Tusk Festival 2017 Staraya Derevnya
Staraya Derevnya are a Russian, Israeli collective with a tangible feel of the steppe and the ice and a curious musical hybrid that suggests endless, lawless, hardbitten territories but yet with submerged echoes of the Incredible String Band and MV+EE, or maybe Caroliner but with psychedelic stimulants forsaken in favour of eyesightendangering homebrew hooch. Of course there are remnants of some kind of unplaceable folk music in there too, the ethnomusical signature of some imagined state long gone rotten, perhaps. And yes, fleetingly yet more than once there is a glimpse into what Comus would have sounded like had they been Russian. Staraya Derevnya make bewitching music that seems impossible to place in terms of direction and intention, like climbing into a cab only to realise its not a cab at all. .
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