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'Glagol' Album (HM023) [AMBIENT, DRONE, EXPERIMENTAL]

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    Duplicated* cassette in mid blue with printed sticker & printed two-panel j-card in a clear case.

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    2 x 10" Lathe Cuts - 100% bespoke, hand made, unique artefacts:

    - each one features the Galun logo spray painted in the centre
    - each housed in a large plastic inner sleeve
    - plus one white card disco bag style outer sleeve
    - plus a Risograph print featuring duotone artwork + titles on 135gsm ‘Context Natural’ paper
    - all packaged in a polyurethane bag

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  • Duplicated* cassette in mid blue with printed sticker & printed two-panel j-card in a clear case.

    All paper parts printed using sustainable materials.

    *Duplicated in ‘real-time’ onto high quality ferric oxide (Type I Normal Bias) tapes, using the latest TEAC/TASCAM cassette recorders.

    Limited Edition: 50

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    Duotone sleeve art plus titles printed using a Risograph process.

    Printed on 135gsm ‘Context Natural’ paper.

    Measurements: 277 x 400 mm.

    Printed by Out Of The Blueprint, in Leith.

    Limited Edition: 25

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    Measurements: 277 x 400 mm.

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    Printed by Out Of The Blueprint, in Leith.

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    edition of 25 

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  • Duotone sleeve art plus titles printed using a Risograph process.

    Printed on 135gsm ‘Context Natural’ paper.

    Measurements: 277 x 400 mm.

    Limited Edition: 25

    Printed by Out Of The Blueprint, in Leith.

    NB INTERNATIONAL BUYERS, PLEASE NOTE:

    This will be shipped using Royal Mail's International Standard service, which takes "from 3-5 days" to arrive.

    If you're happy for the print to be folded along the edge of the image, it can be shipped anywhere in the world for £4 using Royal Mail's new International Economy service but please note this will take "from 2 weeks" to arrive.

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1.
Inhalation 01:40
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1981 (HM023-1) 02:45
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3.
Ambinature 02:40
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4.
Binaural 04:22
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5.
Choral (HM023-2) 02:17
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6.
Quiescence (Grain Version) (HM023-3) 06:02
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Stone 02:39
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Aurora (featuring Alek Fin) (HM023-4) 02:05
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Grainy Dialogue 03:35
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Soviet Power (featuring Vladimir Lenin) 06:01
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Echo 01:32
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Childhood (Alternative Version) featuring Alek Fin 01:51
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Mirror (Synth Version) (HM023-5) 03:14
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Selected Feedback, Reviews etc:

‘Really beautiful’ AVALON EMERSON (US/DE)
‘Really loving the Galun tracks!’ INTERGALACTIC GARY (NL)
‘Super!’ JD TWITCH (Optimo, UK)
'Wow, this sounds amazing. Loving the atmosphere here, ambient with some groove somehow, really feeling this one.' DAN CURTIN (US/DE)
‘Wicked. It’s great stuff’ DRIBBLER (Pikes, Ibiza // Paradise Lost, Red Light Radio, Pure; SP)
‘Very nice, will play on Cashmere Radio here in Berlin. Keep up the good musical works x ALEX VOICES (DE)
‘Sounds really nice. The sort of thing I’d absolutely listen to on streaming etc’ AUSTIN ATO (UK)
"Sounds great. Looking forward to getting into this properly" LORD OF THE ISLES
‘Excellent stuff as always’ PAT BENSBERG (The Eccentric Selection, Phonic FM, UK)
‘Digging this one! Right up my street and just the ticket for my Radio Buena Vida show’ TOM CHURCHILL (Glasgow, UK)
Played by SNIDE RHYTHMS on EHFM (Edinburgh, UK)
Played by JAMIE THOMSON on Clyde Built Radio (Glasgow, UK)

RADIO:
"How gorgeous is that?! I have heard the rest of the LP and it is all equally gorgeous" DEB GRANT played Mirror (New Music Fix show, BBC 6 Music, 17.8.23): www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001pg5k

