BU​-​74

by Anastasia Bulavkina

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1.
Takeoff 03:40
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2.
UBL 02:35
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3.
Untitled 01:43
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4.
Alma Mater 03:31
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5.
Heavy Sunset Departure 01:34
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6.
Petrichor 03:12
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7.
Interlude 02:09
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8.
RITA 03:37
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about

“BU-74” is a concept album exploring the context of technical aircraft sounds in ambient music and experimental abstraction. This debut album validates the possibility of manipulations with sound recordings and found sounds as instruments, that can be used as a collage of dub-techno and dark ambient tracks.

“My dad used to be a military pilot a long time ago. Ever since I was little, he would tell me stories from his young age and different facts about airplanes. It was always interesting to me, but the idea of finally embracing the whole story of his service seemed overwhelming at the time. I always knew how much it meant to him and how he continues to cherish those memories, so the idea of dedicating a whole album to this story came naturally”, shares Anastasia, discussing the inspiration and main idea behind her work. Her father Denis Bulavkin graduated from military flight school in Tambov and served alongside the southern regions of USSR. Under two month the record was completed, manifesting a certain realisation, as Anastasia continues: “…driving to my grandparents’ place was one of the key moments for this album. My dad told me so many stories from emergency landings he had to sneaking to the disco when he was still a student. Many of the tracks are based around one of those specific stories.”

The intensity is one of the major methods used on the record, but is always represented in different ways. The granulated speech-sample from a real flight on “Interlude” rhymes with the percussion-like ending of “Petrichor”. The last one was created with the help of a custom-made 3-channel granulator in Max MSP. Though there is something very hypnotising in clicking glitches used in “RITA” and “Alma Mater”. It all adds up to the main experimental part of working on an album, which is using technical sound recording from an aircraft and implying them into electronic music. The album itself sounds like a flight — it starts with the “Takeoff” and disappears into meandering of “Power Unit”. The last one is a result of collaboration with another young music artist Platon Vagin and is put on the album as a bonus track.

The tenderness, with which Anastasia present the story of her father alters the listening experience into a full on action scene with the main character being a young Russian man, following his dream of becoming a pilot.

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released July 28, 2021

Produced by Anastasia Bulavkina
Mastered by Ptichka Soe
Design by Anna Kolysheva
Bags by Daria Riga

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