RELIKT-1 by Andrey Rasputin

Cybernetics, positron engines, annihilation, and a cosmic dacha a few parsecs from Mars.
A 20th-century vision of space — a collectible curiosity forged from science fiction and engineering breakthroughs.
Andrey Rasputin’s new album RELIKT-1 is dedicated to this “vintage” phenomenon: the elusive dream of humanity escaping earthly troubles into a realm of data and infinite possibility.

The album’s title refers to the first Soviet experiments on studying cosmic microwave background radiation, carried out in the 1980s.
At that time, the USSR developed the unique “Prognos” satellite series, capable of transmitting real-time data over long periods. These satellites enabled groundbreaking research into the interaction between the Sun and Earth — including radiation levels and the impact of solar wind on the planet’s atmosphere.

The theory of relic radiation was first proposed in 1948 by Soviet physicist George Gamow, and the term itself was coined by astrophysicist Iosif Shklovsky.
Filling the entire universe, relic radiation is considered one of the key pieces of evidence for the Big Bang theory — its spectrum contains vital information about the physical processes of existence.

The universal baryon-to-photon ratio is 10⁹, anisotropy is dipolar, and a perfect black body has a temperature of 2.725 K — each track on RELIKT-1 is linked to a specific fact or concept from the history of cosmic background radiation.

In the vacuum of space, sound doesn’t travel — just like ordinary human emotions.
Only electromagnetic interference, wave reverb, and functional interval logic remain.
All of this is embedded by the artist into the album’s sonic palette and woven into a precise rhythmic grid that organizes the space around it.

RELIKT-1 is a realm of logic.
But — we are still on Earth, and we can afford to switch from pure rationality to a bit of warm nostalgia:
for the novels of Asimov and Lem, for Aleksey Rybnikov’s soundtracks, for the quiet pride in Soviet scientists — and for Uncle Kostya, the humble neighbor who built your first radio receiver.

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