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01. Herandu - Ocher Red
02. Herandu - Bicycle Ride
03. Herandu - Incident in the Theater
04. Herandu - Downtown Street
05. Herandu - Taxi Trip
06. Herandu - Bizarre Morning
07. Herandu - Flea Market Finds
08. Herandu - Fab-U-Lous
09. Herandu - Not Least
10. Herandu - Regrets
11. Herandu - Amongst Ourselves
ARTIST
TITLE
Ocher Red
FORMAT
2LP

LABEL
CATALOG #
HMRLP 030LP HMRLP 030LP
GENRE
RELEASE DATE
8/23/2024

Once again it's quite difficult to pin down exactly what's going on through Herandu's debut album, Ocher Red, but it's a little bit like Metalheadz meets Weather Report out on the Siberian steppes. Herandu are brothers Evgeny and Mikhail Gavrilov from Novosibirsk in Siberia. Mikhail and his brother have played music together since they were very young eventually forming the band FPRF together in the mid-2000s. Eventually the group split as the members dispersed around Russia, but Evgeny and Mikhail continued to make music, Evgeny under the alias Dyad and Mikhail under the name Misha Sultan (some of you may remember his excellent cassette, Roots, which came out on Hive Mind in 2022). Herandu was born in 2022 during several studio sessions they managed to grab whilst both visiting Siberia. They both quickly realized that together they were making music that didn't quite sound like either of their solo projects but which was influenced by the music of their formative years. Their friend Vladimir Luchansky was invited in to add saxophone and the result is an "urban music" that's as influenced by the gritty cityscapes of '70s TV cop thrillers as it is by 21st Century urbanism. The paintings on the album cover are by Italian artist Mauro Reggio, who kindly allowed Hive Mind to use his work, and whose paintings seem to convey something of the mood of Herandu.