2muchachos - Natura: 2009-2012 (2024) [Hi-Res]

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Title: Natura: 2009-2012
Year Of Release: 2024
Label: Not Not Fun
Genre: Electronic, ambient, folktronica
Quality: MP3 320 kbps; 16-bit/44.1kHz FLAC; 24-bit/44.1kHz FLAC
Total Time: 75 min
Total Size: 385; 413 MB
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When Russian musicians Vladimir Karpov (X.Y.R.) and Dmitriy Borodin began making hushed, ASMRbient dream pop in the late 2000’s, the underground landscape was thick with artists using mystical monikers, so they chose to troll in the other direction: 2muchachos. Although the original intent was to filter out listeners “who judge by name or cover,” they were soon joined by Aleksandra Evseeva (aka Andra Ljos), rendering the banner even more incongruous.

Identification aside, the collaboration was fruitful, spanning nearly half a decade of steadily refined activity. Natura 2009-2012 collects 76 minutes of the trio’s most cloaked and distinct recordings, spanning the “northern environmental folktronica” of their early years to the whispered fairytale ambient voyaging of 2012’s haunted swansong, Forest Is Not What It Seems.

The tracks are sourced from digital singles, compilations, and self-released CD-Rs, mapping a non-chronological odyssey of the group’s skeletal, subliminal songcraft. Karpov’s signature Soviet Formanta synth weaves within windswept guitar, fragile percussion, and field recordings of forest birds and endless steppes, occasionally accented with Andra’s glimmering, ghostly voice. It’s music of isolation and myth, poetic and remote, murmuring through mists and long winters, flickering with the color of springs dreamed but rarely seen.

Tracklist:
1.01 - 2muchachos - Lost In The Mist (8:10)
1.02 - 2muchachos - Forest Knows Pt.2 (2:21)
1.03 - 2muchachos - I'm Not Afraid Of Cold Air (4:45)
1.04 - 2muchachos - Symerki (8:40)
1.05 - 2muchachos - Forest Knows Pt.3 (1:55)
1.06 - 2muchachos - Smells Like Rainy Pines At The End Of (Green) Tunnel (5:41)
1.07 - 2muchachos - Northern Sea Ghosts (6:11)
1.08 - 2muchachos - Birds (Hovering Over The Pine Tops) (8:19)
1.09 - 2muchachos - Thaw (5:33)
1.10 - 2muchachos - Vremja Tepla (4:10)
1.11 - 2muchachos - Aqualung Has Broken (5:49)
1.12 - 2muchachos - Fear (6:44)
1.13 - 2muchachos - Forest Knows Pt.1 (7:00)