- Is life an inspiration to make music or is music inspiration to live?
>Music is inspiration to live. Present reality seldom informs my music; I am a fantasist.< - What would you do if there wouldn’t be music, starting with tomorrow?
>Wither, paint…. Move to Tahiti. Grow a lions face…< - …and what if you had to produce in a different music genre? What would that be?
>Metallic, highly synthesized, meditative music for Butoh.< - The beauty of silence or the chaos of noises?
>Silence< - What’s your favourite album ever?
>Karlheinz Stockhausen – “Stimmung”< - …and your favourite album cover?
>Karlheinz Stockhausen – “Stimmung”<
- Is there some music you like – but ashamed to admit it?
>No< - If you could be a rock star, who would you be?
>Juan Munoz< - Do you have a role model?
>No< - Who would you like to meet the most?
>Emily Dickinson< - What are your favourite movies?
>’The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes’ – Brothers Quay< - If you had to direct your own movie, how would it look like?
>I have a recurring vision of a girl kneading bread with her tears. I would work from this point to extrapolate the narrative in both directions.< - What’s your (original) profession?
>Artist< - What’s your next plan musicwise?
>To paint lust on air.< - How would you describe yourself in 5 words?
>Mercurial – artistic – focused – airborne – decisive< - What does beauty mean to you?
>Impenetrable surfaces.< - What would you do today if the world would end tomorrow?
>Live through it.< - Which places you love the most?
>Helix Branch, Highfield Grange, Moria, Tahiti< - Three things you could never get rid of?
>My need to create, my flaws; my destiny.< - Your three favourite websites?
- What’s your favourite picture about yourself? (photograph by Piero Roi)
Equal parts, composer, sound artist and storyteller; Rudi Arapahoe explores human spirituality as a series of glassy dreams slept in haunted internal worlds. His romantic compositions, crafted in the solipsistic confines of Helix Branch studios, frame classical instrumentation in magical realism. Beautiful musical passages, merge and dissolve as unconscious recollections, rendering the listener, a spellbound protagonist. Feel free to check out his website, his MySpace page and listen to his music on last.fm.
- Is life an inspiration to make music or is music inspiration to live?
>I like life, it’s very interesting for me.< - What would you do if there wouldn’t be music, starting with tomorrow?
>Games, drawing, making kids…< - …and what if you had to produce in a different music genre? What would that be?
>art rock< - The beauty of silence or the chaos of noises?
>I prefer chaos of silence or beauty of noises< - What’s your favourite album ever?
>Biosphere – Substrata<
- …and your favourite album cover?
>i don’t have one, in covers i like everything bright and full of colors< - Is there some music you like – but ashamed to admit it?
>No.< - If you could be a rock star, who would you be?
>Frank Zappa.< - Do you have a role model?
>yes, i am a calm tank< - Who would you like to meet the most?
>my father< - What are your favourite movies?
>Memento, Last days, Gerry, a lot of trippy dark ambient movies in general. But i like sci-fi too, District 9 was very good< - If you had to direct your own movie, how would it look like?
>Very slow and melancholic, with aliens and princesses and heroes< - What’s your favourite food?
>Porridge, cheese, mashed potato< - Is there a band/music genre you can’t stand listening to?
>Linkin Park< - What’s your (original) profession?
>designer, i do visuals for movies and ads< - What’s your next plan music-wise?
>orchestra collaboration, chorus. electronic preformance, music with beats and bass< - Which language would you like to speak most and why?
>i like english, i like how it sounds,and it’s pretty much simple< - How would you describe yourself in 5 words?
>discovering space and time< - What are your vices?
>i play too much games< - What is the most unusual comment anyone has ever made about you?
>i can’t remember anything like that< - The best moment in your life?
>childhood and winter times in siberia< - What does beauty mean to you?
>harmony and attraction< - What would you do today if the world would end tomorrow?
>i would be with my family and people that i love< - Which places you love the most?
>i love siberia and norway< - Who’s your favourite superhero and why?
>Chuck Norris, cuz he can count to infinity twice and is the only man to ever defeat a brick wall in a game of tennis.< - What’s your favourite flavour?
>the nature of thailand< - Three things you could never get rid of?
>creativity, games, laziness< - Your three favourite websites?
>ffffound.com, gametrailers.com, cookshop.wordpress.com< - What’s your favourite picture about yourself? (click on image for larger size)
- What’s your most favourite picture you made? (click on image for larger size)
- What is the question you always would have liked to be asked but nobody ever did?
>How did u like this interview?< - How did u like this interview?
>it was amazing, i like to answer such questions and discover forgotten sides of me and my past<
The core of Gultskra Artikler is Alexey Devyanin. GA is the author of the most memorable releases on brilliant Autoplate net-label, Gruppa Turistov and Gololed, self-released at Hyperboloid net-album Lusha, stunning album Moreprodukt at Nexsound net-labe, CD album Pofigistka at Lampse, and many other works (including, for example, “Razmer Nosa 46″ on Please Do Something), and his latest album Kasha Iz Topora, released on Miasmah, and his latest vinyl release Berezka/Monkey Lament on Other Electricities. His new vinyl album at OE will be released this year.
