Artist: The Russian
Linesman
Title:
Monomyth I – The Departure
Label:
Loki Recordings
Released:
8th November
This
E.P. in this series takes you on a journey through field recordings, ambient
electronica and vocals, dipping into a myriad of sub genres whilst weaving
storytellers talk about their beginnings with tape to tape, thought
processes of job rejections, jazz teachings and mis-spent youth.
This really is one of those occasions where the story behind the
project, will tell you far more about the project than I can and if
you find that intriguing enough, then you may as well dip in and take
a listen.
One
of the electronic scene’s true mavericks returns to unveil the
first in a remarkable new six part series of EPs, focused on the art
of storytelling. As with his previous 2017
project (‘The Eysenck Suites I-IV) this “modern day composer”
has been inspired by psychological theory in the creation of his
latest enthralling musical collages.
Joseph
Campbell’s ‘A Hero with a Thousand Faces’ is an analysis of
centuries of human storytelling, based around the anthropological
theories of Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, and this fascinating book
provided the blueprint for the new Russian Linesman project – an
artistic abstraction of the concept of the ‘Monomyth’ – a
formula we are all familiar with in modern day films and books.
In
narratology and comparative mythology, the ‘Monomyth’, or the
Hero's Journey, is the common template of a broad category of
storytelling that involves a hero who goes on an adventure, and in a
decisive crisis wins a victory, then comes home changed or
transformed.
Each
song within the Russian Linesman’s ‘Monomyth’ episodes (the
project will be released in its entirety over the next year at
bi-monthly intervals) is named after the relevant part of the hero’s
journey and has been accompanied by unique, complex compositions that
combine a multitude of diverse collected instrumentation and field
recordings to fit the mood of the storytelling. Most storytellers
remain anonymous, retaining an abstract element to the process and
allowing the listener’s curiosity to be uniquely aroused and be
drawn into each different story as it unfolds.
“This
project quickly developed a life of its own and all the individual
stories twisted into a patchwork of yarns that tell an even greater
story than I could have ever told on my own. In ‘Star Wars’, the
droids make all the space opera weirdness accessible. My droids are
my storytellers, my narrators. Placing some of the stranger musical
moments within reach of the more casual listener. A hero is only as
great as their villain. This project is a proper human interest
story.” –
Russian Linesman
Links
Beatport: https://www.beatport.com/label/loki-recordings/15992
All Stores:https://lnkfi.re/Monomyth-I
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