This third CD from Artemiy Artemiev brings us even further into the inner workings of this man in Russia. The picture gets darker, or shall we say deeper, as the caves of the subconscious are trekked, with no equipment but our bare soles and our naked mind. Alas, these are dark dreamscapes, a world far off - or right within us, somewhat scary, but probably just the way life works, in a manner mysterious, where science is just one of those religions, for the guys in ties and shirts, the conformers without a mind, moving the heavy burdens of their flesh across these wastelands, committing the sin of lifelessness, as Bob Dylan put it in “Desolation Row”… You know, this reminds me somewhat of some NASA Voyager recordings of the sounds that emits from the planet Uranus by way of electromagnetics, recorded on fly-by, and translated into audible sounds by way of computers, released on the Brain & Mind Research label in Encinitas, California. Other associations now bring me into the world of classical electroacoustics, and to Pierre Henry’s spectacular and very dark “Le livre des morts égyptien” (Mantra 043), which shows that Artemiev on parts of this issue moves closer to the classics in electronic music, edging slowly a bit away from “electronica”, as it were.

It doesn’t stop here. In the fabric of sounds you may hear resemblances of Australian Aborigine didjeridoo, or even Tuvan or Mongolian xöömej (khoomei) singing. It’s a rich and well-developed sound world that Artemiy Artemiev offers on this, his third CD. The inclusion of voices allows for further complexity of sound and associations.