White Paper Records
White Paper Records is a Moscow-based label conceived as a network of musicians and underground communities that represents and crosses various scenes of contemporary music across the world.

We believe that sometimes music is not only a product of individual creative activity, but a form of communication between people. It is both an archive of music documents as of the acts of communication, and a platform for it. Label as a shared space for musicians from different cities getting to know and further corresponding with each other.

Music scene is located, exists and develops within music events of our daily lives: concerts of different scales, festivals, someone's apartments. Some events only happen once, some repeats. White Paper Records collects the brightest points on the map of musical and personal encounters, releasing recordings of improvised, new and experimental music.

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All the best,
Peter Ototsky and Andrey Guryanov
our releases
Drumazhur
«Drumazhur» is record of a one and a half hour performance of the quartet of four drummers, where the musicians do solos, manage to play duets and cleverly split into a trio, and then turn into a massive quartet again, sounding sometimes arrhythmically, loudly and menacingly, sometimes quietly, meditatively and bewitchingly. That concert attracted a large outside unprepared spectators audience. The music captured their attention at the moment, turning it into full-fledged participants in the performance — screams, hooting and loud applause only add to this record of energy, passion and a special sense of freedom
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DYW
Futurejazz
Moscow trio DYW is Daniel Izmailov (bass, electronics), Yakov Nasedkin (alto saxophone, electronics) and Vova Smirnov (drums) creating thier own cosmogonic myths. "Futurejazz" was recorded in a large theater hall. This allowed the musicians to combine chamber acoustic recording techniques with studio ones, using natural reverberation of space and avoiding the use of effects.
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DOGS BITE BACK
BACK? FORWARD!
DOGS BITE BACK is an improvising trio which accumulates the experimental music forces from two Russian cities.
Dmitriy Lapshin is a BROM band leader, the one of key persons of Moscow scene; he is equally good at bass guitar and double-bass playing, that is not so often.
Ilia Belorukov runs INTONEMA label known far beyond Saint-Petersburg and has played with a huge number of musicians in Russia and abroad.
Dmitriy and Ilia started playing together as an acoustic duo years ago. In the end of 2018 they decided to change the acoustic instruments to bass guitar and modular synthesizer and after the first session they got an idea to invite the drummer.
Konstantin Samolovov is also based in Saint-Petersburg, his interests extend from home low-fi and field recordings to concept rock and free improv (WOZZECK, «Ilia, Konstantin & me»), so he became a third element in this spicy mix.
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