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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.
In autumn 2009 “The Trilogy’ appears – the releases of “Ashes” –
“Ophelia” - ”The Harvest” that were issued on the 9th of September,
October, November and contained some old songs as well as absolutely
new material.
In June 2011 MAJDANEK WALTZ presents "Tenebrae" - a collaboration
with a prominent Russian post-industrial project SAL SOLARIS. The
conceptual core of the record is the poetry of Paul Celan, one of
the major German-language poets of the post-World War II era. His
cryptic fractured lyrics spoken in a specific estranged way by Pavel
Blyumkin is enchased by a weird fusion of avant-garde neoclassic and
dark ambient music. The last track features the haunting voice of
Rada Anchevskaya (Rada & Ternovnik).
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