Fotomoto

electronic

From Zaporozhye in Ukraine comes Fotomoto, described by rock journalist Matthew Collins as producing genuinely disarming music with elegant charm: hints of St. Etienne, Depeche Mode, and Serge Gainsbourg - gauzy melodies with an electronic pulse. FOTOMOTO are: Sergey Sergeyev – instruments; Anton Singurov – instruments; Olya Volodina – vocals; Alexander Ivanov –programming. Once upon a time... Nobody could answer to the question about Fotomoto's creation because it was so spontaneously and we didn't fix that moment. Maybe it was in 1999. Fotomoto was an instrumental project from the beginning and consist of two men: Sergey and Anton. About one year the group existed as bedroom project, being engaged in the composition and record of music in extra low-budget domestic studio. The band has had three ancient synths, old Alesis drum-machine and a guitar made in the former USSR. Also not state of art PC. When, during rehearsals the certain amount of musical ideas has collected, Olya Volodina has joined a group, introducing some female vocal and lyrics in French. The genre and stylistics of group in many respects was defined by musical preferences of group members covering rather wide spectrum of music: from techno, indie- and gothic-rock, surf, dub up to classical music and a jazz. In a band’s record box is possible to meet The Smiths, Serge Gainsbourg, music of Bach, Pixies, Residents, Joy Division, Bruno Martino, etc. When ready musical material was enough for a high-...