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City: London, Moscow
Country: RU
Signup Date: 9/12/2006

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Friday, December 04, 2009 
Saturday, October 24, 2009 

Category: Movies, TV, Celebrities
Thursday, October 01, 2009 

Current mood:  flirty
http://www.textura.org/reviews/poostosh_herbarium.htm
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 
The guy who fantastically mastered "Herbarium" currently is unavailable. Dear Brian - if you can write to me - please do it


Misha
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 
Dear friends

From now on Poostosh "Herbarium" Cd is available at Sister Ray in Soho, London - http://www.sisterray.co.uk/


It is splendid digipack


Love

M

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 
From now on "Untime" can be bought on Norman Records - http://www.normanrecords.com/records/107657
Friday, May 08, 2009 
I still cannot get it. He just left comment on the cover of our new album 4 days ago.........

My latest Poostosh gig was with him, he played as Light Under Water. Also we should've had the joint gig on 11 of Aug 2006 - the gig dedicated to memory of Syd Barrett.. he didn't show up.

He was an inspired talented soul. I hope he is. At least I've got your albums and can buy more.


I still cannot take it. Somebody tell me - has it really happened? (((



M
Monday, February 04, 2008 

Current mood:  complacent

AFTER ALMOST 2 YEARS BREAK - WE'LL HAVE A GIG AGAIN!!!

IT MUST BE SOMETHING.

ALSO LIGHT UNDER WATER AND VOLGA.

NONE WILL BE DISAPPOINTED.

Thursday, December 13, 2007 

Poostosh's Untime is one of those albums that appears out of nowhere but quickly ends up lodging itself determinedly into one's daily listening regiment. The album's eleven folk evocations effortlessly transport one to panoramic country fields of times past, in a style that recalls Björn Olsson's (nowhere more evident than in the framing pieces, "Nachalo" and "Detstvo," where liquidy electric guitars breezily solo over strumming acoustic guitars). Born in 2002, the Moscow-based group's name means 'uncultivated plot or heath' in Russian, and Poostosh member Mikhail Salnikov established Untime in 2005 as a forum for releasing the band's music.

Acoustic and electric guitars form the nucleus of the troupe's sound but it's fleshed out by other instruments (melodica, keyboards, flutes, harmonica, percussion) and samples (like the gunfire that casts a shadow within the glistening folk reverie "Dreaming"). The bluesy acoustic piece "Tell Me about Peyote," for example, is nicely enhanced by bird-like flute twirls and percussion. One of the album's loveliest pieces, "Then," is characteristic of the album's tone: initially a brooding ambiance reigns (in keeping with the band's original name 'Dark Brigade') but the darkness is gradually alleviated by the uplifting wheeze of a melodica and whistling electronic swirls.

There's a subtle psychedelic tone to the group's sound but it's primarily experimental folk with a strong atmospheric dimension boosted by contemporary production methods. Though the band's recorded material originates from improvisations, the resultant songs seem far more structured than that working method might suggest, and they manage to sound rustic and traditional but not dated. One final note: Poostosh squeezes eleven songs into thirty-five minutes, with many of them two-minute vignettes, so Untime's over quickly—not a bad thing necessarily and merely one more thing that makes it a release worth recommending.

Thursday, December 13, 2007 
Semblant venir d'un monde à part, d'une autre époque, la musique de Poostosh n'en est pas à ses balbutiements. Datant de 2005, Untime est le troisième album de ce projet russe initié en 2002 et mené par Mikhail Salnikov (officiant également au sein de Mox et Quth) en compagnie d'Andrey Gavrilov, Andrey Kovalenko et quelques autres trublions.
Dans sa manière de concevoir et construire sa musique, Poostosh privilégie l'improvisation, la spontanéité, et enregistre ses morceaux en une seule prise de son. Ce qui ne l'empêche aucunement d'accorder importance et maniaquerie à la post-production, à l'ajout d'effets et aux traitements des sons en amont.
Bien que de nature différente, la musique de Poostosh, dans ce qu'elle offre de dépaysant et d'évocateur, se rapproche de celle des Gentleman losers, Es ou Paavoharju (les instruments et textures désagrégées, les voix lointaines de Dreaming ou Detstvo). Bien que largement improvisée (donc éprise de liberté), jamais elle ne heurte l'oreille, toujours elle s'avère mélodieuse (exception faite des élucubrations sonores de Man and sky wanderer).
Pour le reste, beaucoup de guitares et de vieux claviers sous effets qui dialoguent pour servir de BO à des documentaires télé rétrogrades (Swallowed by untime), ou qui oeuvrent dans un registre très Pastorale (tel un State River Widening baignant dans un univers aquatique).
Par ailleurs, voix, guitare et basse sont passées au filtre sous-marin, dilués dans un écho distant (Soundtrack from tristesse), semblent émerger du fin fond de la Toundra (les relents ethniques des flûtes et cordes pincées de Tell me about Peyote).
A mesure que l'on traverse ces paysages étranges, on comprend aisément que Poostosh avoue des influences aussi variées qu'Harold Budd, le Penguin Cafe Orchestra, This Mortail Coil ou Alexy Rybnikov (compositeur de musiques de film russe).
A coup sûr, si des labels tels que Type, Büro ou Fonal s'étaient penchés sur le cas de Poostosh, ils ne l'auraient sans doute pas laissé filer.
(8.5)                       
Sébastien Radiguet