Rodion G.A.: The Lost Tapes (Strut, 2013)

August 4, 2013 at 10:18 pm | Posted in Reviews | Leave a comment

Rodion G.A.: The Lost Tapes

Another wacked-out lost-in-time out-of-nowhere unearthing that I’m more than happy to have WFMU introduce me to. I don’t know who finds this sort of stuff and brings it to public awareness, but I hope they never stop uncovering genius music like this. This music is the work of a Romanian producer from the ’70s and ’80s, and none of it has been previously released. It definitely comes from a prog/psych-rock background, but there’s thick, buzzy keyboards, loads and loads of fuzz, and big blippy primitive drum machine beats. A few songs have vocals sung in Romanian, and they definitely have Eastern European folk elements to them. There’s also some strangely proto-industrial sounding synth textures. More than anything, this whole album is just incredibly fun and playful. Definitely a nice discovery for fans of weird minimal-wave stuff, but obviously a bit different than that, given the whole Romanian prog/psych-rock aspect.

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