Foresteppe

Most music produced in Russia understandably comes from Moscow and Saint Petersburg, but in this case we move to Berdsk, in Siberia, the hometown of Egor Klochikhin, the mind behind the project Foresteppe. Active since 2012 and responsible, among other works, for the beautiful album Diafilms (2015), Foresteppe is a master at recreating soundscapes inspired by the memory of a lost childhood, by the rediscovery of moments of peace spent at home, safe and sheltered, while outside the temperature can drop to minus fifty degrees.

Vstrecha is a live recording dating back to the Diafilms period. Moving between ambient, folk, field recording and a very heavily accentuated lo-fi aesthetic, it creates a powerful point of contact between sound and memory. The guitar appears only in faint outlines, while the voices are drawn from old home recordings on magnetic media now obsolete, once widely used in Soviet Russia during the 1970s and 1980s.

The result is a single piece lasting nearly thirty minutes, transforming memory into a timeless place — one that does not imagine grandeur or dream of empires to dominate, but instead seeks nothing but peace and serenity.

30/01/2026