muhmood - experimental, dark ambient, metal project

a solo

2011-12-12T19:27:00.000+07:00

how does it feel to live in siberia?

2011-08-18T11:49:00.001+07:00

feels like you are in anexpensive cultural butthole stuck in your room with double insulated windows from november till end of april, the upside of this experience is you can appreciate the advantages of other places... cause you know the difference... seeing homeless people in New York wearing white socks and wearing 100 bucks boots makes you wonder why people can't appreciate all the opportunities laying right at their feet and just choose to be bums... Siberia is not a bad place to live after all, the worst thing i disliked there is that everything seems to be a copy, and immitation or stylization of what they see in hollywood movies ( which by itself is a total crap to me) but when it turns into a cheap chinese artificial crap - it is even worse... the good side of life there is that you still can get some good made of natural not so much processed products that - versus western "civilized" food that tastes like plastic. In Siberia you can go wherever you like put up a tent and make a camp fire without any permits or fear that you intruded someone's property... there is a lot of rugged freedom there that i really miss

Ask me anything

Victor Ivaniv & Muhmood

2010-12-06T16:48:00.006+06:00

Дом Грузчика (Docker's House)

artwork by Nikolai Zaikov

a draft

2010-12-02T19:53:00.002+06:00

dialed a new tone, what do you think?

riff 000010

New tracks with Victor Ivaniv

2010-10-26T04:14:00.000+07:00

1. Мерзавчик (Bastard)
2. Страшный Звонок (Dreadful Ring)
3. Почта (Post Office)

Muhmood & Ego Ex Nihil - Fictive Planets

2010-07-31T04:06:00.009+07:00

We finished this album in 2008 and finally it will be released on a very decent Russian label that deals purely with doom metal - Solitude Prductions

Collaboration of two experimental Russian projects based on mixture of post-metal doom riffs with dark ambient parts. A long deep space journey around invisible fictive planets is depicted by harsh guitar riffs while minutes of atmospheric soundscapes do not bring any relief just adding to the overall depressive picture of wandering and desperation.

more info on this release - here

PREVIEW:

1. Lunar Knots
2. Admetos
6. Surya

preorder - release date 01/08/2010
Limited Edition - 100 copies
BUY THIS ALBUM
http://www.solitude-prod.com/

Pedals Samples

2010-06-18T08:59:00.001+07:00

Dallas Rangemaster Treble Booster that Toni Iommy used

this shell is from an old transformer made back in the Soviet Union, love the rugged look of it, but yes - i know the knob looks terrible and it is temporary...
so here are some samples of this box and the ones from the previous post

Rangemaster
MeatHead - mids
MeatHead - solo
MeatHead DLX - mid
MeatHead DLX - low
MeatHead DLX - solo
Fuzz Face - gentle
Fuzz Face - solo
Fuzz Face - treble
Fuzz Face - noisy low mids
Fuzz Face - low

DIY guitar effects

2010-06-04T05:43:00.000+07:00

Here are some of my first builds

from left to right:
Meathead DLX > Fuzz Face GE > Meathead

FF is done in Mark Rothko style - he lived and worked the same time with Hendrix and Hendrix liked bright colors, so i thought it wold be right.

i am very happy with the sound of all three of them and ispired to build more, seems to turn from curiousity into passion now! 8)

just a couple of days ago finished Dallas Range Master - a clone of what Toni Iommy used on his first albums in Black Sabbath - it is a very simple treble booster but sounds so great!

will try to put up some samples later...

Talmenka

2010-04-06T12:12:00.006+07:00

This is my first purely field recordings album released by the Portuguese netlabel Green Field Recordings. Talmenka is the name of the river in Altai Region and a village that stands on it. It's been a very inspiring place for me, surrounded by the woods, lakes and two rivers. So here is a bunch of tracks i recorded on my several trips there, i wanted to share a few local frequencies that are more like a sound diary of last summer.
The artwork that goes along with this release are photos of the places where the recordings were done.

Download this release from the Green Field Recordings site

Gonjasufi

2010-03-26T00:50:00.003+06:00

what a discovery!
really great quality experimental stuff...
if you google him - pretty well promoted too - even gonjasufi chineese cookies are available!
hope he won't go too commercial and make more of true creative music.
loads of respect to you, man all the way from the melting Siberia!

Official Website: Gonjasufi

LiquidSonics - Reverberate LE

2010-03-12T18:15:00.003+06:00

This is a high quality Reverberator vst plugin. I just discovered it recently and was amazed!
You have option to download it for free or give a donation from the website of the manufacturer HERE

also there is a bunch of impulse responses for this plugin at echochamber and rhythminmind

Muhmood Drone Sound Pack for WinXP

2009-12-24T03:49:00.010+06:00

Merry Holidays!
i am wishing everyone to enjoy the holidays season and have a great new year
full of great things and happiness.
And here is a treat for you - MUHMOOD DRONE SOUND PACK for Windows XP
it replaces original Windows XP system sound files with drony ambient samples.
Instructions how to use it are in the README file inside.

