Word: Fransisca Bianca
Photos: Inrussia

It’s clearly been a while since anything was played on cassettes. Perhaps, most of us might think cassettes are soon to be gone for good. However, Moscow-based producer Zurkas Tepla proves us wrong with the release of his musical-storytelling-cassette entitled Bank Robber/In The Same Car; one side telling a story through the subconscious of a robber and the other featuring a meditative counterpart.

Tepla certainly aims to reintroduce his audience with the familiarity of developing imaginations from listening to sounds, inviting us to dive into a world constructed within our own minds with the help of his murky soundscapes, disquieting beats, and also ambient sounds with distant melodies. Perhaps Tepla is trying to ignite the power of imagination within his audience, the kind you get from reading books, listening to audio ones, which during this age where a huge percentage of entertainment becomes visually presented may become more of a challenge to some.

A journey of the mind may be a way to describe the experience brought by Tepla’s storytelling cassettes. Through each side’s tracks and chapters, who knows? Maybe listeners will be transported to the sceneries in the stories and live through the moments. Perhaps Tepla’s method may also provide audiences with the chance of taking their minds on a creative challenge to simply imagine.