Park Kulturi is the name of Moscow’s metro station: “the first station of the city’s vast, mysterious, and largely off-limits underground grid.”
It is also the closing track of the debut EP by Genrietta on Dragon’s Eye Recordings, where the rhythm mimics the sound of the underground train following the rails. Each of the five tracks reconstructs her memories of “the atmospheres of five different Moscow locations: metro station, underground pass, power station, forest, and urban highway. Each track represents the composer’s recollections of their soundscapes and dynamics.”
I’m not familiar with these Moscow locations, but Genrietta‘s “mix of abstract associative atonal elements with melancholic melodies and progressions” definitely creates a nice and exciting post-industrial atmosphere.
— Peter van Cooten, AmbientBlog