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Formed in Izhevsk somewhere at the end of Soviet era, Bamboo Knock at 11 o'clock was a short-lived electronic art-project, whose sole album "Cold Is A Light Thing" was released just before their disbanding in 1991. Complete dilettantes in the approach, but thorough inventors in methods of sound design, project members used manipulations with magnetic tapes, primitive analogue synthesizers, field recordings and distant, sad vocals to "create an atmosphere containing a mood”, ranging from dreamlike lullaby to eerie menace as record progresses, staying vaguely surreal, yet naturally engaging all the way it lasts. Though the elements of dark ambient, electroacoustics,...

"Мясцовы Час" (translates from belarusian as "Local time") is a belarusian hard rock formed in 1987 in Navapolatsk (blr. Наваполацк) by Alies Kuzmin (Алесь Кузьмін) and Viachaslau Makas (Вячаслаў Макас). Firstly their songs were in russian. After the band made it's first demo called "Местное время" (russian for "Мясцовы Час") they get acquainted with Мроя and under influence of their music "Мясцовы Час" started singing in belarusian. In 1991 the band released it's the most successful album "Наша ўскраіна" and took "The Best Band" price in the primory belarusian rock festival "Basowiszcza". In 1992 "Мясцовы Час" tries to write a...