Staraya Derevnya
Forgot What Was Important
Music of the international kraut-folk collective Staraya Derevnya resists any direct comparison. Rob Hayler (Radio Free Midwich) described their live performance as "psychedelic and truly dream-like in a way that so little art described as 'surreal' gets anywhere near... a glove-like fit for the hypnagogic experience of losing yourself." 'Forgot What Was Important' is Staraya Derevnya's first release on Ramble Records and is a compilation of various released material. They play an array of home-made instruments and sing in imaginary tongues, accompanied by primal live artwork. "The listener is taken on a journey that's perhaps best described as one third aural Alice Through the Looking Glass, one third experimental psych jamboree and one third impossible to describe." (Mark Whitby, Dandelion Radio).