Plyxy Gloryland

Originally issued by Ascetic House as a small limited-run cassette release, now be available on vinyl and digital formats by the Swiss imprint, Hallow Ground. The nostalgia
that informs "Gloryland" is PLYXY's longing for his cultural-geographic roots while feeling adrift in an alien environment. Born in Dnepropetrovsk, then the rocket-making capital of the USSR, Knopov immigrated to New York City as a child in 1989. In "Gloryland," he dives deep into his uneasy childhood memories and their warped
reflections. PLYXY marks the unreliability of his recollections by making it heard - the
anthemic qualities of the five pieces are coated in an opaque layer of dream-like textures.
From the elegiac opener, "It Will Be Beautiful," to the blaring rhythmic noise of "March of Youth," the greyscale picture painted by "Gloryland" becomes more and more refined
below the surface. PLYXY's search for a past is, however, less a sentimental journey, and more a radical confrontation with the politics of memory and the materials that serve as
mnemonic devices. "Gloryland" draws on field recordings from Knopov's adopted hometown New York and Soviet films as well as performances from his collection of
analog and digital keyboards, with the results filtered and re-textured through the producer's modular synthesizer setup acting as the final editorial layer in the creative
process. The result is lush and warm throughout, but also demure and distant.