The debut album of electroacoustic drone doom ensemble Zhertvoprinosheniya [Sacrifices] from St. Petersburg, Russia – a sort of report of a year and a half of concerts consisting of chosen fragments of atheological masses of 2013–14. At that time the collective’s name was Linga Sharira – and now it has become the title of the sound document summing up the ensemble's past life. 

Nearly all the album’s material is improvised: spontaneous songs that were occurring here and now – or rather there and then – with no pretention for reproduction, with inevitable unevenness of blind proceeding, and with all its thrill. However, it’s difficult to call this “songs” in a proper sense. The music of Sacrifices is at the same time attraction to the form and repulsion from it – song or melodic structures are both rudimentary and atavistic. This is not a still wall of sound as one may expect – often it’s all rather quiet and spacious: laminar drones with seemingly chaotic squeaks, clicks, strokes, and voice – melancholic, but from time to time exploding in paroxysms of rage, and many times repeating different versions of the last, ultimate words that won’t ever be said till they speak to each other – till they merely speak. 

Sacrifices – with a set of devices characteristic for electroacoustic improv, with various objects, preparations, and extended techniques – are moving towards think drone metal, think industrial aesthetics which in its turn occurs to be radically subverted. 

A mass of emptiness, dedicated to emptiness, calling for emptiness, consisting of emptiness. 

https://zhertvoprinosheniya.bandcamp.com/releases