Following the otherworldly 'Glagol' album (released by Hobbes Music in Autumn '23), Russian artist Galun returns to the label with a new long player, Weightlessness, and it's another spaced out opus beamed in from another dimension.
Galun is the solo project of Moscow musician, artist, and producer Sergei Galunenko (currently based in Tallinn). Galunenko has performed at numerous prestigious Russian events and collaborated on projects internationally in a career spanning more than 15 years, with a discography to match, turning his attention to myriad styles: IDM, funk, techno, juke, post rock, beatboxing, free improvisation, drone.
“In my project, Galun, I do not use musical instruments,” he explains. “All the sounds are produced with only the use of my voice through beatbox and special vocal skills. Some effects are used to produce electronic sounds.”
"The idea of this album was to make a kind of continuation of this project but the task was to exclude any voice processing, using only three effects, such as a compressor, equalizer (filter) and reverb.
However, in writing this album, I still had to move away a little from the concept: low notes, to get a deep bass, had to be lowered an octave down (pitch shifter). Various techniques, in the form of an arpeggiator, were already done with the help of editing, cutting short pieces of voice.
By genre, I wanted to make a monolithic album, in the spirit of new age and ambient, where the tracks would also be a kind of continuation of the previous one. The music turned out to be airy, uncomplicated, in a sense weightless. Artificial intelligence was also used in the assistants. It was interesting to test it for different harmonies."
Previous hype (for Galun's 'Glagol' LP):
RADIO:
"How gorgeous is that?! I have heard the rest of the LP and it is all equally gorgeous" DEB GRANT played Mirror (BBC 6 Music)
REVIEW:
"'Glagol' translates as 'speak', an apt title when you consider 90 percent of the noises contained on it originated as recordings of his own voice, and that lends the ambient experiments here a very human, tactile feel. Closing tune 'Mirror' is a serene masterpiece, '1981' is an evocative phase-fest, the stuttery 'Stone' is endearing and enrapturing and Galunenko generally displays a knack for communicating clear emotions through abstract sounds. Recommended." ELECTRONIC SOUND‘
DJs:
Really beautiful’ AVALON EMERSON (US/DE)
‘Really loving the Galun tracks!’ INTERGALACTIC GARY (NL)
‘Super!’ JD TWITCH (Optimo, UK)
'Wow, this sounds amazing. Loving the atmosphere here, ambient with some groove somehow, really feeling this one.' DAN CURTIN (US/DE)
‘Wicked. It’s great stuff’ FOR MANKIND (Pikes, Ibiza)
‘Very nice, will play on Cashmere Radio here in Berlin. Keep up the good musical works x ALEX VOICES (DE)
‘Sounds really nice. The sort of thing I’d absolutely listen to on streaming etc’ AUSTIN ATO (UK)
"Sounds great. Looking forward to getting into this properly" LORD OF THE ISLES
Galun is the solo project of Moscow musician, artist, and producer Sergei Galunenko (currently based in Tallinn). Galunenko has performed at numerous prestigious Russian events and collaborated on projects internationally in a career spanning more than 15 years, with a discography to match, turning his attention to myriad styles: IDM, funk, techno, juke, post rock, beatboxing, free improvisation, drone.
“In my project, Galun, I do not use musical instruments,” he explains. “All the sounds are produced with only the use of my voice through beatbox and special vocal skills. Some effects are used to produce electronic sounds.”
"The idea of this album was to make a kind of continuation of this project but the task was to exclude any voice processing, using only three effects, such as a compressor, equalizer (filter) and reverb.
However, in writing this album, I still had to move away a little from the concept: low notes, to get a deep bass, had to be lowered an octave down (pitch shifter). Various techniques, in the form of an arpeggiator, were already done with the help of editing, cutting short pieces of voice.
By genre, I wanted to make a monolithic album, in the spirit of new age and ambient, where the tracks would also be a kind of continuation of the previous one. The music turned out to be airy, uncomplicated, in a sense weightless. Artificial intelligence was also used in the assistants. It was interesting to test it for different harmonies."
Previous hype (for Galun's 'Glagol' LP):
RADIO:
"How gorgeous is that?! I have heard the rest of the LP and it is all equally gorgeous" DEB GRANT played Mirror (BBC 6 Music)
REVIEW:
"'Glagol' translates as 'speak', an apt title when you consider 90 percent of the noises contained on it originated as recordings of his own voice, and that lends the ambient experiments here a very human, tactile feel. Closing tune 'Mirror' is a serene masterpiece, '1981' is an evocative phase-fest, the stuttery 'Stone' is endearing and enrapturing and Galunenko generally displays a knack for communicating clear emotions through abstract sounds. Recommended." ELECTRONIC SOUND‘
DJs:
Really beautiful’ AVALON EMERSON (US/DE)
‘Really loving the Galun tracks!’ INTERGALACTIC GARY (NL)
‘Super!’ JD TWITCH (Optimo, UK)
'Wow, this sounds amazing. Loving the atmosphere here, ambient with some groove somehow, really feeling this one.' DAN CURTIN (US/DE)
‘Wicked. It’s great stuff’ FOR MANKIND (Pikes, Ibiza)
‘Very nice, will play on Cashmere Radio here in Berlin. Keep up the good musical works x ALEX VOICES (DE)
‘Sounds really nice. The sort of thing I’d absolutely listen to on streaming etc’ AUSTIN ATO (UK)
"Sounds great. Looking forward to getting into this properly" LORD OF THE ISLES
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