Gultskra Artikler - Galaktika

Gultskra Artikler
Galaktika
(Other Electricities)
Rating: 3.3 of 5


Wordless music albums must rely on their sonic textures to achieve imagery. Moscow-based avant-garde artist Alexey Devyanin has the grasp on this. Under the name Gultskra Artikler, Devyanin has come out with Galaktika—an ambient voyage through the nihility of hope in space.

With looped noise obscenely interrupting each mix, each drone track on Galaktika is engraved with its own signature—developing the interpretive full-length as a whole. Disturbing echoed choir vocals groan unintelligible syllables during dissolutions before synthetic and tendriled percussion tracks make shapes until the glob of sound becomes distortedly congealed.

Galaktika gets about as close to terrestrial as earth’s orbit, but not nearly as constant or calculated. The record’s course drifts along in zero gravity; hurtling aimlessly and spinning dark-colored streaks of light across the dregs of visible space. Artikler’s long-player could even soundtrack the next Ridley Scott sci-fi production; such as the unwordly “Nanorobot” would prove upon one closed-eyed listen.

Artikler’s work is very cinematic in arrangement. Similar soundscape sequences to 2001: A Space Odyssey can be heard beginning “Sputnik”; evolving into the sine wave whirr that would dissipate into thin slishes at the end of the track. The mostly melodic and introspective synth progression of “Asteroid” follows, nearing the end of the album. What kind of angel the final track is named after, I can only fear to know.

Industrial burbles sounding like heavy metal doors heaving, cringing digital squeals clucking on like megacomputers thinking, multiple semitones wavering in and out; Gultskra Artikler’s Galaktika is an intrepid, riveting affair.

Galaktika - Gultskra Artikler

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