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Apophenia Dances

by AC Church

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Recorded on February 4th, 2017 at Friday Records Studio (Moscow). Solo and live, no second takes or overdubs. Huge thanks to K22 Records and Alexander Fedotov for the opportunity.

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My friend and writer Sviatoslav Ivanov had these kind words about the album:

It’s not immediately noticeable in his records but Evgeny Smirnov known as AC Church is a flamboyantly multi-genre musician. His creative practices vary according to the instrument he chooses. Acoustic guitar turns him into a chamber folk magician, synthesizer is his tool for crafty ambient, while plugging in his electric guitar is the promise of a full scale amplifier extravaganza (Jimi Hendrix and Oren Ambarchi in one lucky bottle). But those are just jams – AC Church’s studio music is harder to diagnose genre-wise. One can say it’s experimental music, others would note krautrock influences, author himself insists on the dub roots of his work. However, any genre definition would cloud our eyes.

AC Church is not interested in melody at all. He is more of a knight in the permanent quest for new ambiances. Most of his tracks are based on short simplistic loops, and Evgeny is not bored to fluctuate a whole 15-minute long song around a primitive carcass made of just a couple of chords. But it doesn’t get too basic at any point. Thing is how many mini-structures, those multi-coloured banners AC Church exhibits in his ever-accelerating space train.

Evgeny himself won’t appreciate this comparison, but his work partly reminds of academic minimalists such as Steve Reich or Terry Riley. They often begin by showing us the whole thing — and continue by focusing our ears on different small exquisite aspects of music, which proves that every simple scheme has the capacity to accommodate all the sounds in the world. In the same manner, AC Church’s tracks are tangibly dynamic and static at the same time. Their building materials include industrial soundscapes, richly processed guitar solos, witty samples, quasi-dance drum machines and the complex lace of delay and reverb. They’re just integral parts of tight musical fabric. But what’s the idea behind it? Evgeny is a part-time experimental musician — and a part-time religious philosopher. His moniker is related to the doctrine of «electric church» once popularized by Hendrix. It implies that human obsession with electrically performed music can be viewed as a religious cult. In that case, AC Church is a devout believer. The main trigger of his creativity is the strong belief that both playing and listening to music are purifying spiritual experiences and thus — music has the right to… everything.

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released August 17, 2017

Evgeny Smirnov - Guitar, Computer, Keyboards, Sampler, Percussion
Alexander Fedotov - Producer
Katia Reitman - Artwork & Design
Stepan Sevastianov - Engineer

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AC Church Moscow, Russia

AC Church is a one-man experimental rock project from Moscow that utilizes musical influences from all over the world to create psychedelic instrumental narratives about the post-apocalyptic climate-ravaged neotribal society. Named after Jimi Hendrix’s concept of Electric Church, AC Church attempts to leave behind the fuzzy retromania and find new routes for psychedelia in the 21st century. ... more

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