Gnoomes
From adversity can come triumph, and from catharsis inspiration. Such has been the case for GNOOMES, the threesome hailing from Perm, Russia, whose second release for Rocket Recordings, Tschak! arrives in the wake of considerable turbulence and tumult, all of which has only been fuel for a creative epiphany that has seen them create a deeply evocative work rich with vibrant experimentation and saturated in a widescreen sense of wonder.
It has been eighteen months since Ngan!, the band’s first release, whose self-styled ‘stargaze’ approach marked a collision between melodic sweetness and sky-surfing guitar, yet the band have already moved on to a more adventurous and ethereal on Tschak!, not to mention an emotionally resonant approach.
“Our vocalist has been almost taken into the Russian Army, while some of us were caught by the police for being high, and the court sentenced [the members] to five days in prison and one year of visiting a narcologist every month,” the band relate. “So we haven’t had an opportunity to use psychedelics during the recording process. It was a challenge for us to find the legal ways to make psych music without it, but we thought that it’s not so bad, we could find the best way in daily life and simple things that surrounded us.”
Working in isolation thanks to a studio space provided by their work for a local radio station, the band had time and space for the process of creating ‘Tschak!’ entirely on their own terms.
Tschak! Tracklisting:
01 SUPER LIBIDO AWAKE
02 MARIA
03 CASCAIS
04 SEVEROKAMSK
05 TSCHAK!
06 CITY MONK
07 IN THE PARK
08 ONE STEP
09 ADSR EUGRAPH
10 B-DAY
Tschak! will be released on 10th March 2017 via Rocket Recordings.
