Loading details…
A
Artist
Alexander Martovsky
12+ albums
idmelectronicpost-rockexperimentalbelarus
about
"Alexander Martovsky is a solo instrumentalist from the Belarusian capital of Minsk; he was born in 1987 and, despite his young age, is already keen to position his work within the grand sphere of so-called "classical crossovers." His online writings are almost nonexistent; any attempt to find those rare scribbles will first reveal his self-classifications in terms of numerous tags, labels, and pigeonholes. Given the chance, for example, to classify his work with generic tags on one Russian portal, Martovsky chooses every single one of them - all the way from "acid jazz" to "vocal house." Such, as we'll see, is the scale of his attempted "crossover." Equally portentous is a phrase that he employs at various locations in order to introduce his discography. Translated from Russian, it reads: "I penetrate [existence?] with an echo of sincerity, troubling the threads of the spirit." Understatement from this point onwards seems unlikely. The reason for considering Martovsky's work at present is that he has just published a four-track, twenty-minute instrumental EP through Minsk's Sgustok label. That organization has, over the last few years, established a reputation for a rather severe form of minimalism, epitomized by the sparing use of promo-texts and a strict continuity in graphic design. This visual policy is well represented by the artwork (above) for Martovsky's newest tracks, known together as "M42." In other words, we might approach "M42" with a well-formed set of expect
