L'art du Paysage is a live recording from an event in Paris, where the duo pushed their collaboration to its logical extreme in a one-off improvisational performance.
The marriage of two idiosyncratic voices unites Evgeny Gorbunov aka Inturist and artist and filmmaker Vanya-Ivan Kazukov in a striking collision of three disciplines: image, spoken word, and music. Their first encounter came when Gorbunov composed and mixed the sound for Kazukov’s film ‘Le Galimatias’, a work built from a myriad of photographs and a meditation on language as a barrier in a new country.
The project unfolded through a raw yet precise process: photographs printed on photo paper were handed to Gorbunov, who responded with improvised music and Russian lyrics, while Kazukov translated the words into his patchy French. The result is a charged interplay of image, voice, and sound, where meaning fractures and recombines, giving improvisation the structure and impact of a fully realised pop composition.
Both artists were born in Russia and recently emigrated to Europe. Kazukov’s landscapes capture everyday reality warped by absurd coincidence, while his deliberately flawed French ‘translations’ of Evgeny’s improvised songs teeter between nonsense phrases, recycled lines from past works, and prewritten phrases, turning language, misunderstanding, and even fear into a performative instrument. ‘L'Art du Paysage’ sketches a kind of image of their everyday life in a new linguistic territory: a disabled collision of freeform music and concrete poetry where stitched-together meanings spark new ones and free improvisation hardens into a pop-ready work.
The project unfolded through a raw yet precise process: photographs printed on photo paper were handed to Gorbunov, who responded with improvised music and Russian lyrics, while Kazukov translated the words into his patchy French. The result is a charged interplay of image, voice, and sound, where meaning fractures and recombines, giving improvisation the structure and impact of a fully realised pop composition.
Both artists were born in Russia and recently emigrated to Europe. Kazukov’s landscapes capture everyday reality warped by absurd coincidence, while his deliberately flawed French ‘translations’ of Evgeny’s improvised songs teeter between nonsense phrases, recycled lines from past works, and prewritten phrases, turning language, misunderstanding, and even fear into a performative instrument. ‘L'Art du Paysage’ sketches a kind of image of their everyday life in a new linguistic territory: a disabled collision of freeform music and concrete poetry where stitched-together meanings spark new ones and free improvisation hardens into a pop-ready work.
November 21, 2025
Improvised and recorded live in Floreal Belleville, Paris;
all visuals, album cover and French declamation — Vanya-Ivan Kazukov;
music, singing and Russian lyrics — Inturist (Evgeny Gorbunov);mastering — Sergey Luginin (Luginin Studios).
Improvised and recorded live in Floreal Belleville, Paris;
all visuals, album cover and French declamation — Vanya-Ivan Kazukov;
music, singing and Russian lyrics — Inturist (Evgeny Gorbunov);mastering — Sergey Luginin (Luginin Studios).
The performance was recorded and later, in November 2025, announced on music platforms.
L'art du paysage was released on audio cassette, featuring 14 compositions. The cassette set includes 14 photographic cards, which served as the basis for the improvisation. On the reverse side of each card are the words of the improvisation, along with their translation into French.
L'art du paysage was released on audio cassette, featuring 14 compositions. The cassette set includes 14 photographic cards, which served as the basis for the improvisation. On the reverse side of each card are the words of the improvisation, along with their translation into French.
Released by Incompetence Records in 2025 by GoTape in 2025.
Edition: 50 pieces.
Edition: 50 pieces.
2025.