Kirill Mazhai – House (Unbuilt) (cassette)

Minsk-based composer and artist Kirill Mazhai brings us a fine piece of ambient music, ‘House (Unbuilt)’. The name is a metaphor for what is left after a broken-off affair, a hollow structure made of what was and what never was, but with nobody living there anymore. Track titles are also inspired by a time during which the artist lived in a panel housing residential complex called Greenland, located in Murino on the outskirts of St. Petersburg.

Demonstrably, the six tracks seem part of a whole, like a suite of emotional states connected to these points in time, but also as a fused snapshot, seemingly timeless.