Music · 01 March 2025
Pavel Khvaleev’s fifth longform takes both name and inspiration from Fritz Lang’s iconic Metropolis - a vision of retro-modern grandeur, meeting expressionist dystopia, high above cloudscraping edifices and stark industrial backdrops. That, however was as so close to a hundred years ago as to make little difference. Pavel, by contrast, only began work on his ‘Metropolis’ after the release of his last two studio albums (‘Inhale’ and ‘Exhale’), back in 2021.
Music · 02 December 2021
Having released the clubbier and more immediately Khvaleev-esque ‘Inhale’ in October, Pavel Khvaleev’s new album sees the yang to its living and breathing yin arrive. Setting it apart from his better-known-for dancefloor and movie score work, through PARAFRAME, Pavel’s taken on a new style-specific alias for ‘Exhale’.
Music · 31 October 2021
“No, not a lockdown album,” says Pavel Khvaleev, albeit with enough emphasis to leave little doubt. When though is an album project, with some altered sonic states (and produced throughout 2020) not one then? “Well, for one,” he clarifies, “when it was the (pre-pandemic) plan all along. Oh and remember: we’re not talking ‘album’, but rather albums, plural!”
Music · 28 March 2021
Having introduced everyone, by way of ‘Sapho Blend’ & ‘Dismay’, to his more abstract Paraframe alias, whilst alternating monthly with his own-name creations, Pavel Khvaleev’s already shown plenty of future in ‘21. Following his January connection with Miss Monique on ‘Rider’, he returns now with more floor-minded oxygen, going solo and instrumental into the inky-black of ‘Space Odyssey’.