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Rational Diet - On Phenomena And Existences

The following is taken from the press release about the band from their label AltrOck:
"Belarus group Rational Diet proposes an unusual mix of styles and sounds: Chamber music, rock, theatre and improvisation, supported by the amazingly instrumental abilities of their components. It's difficult to define the mood of such music, which goes from dark atmosphere to grotesque, powerful or oniric, sometimes even humoristic. Violin, cello, bassoon, saxes and accordion - besides the traditional rock instruments - chase each other along the dizzy instrumental plots, or sustain the dazed texts by the Russian avant-garde poets Daniil Charms and Alexei Kruchenykh. 
Influences:
Shostakovich, Stravinsky, Webern, Ives, King Crimson, Henry Cow, Art Bears, Univers Zero, Present, Debile Menthol"


Studio Album, released in 2010

Songs / Tracks Listing 
1. Sleep is teasing a man (4:34)
2. Human life in the wind (4:14)
3. Somebody in the spacious tail-coat (2:53)
4. Unexpected feiertag in chemnitz (1:05)
5. A man went to sleep (4:26)
6. Chamber illuminated by the dark lamp (1:46)
7. Bet on a marked card (2:09)
8. In the late summer (1:49)
9. Living the main life (5:49)
10. Private secrets of machine (3:08)
11. Weimar period (1:46)
12. The end of the almshouse (2:24)
13. Passacaglia in beautiful and furious world (5:05)
14. In five steps (5:22)


Line-up / Musicians 
- Vitaly Appow / reeds
- Cyrill Christia / violin
- Dmitry Maslovsky / bass
- Anna Ovchinnikova / cello 
- Olga Podgaiskaja / piano, organ, voice
- Nikolay Semitko / drums
- Maxim Velvetov / guitar

Gastmusiker
- Viacheslav Plesko / double bass (3)