Mikhail Chekalin. Requiem for Unofficial Artist. PostSymphony№12., by Mikhail Chekalin.

Mikhail Chekalin. Requiem for Unofficial Artist. PostSymphony№12.

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1.	Requiem for Unofficial Artist. 26:26	info	buy track
2.	PostSymphony№12. Part 1. 17:04	info	buy track
3.	PostSymphony№12. Part 2. 05:05	info	buy track
4.	PostSymphony№12. Part 3. 19:41	info	buy track
5.	PostSymphony№12. P.S. 01:05	info	buy track

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Digital reissue of CD-album MIR/Eurock 2014.

To the memory of my friend Alexander Kurkin (1947-2012) the Moscow painter, Natalya Vlasova (19?1-2014) the Moscow actress and to the memory of my friend Sergey dorokhin (195?-2012) the Moscow art-designer.

All music composed, performed and mixed by Mikhail Chekalin 2011-2014.

Archie patterson MIR/Eurock:

The first of the four new albums, "Requiem" pays homage to two of Chekalin's late Russian artist friends and his wife Natalya Vlassova, who died early in 2014. The title track "Requiem for Unofficial Artist" is dedicated to Moscow painter Alexander Kurkin whose painting serves as cover illustration for the CD. The composition is a powerful 26+ minute extended piece of impressionistic symphonic electronica the likes of which are seldom heard in today's push-button sampled synthetic scene. The arrangements are a shape-shifting mix of ambient soundscapes, industrial, rock and symphonic passages. Alternatively, the music is warmly symphonic and overloaded with synthetic power surges propelled by high-energy rhythms.

The track culminates with a collage of field recordings featuring the famous Soviet dissident writer and sociologist Alexander Zinoviev who died recently. He fled the country during the Soviet era, but returned in the early 1990s to become an outspoken critic of not only the Soviet regime, but also Western democratic imperial pursuits and modern politics as practiced by the current government in Russia as well.

The other major work on the album, "Post Symphony #12", is a 3-part, 40+ minute piece dedicated to Chekalin's wife, renowned Moscow actress Natalya Vlassova. Descriptions of the music are impossible. Suffice to say it is one of the most sophisticated, adventurous and emotionally loaded electronic music works I have ever heard. The interplay between effects, melodies and thematic ideas developed are dizzying, at times breathtaking. The final musical segment, "Part 3", is dedicated to Chekalin's former creative collaborator Moscow art designer Sergey Dorokhin.

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released June 26, 2019

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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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