Special thanks to my friend Dmitrii A. who inspired me to make this pack

....winter

2009-12-10T13:24:00.005+06:00

...lots of snow, holidays, laziness, solitude. Another span of hybernating till about end of april... Fuck! but it's got a good side to it too! In fact i have been pretty busy playing with all the material i had recorded this year, so much to do and now i will have plenty of time on my hands. I like winters for this. Loaded my shelves with a bunch of inspirational books and films that will keep me busy for a while. My latest discovery - Takashi Miike's "MPD Psycho" mini TV series - i swallowed it in one day - wish i could understand Japanese to watch the original...

Lately have been listening to the bands like Sleep, Skepticism, Beehoover, Yob and Twin Eagle they inspire me a lot especially Eagle Twin! Another one that really moves me is Of the Wand and the Moon. My mind is wanderring around the idea of starting a new music project which i already have the gut feeling for but can't really put it into words or sounds yet but it will definitely include field recordings... The new year will show.

Cult of Dionys

2009-09-27T15:09:00.004+07:00

A pair of Mainades, draped with vines and a panther skin, present a hare to Dionysos. The god holds a wine-cup.

source

Victor Ivaniv & Muhmood - Pochta

2009-09-23T04:44:00.006+07:00

freshly finished track

pochta

bucket session

2009-09-07T21:18:00.007+07:00

Last weekend i went to my parents to help them harvesting potatoes - i was using a metal bucket there that i found to be more talented than the other ones. I called it a "singing" bucket and took it to the bath house for an hour of experimenting. Here is an impovisation that i think came out nicely.

bucket session

recent discovery - Cocorosie

2009-09-04T17:45:00.004+07:00

this is the kind of music that really inspires me to move on !!!
it is hard to express how swept away i am by this band - Cocorosie!
i adore every single thing about them - the lo fi format, the unusual mixture of sounds, the mood and the freaky sense of rhythm, the performance itself and of course the incredible unique vocals!

so far this song called "Black Rainbow" is my most favorite.

Tamara and Demon - Director Cuts

2009-08-20T18:39:00.008+07:00

This is one of the tracks that was cut from the Tamara and Demon soundtrack
room 2

Download Tamara and Demon album here

new track

2009-08-12T03:16:00.011+07:00

Today started a new track. Very inspired with how it's coming out - looks like i found the sound i was looking for!
here is a draft:

grdrone

M-Audio MicroTrack II

2009-08-03T22:52:00.009+07:00

Now i am a happy owner of this device :]

This means a big "YES" to field recordings from now on!!! what i need to get next is a few assorted mics for it and my imagination will be totally unleashed. Wish i had it when i was recording 6200 miles of silence ....

the manufacturer's annotation
here are three short test samples i did today in my garden

flies
garden
rain

Muhmood & Victor Ivaniv - Rùt (EP)

2009-07-06T00:55:00.006+07:00

Released by the netlabel Enough Records

We have been working on this EP on and off for a year.

Victor Ivaniv is a futurist poet from Novosibirsk, Russia.

I went to his book presentation in our town and was completely

impressed with his performance - i offered him a collaboration

after the gig and he embraced it. This is just a warm up EP,

we will do a long playing album eventually.

This one includes 3 poem and a prose piece.

Жертва
Rùt
Никита
Любимый Раджа

DOWNLOAD album rar: 31MB the mp3 file tags include the lyrics
Victor Ivaniv blog

summer

2009-06-25T21:44:00.004+07:00

…exciting time of starting to work on something new…

there is a concept show planned for the end of September 2009 that needs a soundtrack, something abstract and very minimalistic.

…and there are a couple of online collaborations being considered. It’s going to be a very busy summer!

Volume/Voice VA release - The Happy Divide

2009-06-20T02:30:00.010+07:00

A UK netlabel Volume/Voice included Muhmood's Sly in the Various Artists compilation "The Happy Divide".

Tracklisting:
1.Former Ammunition - Forced Alliance (5:59)
2.Kalx - Mutlea5 (4:25)
3.Muhmood - Sly (5:24)
4.Aryan Zombi - Cataclysm (6:00)
5.Richard Pilkington - Detritus (4:45)
6.Pashkë - The Detached Universe (10:18)
7.Phylum Sinter - Sun Stands Still (4:03)
8.JÆ - Wraith Of Beauty (7:35)
9.Martin Kay - 3 Ghost Of Harold Holt (Part 2) (7:34)

Label: Volume Voice
Catalog#: v.000
Format: File, MP3, FLAC, Compilation

Country: UK
Released: 2009
Genre: Electronic, Non-Music
Style: Industrial, Abstract, IDM, Noise, Ambient, Acid, Experimental
Notes: MP3 Release Format : 256kbps
FLAC Release Quality : 8

Pillars Photo Series

2009-06-13T16:39:00.035+07:00

Places where i made the field recordings for the "6200 miles of silence" album
Altai Region, Russia

6200 miles of silence

2009-06-10T04:15:00.036+07:00

The new release 6200 miles of silence is based totally on field recorings. In one sentence it is a journey of electricity through the huge power lines making its way across the rural Siberian territories. In the archive with the release you will find an extensive series of photo work - "Pillars"

tracklist:
1. wind in the cords - 19:05
2. electrification of Udmurtia - 10:41
3. 8300 pillars of Altai - 24:00
4. 1000 kVolt - 14:23

play sample: 1000 kVolt

DOWNLOAD album rar: 320 kbps 164MB