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Born in the heart of Russia – the city of Ryazan – the project
MAJDANEK WALTZ has headily gone the way from the anonymous self –
releases to achieving the status of one of the most remarkable
projects on the Russian post-industrial scene.
The first works of the group were maintained in the strict martial
style: the tone of spiritual aristocraticism , the iron taste of
national-gnosticism and hermetic symbolism were convincingly and
seamlessly intertwined with the noise lo-fi patterns, laid back
recitation, ‘in the catacombs-like” sound of the viola, bass and
guitar. It is literally so that these works due to their
intellectual quality can with ease and grace surpass the
overwhelming majority of Russian and foreign martial\neofolk
projects.
In 2006 the group releases a mini-CD “Cold” which is dedicated to
Boris Poplavsky whose forgotten poetry appears to be one of the most
brilliant fragments of Russian decadence of the Silver Age – of this
may be the most enigmatic episode of the past century. The release
marks the change in the aesthetic line of MAJDANEK WALTZ: instead of
“german” amor fati and noise patterns there appears “eternal
womanhood” and saturated simplicity of the acoustic sound. This
trend developed and finally consolidated on the full-length release
“Hamlet’s Childhood” which came into the world in 2007.
The 8th of May 2008 is the official date of release of the single
“Cranes” dedicated to the soldiers who fought for freedom of Europe
in 1939-1945. In the summer of 2008 there comes out a split
MAJDANEK WALTZ / SAL SOLARIS called “The sky of Reich / The sky
above Berlin’, - reissue of one of the most energetically-strong
records by MAJDANEK WALTZ having new sounding and with special
support from the like-minded people of SAL SOLARIS.
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