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ALEXEI BORISOV

Before the Evroremont
2002
CD
N&B Research Digest
(m.dos distribution)
30:37

A well structured collage of environmental sound (radio, telephone conversations, sawing, hammering, drilling, clattering), distorted guitars and disrupted computer wizardry, Alexei Borisov's disc has an immediate, raw quality to it that both intrigues and unsettles. Evroremont is a Muscovite term meaning "Euro-renovation", the replacement of Soviet style furnishings and decoration with a look supposedly more in keeping with the Western side of the continent. Although first to impact on private homes this style revolution is now having profound effects on the way the city as a whole looks, and on the way it views itself. Designed to run alongside Anne Hamalainen's slide show of Moscow garages and outhouses, this has a bleakness and a clarity which grabs the listener even without this visual stimulation. A sharply taken snapshot of a world in turmoil.

STEWART GOTT - 30 October 2002