Kirill Platonkin

Kirill Platonkin was born in the Far East of Russia, in Blagoveshchensk, in 1986. Started to play guitar in 2000, but then he realized, that music is not only merry melodies and rhymed songs. Been rather influenced by Pink Floyd's experimental elements, he started concentrating on strange sound occurrences. First, there were about 30 albums, which were the first steps into the whirlpool of experimenting - based on Cakewalk sounds. These albums were lost, and they were never published (this is the period between 2002 and 2004 years). Then, after he found out, that it is possible to plug the guitar to the computer, Kirill started recording new material. There was a short period of playing in a thrash-metal band, but this was not serious. New albums were recorded on CDs, and presented to closest friends. Again there were a lot of them - 37 albums, which were never published. Kirill's friends told him, that he is like an incubator, but it was only a period of searching. After serving in the army Kirill started publishing his music in the Internet. First it was Umpako label (Ukraine), then Qulture Production, and then many others. Meanwhile, he created his own label Tukuringra - as a ground for experiments, where he could publish things, which could be rejected by other sites and labels. Again, his discography reached a big number (53 releases by September, 2013). In Kirill's opinion, he wants to calm down, to make less music, but to make it better, because sometimes, when we chase some sort of a goal, we can forget significant things - quality, consciousness. Furthermore, he decides now to write music for pleasure - of course not for everybody's pleasure, but for those, who are interested. There was a long sequence of ambient works, but now Kirill Platonkin stops on avantgarde, outsider music. But it may be not a stop, but just a break before a new rush to unknown horizons... In everyday life he is an ordinary office-manager, a former English teacher, and a former communications technician.