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"SYNTHESIZER ANS 1964-1971 (ELECTROACOUSTIC MUSIC VOLUME 4)"
Electroshock Records
This album gahters a fascinating collection of pioneering recordings of electronic music, coming from composers from Russia and other former states of the ex-USSR. These visionary musicians were capable of taking advantage of the possibilities of the legendary ANS Russian synthesizer, developed by Eugene Murzin during 1937-1957. The ANS was designed not only to be played, but also to store notes and reproduce them later. The system of automatic reproduction was based on a vertical keyboard activated by an electromechanical device. The most important musician in the performing with the ANS was Edward Artemiev, the pioneer of electronic music in Russia, who utilized this admirable device to create some of his most memorable works, The recordings in this album, released in the mid-sixties and early seventies, but remastered due to the release of this CD in 1999, include the works of the following artists: Edward Artemiev, Sofia Gubaidulina, Alfred Schnittke, Oleg Buloshkin, Edison Denisov, Alexander Nemtin, Schandor Kallosh, and Stanislaw Kreitchi. The music is certainly disquieting, full of sepulchral, nocturnal, icy-cold environments.
JORGE MUNNSHE
