ФАКТУРА (Faktura) is a Russian community of electronic music producers based in Yekaterinburg, a city in the Ural Mountains chain. They are publishing original music only from locals, in pursuit to find Ural identity in sound and music, understand it and explore.
Next on Faktura is ‘Night Attack’, the fourth album of Elizaveta Pechenevskaya aka Ficus.
‘Night Attack’ is a 10 track freak-IDM album, a synthesis of the naive technology of horror movies with zero aesthetics, as well as a mystical experience: a strong sense of fear, separation of the soul from the body, darkness, or vice versa, bright, blinding light – all this has served as sources for creative research and action.
Written under the influence of the works of Richard D. James, ‘Night Attack’, creates a new space for Lisa’s music. The rhythm seems to be trying to escape in fear, it gets stuck, it gets confused, but it doesn’t slow down the pace. At the same time, the thin layers of ghostly vocals remind us of the creatures that live in each of us, staying in the shadows all the time.
“The main source of inspiration for me was the ideas of cyberpunk, futurism. I was inspired by the naive technologies of 2000, I especially wanted to make a sound based on 2000, some references to the time when people entered a new age and were inspired by the future.
I wanted to achieve similar musical intertwining between bass and synthesizer. In doing so, I was very inspired by the aesthetics of horror movies that have played an important role for my taste and aesthetic preferences throughout my life.” – Ficus
We are presenting the fourth track, ‘Nectar’.
“Definitely my favorite three tracks, ‘Nectar’, ‘Conductor’ and ‘Night Attack’, together they form a composition reminiscent of the trilogy of Lars von Trier or Roman Polanski. These are different stories with different moods, but they are all imbued with some inner anxiety and a sense of approaching the inevitable.
In ‘Nectar’ it seems like I’m talking to a person, but I’m not. I sing – «Ya derzhus za glaza zari» (I’m holding onto the eyes of the sundawn), «gubi kak myagkii nektar» (lips like a soft nectar) – are the animated signs of a creature I feel but don’t see, it’s a metaphysical image. The voice in this track, and in the whole album is specially made illegible, like it’s hidden behind other instruments. I didn’t want to get the voice to play a leading role, but rather to see how words and sounds would interact with each other.” – Ficus
‘Night Attack’ album will be available after the 11th of November HERE.
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