With her addictive mixture of hip-hop, R&B, and soulful heart-wrenching vocals, The Last Artful, Dodgr inhabits this dreary post-industrial dystopia. With these found sounds, coupled with a profound influence from ambient atmospheres, Von Tally’s creates the dystopian setting that is Bone Music. He collected discarded tin and aluminum cans in a plastic garbage bag, to beat it with a lead pipe. To anchor Von Tally’s vision he recorded the sound of passing traffic and the cacophony of public spaces. After meeting and hearing The Last Artful, Dodgr, originally from Los Angeles, California, and now an Oregonian for the past three years, Von Tally knew immediately that he had found the perfect voice and artist to recreate and embody the sound of the Cold War Soviet Union he had long been striving for. Sounds, notes, octaves now madeįorbidden, found life only in the underworld.īone Music is a conceptualization from Portland producer Neill Von Tally and The Last Artful, Dodgr. The quality of these verboten recordings often varied, but for many it was contraband worth the risk. Hocked in back alleys and street corners, in backrooms, these sonic pirates supplied the black market with engraved radiographs containing the music of a people half a world away.
These doctored x-rays, these forbidden sounds, became known simply as bone music.įor years, the only way to hear music often censored by the communist Soviet Union was through these illicit pressings. The roentgenizdat, an underground network of bootleggers, etched and pressed the grooves of popular music into these x-rays, burning a hole in the center with cigarette. Outside a cold, brooding concrete structure, deprived ears exchange bottles of vodka and rubles for discarded medical x-rays. The Soviet Union, cut off from much of the Western world, longs for the freedom of arts and culture. Censorship reigns under hammer and sickle.
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