ROMBIX (Russia)

tape music

Rresentation of «Х-minus» album (LONGARMS records)

In general, I turned out as neither affable nor visible, both  past- and fore-experimenter, for a long time rambling around squats and vaults of my mind, along all sorts of wicked places in Moscow and around striving for some creative chance to come… and now scrambled out onto the surface".

Rombix (Roman Woronovsky)

All that stuff started from "Elektronika-324" with a simple "octave". Then it ought to get a new meaning.

Arsenal at hand contained one reel-to-reel and around 6 various cassette tapes, two microphones, piano, acoustic guitar, fifes and a lot of homemade circumusical devices.

And now SMITH lit up. So the period of encounter with Tatiana from XIX century was cloaked around with a haze of experimental acousmatics.

Sampling, "direction" button, autoreversion, collage strategies of step-by-step recording, tape loops, all these ahalogous surroundings and the whole process, degraded soft textures, noises, deep analogous low-scale, sudden transitions, flicks, and other live artifacts of cassette tape epoch vibrate and fill up the milieu where someone has lost Volodia and desperately, in a last wind, is trying to pull him out of the opposite end of the phone line.

And then cycling around the sqats of Ambient City where everything is schemed by the sound of a lonely trumpet.

Parquet or guitar sounding board processed by my fist served as a major drum. "Pringles" chips' box filled with variously shaped cans hit by a little hammer from the piano hardware served as a minor drum. Else I've got an original copper cymbal (further named "high hat)… everything somehow overlapped becoming more complicated. In general, "Louis and Nothing More."

Miller squats in fir-greens and Tape Magneto keep on living and, like some time machine, driving listeners in quite another machine time. These old vinyl records are to blame…