https://soundcloud.com/opal-tapes/sets/lumsiokea-transmissions-from-revarsavr
Lumsiokea is the Belgian-Italian duo comprised of Koenraad Ecker and Andrea Taeggi. Based out of Berlin, the pair’s music often blurs the line between electro and acoustic, and their new LP, Transmissions from Revarsavr (Opal Tapes) is no exception. The title references the avant Soviet composer and theorist Arseny Avraamov, whose “Symphony of factory sirens” celebrated the 5th anniversary of the October Revolution with a composition involving factory and ship sirens, bus and car horns, cannons and hydroplanes, as well as being conducted by a team using flags and pistols! Like on their 2014 EP, Eavesdropping on pianists (Eat Concrete), Lumsiokea once again works with Vladimir Popov’s “Noise Instruments”–music contraptions built in the 1920’s to emulate the sounds of the Industrial Era. Recorded by the duo at the ReNoise exhibition in Berlin, these sounds drive Lumsiokea’s amazingly rhythmic and industrial compositions. Ecker and Taeggi explain that the new album is a “tribute to the pioneering spirit of the many visionary composers, theorists and inventors who worked in Russia during the first decades of the Soviet Union, many of whom have not received the recognition they deserve”. To learn more about these amazing musicians, Lumsiokea suggest visiting Monoskop, a mind-blowing “wiki for collaborative studies of the arts, media and humanities”. Wow, a life time of information to chew on there!
