Inturist

Positive Transmitter presents:

Inturist live at 8MM Bar, Berlin
3 July, 20:30

Early bird tickets: https://www.eventim-light.com/de/a/5f002783c9f8d46492128f51/e/68234639a40b5c2dbc9b3dd1

Inturist is the alter ego of Russian artist Evgeny Gorbunov, who constantly moves around the world, drawing inspiration from its incredible absurdity. Inturist’s work is rooted in the idea that all music is, at its core, improvisation — the only difference lies in how long the artist spends creating something out of nothing, or rather, from a superficial understanding of the surrounding reality available to him.

After all, it is within the most boring, banal, and everyday things that something completely opposite is often reflected: inexpressible feelings and indescribable visions. This is how Inturist ventures into the unknown — by walking along entirely obvious paths. Let’s call it l'opera trivial.

In this paradoxical approach, the tension between the real and the ephemeral reaches its limit—even in the most delicate compositions, something begins to break through and take over the room.

In the program Souvenirs and Delights, Inturist, like a magician, pulls from his hat the most unnecessary — and therefore absurd — judgments, dressed up in jazz, then in new age, then in a kind of punk or chanson, all generously seasoned with improvisation.

Tourism is available everywhere!
https://linktr.ee/inturist__

The new instalment from Russia-born, Serbia-based producer and multidisciplinary artist Evgeny Gorbunov, aka Inturist, ‘Tourism’, continues his sonic travelogues shaped by a forced vacation. His latest output ‘Off-Season’ chronicles his exile from Moscow to Tel Aviv following the start of Russia's occupation of Ukraine. ‘Tourism’ marks a new chapter in a long journey, caught between wars and the suffocating grip of international bureaucracy. The haunted primitivism of no-new-age detuned vignettes, sun-faded guitar/tape manipulations, and the inherent strangeness of Inturist’s signature psychedelia emerge from the depths of his inner exploration, distanced from the suffocating pressures of outside sociopolitical realities; the final session of ‘Tourism’ was recorded in Tel Aviv on October 7, 2023, with editing and mastering completed in his new home in Belgrade in 2024.

The moniker Inturist derived from the name of a Soviet tour operator that functioned as the sole travel agency for foreign tourists in the Soviet Union. Born in the Far East of the USSR, Gorbunov, in 2022 found himself living in a reversed reality relative to his artist name. The radically chill ambience and absurdist wit of the release stand in stark contrast to the nightmare political climate that has upended his life. The recording process was both therapeutic and meditative: hunting for tapes and equipment at Tel Aviv’s flea market, repairing a broken tape recorder, plugging the entire set of instruments into a mixer, routing the mixer into a loop pedal, and sending the entire chain into the recorder, all with zero mixing in post-production. The improvisational punk attitude helps create unconventional song structures and delves into the depths of intuition with a slant toward levity, simplicity, and playfulness.

The result of Gorbunov's extended vacation was a passion for the culture of the SWANA region, which became the main inspiration for the release. The product of post-Soviet culture, Inturist is making ‘Tourism’ by shifting his usual cultural touchstones, as the Middle East redefines his perspectives and accents, offering new prisms to better understand both his own and different cultures. No musical ‘orientalism,’ just site-specific tension delivered through an immersive sound bath in Inturist’s most sophisticated work to date. Threading together fifteen distinct episodes into a cohesive whole, ‘Tourism’ follows the music on unknown paths, guided by emotive depth and a wandering sonic sensibility.

Music, sound and artwork — Jenya Gorbunov; synth in "Reminder" — Andrey Bessonov; mastering — Сергей Лугинин (Luginin Studio)

New album — this Friday!

Со мною тут подкаст случился!
«Творческая личность» — детище Димы Мидборна и Марины Одношевиной, кто только у них в гостях уже не был, и я не был, до вот этого момента, вернее так: момент уже прошел, а подкаст остался. Надеюсь, я вас запутал. Чтобы распутаться, пройдите по ссылке и послушайте, что мы там наговорили: https://t.me/CreativePersonPodcast/124

Our new tour!
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"Off-season" is out!
Listen everywhere: https://linktr.ee/inturist