"ASTRONAFT - A member of several hip-hop projects in the St Petersburg / Russia,
such as D.U.F and JahDust,he has now released a solo album with the help of
the excellent and able Pavel Dovgal: "Redshift."That scientific term, as some of
us may recall from physics lessons, refers to a visual effect caused by celestial
objects as they move away from our vision on Earth. The result is a striking impression
of growing redness across a planet's surface.
The term "redshift," on a figurative level, therefore equates growing spectacle with
increasing distance.Magic and ongoing motion work hand in hand - especially if we again
attribute that color range to Russia'sspace race of the past.
Revolutionary potential - colored scarlet - thus realizes itself at a maximum distance
from home. The biggest and best romantics show their mettle with an endless, outward trajectory.
A "fragment"of society moves onwards - in the name of the whole.
The antique, cheesy synth-chords of Brezhnevian sci-fi now (or still!) show the importance
of fantasy inan age of material torpor. Many of the sounds on display here will be associated
by Russian listeners with late-'70s cartoons and "cosmic" feature films that arose in response
to social stagnation.As civic improvement looked unlikely in those decades, the escapist and
markedly spacey noises of otherworldly storytelling took over."
- farfrommoscow.com
http://astronaft.ru
http://vk.com/astromusic
http://soundcloud.com/astronaft
http://myspace.com/dufastronaft
