Cyclotimia is most probably the only project in the world which has chosen the creation of a
soundtrack to "globalisation" and life of the "consumer society" as their concept. The
project members more than anyone else are immersed into the magic of finance and probably
therefore has their creative intuition allowed them to compose the main part of "Music for
Stockmarkets" with its unforgivingly precise name "Wallstreet Requiem". Today the whole
civilised world is listening to this requiem the first cords of which were played on Wall
Street itself.
The "Music for Stockmarkets" album with its radically experimental nature stands out in the
extensive discography of this Moscow project. The 64-minute album includes 32 tracks divided
into three conceptual parts: "Wallstreet Requiem" (25 minutes, recorded in 2004-2007),
"Trivial Pleasures" (26 minutes, recorded in 2002, this part was the only one released as a
seperate CD in 2003) and "Financial Glossary" (13 minutes, recorded in 2003).
The music material itself is nothing like the one heard in the previous records of
Cyclotimia. There is no apocalyptic soundscapes of "Wasteland" times, no cybernetic hi-tech
and media madness of "E$chaton", no cosmic downtempo of "Celestis: Space Ceremonial
Music"... Minimalism, academic sterility, surgical accuracy and meditative ataraxy prevail
on "Music for Stockmarkets". Then again it is not the familiar "idm", "glitch", "noise",
"clicks and cuts" and not "minimal techno"... The sound of the album is chrystal-clear and
warm at the same time. "Vintage" lovers have a wonderful chance to listen to the
masterpieces of Soviet music production (such as Rhythm 1, Rhythm 2, Aelita, Formanta UDS,
Formanta EMS-01, Polyvox) in pure sound, unprocessed by effects.
And here is how the musicians, who have celebrated the 10th anniversary of their project,
intoduce their new album:
"Free market and global money movements shape the political and social reality of today, and
thus, the people's minds and the culture they create.
Curiously enough, the English word "clerk" derives from "clericus", the Latin for "man of
God". This word was used to refer to the clergy in Mediaeval Europe. "Office", apart from
beign a key notion in today's reality, also stems from Latin, where "officinum" denoted
"ceremony", "ritual".
Today's global money movements, sequences of 0s and 1s, virtually form a nonmaterial,
spiritual substance - the Holy Spirit, presuming which, the stock exchange turns into a
temple for the worship of the new religion, and the music presented on this album can be
regarded as liturgical background for the sacred business procedures."
Tracklist:
01 Investor
02 Land Of Prosperity
03 Boutique
04 Irrational Exuberance
05 Secret Markets
06 Global Economic Forum
07 Mr Chairman
08 Moneycast
09 Customer Lifetime Value
10 Quick Quote
11 Id Number
12 Nasdaq
13 24 Hours Of Non-Stop Consumption
14 Market Experts
15 Verichip
16 .99
17 Another Digital Solution
18 Currency Indicator
19 Stock Talk
20 From Channel To Channel
21 Office Comfort
22 Profit Warning
23 Negative Territory
24 Oil
25 Zero
26 Rebound
27 Mystery Shopper
28 Goldhold
29 Revenues
30 Cashflow
31 $1.4 Billion Per Day
32 Commodity Movers
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