, 2017

KWI – Re-Construction Of Polar Sleep

The timeless quality of music tends to be overestimated. A stamp of time, a diary of a singular moment never to be repeated again, a confluence of various impulses and influences add character, carving out shapes and patterns from a mass of nondescript time-space.

Published December, 2016

Easterndaze x Norient Musikfilm Festival 2017!

We have collaborated with Norient for several years now, exchanging articles and having been invited to their “Seismographic Sounds” exhibition which they curated at CTM Festival in Berlin. “The network for global and local sounds and media culture” has been digging around the world to source new sounds and, importantly, the context they were created in - preceding and spearheading the surging interest in global sonic cultures.

Published December, 2016

ALONE IN HEAVEN / MAGMA TRAKT “ZARDOZ”

Far above these steep gorges, on unreachable plateaus, there are pastures of mountain’s wild life. A verdure under direct pressure of gray clouds.

Published December, 2016

Oh, my Biedermeier friend

“And so begins the final dramaIn the streets and in the fields” Well, this article will be about the lyrics of the Hungarian rock band GUSTAVE TIGER, because they have very strange lyrics.Those are full with historical, mythological and literary references.

Published November, 2016

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