META

It’s an album where I’ve limited myself to using only two instruments – a metallophone and a four-track tape recorder. Explorations of the metallophone and tape sounds, deconstructed and reintegrated into tracks with cassette loops. This release is part of this year’s series, dedicated not to electronic but to electro-acoustic music with a focus on analog recording and production. 

"Muscut label boss Nikolaienko made Meta with just two devices: a metallophone—that is, a mallet instrument with metal bars—and a four-track tape recorder. The results are shimmery and woozy—the stuff of arctic halos, heat mirages, gleaming discs slicing sideways through the sky. “Meta V” sounds like a children’s lullaby that’s sprung a leak; “Meta III” is a busted strip of metal twisting in the wind. Best of all is the closing “Meta I,” a slow-motion explosion of the stereo field into dripping rainbows." - Futurism Restated