Each investigation of a recording by 4 Pozicii Bruno ("The Four Positions of Bruno") tends to begin with the same information. These musicians are from Ekaterinburg, ranging in number. The project's name relates to a non-existent Romanian dance of the 1930s. With that data in place, a wider range of topics opens up.
Grounded on most occasions in downtempo melancholy or industrial drone, the recordings of these men evoke the kind of nasty, even demonic threats that lie on the outskirts of Russian typicality. In many of their recordings, we're invited to consider the dangers that begin where normality ends.
That border between safety and hazard may be located at a city's limit, at the end of a familiar road, or - in temporal terms - whenever the sun goes down. The resulting juxtapositions of fantasy and fear mean, by way of example, that nursery rhymes and ghost stories may be conflated in one instrumental. On other occasions, we find that upbeat, inviting chords - redolent of commercial jingles - are placed side by side with the discordant clamor of an impending murder.
Unpleasant surprises are assured. The result is rarely heartening, but always impressive.
"This is toxic dub. There are squeaking sounds, sobbing, radio interference, and other forms of industrial naturalism. It all emerges from somewhere inside a pedestrian underpass, groaning as it does so. These are field recordings from a factory setting; subconscious fears spoken aloud. A kind of serpentine electronica, perhaps, running like goosebumps across your skin."
Perils transpire when you least expect them - especially after dark.
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released November 11, 2012
4 Позиции Бруно - музыка,запись,монтаж
2012 - Седьмая позиция. Подкорковые гости
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