Surmachina's album "Море наше поле" ("The Sea Is Our Field") features folk songs and original compositions inspired by Russian folklore and modern electronics. The traditional sound doesn't become a museum piece, but continues to live and evolve, engaging in dialogue with synthesizers (Arturia Microfreak, Dreadbox Typhon, Make Noise 0-COAST). Flutes, horns, hurdy-gurdies, and analog drum machines (Elektron Digitakt, Elektron Tonverk) are featured. Vocals are provided by Oksana Knyazeva, soloist with the V. Sudakov Moscow Chapel Choir.

Surmachina is a project by a beatmaker and multi-instrumentalist from northern Moscow, incorporating ideas from classical hip-hop, analog electronics, lo-fi aesthetics, and Russian folklore. Each release experiments with sound.

The albums "Странные ритмы вечернего Подмосковья" ("Strange Rhythms of the Evening Moscow Region") "Японские Заметки" ("Japanese Notes") and "И тайное общество битмейкеров" ("And the Secret Society of Beatmakers") are dedicated to life in the big city, reflecting on the metropolis and its suburbs. They are recorded in the format of travelogues, with warm guitars, voice recordings, jazz melodies, and synthesizers. The releases "Onega" and "Хождение за три моря" ("Journey Beyond Three Seas") mix hip-hop beats, authentic instruments (Scandinavian talharpa, flute, Carpathian kalyuka), recordings of the Solovetsky choir, Pomor chants, and modern synthesizers and samplers (Arturia Microfreak, Dreadbox Typhon, Roland sp 404, Elektron Digitakt).

Streaming platforms: https://band.link/c227

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8 track album