Music:
Member Since: 3/13/2006
Band Website: iamaboveontheleft.com
Band Members: Alexey Taroutz/
Sergey Ledovsky/
Artem Galkin/
Pavel Eremeev
Influences: kosmos
Sounds Like:
An a-bomb to wake up
(2006)
This is complicated and explosive. This is innovation and progression. This is another heavy testament of pure musical genius from IAAOTL. Entirely instrumental, this album could easily make musicians stand openmouthed, wondering just how such music is written. No matter how chaotic they seem, all the compositions are dense and carefully structured. There are no improvisations or solos despite the influences of prog-rock or avant-jazz in their music. But there are lots of complex and dissonant guitar interplay, angry and crushing angular riffing, insane time and key changes, mind-pounding and panicked sounds, thought-expanding pauses and weird noise-drones. An A-Bomb To Wake Up is too overwhelming and complicated for an average listener to listen to, and much less to understand. This is something that has to be heard to be believed!
I am above on the left
(2005)
The band's eponymous debut is a live-in-the-studio affair, recorded in a single six-hour session in August 2005 with some environmental samples added subsequently. In a peculiar manner the quartet creates what could be better described as composite musical sketches of surrounding reality; or to be more correct they express personal attitudes toward reality. And not surprisingly, these attitudes are somewhat belligerent and defiant. Though there are so much touching naivete and appealing trustfulness, not to mention a good portion of irony, in their jump-to-noise-core intense instrumental pieces. The incredible receptivity, openness, and sensitivity to details are all around here. Fresh blood in the avant-garde and experimental rock-scene! Highly recommended!!www.raig.ru
"IAAOTL draw from a range of influences to play a sort of aggressive, post-hardcore tainted post-rock/math-rock hybrid. All of the songs are amazingly dense and complex, with lots of powerfully dynamic soft/loud shifts and stylistic changes, layered with eerie recorded speeches and captured radio waves. The band is clearly influenced by classic 90's math-rock, Slint, Don Cab, Rodan, etc., but theres just as much serious heaviness to be had, from slabs of crushing Zeni Geva-esque noise metal, to chaotic metalcore raveups, Melvins-ish sludge, and even the epic melodic hardcore. And theres also elements of avant-jazz, majestic Godspeed! You Black Emperor/ Mogwai rock and ambient Western soundscapes reminiscent of Souviners Young America, weird futurist prog rock, fragile drones, and modern composition are all incorporated into their dense soundscapes. I'd say that IAAOTL are the Russian answer to the avant-heaviness of groups like Kayo Dot and Time Of Orchids, far-out and hyperimaginative, yet far more accessible and melodic than you would expect from that comparison. Very highly recommended... the killer instrumental music presented here." – by CRUCIAL BLAST (USA) (December 2006).
Record Label: Http://www.raig.ru R.A.I.G. Records
Type of Label: Indie
