PREMIERE 'ЗАЙЦЕМ'' Kop'e
Listen to 'ЗАЙЦЕМ'' by Kop'e taken from 'ПИРОГ КРАДЕН'' (PIROG KRADEN') out on April 17th via Fuselab
Nikita Kireev is a designer and musician from Astrakhan. Kop'e is the naive art of a person living in an age of mass culture and fast-paced media. Any object in the surrounding information-driven world becomes a medium—whether it be album covers, videos, music, or outdoor experiments with posters. This project embraces extreme simplicity and sincerity, as befits any naive artist. The creative object is meant to unleash pure emotions and convey them, spreading this microcosm turned inward toward the wandering soul
Kop'e wrote: “PIROG KRADEN” is the logical conclusion to my urban duology. We have emerged from the night into the day. The protagonist is once again sincere and simple. He is a homeless man, an outsider observing the bustling metropolis. These 9 tracks are, in essence, a kaleidoscope of images of those around him. The sound has changed. Slow, jazzy nighttime trip-hop gives way to fast-paced daytime electronica, occasionally interrupted by the calm and silence within a man rejected by the city. With the same chaos and density that fills the streets as noon approaches, the visuals begin to buzz and layer upon one another. Only the image of the character himself—who, as we’ve discovered, is far less connected to the city than any of us—remains untouched, though now in the form of merchandise.