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The Pre​-​Glasnost Tapes

by Rik Rue

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Track 1 06:24
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Track 2 03:19
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Track 3 04:18
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Track 4 03:32
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Track 5 02:02
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Track 6 03:17
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Track 7 02:11
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Track 8 02:33
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Track 9 04:34
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Track 10 02:49
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Track 11 02:18
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Track 12 02:05
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Track 13 01:55
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Track 14 05:23
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about

Improvisations for Russian Flexi-Discs (1960-80 vintage).
Two turntables and tape manipulations by Rik Rue.

Whilst visiting a shop in Melbourne specialising in Russian paraphrenalia, Rik Rue came across a book of Soviet-era flexidiscs, containing Soviet propaganda recordings (Western music was hard to come by in the post WWII Soviet Union, although bootlegs flexidiscs of jazz and rock music pressed onto discarded medical x-rays, colloquially known ‘ribs’ or ‘bones’, were sought-after on the black market from the late 1940s to the 1960s). Rue used these flexidiscs as source material for ‘The Pre Glasnost Tapes’. Rue overlaid and juxtaposed patriotic workers songs with orchestral music, spoken Russian and natural sounds, altering pitch and timbre by adjusting record speed.

Originally released on Pedestrian Tapes in 1991, ‘The Pre Glasnost Tapes’ has been reissued on several different occasions (on tape and CDR) with different covers; the one used here Rue views as the definitive cover.

With thanks to Shame File Music for additional album information.

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released June 1, 1991

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Since the early 1980’s, Rik Rue has been composing with environmental and found sounds. He transforms these recordings into soundscapes that have evolved into radiophonic works, sound installations and live performances.
Rik released numerous cassettes on his Pedestrian Tapes label throughout the 1980s and 1990s, now mostly unavailable. This Bandcamp page will bring that archive back to life ... more

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