NEW RELEASE SHEET Avantgarde Music 02/03/2021

Label Avantgarde Music

Format 2LP
Artist Olhava
Title Frozen Bloom
Cat# av410CD / av410LP
Barcode 0301660560362 / 0301660560355
File under Blackgaze / Post-black metal
Release date 07.05.2021
Release info text Russian blackgaze duo Olhava is back with their new studio album. Frozen
Blooom is the natural follow-up to self-titled Olhava (2019) and Ladoga
(2020), and integrates some dronescapes the band experimented on Never
Leave Me Alone (2020), the drone version of their debut.

Multi-instrumentalist Andrey Novozhilov and drummer Timur Yusupov

describe their new journey with words of thoughtful contemplation: “When
winter is just starting to fade and give some space to the first steps of
spring… When life starts to reappear and the very early flowers peek
through the thawing soil, a sudden drop of the temperature can leave them
petrified and frozen back again, punished by the “Queen of Fields”. This
statuesque dead beauty, being infinitely alive and dead at the same time is
the main metaphor of this album. Frozen Bloom is about unfulfilled dreams.
About how we sacrifice everything today for some abstract “tomorrow”,
which may never come. But tomorrow and yesterday don’t exist – only this
very moment of static contemplation is real”.

Frozen Bloom is Olhava’s fourth opus in three years, and here the duo took
some different routes compositionally. Two of the four tracks are
traditionally storm-like blackgaze passages, while the other two are leaning
towards a more meditative drone experience. The album also features A.
Lunn, who kindly agreed to record an electric guitar solo as well as acoustic
parts and choral parts on “Frozen Bloom I”.

Frozen Bloom was recorded at Olhava home studios, as well as at the local
rehearsal space. Mikhail Kurochkin took care of mixing and mastering.
Preview (click on link)
Tracklist ● 01 - The Queen Of Fields
● 02 - Adrift
● 03 - Frozen Bloom I
● 04 - Frozen Bloom II