Kedr Livanskiy

Kedr Livanskiy (Russian for “Lebanese Cedar”) may be the moniker of Moscow-born singer/maker Yana Kedrina. Her make of lo-fi digital pop pulls on ’90s techno and jungle affects, and noises as iced and wintry as her environment, yet there are a hopeful, longing quality to her tracks. Created in 1990, a yr prior to the dissolution from the Soviet Union, Kedrina began like a punk musician before getting enamored with digital music while a scholar. Inspired by worldwide artists such as for example Inga Copeland, Laurel Halo, and Florian Kupfer, Kedrina and her close friends began a label/collective known as Johns’ Kingdom, which quickly became among Moscow’s premier shops for underground digital music. After publishing several paths to SoundCloud, Kedr Livanskiy was authorized to 2MR, a fresh Jersey-based digital label co-founded by Mike Simonetti (creator of Troubleman Unlimited and Italians GET IT DONE Better) and Mike Sniper (Captured Paths). Her solitary “Sgoraet” made an appearance in past due 2015, accompanied by the January Sunlight EP in early 2016.