Gultskra Artikler was formed around 2002-2003, and worked with few different people, for example Dmitry Garin. Performed live at Abracadabra festival in Moscow, Detali Zvuka in Kiev, Full-Pull Festival in Sweden, Miasmah label night in Norway, and many other small live shows and performances, collaborating with different artists like Metro_NM, Mayhnaus. Gultskra’s music is always the unique mixture of brutal and honest vibes of mysterious Siberian soul and hi-tech technologies, some unpredictable electro-acoustical and avant-garde instrumental movements and precision electronical manipulations, strange field recordings. Each time he sounds completely different, but still and all each time you can feel the taste of real Gultskra Artikler.
You can find more info at www.gultskra-artikler.com and you can check out Alexey’s MySpace page as well. On last.fm and archive.org you can listen to his music (for free!) and for full discography feel free to check out his Discogs page.
- Is life an inspiration to make music or is music inspiration to live?
>Invariably at different times it is a bit of both.< - What would you do if there wouldn’t be music, starting with tomorrow?
>I’d be consumed with an overwhelming sadness< - …and what if you had to produce in a different music genre? What would that be?
>Renaissance choral music< - The beauty of silence or the chaos of noises?
>Beauty of silence< - What’s your favourite album ever?
>Photek – Form and Function<
- …and your favourite album cover?
>Joni Mitchell – Songs to a Seagull<
- Is there some music you like – but ashamed to admit it?
>Bruce Hornsby – The Way it Is< - If you could be a rock star, who would you be?
>Jandek< - Do you have a role model?
>Jandek< - Who would you like to meet the most?
>The Boards of Canada brothers< - What are your favourite movies?
>The Seventh Continent, Before Sunrise, Solyaris (Tarkovsky version)< - If you had to direct your own movie, how would it look like?
>Like a Terrance Malick film, everything filmed during sunset with minimal dialogue< - What’s your favourite food?
>The Veggie Lasagna that is no longer served at Vita Cafe in Portland Oregon< - Is there a band/music genre you can’t stand listening to?
>Barbara Streisand< - What’s your (original) profession?
>Musician< - What’s your next plan music-wise?
>New Helios, new Goldmund and new Mint Julep releases< - Which language would you like to speak most and why?
>Portuguese; it is such a beautiful and complicated language to me< - How would you describe yourself in 5 words?
>I am nice but shy< - What are your vices?
>The show Hell’s Kitchen. I don’t watch much TV but Gordan Ramsay’s contempt for humanity is fascinating.< - What is the most unusual comment anyone has ever made about you?
>”Your music reminds me a lot of Nick Drake”< - The best moment in your life?
>The night of April 24th 2007, when I met my wife< - What does beauty mean to you?
>It is usually associated with goosebumps, that’s a good start< - What would you do today if the world would end tomorrow?
>Stop checking email< - Which places you love the most?
>Lisbon, Redwood National Forest, Norway and the UK midlands< - Who’s your favourite superhero and why?
>Batman, but only the Michael Keaton version< - What’s your favourite flavour?
>Anything having to do with blueberries< - Three things you could never get rid of?
>Receipts, old cdrs with half finished songs, emotional baggage< - Your three favourite websites?
>boomkat.com, imdb.com, http://www.carrothers.com/artist.htm< - What’s your favourite picture about yourself?
- What’s your most favourite picture you made?
- What is the question you always would have liked to be asked but nobody ever did?
>What is the relationship of disinfectants and antiseptics?< - What is the relationship of disinfectants and antiseptics?
> Antiseptics are used on living tissue, while disinfectants are used on inanimate objects.<
A multi-instrumentalist from a young age, Keith Kenniff studied percussion and composition at the prestigious Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he received his BA in 2006. Influenced by minimalist composers such as Morton Feldman, and Howard Skempton and civil war folk songs, he started writing piano music in 2004 as Goldmund. In 2005 his first album “Corduroy Road” was released on Type Records and quickly made its way to many critic’s top 10 lists. In 2007 the EP “Two Point Discrimination” was released on Western Vinyl in 2007 and in 2008 he returned to Type Records for the highly acclaimed follow up to Corduroy Road, “The Malady of Elegance”. He has performed and toured internationally with artists such as John Tilbury, Charlemagne Palestine and Hauschka.
Keith also records simultaneously as Helios, focusing on electronic and ambient composition. The critically acclaimed album “Eingya” was released on Type Records in 2006, followed by the “Ayres” EP in 2007 and “Caesura” in 2008.
Keith has composed music that can also be heard on films such as “Mister Lonely” by New York filmmaker Harmony Korine, and the documentary “Manufactured Landscapes”. He has also scored music for commercials by clients such as Honda, MTV, Audi, and American Express, and can be heard on the trailer for the film Revolutionary Road starring Leonardo Di Caprio released in 2009.
For more info on Keith’s work check out his MySpace and last.fm page or feel free to browse his discography on Type Records‘ website or his full discography and all of his projects on Discogs. And let’s not forget about his personal Helios website where you can also buy yourself his releases and some really cool uniquely designed Helios t-shirts!
