ON-LY - YURODIVY

From On-Ly on Yurodivy:

The provenant concept of Yurodivy is: through madness, one paints the madness of the world. Russia became the looking-glass for lessons not for the historical content but for how that content was preserved - against all odds - by citizens; vanguards of history immersed in-madness creating art both as reprieve and as dissenting corroboration of a repressed citizen. Shostakovich's stories - his music - resonate with folks in a certain way; folks of this time and folks of that time. Anna Ahkmatova, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Nikolai Gogol - their words create a shroud for which to protect oneself. Our ancestors of Earth have things they can teach us about that time - our time.

The intellectualism and cryptology of Russian musical and artistic expression is an endless journey into some of our planet's greatest minds and Yurodivy is about honouring them, their memories and their struggles but most of all their unbelievable zeal in preserving their expression in parallel with their experience at a time when heresy toward their conditions of fascism - to tell the truth - meant death.

Track listing:

1. Complicit

2. Yurodstvo

3. A State Of Suffering

4. Czar Scars

5. Narodnik

6. Visceral

7. (Not) Knowing

8. Nose

9. Dostojanstvo

10. MORYTY

11. Bureaucratic Collectivism

12. Deviation

13. Meditation