While Raskol'nikov is a project active from 2010 and with a reasonable discography, this is the first time I heard about their work. This is a collaboration completed in 2013 waiting evidently from the right occasion to be released. Their music is a sort of low fi experimental where they exploited the evocative properties of sounds tied to '60s and '70s and, instead of being a tortuous tour-de-force, they use reasonably simple structures to their song.
The album starts with "(Blue) Forest" which, after a little noisy introduction, evolves in a strange glitch pop without words as catchy as unconventional. Even in his rather identifiable influences, "(Green) Forest" maintains a framework where the experimental aims are tied to melody. "Master" is perhaps a little bit too long but the use of filtered voices triggers a certain number of cultural references. "(Hidden) Valley" is almost funny with his use of childish sounds while "YAMA" is almost meditative in his crescendo of long and reverberated notes. "(Empty) Sky" closes this release juxtaposing droning sounds.
Neither a masterpiece nor a boring release, this is those kind of weird release that could please fans of unusual and experimental music if they are not so genre oriented to not appreciate a small bit of irony. It's worth a listen.