Pile of post cards

Karbido’s audience has already been used to the musicians combining the opposite sounds easily and to their creative anomalies allowing them to make music of pigeons’ wings flapping or street noise. To create the music this time they’ve made field prerecords of various sounds. The all year long studio session ran in many different places and sometimes even simultaneously. It’s safe to say that the Cinnamon has emerged in a traveling sound recording studio.

The album was recorded in Urekhta, Drohobych, Warsaw and Vroclav; Tsumtor recorded a part of the drums section in the Swiss city Haldenstein and some sound environments were caught in the streets of Jerusalem and Hong Kong.

The Cinnamon is a cyclus of 12 sound pictures. The musicians have returned to the post-rock trends mixing noise, minimal or ambient with energy of fanciful ballades, tangos and waltzes. They add repercussions of old billets, roundabouts and gramophones, then drown them in guitar plunk and distort them by rhythms of trans. Numerous sound layers are amplified by exquisite electronic and psycho-acoustic experiments.

Power of mystery

Certainly, the album’s center of attraction is Yuriy Andrukhovych. He turns his own poetry into a hypnotic tale using charismatic voice of different timbres. He tells about weird dwellers of half-ruined houses (“Doktor Dutka”, “Pani Kapitanova”, “Staryi Oliynyk”), dark stories of the darkest corners of an old city (“Mafia”, “Postril”, “Azart”), and, at last, about bulldozers of time and history which level the past world with the ground (“Zmina Dekoratsiy”, “Pidzemne Zoo”).

with a bonus India addition

The album comprises a bonus addition which is the suite in five parts called India and been performed as improvisation by the band for a few times in 2008 during the Ukrainian tour promoting their previous album Samohon. The India is an individual work and can be described as a philosophic and transcontinental electronic ballade with elements of ethnic coloring. This composition appeared in parallel with the main Cinnamon session, during work on vocals, so it also reflects the atmosphere of creative midnight amok.
It is intended for the collectors constantly traveling around the world.

Yuriy Andrukhovych – texts, voice
Igor Gawlikowski – guitars, keyboard, programming, field records, virtualia
Tomasz Sikora – virtualia, Theremin, keyboard, programming, field records
maot  -- bass, keyboard, programming
special guest:
Peter Konradyn Tsumtor– drums, gongs

Released by: Hermetyczny Garaz,   
Ukrainian version released by: МА Nash Format,

The release also includes a multimedia addition: an animation video for “Mafia” (directed by Elzbieta Birylo) and records of Andruchovych’s fictional work (“Tsentralno-skhidna Reviziya”) with the sound exclusively arranged by Hermetyczny Garaz and Karbido.