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about
Kosaya Gora (“oblique mountain”) is a brand new indie project from acclaimed electronic producer/singer Kedr Livanskiy and experimental producer/visual artist Flaty. Though the duo are no strangers to artistic collaboration, (Flaty co-produced Livanskiy’s Your Need and features on her most recent album Liminal Soul), Kosaya Gora is an entirely new sonic direction for both artists. Their new single “Te Slova” (“those words”) is a hypnotic foray into guitar-based indie/alternative, with echoes of ‘90s grunge and haunting dream pop.
Though these influences may be new to fans of both artists’ solo work, they’re deeply familiar to Livanskiy and Flaty themselves, echoes of their youths spent traversing Russia’s underground music scenes. It makes sense, then, that a series of spontaneous jam sessions over the aimless period of the 2020-2021 quarantine would naturally resurface these familiar sounds. The music flowed so easily, in fact, that the two decided to formalize their approach, putting together a mobile studio and recording between remote Russian villages.
The resulting track is a fitting introduction to a group that, though brand new, feels oddly timeless. Over a spare, alt rock-influenced guitar, Livanskiy sings a wistful, looping melody: “I will write those words,” she recites in her native Russian, “which will melt the ice in the hearts / so that there is no sadness, so that there is no war.” Even without the translation, there's a palpable mournfulness to “Te Slova”, which the duo explain is about “longing for a lost childhood; an attempt to look at the world again with a pure and naive look of a child.” Haunting vocal harmonies are layered in as the track builds, adding to the sense of otherworldliness.
lyrics
В школьной найденной тетрадке напишу я те слова : Что растопят в сердце льдинки и подхватит детвора, Те слова как заклинания пронесутся сквозь года ,
Те слова не смоешь разом, они в мире навсегда :
Чтобы не было печали , чтобы не было войны Чтобы мы с тобой конечно же дожили до весны
Нарисую я котейку, домик с лесом , солнца круг Будет бегать по линейке, озаряя все вокруг Нарисую синей ручкой небо море облака
Будем мы с тобой по клеткам прыгать бегать до утра
Будем пробовать мы в бое тропы воли те слова будем пробовать мы в бое тропы воли те слова
In the school notebook I found, I will write those words:
which will melt the ice in the hearts and pick up the kids,
Those words, like spells, will sweep through the years,
Those words cannot be washed away, they are in the world forever:
So that there is no sadness, so that there is no war So that you and I, of course, live until spring
I'll draw a cat, a house with a forest, a circle of the sun Will run along the line, illuminating everything around
I will draw with a blue pen the sky sea clouds
You and I will jump in the cells and run until the morning
We will try in battle paths of will those words we will try in battle
paths of will those words
credits
released December 8, 2022
Lyrics by Kedr Livanskiy
Music by Kedr Livanskiy & Flaty
Mastered by Jamie Harley
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