01 Jul SMK134 | Rosemary loves a blackberry – Snowfake
Imagine: a sleigh ride with Turkish delight on tap and a speed-mashed goblin (whose last remembered party was a rave on Altham Industrial Estate in 1988) at the reins. The music is dark, frosted, haunting, beautiful and utterly disconnected. One is tempted to appropriate parts of Henri Frédéric Amiel’s description of the potential of future Czarist rule to sum this music up: “a Polar despotism – tyranny such as the world has never known, silent as darkness, rigid as ice, insensible as bronze, decked with an outer amiability and glittering with the cold brilliance of snow…” (1856)
But we should remember this music soundtracks a new Baal beyond our paranoid imaginings, a Baal plonked down in a nightclub where young vixens of all kinds of sexes throw glitter on each other in abandoned frenzies of mutual self-loathing. Imagine Russian Ark acted out with Bananarama in the lead roles. This is the Pain Generation and Rosemary Loves a Blackberry is one of its rusalkas.
Artist-musician Diana Burkot was the drummer of brilliant late-lamented Moscow art-school band, Fanny Kaplan. Burkot graduated from Moscow College of Improvised Music where she specialised in drums, and recently finished at the Rodchenko Art School where she studied video-art and installation, and graduated in Multimedia. Apart from Fanny Kaplan, she plays in art-noise band Pripoy and masterminds her solo project, Rosemary Loves a Blackberry.
Video is an important element in RLAB, where Burkot shoots and does all post-production.
Her channel (https://vimeo.com/rosemarylovesablackberry) contains a number of tracks on this new release.
Other releases
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http://coub.com/rosemary.loves.a.blackberry
cyan/need EP (Made entirely using samples and free program, cyan/n)
https://soundcloud.com/rosemary_loves_a_blackberry/sets/cyann_need
A Song for Theo’s Animals (Multi-format work based on Dutch artist Theo Jansen)
http://vhsrecords.com/vhs1-rosemary-loves-a-blackberry.html
Heart LP (2017)
https://antighostmoonray.bandcamp.com/album/
(Reissue + 2 extra tracks)
«5» EP (2018 )
https://rosemary-loves-a-blackberry.bandcamp.com/album/5
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