KATAPYGON - Травматургия

"Traumaturgy" is the second studio album of the mystico-philological collective ΚΑΤΑΠΥΓΩΝ (Katapygon), released after a six-year hiatus. Setting aside Latin and ancient Greek poetry (their usual lyrical material) in this album, ΚΑΤΑΠΥΓΩΝ delves into the poetry of the repressed, damned, and exiled poets from the 1920s-1980s, resurrecting the voices of Silver Age poets like Osip Mandelstam, Pyotr Otsup, Nikolay Zabolotsky, and others whose words still resonate with urgency today amidst wars and oppression. The sonic palette of "Traumaturgy" is an amalgamation of sampladelic manipulations with field recordings and found objects from industrial suburbs, along with modular synthesis, theremin, modified guitar pedals, and acoustic instruments—violin, saxophone, flute, and xaphoon—embedding the ethereal voice of Nikita Bogomolov, ΚΑΤΑΠΥΓΩΝ's lead vocalist.

credits

released May 5, 2025

Music by:
Egor Efremov (sampler, theremin, various electronics)
Nikita Bogomolov (vocals, conception)
Dmitry Pliskin (synthesizers, 2, 7, 9, 11)
Pasha Shishkin (mixing & mastering, guitar, 8)

Keera Klauss (violin, 1, 6, 8, 10, 12)
Christina Chernova (saxophone, 2, 5)
Stanislaw Yatzick (Gecko Loopsynth, ЛМЗ Сигнал-1, 10)
Imbrium (guitar, 3)
Ivan Kiselev (xaphoon, 2)

Additional vocals:
Daria Bogomolova (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 9)
Liza Shapkina (1, 7, 9, 10, 12)
Eliza (2, 12)
Brokain (5, 7, 11)
Anya Shchetvina (11)
Anastasia Keineahnung (11)

Art by Anastasia Keineahnung (SHE DOES NOT EXIST)
Design by Ivan Popov

Morphing of voices & woodwinds in (2) made with Musika by Marko Pasini (Institute of Computational Perception, JKU Linz)