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GVGMFOS (literally: Great Voice Great Music Full of Sex) = pre-Г5—54 project that used analog synths with acoustic and mechanical musical instruments
GVGMFOS:
Sasha Minchenko - electromechanical generators, live mixing, acoustic and electric feedback control
Alexey Yeliseev - bass, flute, vocalist voice live processing
Cover design: A. Evdokimova
Model: S. Tatevosian
Initially recorded in 2015
Mixed and mastered in 2023-2024
Recorded, mixed and mastered at Г5—54 Stronghouse
g5-54.com
Cover Photo by Alexander Minchenko
Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution - Non-Commercial license 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/legalcode
g5-54.com
g5-54.bandcamp.com
released June 1, 2024

Located in the central Aral Sea, Vozrozhdeniya Island was one of the main laboratories and testing sites for the Soviet Union's Microbiological Warfare Group. In 1948, a top-secret Soviet bioweapons laboratory was established here, which tested a variety of agents, including anthrax, smallpox, plague, brucellosis, and tularemia. In 1971, a release of weaponized smallpox from the island infected ten people, of whom 3 died.
In the 1990s, word of the island's danger was spread by Soviet defectors, including Ken Alibek, the former head of the Soviet Union's bioweapons program. It was here, according to recently released documents, that anthrax spores and bubonic plague bacilli were made into weapons and stored. The main town on the island was Kantubek, which lies in ruins today, but once had approximately 1,500 inhabitants.
The laboratory staff members abandoned the small island in 1992.Many of the containers holding the spores were not properly stored or destroyed, and over the last decade many of these containers have developed leaks.
In 2002, through a project organized and funded by the United States with Uzbekistan assistance, 10 anthrax burial sites were decontaminated.
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Truck Driver
There's a Truck Driver
down in old Tashkent
And he loves to listen
to that radio
Everywhere he goes
you can hear
that old radio
And they call him
the Radio Truck Driver
Refrain:
Truck Driver
Radio Truck Driver

Initially, Anastasia Evdokimova has created this album cover, minimalistic and less in the style of 1990s.