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“THE DUAL ORIENTEERING EPS” BY SASHASH ULZ

The handmade music site WistRec is featuring a unique disc set from Sashash Ulz including orienteering maps of familiar places, a compass, cartography filmstrips, and personalized routes all encased in recycled kraft boxes. 

This set is perfect for a musically-driven adventure with a friend or for any curious explorer who loves a good music playlist. Listen to some of the tracks on the EPs and check out more of Wistrec's one-of-a-kind music compilations. 

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Out Of The Fog Released On Cassette

The clouds have parted, the sun shines through, and yeh, our printers have finally reconciled their differences and delivered onto us a limited edition of 35 OOTF cassettes! They are going fast, with only 19 left, so hit the link below to place your order.

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Sashash Ulz : Out Of The Fog

Out Of The Fog by Sashash Ulz

Sashash Ulz is the folky lamentation of mountains, the calming roar of acoustic expression, the decadent reverb of memories.

Coming to the shores of America from the Russian Federation, Cookies 'N Cream is proud to put out this gem of acoustic, halcyonic, tape-fed rumination. The current digital releas will be followed shortly by a limited edition of 35 cassettes.

We were able to catch up with Sashash Ulz via email and pick his brain over what inspires him and causes the noisemaker that is his brain to tick.

Cookies 'N Cream: So, what was your early life like?

I was born in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, a city in the Far East, In 1986. My grandparents lived there and my actual parents were spending their honeymoon in such a romantic place. Soon they went back to the city where they planned to live - Petrozavodsk, Republic of Karelia, on the opposite side of Russia. I don't remember the early parts of my life spent in Komsomolsk, so that's why I consider Petrozavodsk my hometown.

At the age of five I started attending music school and playing the piano. When I was twelve I quit it several months before the final exams, as it was no longer meaningful or fun. At the time I was listening to AC/DC and played the badminton rocket synchronically. I was inspired by everything in the mysterious life of post-USSR era including soviet rock bands, television, society etc. I started playing the guitar, making scratches on vinyl records and cutting/editing analog tapes before I was thirteen. It was the 90's, and very few people in my city knew about experimental music, myself included.

Once I found a big acoustic Czechoslovakian guitar in the closet, invented my own chords, and started writing songs. My first band was formed in 1999. It was a trio of my classmates and I. After school we would play avant-garde style music, just for fun. Then I moved on to playing in a few punk rock bands… but experimenting with... or rather "abusing" classical and jazz music has always been my main stay.

CNC: What style of music would you say that you create?

SU: Speaking purely in the sense of genres, I can’t really define what style of music I adhere to. I play music with and without words.

CNC: Having attended music school, would you say that you identify as an academic musician?

SU: I have to say I’m far from being an “academic musician”.

CNC: What instruments do you use now in your creative process?

SU: I play common string and keyboard instruments. I also use sounds that I record while traveling, using a either a digital sampler or analog tape.

CNC: Besides Sashash Ulz, do you have any other projects going on?

SU: I play in the duo Dva Zagorodnyh Doma with my girlfriend Lena who plays solo too, as Kot Kot. Beyond that, Lena and I also play with a few other friends in the jam band Komariki.

CNC: Any other releases coming out?

SU: There’s a list of upcoming releases on our site. To name a few: the cd of jazzy improvised modulated keyboards on Fourth Dimension, the cassette of drone collages on Сae-cur-a, the cd-r of slow spacious guitar ragtimes on Reverb Worship, the cassette of tape loop manipulations on Lighten Up Sounds.

Also I’m looking forward to releasing Dva Zagorodnyh Doma’s music on Hot Releases, Eggy Records and Quasi Pop. Me and my fellow artist Kot Kot will definitely play gigs in 2013, both in and outside of Russia.

To contact Sashash Ulz, click HERE.