Dynamic St Petersburg producers Kim & Buran are slowly growing into electronic disco veterans, with this, their second long player on Nang and having been on the scene for over 18 years.
Latest offering “Tramplin’” pays little heed to rigid four-four / dancefloor structures; the album works as a substantial, fifteen track work because of the variety of mood, tone and texture that runs throughout.
From the mid-tempo, atmosphere-drenched cosmotica of opener “Walk on the Stratosphere”, and the drifting, Delia Derbyshire-like synths strains and retro melancholica of “Forbidden Planet”, to the irresistible moog driven funk of “Around Pauls”, the tight Italo strut of “Gala”, the shimmering, exultant future disco of the likes of “French Train”, the album shifts gears and switches mood throughout. Set closer, the breezy musicality of “Your Our Summer Dress” ends the album with effortless panache.
Kim & Buran is a Vyacheslav Zavyalov’s project based in St.Petersburg. His music is a mix of space disco, easy-listening, space age pop and downtempo.
In his childhood in Siberia (city of Khanty-Mansiysk) Slava was charmed by Jean Michel Jarre, Space and Ennio Morricone, sci-fi movies. When he was 16 he got a computer, midi keyboard and soviet synthesizer Polyvox he started to compose his own electronic music.
In 2004 while studying in St.Petersburg Slava released his first album “Kosmos for children” as Kim & Buran named after two space captains from the famous soviet animation “The Mystery of the Third Planet”. The album has analog space retro sound. The music was eclectic but combined with old sci-fi movies atmosphere.
Kim & Buran released 5 albums. All of the music is composed and recorded by Vyacheslav Zavyalov in his home studio. The live show includes Vyacheslav Zavyalov (synthesizers), Roman Tolmachev (bass), Alexander Dmitriev (guitar)and Aleksei Aleshin (drums) and Vladimir Smorodin (VJ).
