Following the release in 2003 of his first full length work ("Kniga Skazok", also on Ad Noiseam), Andrey Kiritchenko presents here is second album, which crowns the progress and incessant activity of this Kharkov, Ukraine based musician. Having collaborated with such acts as Scanner, Kim Cascone, or Kotra and played basically each and every music festival in eastern Europe (as well as the Transmediale, Garage and Information Wants To Be Free festivals in Germany), this artist has become the spearheading figure of the Ukrainian electronic music scene, and one of the best regarded composer from the former eastern block.
If "Kniga Skazok" was Andrey Kiritchenko's interpretation of traditional fairy tales, "Interplays, in between" presents the bridge between the two sonic fields dear to this artist. On the one hand, this album features the precise clicks, sharp glitch and touching melodies that can be found on his earlier recording, and, on the other hand, we hear here the very subtle use of field recordings, distorted voices and unusual use of strings instruments which have been witnessed by this musician's live audience. Subtility and emotion are the key words of "Interplays, in between". Andrey Kiritchenko demonstrates here how electronic and acoustic music can meet and mix without loosing their particularities. Emotional music without easy pop kitschness, gritty frequencies made human.
Andrey Kiritchenko shows with "Interplays, in between" how emotional, though original, his music is and present 10 charming tracks of frequencies, beats & bits that confirm his status of confirmed value of nowadays' electronic composer.

Fairytales and electronic music. What if you were to give back a soul and a smile to this sound you listen to? What if you closed your eyes and imagined what your favorite children stories were to sound like? The pretty princess and the big bad wolf have jumped out of their pages and become little themes and sound waves. They step gently and softly to your ears, enacting their relentless quests and fights as subtle melodies and rhythms. "Kniga Skazok": the book of fairytales turned into music.
The driving force behind most of today's electronic music from Ukraine, Andrey Kiritchenko has been both a radio and video in Kharkov, and is at the origins of the Nexsound label, a hive of Ukrainian acts whose talent is slowly being recognized worldwide. Fresh from his collaboration with Andreas Berthling and Kim Cascone, Andrey Kiritchenko presents here his first and longest work to date under his own name. Letting behind the most obscure experimentations and atmospheric works he releases as Nihil Est Excellence and Sidharta, he goes back here to more gentle and subtle arrangements, seductive structures and precise compositions.
On the foundation of a modern and abstract genre, Andrey Kiritchenko paints beautiful and naive stories perfectly fitting his clicks and tones. An album to be listened to with your eyes closed, a bedtime story for your ears.

[kiritchenko è un emergente artista ucraino, che può già vantare una collaborazione con kim cascone e andreas berthling, ed opera su materiali digitali affini all'estetica microwave. ciò che differenzia questo cd dalle sue precedenti composizioni di tenace sperimentazione, è un tocco più gentile e seducente. una collezione di storie ispirate al libro delle fabie ucraine, di incantato clicks&cuts non distante da shuttle358 o snd.]