Ivan Zoloto has a new release entitled Pleasure Prison out now via School of the Arts. The title track is a long-form opener that finds the Karelian-born Barcelona-based experimental musician teaming up with the violinist Sasha Kretova. Combining Zoloto’s laptop and mixing desk and his “Soviet and handmade effects” with Kretova’s violin, the composition was recorded by Dmitri Zherbin in Petergof at the Horizon Festival in 2017.
Discussing the sprawling and darkly cinematic track with FACT last month, Zoloto offered:
“This is what’s left to do when all the work has been done (or the work has not even been started.) Silence punctuated with mundane events and rituals. Come on in and listen to this sad leitmotif and the noises piled on top. You can take a nap if you want.”
The short film for the album’s title track edits together found footage salvaged from cameras purchased at flea markets around the US. Zoloto combines his efforts with collaborator Ivan Branovets. The result culls together a bizarre collection of home movies for a peek into something Zoloto calls the “synthetic limbo of boring pleasure – a prison of meaningless leisure time.”
