Funked Up East's video: Valentina Goncharova Ocean FULL ALBUM ambient experimental Estonia USSR 1989-2022

Artist: Valentina Goncharova Album: Ocean: Symphony for Electric Violin and other instruments in 10+ parts Year: 2022 (Recorded 1989-2021) Genre: ambient, experimental, drone, jazz, avant-garde, psychedelic, electronic Country: Estonia / Ukraine, USSR Label: Hidden Harmony Recordings - HHLTS01 https://hidden-harmony.bandcamp.com/ https://www.facebook.com/hiddenharmonyrecordings Tracklist: A1 Ocean 00:00 A2 Molecules 09:43 A3 Dance Of Shiva 12:55 B1 Winds And Stream 22:19 B2 Golden Ball (Yang) 28:30 B3 Sirens (Yin) 31:35 B4 Kundalini 37:21 C1 The Way 41:52 C2 Silence 53:34 C3 Om 57:13 D Return To the Ocean (2021) 01:05:42 Special discount code for FUE followers: funkedupeast in HH Web store: hidden-harmony.bandcamp.com Valentina Goncharova´s 2xLP fundamental conceptual musical work released in full uncut form as part of Hidden Harmony Lost Tapes series, under catalogue number HHLTS01. Restored and mastered from the original 6.3 mm analog tapes. A large-scale work comprising eleven parts of varied, brooding, mystical reflection in which the author alters the instrumentation to fit both programmatic and musical character of each section. Liner notes: My task is to allow the listener to penetrate deeper into the music. The music is wholly improvisational. It has no concept in the rational sense of the word. It’s concept is purely intuitive. It presumes The Law of Analogies: “As above so below. Man is the same as the Universe. The Universe is the same as Man.” ("Emerald Tablet” by Hermes Trismegistus"). This intuition is a kind of rephrased logic which uses many more symbols which contain not only philosophical but also imaginative meanings/ visionary interpretations. This music is a stream of consciousness in its purest form: not an imitation of a stream, as in the ‘suggestive poetry’ of the 20th century, but a stream where one flow is superimposed on another (a multilateral passage of recording). And, if we think this flow of music will be better understood under the influence of a verbal flow, then the verbal flow should also be more intuitive and associative, as objective for this short write-up you are currently reading. Ocean did not appear within the coordinate system of logical scientific thinking of the last four centuries. It can be said that it is based on an intuitive concept of representations of the world which are captured in music figuratively. Similar to how myths were created in time immemorial with only partial support from verbal associations. Ocean is an experience of passing the Human Soul and Mind through the different states of the material world: birth, development, and achievement of perfection, transformation at the points of The Way and Silence, the manifestation of the harmony of the world (Om), which until then had remained in a latent state. It is averse to both mainstream contemporary physics and fringe scientific research. It exists outside their explanatory power. Ocean is the source of all forms that can receive their life within time and space. Here it is. It has everything: beautiful and terrible, good and evil, self-sacrifice and betrayal. Boundless love and inspired creativity. But contact does not happen immediately. The memory of a bygone civilization is still fresh, and of the dearest things left with it. Written, performed and produced by Valentina Goncharova Composition A1 to C4 recorded in Kose subdistrict, Tallinn, Estonia (Recording period August-October 1988) Composition D1 recorded in artist´s home studio in Lasnamäe subdistrict, Tallinn, Estonia (Recording period May 2021) Mixing (Original Mix) — Valentina Goncharova, Igor Zubkov Original album master tapes digitization — Martin Jaanus* *Digitization carried out with the invaluable help from Skeemipesa team and Tallinn Technical University (TalTech) using a fully restored Olimp MPK-005C reel-to-reel tape recorder, identical to the one used during the ´OCEAN´ original recording sessions in 1988. Audio restoration, 1st Phase — Jörgen Hermaste Audio restoration, 2nd Phase — Igor Zubkov Mastering engineer — Jörgen Hermaste Final mastering and lathe cut — Matt Colton (Metropolis Labs, London UK) All of the other photography used for the gatefold and the booklet are taken from Valentina Goncharova´s personal archive Released and distributed by Hidden Harmony Recordings (HHLTS01) with direct involvement of Valentina Goncharova at all stages of the release preparation © & ℗ 2022 Hidden Harmony Recordings With love and a tribute of respect towards ´Document - New Music from Russia; The '80s' (1989) compilation CD box-set release by LEO Records.