REVIEWS:

"'Glagol' translates as 'speak', an apt title when you consider 90 percent of the noises contained on it originated as recordings of his own voice, and that lends the ambient experiments here a very human, tactile feel. Closing tune 'Mirror' is a serene masterpiece, '1981' is an evocative phase-fest, the stuttery 'Stone' is endearing and enrapturing and Galunenko generally displays a knack for communicating clear emotions through abstract sounds. Recommended." ELECTRONIC SOUND

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INTRO:

Now in its eleventh year and following hype for recent releases from Osaka's Kiji Suedo (Hosek EP & Riot album) and Edinburgh's George T (Roll On, King's Cross single), Edinburgh's Hobbes Music label burrows deeper into experimental ambient terrain with brand new signing Galun. With a discography over 15 years deep, Galun brings no shortage of his own props.

GALUN:

Galun is the solo project of Moscow musician, artist, and producer Sergei Galunenko (currently based in Tallinn), who has performed at numerous prestigious Russian events and collaborated on projects internationally in a career spanning more than 15 years, with a discography to match, turning his attention to myriad styles: IDM, funk, techno, juke, post rock, beatboxing, free improvisation, drone.

“In my project, Galun, I do not use musical instruments,” he explains. “All the sounds are produced with only the use of my voice through beatbox and special vocal skills. Some effects are used to produce electronic sounds.” [NB Lately, Sergei has also been experimenting with synthesiser sounds and this album contains two electronic tracks - see below].

Hot on the heels of the new Golos album (out imminently via Berlin's One Instrument) plus a remix for US collaborator Alek Finn via Nevada's Mystery Circles label, Galunenko’s eighth studio album, Glagol (or Glagolь / Глаголь in Russian) is an ambient collection, recorded between 2013 and 2022. The title is an old Russian word which translates as ‘Speak’.

"This album consists of tracks written in different periods, so it turned out to be diverse," he says. "There are classic ambient tracks, as well as experimental ones in search of new possibilities for voice processing."

GLAGOL:

Why "glagol"? “Since the music on this album is 90 percent processed voice, it's a form of conversation for me," he reveals, “where I talk about my thoughts and mood, so speak music, while using my voice, is an amazing way of expressing.”

ARTIST’S NOTES FOR SINGLES

1981 [streaming from 23.6.23]
“One of the first tracks written after the Solitude album. The idea was to make a rhythmic ambient track, like techno without drums.”

Choral / Хорал [streaming from 30.6.23]
“Conceived as a classic ambient. I sang a few notes, composed chords from them, then transposed some of the notes up and down an octave, plus processing.”

Quiescence (Grain Version) / Покой (Гранулярная Версия) [streaming from 14.7.23]
“Came about by chance. I recorded a house track using my old recordings, and a good sample was chosen that combined harmony and bass. I placed this piece in the middle of the house composition, before the climax, and then began to play with the slowdown of the whole track with granular processing. It turned out that this sample sounded like a separate composition.”

Aurora (Feat. Alek Fin) / Аврора (Совместно с Алек Фин) [streaming from 28.7.23
“I invited Alek Fin to record our second joint material. Usually I send my sketches, and he chooses what he likes and continues to refine them. So a little material was recorded, but we could not release it, and decided to disassemble it by compositions into our albums. So this track ended up on my ambient album.”

Mirror (Synth Version) / Зеркало (Синтезаторная Версия) [streaming from 18.8.23]
“I rarely use synthesisers as I try to keep the original concept of this project... So this is the first composition that breaks my concept of this project. Here I use voice samples with virtual synths, and processing as always. The idea was to make a classic ambient track from VST instruments.”

credits

released September 8, 2023

All tracks written & produced by Sergei Galunenko from Moscow via Tallinn
Aurora and Childhood feature Alek Fin from Los Angeles
Soviet Power features Vladimir Lenin from Simbirsk (aka Ulyanovsk)
Mastering: Chris Lyth (Tron Mastering, Edinburgh)

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