Winnipeg music & culture since 1989
In mid 2010, I started billing myself as a DJ who played Solntsetsvety. Solntsetsvety – or Солнцецветы, a Russian word that translates to Sun Flowers (abbreviated СЦ in Cyrillic) – is an artist network which has been spawning lo-fi tracks and albums ranging from harsh noise and pure experimental to transcendental kraut jams and lo-fi reggaes since the late ’90s. Solntsetsvety is based – sort of – in cities Minsk, Belarus and Moscow, Russia, and sort of on their website, lesom.ru. The groups belonging to Solntsetsvety were hard to penetrate, even armed with digital translation and English articles on David MacFadyen’s Far From Moscow blog. Solntsetsvety was magic – and a mystery too intense to shrug off. Continue reading “.RU :: Underground tweenoise masters in the post-USSR”
by Sheldon Birnie
If you missed New Country Rehab at last year’s Winnipeg Folk Fest, now’s your chance to make up for that grievous error in judgment or scheduling on your part when NCR hit the Park Theatre on March 15. Continue reading “Hillbilly Highway – Checking in to New Country Rehab”
Coffee Killer collects a dozen songs by Nicholay Syrov, experimental musician and poet based in Moscow. Continue reading “The Cats’ Orchestra – Coffee Killer”
by Sheldon Birnie
Zachary Lucky is a soft-spoken, hard-working troubadour from Saskatoon, SK. No stranger to the Hillbilly Highway, Lucky has criss-crossed the country time and time again since the release Come & Gone in 2010. Continue reading “Hillbilly Highway – Zachary Lucky’s Saskatchewan”
