Thelonious Bong "clay tablets"

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about

The cassette "clay tablets" was produced by the resident of the radio Thelonious Bong, the author of the program "The Evening Bong", which some of you may remember thanks to the beautiful artworks and music.

The album includes 10 tracks collected around some metaphysical images in art — Andrey refers to the movies of Stanley Kubrick and Andrei Tarkovsky and very clearly describes his feelings from the references as "longing for the immense and mysterious and a huge interest that grows into desire to speak out."

This desire, familiar to many people, was sublimated into atmospheric and cinematic music, recorded in a happy period, when the consciousness is pure, and creativity is given easily and naturally.

The title of the album refers to the era when people were just learning to write and sharing the most basic messages with each other through the simple drawings on clay — without losing the sense behind the form. Simplicity and reality as it is is the world that the author of the release got into while writing the album, and the world that is easy to get into as a listener as well.

Recorded with Roland SP-404SX, Critter & Guitari Organelle, guitar and bass. If you listen carefully, you will hear Vangelis and Eduard Artemyev are sitting by the fire and writing their new soundtrack to Stalker.

The release is available digital on Bandcamp TESTFM Records and on cassettes, which can be purchased via private messages.

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Альбом «сlay tablets» спродюсировал Thelonious Bong, резидент радио, автор передачи «Вечерний Бонг», которую вы можете помнить по особенным артворкам, насыщенным рассказам Андрея и, конечно, музыке.

В альбом входят 10 треков, собранных вокруг метафизических образов в искусстве — конкретно Андрей ссылается на фильмы Стенли Кубрика и Андрея Тарковского и очень чётко описывает свои ощущения от референсов как «тоску по необъятному и таинственному и огромный интерес, перерастающий в желание высказаться».

Это желание, знакомое многим, в случае с Андреем сублимировалось в атмосферную и, действительно, кинематографичную музыку, записанную в счастливый период, когда сознание чисто, а творчество даётся легко и непринуждённо.

Название альбома, которое переводится как «глиняные таблички», отсылает к эпохе, когда люди только учились письменности и передавали друг другу самые базовые послания через простые рисунки, не теряя за формой сути. Простота и реальность как таковая — мир, в который попал автор релиза во время написания альбома, и мир, в который легко попасть будучи слушателем.

Записано c помощью Roland SP-404SX , Critter & Guitari Organelle, гитары и баса. Если послушаете внимательно, то услышите, как Вангелис с Эдуардом Артемьевым сидят у костра и пишут новый саундтрек к «Сталкеру».

Кассету можно купить через личные сообщения в социальных сетях TESTFM.

credits

released August 28, 2020

Written and produced by Thelonious Bong
Mastered by Aleksey Letko at Rollex Records
Manufactured at Go Tape
Artwork by Vitalic Ten @herblstempls
Executive producer — Stanislav Kalivasin

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