Mikhail Chekalin HISTORIC EDITION vol. 2 Background Underground. Sound Ambience Live 1979

Mikhail Chekalin HISTORIC EDITION (Electronic Music. 1970s 1980s. Original Recordings), Vol. 2 BackgroundUnderground. Mikhail Chekalin electric organ, synthesizer, piano, voice. Selected Recordings of 19791982. The opening as well as the central piece on Volume 2 (of 39 min. duration) has been dedicated to the phenomenon of an exhibition of modern art from the late 1970s, an artistic event of rather huge cultural scope (its relative outsidedness as regards the boundaries of mainstream culture notwithstanding) that has become virtually a Moscow underground legend since then. M. Chekalins sonic canvases or soundscapes used to be exposed as a permanent feature along with the painters oils or graphics. Actually having proved to be the ambient genius from Moscow Mikhail styled those compositions of his by such a phrase as creating the artistic environment, thats to say ambience. The composition featuring on this disc is an electronic conceptual ambient, making use of minimalist avantgard