KIM & BURAN
Kim & Buran, a band from Saint-Petersburg, are known for embodiment of retro-futuristic concepts into solid dance music. This project banded as a duo of bass and synthesizer, with Slava Zavyalov, the project's main composer and ideologist, and Igor Tsvetkov, the bass player who left Kim & Buran in 2005. Full performing cast formed in 2008, featuring Misha Shulgin on guitar, with Roma Tolmachev on bass and Alesha Aleshin on drums.
The roots of Kim & Buran music lead to naive vaudeville music from Leonid Geidai's movies mixed with cosmic vibes of Alexander Zatsapin's original sountrack to "The mystery of the third planet" animation flick. Cheerful analogue space-age pop sounds of forever young Jean-Jacques Perrey unite with enigmatic atmosphere of Jean-Michel Jarre, whom soviet 80-s kids used to listen to before going to sleep. Actually you can hear anything that is funky in Kim & Buran –from swing, twist or surf to IDM.
Basically, the music is composed by Slava Zavyalov, a self-tought pensive loner, a creative autist surfing his own space waves. Playing keyboards since the age of 8, in 27 he names music and bycicles as his greatest passions. Slava's music sounds like he was abducted by aliens, then returned back to Earth, still keepeng some memories from the trip, the music that makes you realize that it's cool already, but the deepest space is yet ahead. The whole life is ahead, the whole summer, open heart, seas of tranquillity, boundless leas, sexy girls, your bike, your records and wind waving your jacket as you ride along... Withal you get this strange deja-vu feeling, shrill premotion of happiness, that almost makes you leave the groung dragged by nostalgic feel of lost future. Every child wishes something good for the world, whether it is peace on Earth, for no one to be sick or for all the wars to finish. All the children wish to become a cosmonaut or just a good person – the two jobs most needed in bright soviet future.
Kim & Buran's latest album Мама ("Mother") pictures space-scapes as well, being less expansive, and more about submersion into self eyes-closed. It's cozy microcosm for listening to at breezy summer nights or a frosy winter morning, diving inward into soul, wishing to retrieve the spring of purity, continuing to move forward in life. "Head for home!" the captain says.
"Мама" is a very atmospheric record which absorbed chiptunes, cinematic sound, wobbling bass, flying rockets, beeping robots and idiophonic saw-like sounds from the earlier Kim & Buran albums, gaining new elements of japanese ambient and electro music with master dubs and scratches. Slava's music is great, we hope the aliens are hearing it!