Amkarahoi - Uncle Reed In The Purple Mine (Impatience) [Electronic Music]
- The Slow Music Movement
- Mar 2, 2024
- 2 min read
Ambient, chillout & dance music echos from electronic counter cultures which are steadily disappearing in the rear view mirror, are revived in fanciful, compelling fashion by Amkarahoi (Nikita Chepurnoi and Sergey Dmitriev) on this restless, constantly surprising electronic journey through cavernous synths, stray drums & instruments, random field recordings, opiated time faded rave reminiscences & low frequency anchored ambience for New York's enigmatic, ever interesting Patience / Impatience crew.
What The Release Notes Say
Uncle Reed In The Purple Mine conjures ghosts of 90s chill out tents, aqueous ambient, exploratory turn of the century IDM and echoes of jammy dub. Amkarahoi is named for a remote region of Eastern Siberia an intimidating car and boat journey from the nearest city - several songs are named after rivers - and the record was borne from a largely improvised show in Saint Petersburg, later overdubbed and mixed down in the studio. The combination of heady, melancholic synthscapes, unexpected samples and the loose, spontaneous nature of it’s genesis make for a unique, compelling proposition.
Kirenga alternately swells and submerges ravey pads and shifting kicks, coming up midway for air before plunging again, and Cutima peppers the stereo field with foreboding stabs, collapsing drums and faintly nightmarish ambience before emerging from the darkness with gently plucked erhu. Handa’s simple four note piano loop and cuckoo vocal sample lament blooms into an engulfing E rush, before Mogoul threatens serotonin syndrome with it’s loved up lead and stuttering morning after nostalgia. Chininga ekes out a gentle groove over which is laid a hazy, head nodding shimmer, and on Djegda they finally submit and throw down a speedy breakbeat for some more classically vintage fire twirling shapes.
