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Release Date: 2021-05-01Label: Not On Label
1959. Ural Polytechnic Institute.The group of trained hikers trek to the Ural Mountains, One departs early... They were the only survivor.
The remaining group settles at Kholat Syakhl, Dead Mountain. Planting a tent to rest for the night.
Running from something, the group cuts themselves out of the tent and runs into the Siberian wilderness. The remaining survivor falls into a ravine. Their bones fractured...
All they can do is lay down and slowly die...
This album is a tribute to the Dyatlov Pass Incident that occurred in Russia on February 1st and 2nd of 1959. I originally composed a small 4 track EP last December, but recently I felt called to make a continuation to the story after hearing that it might have been solved.
Up until recently, no one knew the cause of death for any of the survivors except for the blatant hypothermia. All that was thought was speculation. Even the families of the dead would never know what happened to their relatives until now.
I won't go into a full explanation of how it all happened, but long story short, it was an avalanche & hypothermia that caused the group to meander out of the safety of their tent into the wilderness.
The two songs that are most special to this album are "Threnody of The Dyatlov Pass" and "Requiem of The Dyatlov Pass".
The threnody was written as my musical interpretation of the events unfolding. A song for the dead shrouded in an unsolvable mystery. However, I wrote the requiem a month ago as a completed "end" to the mystery. What was once a speculative thought, is now a definite answer.
The requiem begins with the "noise" I composed to signify Siberia's overall emptiness and desolation. And soon after, the original melody of the threnody fades in. You begin to think it is the same song, that there is no difference in what the mystery is. But then in the middle of the melody, it switches to a more (uplifting?) note.
The new, varied melody is not comprised of the same form that the threnody displayed. It is a new, almost grandiose song that tells the listener, "There is no mystery anymore".
The final melody that is displayed at the end signifies that, even though the Dyatlov Pass Incident is solved, the dead cannot be brought back, but regardless of what you believe, their souls are laid to rest, once, and for all, 60 years later.
Rest In Peace,
Igor Alekseyevich Dyatlov
Yuri Nikolayevich Doroshenko
Lyudmila Alexandrovna Dubinina
Alexander Sergeyevich Kolevatov
Zinaida Alekseevna Kolmogorova
Rustem Vladimirovich Slobodin
Nikolai Vladimirovich Thibeaux-Brignolles
Semyon Alekseevich Zolotaryov
Georgiy Alexeyevich Krivonischenko
And, Yuri Yefimovich Yudin, who left the expedition 5 days before the other members perished, and was the only survivor. He lived to be 75 and died in 2013.
“If I could ask God just one question, it would be what really happened to my friends that night?”
—Yuri Yudin
Thank you for listening.