Morwan - Zola-Zemlya LP xx2006 While some critcs at the

While some critcs at the time dismissed this album as "unmusical'

The debut LP from San Francisco's shadowy synth masters

On a trip to Cuba in 1996

that Homans negotiated in French the five dollar purchase of his first guitar from a 'papasan' in a tiny commissary on the hospital grounds

spitting the gravel from their boots right in your face over ragged glory riffs that recall the likes of The Ejected or The Partisans (there's even a Welsh language number on here

Morwan - Zola-Zemlya LP xx2006 While some critcs at theThe flourishing Eastern European post punk scene has given way to a boom of dark, rhythmic, and powerful new activity. One of the most original and captivating artists to recently emerge from this scene is Kiev, Ukraine's Morwan. The solo project of Alex Ashtaui, Morwan evolved from an earlier post punk project, 563 (Pyat'shest'tri). Searching for a new direction, Ashtaui circled back to his half Ukrainian, half Arab roots, arriving at the perfect