Presenting Fedorov Avtomat

Ladies and Gentlemen,

Rope and Pulley Records is proud to present the first full-length release from Fedorov Avtomat.

Proof of Life

Rope and Pulley Records, quiet but industrious, raises head from desk to announce some noise, namely, the long awaited full-length album from Fedorov Avtomat, complete and ready for release. Mark your calendar: Tuesday, June 5th sees the first single "En un Mot", a dance floor-ready pop (!) hit.  A week later arrives the full album, which is decidedly less "pop."

Until then, Rope and Pulley faithful, I remain

D Stuart Mullins

Founder and President, Rope and Pulley Records

Ja Volt!

A messy track from 2007 (predating Parapersonality Crash) wherein Fedorov Avtomat figured out a lot of things . . .

 Ja Volt! by fedorovavtomat

Regularly Scheduled Broadcasting to Resume

Rope and Pulley has been in the midst of a relocation to leafy South Orange, NJ.  We are readying more rare and unreleased Fedorov Avtomat tracks from the archive in anticipation of the new material F.A. claims to be recording in his basement lair.  Stay tuned . . .

Outtake from Parapersonality Crash

While F.A. never finished this track, it does contain the apotheosis of his early style in its opening - a blistering robot drum solo.



 (gulp!) [incomplete] by fedorovavtomat

Parapersonality Crash (The complete EP)

Here it is, listeners, all in one place. Tune in next week for a bonus outtake.

 Parapersonality Crash by fedorovavtomat

Parapersonality Crash Track Five

The bolt slid back on the Avtomat,
but all that emerged was (sob!).

 (sob!) by fedorovavtomat

Parapersonality Crash Track Four

Happy "Father's Day" listeners.  Another day, another dollar.  The bigger they are, the harder the fall.  The longer the wait, the sweeter the payoff.  In for a nickel, in for a dime.  When the going gets tough, the tough get going.  What goes around comes around.  Where there's a will there's a way.  A stitch in time saves nine.  The last mile's the hardest mile.  Better late than never.

 (sniff!) by fedorovavtomat 

(sigh!)

Parapersonality Crash track three.  A "doozy."  In the psychedelic sense.

 (sigh!) by fedorovavtomat 

(gasp!)

Here's track two of Fedorov Avtomat's 2007 opus, Parapersonality Crash.


 (gasp!) by fedorovavtomat 

Parapersonality Crash

In 2007, our man Fedya produced an EP. On the eve of its release and what was sure to be international electronic stardom, he withdrew it. Only now has he granted Rope and Pulley permission to release it to our faithful listeners. The first track, "(choke!)", is here for your enjoyment. Tune in next week for track two.

 (choke!) by fedorovavtomat

Ruby Seychelle

Continuing our series of rare and unreleased tracks by the enigmatic Fedorov Avtomat, we bring you 2007's "Ruby Seychelle."  With an initial release of one, it's likely you've never heard it before. . . or read the dedication poem that accompanied the track when it was sent to its original recipient.


As it was explained to its dedicatee:


Most recently, Fedorov Avtomat sent me a CD containing "Ruby Seychelle" and asked that I send it to you as a gift.  What's more, he (perhaps confoundingly) asked that I pass along a poem he intends to serve as a dedication.

Even more peculiarly, the poem takes the form of a dramatic monologue, the poetic conceit pioneered by the English poet Robert Browning, in which the speaker of the poem is a figure other than the poet, and the reader stands in for the intended listener.

In a final turn of the eccentric but ingenious mind of this young artist, Fedorov Avtomat has made me, D. Stuart Mullins, the speaker of the poem.

D. STUART:

In this scene
I'm the go-between,
A conduit cut in twain

From panel to panel
And page to page
Repeating the refrain

To Casanova,
F.A. bequeaths
A song from underneath

The layers of targets
Aimed at and missed,
Each shielding a private grief

Consider this track
Shrapnel, once again intact
Stolen back from the Explosion Thief.


 Ruby Seychelle by fedorovavtomat 

Down in the Valley Lay the City

“murder gangs with machine guns”

Down in the Valley Lay the City by Rope and Pulley Records

Lord Death Man

"It was just phosphorescent paint on black cloth."

01 Lord Death Man by Rope and Pulley Records

Whirl Shudder Repeat

Lab coat pale as my skin. Assaying sound's tensile strength. Voltage corresponds to my science's heart, its hard core.

01 whirl shudder repeat by Rope and Pulley Records

Does the Jazz Lead to Destruction?

The fiery furnace once survived asks its question: Now what? Count backwards, remembering to syncopate, and you'll feel your heels graze the Lake of Fire. In the meantime. . .

Does The Jazz Lead to Destruction by Rope and Pulley Records

Brake owt hit oh niner!

Close the decade out. Anything it takes. Techno is not kind to the miniaturist. The size of a rat's skull, outlined in neon. We'll slip through, partner. Won't we?

Brake owt hit oh niner! by Rope and Pulley Records

01 inbetween1208 3 by Rope and Pulley Records

Is each second a miniscule lead weight? Cumulatively burdening all one tries? No pressure is placed on this track. None.

adalos

With no factories in the suburbs, and malaise common enough, question this track's genre's premise's authenticity.

adalos by Rope and Pulley Records