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Setting Thoughts On Fire

by Various Artists

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All profits go to 'Helping to Leave' & 'Kyiv Angels'


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(transcribed from German, original below)

The release of the compilation »Setting Thoughts On Fire« on the Berlin label Vaagner, the proceeds of which go to 'Kyiv Angles' and 'Helping to Leave', does not seem unusual at first. But the six pieces come exclusively from artists who could face serious repercussions in their home country of Russia for any kind of expression of solidarity. Perhaps it's no wonder that even an artist like Perila, who otherwise works intensively with her own voice, does without vocals on her track, just as her colleagues—including Pavel Milyakov, known as Buttechno, and X.Y.R., for example—largely do without the direct and obvious, i.e. without statements. Instead, they express a basic mood with electronic soundscapes and only rarely very discreetly used rhythms. But in the course of this stringently curated compilation, the atmosphere gradually changes and ends on a lighter note. Is all of this to be understood as a kind of wordless protest? Perhaps. But it most certainly offers musical visions of a world in which it would not even be necessary.
(original)

Benefiz-Compilations zur Unterstützung der ukrainischen Bevölkerung sind bislang viele erschienen und erst vor Kurzem wurde auf einige von ihnen verwiesen. Fest steht allerdings auch, dass sowohl auf kurze wie auf lange Frist weiterhin jeder Cent benötigt wird. Die Veröffentlichung von »« auf dem Berliner Label Vaagner, deren Erlöse an und gehen, wirkt da zuerst nicht ungewöhnlich. Kämen die sechs Stücke nicht ausschließlich von Künstler*innen, denen in ihrem Heimatland Russland ernste Repressionen für jegliche Art der Solidaritätsbekundung drohen könnten, heißt das. Vielleicht also kein Wunder, dass selbst eine sonst sehr intensiv mit ihrer eigenen Stimme arbeitende Künstlerin wie Perila auf Vocals verzichtet einsetzt, wie auch ihre Kolleg*innen, darunter beispielsweise der als Buttechno bekannte Pavel Milyakov und X.Y.R., weitgehend auf das Direkte und Offensichtliche beziehungsweise Statements verzichten. Stattdessen bringen sie mit elektronischen Klangflächen und nur selten sehr dezent eingesetzten Rhythmen eine grundlegende Stimmung zum Ausdruck. Die wandelt sich aber im Verlauf dieser stringent kuratierten Zusammenstellung und endet mit einer lichten Note. Wortloser Protest? Vielleicht. Ganz sicher aber musikalische Entwürfe einer Welt, in der er nicht vonnöten wäre.

Kristoffer Cornils, Fieldnotes


VAAGNER/VAKNAR assemble ambient music's great and good on this benefit compilation in aid of Ukraine. Featuring Perila, Buttechno, X.Y.R., Burago, and more.

Almost expectedly it's Perila who immediately impresses on this one. Yet again her syrupy production is an apt foil for all the softboi ambient that's clogging up the digital fatpipes right now. There's no weepy nostalgia here, it's all depth, passion and pure sensuality. Pavel Milyakov, aka Buttechno, also hits fertile ground with his claggy 'January'. Flickering like an old 8mm short, it refracts cooling pads over breathy electrified woodwind and squeezes out emotion like moisture from a damp sponge.

On 'Stealing Beauty', St. Petersburg's Vladimir Karpov (aka X.Y.R.) follows his recent releases for Not Not Fun and Good Morning Tapes with another crackly mid-point between vintage library music and swampy forest folk, while Moscow's Vtgnike concludes the compilation with the FM-blessed 'Lumturia'.

-BOOMKAT

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released August 5, 2022

Mastered by Ian Hawgood

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