The Cyrillic Typewriter

Your True Emblem is the latest offering from Vancouver’s Cyrillic Typewriter, the enigmatic mantle of Jason Zumpano, joined here with fellow Destroyer alumna Scott Morgan (Loscil) and Nic Bragg, and recent recruit Terri Upton of Frog Eyes. 

Custodian marks a much grander stylistic experiment in The Cyrillic Typewriter’s discography of cinematic pop enigmaticism. Explained away as a score for an unreleased horror film, Custodian may be a uniquely Ruritarian soundtrack, referencing an origin of unverifiable existence, a plausible, approachable, but ephemeral stranger. Suggesting a Heart of Darkness narrative of doomed exploration and dreaded discovery, the album employs swelling drones and Delphic female vocals to convey an overarchi…

Outside of Ontario, some of us had to actually work yesterday. So, now we are in the mood for Weird Tuesday. Here’s something to totally mess up your work day: ‘Best Suit’, the excellent techno, ambient, avant garde album from Jason Zumpano’s The Cyrillic Typewriter. Accompanied by Megan Bradfield on double bass, Zumpano lays out some jazz-informed musical musings that are occasionally laid-back but more often chilling and cinematic. It’s the soundtrack to a future nightmare.