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Mikhail Chekalin. Between Spring And Autumn By Stealth.

by Mikhail Chekalin / Михаил Чекалин

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Digital reissue of LP album 1986 and MIR/Eurock records CD 2016.
© 1986, 1990, 1993, 2004 M.Chekalin
(p) 2004 NEX Records, NG 4044

A. Patterson:

"In addition, several albums released during this era illustrate the primary period where Chekalin more fully developed his idea of “post-symphonic” music.
Green Symphony / Borderline States (1987-1988) see his use of electronics become more spatial, surreal and darkly melodic. The overall tone is more somber with hints of dissonance beginning to become assimilated into his evolving style.
Symphony-Phonogram (1988) demonstrates Chekalin creating an aggressively more avant-garde musical approach with themes become far more free and experimental instrumentally. Thematically his sense of polystylism and the grotesque are far more developed here." (eurock.com)






Fred Trafton:"<...>The next two albums in the series, Volume 3 and 4 re-release another three albums on 2 CD's, this time "The Symphony-Phonogram" and "The Night Ritual for Choir and Drums" (doubtless a re-titling of "The Ritual - Night for Voices") on Volume 3 and "Green Symphony" plus "Borderline State" (Border State) on Volume 4. Here we are once more into the serious modern classical electronic music style I talked about in the Concerto Grosso reviews above. Chekalin mentions that these are recorded using a 4-track analog tape machine only ... no sequencers or computer editing. The instruments listed are "synthesizers, percussion and vocal", though it's largely synthesizers with a few sections of nice spacey vocal overdubs for sweetening and occasional percussion. There's a few Klaus Schulze-like moments here, particularly the later, more symphonic-oriented Schulze albums, but overall the style is more modern classical than Berlin School. You'd swear a lot of it is really symphony orchestra. This sort of music actually takes a bit of training to listen to. Since I've had that training (... seriously ... in my Electronic Music classes in college with Professor Charles Stanley, a classical composition specialist, explaining what I should be listening to as a running commentary ... it's a really ear-opening experience ... thanks, Professor Stanley!), I find this sort of thing just amazing. (Gepr.net)


Achim Breiling: "Die Musik auf "Green Symphony - Borderline State" ist im Vergleich zu z.B. den Concerti Grossi deutlich weniger abwechslungsreich und abenteuerlich ausgefallen. Insbesondere die "Green Symphony" empfinde ich als etwas unspannend. Trotzdem sind diese beiden Werke von Mikhail Chekalin immer noch um einiges aufregender und farbiger als vieles, was sonst - insbesondere aus den 80er Jahren - im Genre Elektronische Musik im Angebot ist. Zudem ist das, was Chekalin hier vorsetzt handgemacht und auf altmodische Art und Weise zusammengeschnitten. Sequencer und Computer kommen nicht zum Einsatzt, so dass monotone Endlosschleifen von vorneherein ausgeschlossen sind. Chekalins Musik ist daher auch fur abenteuerlustige Proghorer ganz interessant, die Elektronische Musik sonst eigentlich gar nicht mogen.<...>In "Borderline State" geht Chekalin mit solchen Sounds deutlich sparsamer um, bzw. setzt "echte" Perkussion ein. Das Stuck tragt ubrigens den Untertitel "Sympho Swing Suite" und es gibt in der Tat ab und zu - vor allem im langen "Part 3" - jazzige Momente. Ansonsten, insbesondere in der "Green Symphony", herrschen flachige, klangvoll-getragene, streicherinspirierte Sounds vor, die sich aber immer wieder zu sehr dichten, voluminosen Ausbruchen steigern. In der "Sympho Swing Suit" gibt es zudem diverse schragere Momente, in denen seltsame Vokaleinlagen und freieres Klangflimmern..." (Babyblaue Prog-Reviews: Die deutschsprachige Progressive Rock).

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Mikhail Chekalin / Михаил Чекалин Moscow, Russia

Mikhail Chekalin is one of those. Arguably he is the most influential modern composer of the last 35 years in the former USSR, now Russia.
Over the span of his career Chekalin has produced some 30+ works that range the sonic spectrum for Post Pop, to free-jazz, electronic, and Post Symphonic. While his music was known to me since the 1980s/

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