PMR_PC5

 

A whole decade ago, an entity once known as Down Elcovka Records was ripped into pixels due to the opening of a portal through space, time, imagination, and many other dimensions. Through this wormhole came the emissaries of the PAPER MOON REPUBLIC 🌕 — a metaphysical state, the product of an ancient Egyptian space program for lunar terraforming. And for ten years now, we have been praising sound and noise, bringing physical audio-bearing artifacts into this world.

One hundred and nine releases — exactly that many we have spawned over a tenth of a century, and we are not going to stop yet.

In honor of our 🎂 JUBILEE, we present a special, limited (only 50 copies) postcard that will be included for free with any order of our products.

PMR_109

 We present to you the reissue of the album, which was previously released in CD-R format (only 30 copies) on the OSTROGA label in 2018.

Arseny Litvin and Vitaly Maklakow - Windows

A Siberian-Ural mail-art collaboration in four parts. Two pairs of magical windows opening into sonic spaces with distinct dynamics. Anxious self-hypnosis, a noise acupuncture session, ecstatic dances, and a late-night chat with aliens in a cramped kitchen. 

Recorded on recycled cassettes packed in a canvas sleeve. 14 numbered copies.

https://arsenylitvin.bandcamp.com/album/okna

PMR_108

As our new release, we present the debut EP of the project from Dzerzhinsk, previously released only in web format on the PRISTRASTIE label.

Cmorchok - Sumer 

Three ancient druids gathered by the nemeton, unbarring the portals of their minds to channel the concentrated magical ether.Hurtling through centuries and millennia, witnessing hundreds of their own youths and hoary ages, and the inception and ruin of dozens of civilizations, their bodies withered, crumbled into dust, and reassembled particle by particle, that they might reveal unto you who they were in the past, present, and future.It is in this very year that they have reconvened in the flesh, that ye might imbibe their power, feelings, and thoughts. These imprints of consciousness shall remain preserved upon tangible vessels until the final apocalypse, when they and all existence turn to ash.

Recorded on recycled cassettes packed in a canvas sleeve. 20 numbered copies

https://arsenylitvin.bandcamp.com/album/pmr-108-cmorchok-sumer

PMR_107

Trouver La Paix - Forced Out-Of-Body Experience On A Permanent Basis

The severance of connections. The bleep of the machine is left behind, yet it continues to operate. The gates to the Beyond are shut. The body refuses to take its essence back, lying as a dead weight. The hand of a curious puppeteer has bound this existence within the structure between This and That. He relishes the noise as the severed being vibrates in the eternal agony of a transcendent state. It is these sounds that he shares with you.

CD-R with printing on surface packaged in a Half-DVD-BOX.

15 hand-numbered copies.

Mastered by Leanyd Churylau

https://arsenylitvin.bandcamp.com/album/pmr-107-trouver-la-paix-forced-out-of-body-experience-on-a-permanent-basis

PMR_106

Arseny Litvin - The Temple (H.P.L.)

 A slow and viscous (like the currents of water at the bottom of the Atlantic) album based on the short story of the same name by H.P. Lovecraft. A distorted and incoherent narrative from beneath the hull of a submarine that has lost its entire crew except for the captain, who is clinging to his sanity with the last of his strength.

VHS (with recorded static picture and sound), packed in a plastic case. 

10 hand-numbered copies. 

Cover art by Natasha Litvin

https://arsenylitvin.bandcamp.com/album/the-temple-h-p-l

PMR_PC4

 USR:/4RS3NY_L1TV1N/ARCH_SLW_CLPS.vrtx

What is this? It's a broken link to something. Something related to the architecture of the slow collapse of software processes. But the malfunctioning computer remains somewhere in another reality, and here is 57 minutes of audio you can listen to. This is a new noise release, made according to the canons of underground cataloging (there is a catalog number PMR_PC4 and a limited edition of 32 numbered copies). But you won't be able to insert this object into a disc drive, cassette deck, or any other sound-reproducing mechanism. It's just a postcard, but with binary code. You can take your time listening to the release online, or first take the postcard and decipher the numerical code in various ways to get the exact same link to stream the album online. This will be a waste of time, but you might experience something while listening. Or you can save time and just listen directly via the provided link and keep the postcard as a souvenir. Or send it to a random postal address. Perhaps one day the album will disappear from the internet, but the postcard will remain (assuming it doesn't burn and turn to dust) as proof that you weren't dreaming. We'll give you a free postcard with any order.

https://arsenylitvin.bandcamp.com/album/usr-4rs3ny-l1tv1n-arch-slw-clps-vrtx

PMR_105

 As a new release, we present an album that was previously released a year ago only in WEB format on CATLOWONE NETLABEL

Arseny Litvin - (Ten' Teatrov) (Shadow of Theatres)

CD-R with printing on surface packaged in a Half-DVD-BOX. 10 hand-numbered copies. (Each copy contains a unique, random fragment of a Russian translation of Horace's "Ode to Melpomene" – handwritten in nib)

The Shadow of the Universe hides traces of global extra-spatial and all-time processes, and in the Shadow of the Theaters live echoes of rehearsals of failed plays, seasoned with a viscous brew of performances by people's rectors and children's troupes. Before you is a sleepy journey into the underbelly of provincial cultural centers, filled with forgotten mysteries of Melpomene.

https://arsenylitvin.bandcamp.com/album/ten-teatrov-shadow-of-theatres