Imagine the four corners of a room. You step ahead and there is the warm embrace of gentle, mostly piano-based melodies, living in vast ambient soundscapes. They feel like home and a journey in the same time. Surely they can take you everywhere, but not before you look on your right where you’ll find thick basslines hosting abstract beats, placed somewhere between dub and IDM. Then it comes the delicate sound design and sonic decorations inhabiting the space between frequencies. Field recordings, glitched human voices and micro textures – it’s all like a living nest of sounds. Imagine that room again. You know it wouldn’t exist without you, right? So sit on the floor, and go deep – in Monochrome Fantasies Chapter I. 

The Third Man is a three way collab between Anton and Ivan Litovchenko (Mloski & Litheo) and Ivan Shopov (COOH, Balkansky). The project successfully unites three very personal approaches to sound with the sole purpose to take you on an introvert spiritual journey. The Third Man might make you look deep in yourself, but not without making your whole body and soul resonate to the beats and pulses of their multilayered music. 

released August 5, 2015 

All music produced and arranged by Anton & Ivan Litovchenko and Ivan Shopov
Mastering by Ivan Shopov
Artwork by Ivan Shopov
Graphic Design by Andrey Katanski
Words by Angel Simitchiev