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2muchachos album "formanta" is now available to buy. Just click on the store button links or store imagees. The "formanta" album is the formation on our thinking on the eternal questions, such as time, freedom, dreams, fears, love and understanding. Album is an annual cycle beginning in the autumn (at this time, people tend to ask searching questions of ourself in this world).
 
"life through the eyes of the watch" is a reflection on the theme of passing time.
 
"polyethylene tree" on the opposition to external factors of the system.
then winter, when people need support and understanding.
 
"adelaida" about finding like-minded people.
 
"northern sea ghosts" that memories help to survive the difficulties.
and ''symerki "about fears.
 
then spring - time of love and hope.
"vremja tepla" about faith and hope for the best.
 
"aqualung has broken" are the obstacles encountered and they just need to survive.
 
and summer, when people get answers to their questions.
"dreaming girl" on child immediacy.
 
"raindear?" that the beauty around us and we must be able to see it.
and "free floating" on the quest for freedom and finding yourself.

"formanta" album is indeed an electronic, shoegazey, ambient album and is purposely mean't to be minimal and quiet, but do not let that put you off because this could actually be one of the best and beautiful quiet ambient albums out there.

The album "Formanta" comes from the latin formatio (formation) and is also the name of the 1970's soviet vintage synthesizer.Formanta album has elements of electronica, folktronica, shoegaze and ambient.

Each track is carefully crafted by gradually washing you gently with their lush deep, warm beautiful sounds that almost sound abit similar to Ulrich Schnauss, Isan, Cocteau Twins and Paavaharju. Russian trio 2muchachos find themselves in methodic ambience, the ticking clock of time measures these compositions into structured forms, bringing the band's sound closer to the realm of Icelandic slow core like "Sigur Ros" or, when factoring in the much more subdued, delicate touch which the band employs and it's mastery of pastoral bliss would be more suited to Icelandic band "mum".

Apparently, Radiohead's-Kid A and Portishead's-Third albums have also been a major inspiration on this album.All the tracks on this album are designed to take you on a journey through the seasons. Each track flows into the next track, like a medley.

There is some sort of background noise between the tracks which suggests the album could of actually been created outside, giving it that natural organic, field sound recording vibe. There are lots of ambient hissing noises, crackles, unidentifiable percussion, droning organs, hushed echoing vocals and some really awesome gitchy IDM

Track Listing
1.Life Through the Eyes of the Watch
2.Polyethylene Tree
3.Adelaida
4.Northern Sea Ghosts
5.Symerki
6.Vremja Tepla
7.Aqualung Has Broken
8.Dreaming Girl
9.Raindear?
10.Free Floating

"formanta" album is now available to buy on download / lancing pack cd and also available to buy on special handmade digipack cd (Limited to 50 copies only) and i highly recommend you purchasing one of them because they will disappear fast!

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2Muchachos: Formanta

Outstanding combination of dubstep and classical music from Russian experimental trio 2muchachos
Reviewed By: Maarten Schiethart
From Cherepovets, on the northern shore of the manmade Rybinsk Lake, and a Russian town equally remote from St. Petersburg as from Moscow, comes symphonic trio 2muchachos. Talented with a well-developed sense for melody and for song structure, 2muchachos combine glitch rhythms and classic compositional structures while performing on acoustic instruments. Soundscapes which 2muchachos recorded at bustling urban areas build the layers for a tense mixture of pastoral and metropolitan touches on 'Formanta'.

'Northern Sea Ghosts' is the first highlight on the album. Elegant modern composing at first and then changing to heavenly pop music, it ends like a haunting waltz. 'Dreaming Girl' best shows the intercourse of sounds. 2muchachos had onboard geigentellers and like a 21st Century riddim section, and with great joy, their sounds tingle and tangle. 'Raindear?' begets a very special meaning as the sounds from a smouldering fire seem to get smothered by rain.

'Formanta' makes for a grand adventure and for a modest moment in music history. Vladimir, Dmitriy and Alexandra have done themselves proud.

2Muchachos - Formanta album gets 9/10 on DyingForBadMusic.
Genre: Folktronica, Electronic, Ambient

If you like well crafted organic electronica

2muchachos from russia seem to be a good companion this year. They appear in the springtime with their wonderful Prespring EP, sent a nice summer holiday card with the Summer Vacation EP and now here it is, their full length album Formanta on Parallax.
I think this is the perfect end summer album. Relaxing, a bit melancholic and warm like the last sunbeams in this die away season.
They advertise this album with the warmth of their Formanta synth, an old russian analogue synth they used for the album.
I like the idea, even if this all could be done with todays software or stuff. But beside these technical blah - this album seems to have a lot soul a spirit. Something that will give you a good feeling like hugging a friend

My favorite is Symerki so far. A wonderful track driven by a analogue drumbox beat, a bit guitar, nice stereo panning and a slightly spooky athmosphere. 9/10

2muchachos - Formanta (Parallax Sounds, 2010) For: Múm, Aarktica, Ambient Works-era Aphex Twin

