St. Kraut - Ann Without Hand (2020)
260https://stkraut.bandcamp.com/album/ann-without-hand
00:00 - 09:22 St. Kraut - Ann Without Hand - 01 Ann Without Hand
09:22 - 16:35 St. Kraut - Ann Without Hand - 02 3 Excess Shots. 2 a.m. 1 Hazy Way Home
16:35 - 20:54 St. Kraut - Ann Without Hand - 03 Aerial Whales
20:54 - 34:10 St. Kraut - Ann Without Hand - 04 Lucid Dreams Exchange
34:10 - 40:56 St. Kraut - Ann Without Hand - 05 Midnight Whispers
40:56 - 49:34 St. Kraut - Ann Without Hand - 06 Ann Without Head
Alexandr Demidov - Guitar
Mikhail Demidov - Pads, Guitar, Drums
Evgenii Mikhalchenko – Bass
Design - Sofya Vartanova
Mixing & Mastering – Arrowhead Studio
"Ann Without Hand".
The story of St. Kraut begins with this strange phrase. Repeated several times in a row, it fits perfectly to the motorik rhythm.
Ann Without Hand,
Ann Without Hand,
What We Gonna Do Now,
Ann Without Hand...
The concept was born in the spring of 2014. Recording session took place in the summer of 2017. And in the fall of 2020, "Ann Without Hand" was finally released, passing through the Theory of Obscurity and the path of creation.
It turned out that "Ann Without Hand" is an album about night experiences and weird dreams. Here is a phantasmagoric atmosphere, where a silky whisper goes along with a deep and low bass rumble and feverish rhythms change for Valium dives. Anything can happen at night. It happens that the last half hour in the bar is too much. It happens that you get carried away by an unpredictable maelstrom of urban events. It happens that on the way home you meet a vibrating black monolith, which mysteriously transports you into the world of dreams. And this is something completely different. Dances under the belly of aerial whales can instantly turn into a pursuit along the Mobius strip and all this can be replaced by confiding conversations with gloomy voices in your head. The main thing is not to lose this head from such metamorphoses.
Zen and groove still create the atmosphere equally. Fragments add up to a picture. Time turns into a spiral. We're in the middle of the journey. And Ann is already without a hand.
What We Gonna Do Now?
"Ann Without Hand".
released September 30, 2020
Artwork is an image of a splendid painting by Nikolai Roerich entitled "Buddha the Winner" (1925).
Special thanks to Anna K, Maria P, Irina K, Nikolai R and Yojj.