"Sound designer from Latvia Kriipis Tulo creates an amazing, deeply emotional and romantic music with help of vintage analog synthesizers and open-reel tape recorder. Astrowind might be a slightly ridiculous band name, especially if you consider the fact this Latvian guy play lush ambient music on vintage synthesizers. But nevertheless, it’s a good name. An accurate name, at least. Because there is a feel of acroamatic escapism, there are these huge chords of hissing analogue synthesizers and you can even find this special kind of Slavonian melancholia (or Baltic, respectively) people use to rave about. Astrowind bring up a lot of references in their beautiful and, well, obsolete music". - Sven Swift




KAIDANOVSKY
Greytone 010 2012

„Kaidanovsky” - new album from Astrowind project just published in Italy and dedicated to Alexander Kaidanovsky, great Russian actor and director. Album cover artwork created featuring famous Latvian painter Ritums Ivanovs. Album offers a collection of unconventional music for serious-minded listener – the alternative soundtracks to the brilliant director`s works, which maybe are less known to general public, than his actor`s works. Certain tracks are the replicas to the main Kaidanovsky`s actor`s work – the role of Stalker in Andrey Tarkovsky`s film of the same name.

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KURLAND
Resting Bell 074 2009

It seems like Astrowind are having the most constant release-frequency on Resting Bell. One release a year, always around September and October. It is the third release on Resting Bell, after "Somewhere The Music Had Been Played" in September 2007 and "Der Leuchtturm" in October 2008. They also released on 12rec and Electrosound/Musica Excentrica. "Kurland" contains 15 pieces and has a total duration of over 60 minutes, a real longplayer. Kurland is the german name for one of the cultural and historical regions of Latvia (in english: Courland). So you have scenic titles like "Kurland", "Nebel", "Sounds Of The Shores" but also pieces about aerospace and deep sea. Compared to the older Astrowind-releases the new work sounds a bit deeper and adult. You still find the synth-drones and the noises and glitches but everything is arranged very focused, very sublime. And again Grisha Kochenov did a really impressive artwork. - Christian Roth

 



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