{"product_id":"kate-nv-room-for-the-moon","title":"Kate NV - Room For The Moon","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e“\u003c\/strong\u003eMusic knows what she wants,” says Moscow-based artist, \u003cstrong\u003eKate NV\u003c\/strong\u003e. On \u003cem\u003eRoom for the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e, the lyrical follow up to the buoyant minimalism of 2018’s для \u003cem\u003eFOR\u003c\/em\u003e, NV follows this muse in fluid expression, harmonizing her lunar lullabies with a starry compositional choreography. NV says, “I always let music express herself without pressure, and with or without voice.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNV began sketching the music of \u003cem\u003eMoon\u003c\/em\u003e sometime before для \u003cem\u003eFOR\u003c\/em\u003e, but the album did not take its full shape until the artist entered a new physiological phase. After trying to make a Buchla synthesizer mirror human imperfections, she was compelled to look past the patch bay and reconnect with her own voice. “I spent almost a year and half sitting, at best, or bending over the table. In the end it, my body rebelled, on some kind of physical level.” No longer concerned with demonstrating a traditional composer’s craft of для \u003cem\u003eFOR\u003c\/em\u003e, the return to vocal forms first found on her debut album \u003cem\u003eBinasu\u003c\/em\u003e was liberating and (gasp!) gleeful.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOn \u003cem\u003eMoon\u003c\/em\u003e, NV’s vocals contour through screens of tulle or jars of glitter, the entire collection composed and produced by NV at home and studio spaces throughout Moscow. “I finished this record during the loneliest period of my life,” confides NV, with hints of melancholy, or fabled life lessons, adding even more depth to songs of cheery disposition. Her songs, sung in Russian, French and English, each carry unique features, like ten personas or ten scenes in a play where each character has its own keynote. \u003cem\u003eRoom for the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e was conjured from unlived memories of 70s and 80s Russian and Japanese pop music and film, a 20th century fairy tale suspended in time like a moon torn from a paper sky. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNV is accompanied by long-time music collaborators on Moon: \u003cstrong\u003eJenya Gorbunov\u003c\/strong\u003e on bass guitar, \u003cstrong\u003eVladimir Luchanskiy\u003c\/strong\u003e on saxophone, and \u003cstrong\u003eQuinn Oulton\u003c\/strong\u003e on both instruments. Musician \u003cstrong\u003eNami Sato’s\u003c\/strong\u003e gentle words lift and lilt over synth for one piece, too. These friendly contributions are in service of NV’s singular vision; the album is personal and particular in its construction. Filled with warm and sweet memories of her own invention, NV says, “these songs are now my closest friends.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoon could be made from chiffon ripples, night sky transmissions and long shadows. With each song we enter another chamber of illusion, NV’s vocals tiptoe through one track, toy with riddles on another and try to save time in a polka-dotted pocket. On “Plans,” NV, through some sort of sorcery, created a sax solo using only samples from the Found Sound Nation’s “Broken Orchestra” sample pack. A laugh slips from the sheets of music in “Ça Commence Par” like a misplaced photo. Mallet and marimba converse over mushroom tea on “Du Na.” “Tea” herself borrows melody from \u003cstrong\u003eTchaikovsky’s\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003ePiano Concerto No. 1\u003c\/em\u003e, and “Telefon” teases us that “there’s nowhere to hide from the song.” But that’s ok, we’re all invited to the party.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMoon’s cast might make friends with other electric, eclectic, and visionary works of \u003cstrong\u003eLizzy Mercier Descloux\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cstrong\u003eAkiko Yano\u003c\/strong\u003e, and \u003cstrong\u003eAnn Steel\u003c\/strong\u003e. You know the feeling of instant affinity? It’s how you may respond to \u003cem\u003eRoom for the Moon\u003c\/em\u003e. You’ll recognize something strangely familiar and inexplicably attractive, an afterglow of times spent in happy company, imagined or otherwise.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eKate NV is the project of Russia-born recording artist, songwriter, and producer Kate Shilonosova.\u2028\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eBest known in her hometown of Moscow as the lead singer and founder of the post-punk garage band Glintshake, Kate NV is also a performer in the experimental Moscow Scratch Orchestra and releases music under an alternate alias, NV.\u2028\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eShilonosova’s debut album, Binasu, was released in 2016 via Orange Milk Records. Shilonosova followed her debut with her second full length для FOR, accompanied by a short online film series by Sasha Kulak.\u2028\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eRoom for the Moon is Kate NV’s third album and second for RVNG Intl. Room for the Moon was inspired by memories of 70s\/80s Russian and Japanese pop music and movies. The album finds Kate NV singing in Russian, French, and English. 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