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Day, Night by Fama87

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 There is a fine line between day and night that seems visible on Fama87’s debut cassette on Gost Zvuk, aptly named День, ночь (Day, Night). There is no difference between “daytime” and “nighttime” tracks. They are always somewhere in between. Fama87 is no stranger to the label family. He has frequently played at our parties, has collaborated with Flaty and Nocow as part of Wax Paper Cup and has done a few releases with Flaty alone (as Underwraps and FFAA). Both of them featured as guests on this tape. rforest seems like a dialogue between Flaty and Fama87, with a melancholic melody and a persistent beat. Nocow’s gentle voice enriches both Останься со Мной (Stay with Me) and Проснуться на Восходе (Awaken at Dawn).

Despite Fama87’s background in the world of instrumental hip-hop, it’s definitely not a beat tape. He just seamlessly glides back and forth between genres in a continuous stream. On the album you can feel the echoes of ambient, electro, house, hip-hop, R&B, IDM, field recordings and old film music. The hidden plot of the album reveals itself after a few listens. It’s all about the eternal cycle of time: day follows night and night follows day, and so on and so forth. credits released October 1, 2021

Music – Oleg Fomenko 

Mastering – Aleksei Nikitin 

Word – Artem Makarskiy 

Cover – "Kosogor" by N. Bisti, 1980 

Day follows night, night follows day, and in Fama87's live performance, the line between them is blurred, and the listener finds himself in the audio space of an infinite time cycle. The author has a lot of experience writing hip-hop, R&B and house, but now his work can hardly be called dance: now the drum structures, if they remain, are entwined with cinematic loops with Soviet echoes, muted ambient pads, gentle vocal samples and neat field recordings. The field in which the musician creates is the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, the village of Lebyazhye. It is also captured on our cover — just at the moment of the change of day and night. Our 30th podcast contains a recording of Fama87's October performance, which was based on his debut cassette "Day, night", released on “GOST zvuk”.

Shells Rattle Sessions on Dublab Radio. Listen online July 9, 8pm-10pm (LA time) or July 10 6am-8am (Moscow time). Fama87, Kid Cope, Sharkeisha, Flaty and Hoavi. Self productions and some rare stuff of Russian experimental electronic. Enjoy