Ivan Čkonjević, Bardo.Vertep. (Noecho Records) Andrei Tarkovsky was the great moralist and aestheticist of Brezhnev-era cinema, a master of ”sculpting in time”, as Ivan Čkonjević reminds us in his liner notes. While other Soviet directors toed the social realist party line, Tarkovsky created a very Russian, and yet universally appealing, body of work which continues to exercise huge influence abroad, exploring metaphysical themes with an inimitable cinematographic style, often featuring shots of long duration and little actual dialogue. Čkonjević has been ”reverse-inspired” as it were by Tarkovsky´s example to make four ”photographs in music”, striving to imprint images which stick in the mind with nothing but a guitar and a small battery of effects. ”EXP. Bardo.Vertep.” was inspired by a short story by Polish writer Olga Tokarczuk, and is as gentle as long grass swaying in a meadow. The following two tracks were inspired by places Čkonjević has observed through the