Rove (CNC015) by SK.EIN
Belarusian artist SK.EIN presents his second album Rove.
Imagine a picture, a partially overexposed analogue archive photo. In this picture there is a vast expanse bathed in the evening sun, an endless field with a forest on the horizon and the expectation of a long hike away from home. Welcome to Rove - a trip, movie, dream and an album.
The endless hike as a metaphor formed the basis of Rove as well as gathered both transcendental and sensual experiences, children's dreams and adult journeys. The nine tracks of the album are, on the one hand, a kind of personal archive of the wanderer, turned into music, and on the other hand, a fragment of a contour map of a certain common world and a common unconscious. A map that everyone can fill out in their own way until death.
The deliberate cross-genre nature of the music turns the album into a set of live audio postcards (each track is linked to the specific place on the planet, marked with coordinates). You can hear echoes of dub, folk, drum’n’bass, psychedelic post-rock, trip-hop and even black metal. The sound palette of the artist, known from his previous ambient album Crossfades, is much richer now. No one should be surprised if DJ Shadow, UNKLE and Sigur Rós would come to mind while listening to Rove.
In general, all expressive means — lengthy guitar parts, atmospheric field recordings, distorted and shredded drum loops, creeping strings and synthesizers, and even songs of Belarusian folklore — have become elements of translucent, shimmering pictures with a special vibe. Pictures somewhere from the periphery of reality, from the border of sleep and consciousness.
Tracklist
| 1. | Salavejka | 5:28 |
| 2. | Aral | 3:37 |
| 3. | Further Than It Seems | 5:58 |
| 4. | Pharos | 5:17 |
| 5. | Forest | 4:11 |
| 6. | Fog | 6:28 |
| 7. | Berdiansk | 9:04 |
| 8. | Travushka | 5:32 |
| 9. | August | 3:46 |
Credits
Written, performed, recorded and mixed by Siarhei Krauchanka
Tape mastering by Rik Tomito
Mastered by Tomek Hoax and Marcin Szulc
Cover photo by Viktar Krauchanka
Cover art by Aliaksandr Pazhytak
Executive production by Coastline Northern Cuts: Tomek Hoax and Marcin Szulc
