Tag: Galya Bisengalieva
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Tracks of the Week 27.07.24

Tracks of the Week
Usually navigating the nooks and crannies of South London through smeared and distanciated sound collages which wrap together windswept, late night street recordings, organ drones and smudged tomes of R&B, for her latest album Klein blows the doors open by trading her liminal stock-in-trade for the rawest and scuzziest sheathes of guitar feedback. Harmattan delivered an off-kilter and arms-length take...

Culturedarm’s Records of the Year for 2023

Albums of the Year
It's an old saw by this point to suggest that while the livelihood of the average working musician has never been more perilous, the curious listener has at the same time never before had access to such an abundance of quality music, from nagging earworms to the experimental margins and everything in between. In a year that saw bubbling...

Galya Bisengalieva – Polygon

Albums
Between 1949 and 1989, the Soviet Union conducted 456 nuclear tests on the steppe of northeast Kazakhstan, reshaping the surrounds while exposing an estimated 1.5 million people to fallout. These tremors and landmarks are the focus of Polygon by the Kazakh-British producer and violinist Galya Bisengalieva, whose unyielding drones tell the story of forty years of cultural and ecological...