Byline: The TOME's biggest crush of 2010 hits heavy with a full-length. All expectations aside, this is one of the year's strongest releases. Debut or otherwise.
We at the TOME, you see... we're lovers. We like music. Lots of it. Sure there's lots of stuff we don't like, but we don't really feel like it's worth it (for anyone—us, artist, reader) to sit here, nerdily in front of our computer screens while we pretend to work our day jobs, ranting and raving about something you probably won't even bother to check to see if we were "right" or not. Our hope, in approaching the music blogging realm in this fashion, is that just maybe you'll trust us, if even once. Trust us that the music you find on Tome to the Weather Machine is at least worth a spin. So when we post multiple times about an artist, it should be an indication that said artist is worth at least one of these listens. This time, I implore—NAY—I beg of you... give this Cherepovets, Russia-based ambient/electroni-folk trio a chance if you haven't already. We've posted twice about 2muchachos humble, sun-streaked naturalism already this year, and when Parallax Sounds graciously sent over the final mix of Formanta... it was just a no-brainer. 2muchachos, while confirming and affirming them, has also completely obliterated my expecations. Formanta is, without question, one of 2010's finest full-length offerings from any man, woman, child, band, ghost, alien, wolf, dog, bird or tree.

Once again drawing on the obvious influence of Icelandic slow-core, Formanta shifts the band's overall aesthetic downward. Everything on the album, despite their characteristic rising arpeggios in the synth lines that once symbolized light and warmth for the band, has 2muchachos preparing for winter. April brought us Prespring and with it unbridled optimism and comfortable warmth. July brought us Summer Vacation and with that, those sweltering coma-induced lazies. And now, it's colder, the days are shorter, we're bundling up... it's a bit sad, a bit nostalgic, but ultimately, it's time to get to work: Fall. Back to school. The album collects music the band has been working on for over two years, and Formanta definitely feels the benefit of the careful consideration that goes hand-in-hand with this kind of time. Everything on Formanta feels much more fully realized. Tones are molded, sculpted and panned across channels, and there's simply a lot more of them, the band mixing and matching individual sounds with precision and grace in a way that still comes out hopelessly simple. There's a broader sense of progression here with concern to volume in particular, but also in terms of space, timing, and timbre, all of these elements brilliantly executed to make songs like "Vremja Tepla" swell to heights that will take your breath away. Like climbing a giant cliff just to jump off; it's exhausting, exhilarating... and it might just kill you. Previously-available tracks like "Dreaming Girl" (which first appears as an acoustic version on Prespring) come to form beautiful full-muchacho arrangements with chiming bells and tip-toeing electronic rhythms that sneak around synths, like the dreaming girl is playing hide-and-go-seek with herself.

This is the perfect record to watch the sun's prominence fade with daylight-savings just around the corner. Grab your coat, your hat, your mittens, your sled, catch the Northern Lights if you can or at least a full moon, and dream your way through March. 2muchachos is there to hold your hand through it... yeah, it's going to be a tough winter, but it'll be beautiful and fun, too... just you wait

2MUCHACHOS - FORMANTA reviewed by: RabbitInYourHeadlights

If both instrumentalists and Russian producers behind this improbable pseudonym claiming the aesthetic influence of a certain Kid A on the water cold and instrumental seemingly abstract but actually incredibly evocative and full of humanity, this first opus, but rather on the side of the great outdoors whipped by the wind of the first albums múm emotions frozen in ice (the voice of their third female half on helping Northern Sea Ghosts particular) or eddies of intangible Seefeel early (cf. Dreaming Girl) That we seek to ancestry Formanta, which mimics the cover by its strangely organic textures and graphics spleen that of Summer Make Good, Unjustly underrated masterpiece of Icelandic previously cited.

Certainly, it is indeed a diptych of unpublished signed Radiohead that could refer Polyethylene Tree if this was the "h" missing, and we thought why not other B-sides from the period OK Computer as Melatonin or Meeting In The Aisle Listening to these retro-futuristic keyboards, in this case dated Soviet synthesizers of the 70 that give the album its name. Phagocytosis but timidly arrhythmias a downtempo IDM, the oscillations in the electro random, hypnotism a minimalist krautrock, the guitars of shoegaze immaterial in weightlessness (Vremja Tepla, Whose dreamlike flights seem to dream of a romantic M83) Or simply the sounds of nature surrounding the music developed by Vladimir, Dmitry and Alexandra is positioned more in the continuity of the work ofISAN, OfUlrich Schnauss or first album Bronnt Industries Kapital passages in his most cinematic (Adelaida) Or haunted (Symerki).

Journey through the seasons as the trio advance on Gogoyoko where the album suggests in its entirety, or confrontation of limbo of loneliness longing for understanding and attention of others, Formanta inevitably leads us, according to the fades of its current and instrumental moods of its authors, the most penetrating of the spleen (the stunning Aqualung Has Broken) Hope to the most disarming (Raindear?), Seeking to calm a wave on which the album fail to float and eventually sink to the sound of wind and tide.

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