LAAPS / France / 2020
the album "mæta" had been the last thing that I did before going to the russian army. "mæta" has been released in July 2018, just a week after my returning home.
missing making music, at the same time I realized that I would not be able to play as before. in search of a sound that would match my mood at that time I came to multi-layered collages consisted of tape loops. familiar foresteppe's sounds of acoustic and toy instruments were cut into small repeating fragments. layering on top of each other, tape loops were gradually gathering into a pulsating canvas, anxious and haunting in its repetitiveness.
'odeyalo' is a russian word that means 'blanket'. this blanket is made from many rags. it's hard to tell where one ends and the other begins, but the main thing is that you can cover yourself with this blanket.
Through a year of uncertainty, from March 2020 to March 2021, I composed this album in the same way a botanist would have proceeded: collecting and preserving simple, broken and hypnotic melodies.