Matryoshka 3.10 – The Far-spider

J. V., Nicola Samori

Pavel joins Mels and Emiliano as they return to the Blessed Theotokos Monastery in the Tajik SSR to confront what lies beneath it.

Players
Dan (he/him) – Pvt. 1st Class Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Lina (she/her) – Mels Kazakova
Johnny (he/him) – Emiliano Macana

Music
utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Sarah Davachi – “Badlands”
Hilyard – “On The Surface”
Chubby Wolf – “Die Unendliche Geschichte”
Phill Niblock – “Two Lips – Coh Da Guitar Quartet”
Wouter Veldhuis – “Blue Forest I”, “Blue Forest II”
Petri Kuljuntausta – “Violin Tone Orchestra”
Jon Hassell – “Blues Nile”
Kali Malone – “Bondage to Formula”
Loscil – “Straw Dogs”
Bvdub – “Your Painted Armor Longs to Crack”
Colin Stetson – “Clothed in the Skin of the Dead”
Olivier Messiaen – “Louange à l’Immortalité de Jésus”

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Matryoshka 3.9 – The Signal

Mels and Emiliano go to the Tajik SSR to investigate a plane that was brought down under very bizarre circumstances.

Players
Lina (she/her) – Mels Kazakova
Johnny (he/him) – Emiliano Macana

Music
utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Tim Hecker – “Winter Is Coming”
Brian Eno – “77 Million Paintings”
David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir – “Telescoping”, “Multiplying Voices at the Heart of the Body of Sound”
Sarah Davachi – “For Organ”
Petri Kuljuntausta – “Four Notes”
The Beacon Sound Choir – “Drone 1”

Matryoshka 3.8 – The Singers of Songs

Mels and Pavel head to the Kazakh Soviet Socialist Republic to find a pair of researchers who disappeared while camping on a deceptively plain-looking tract of land.

Players
Dan (he/him) – Pvt. 1st Class Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Lina (she/her) – Mels Kazakova

Music
utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Ben Bertrand – “Sora No”
The Beacon Sound Choir – “Drone 2”
Kasper Bjørke Quartet – “Seminom non Seminom”
Julia Kent & Jean D.L. – “Part Two”
Bengalfuel – “Let”, “Callisto”, “Worm”
Kevin MacLeod – “Ice Demon”
Leandro Fresco & Rafael Anton Irisarri – “Cuando el Misterio es Demasiado Impresionante, es Imposible”
Deaf Center – “The Day I Would Never Have”
Ben Salisbury & Geoff Barrow – “Ambulance Chase”
Daughter Produkt – “Anisotropy”
Susumu Yokota – “Gekkoh”
Jon Gibson – “Melody IV, Part I”

Season 3 interlude – The Shadow Under Leningrad, pt. II

The special investigators, joined by a former agent who specialized in the paranormal, come up with a plan to protect the people of Leningrad from the horrors below.

Players
Johnny (he/him) – Pvt. Georgi Nikolaevich Kipian
Jeremy (he/him) – Osip Rodionovich Ovechkin
Lina (she/her) – Valeria Danilovna Kareva
Dan (he/him) – Nikolay Nikolaevich Berozhkin

Music
utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Robert Turman – “Flux 2”
Bersarin Quartett – “Rot und Schwarz”
Phillip Wilkerson – “To the One Who Hears”
Hilyard – “Dismantled”
Masayoshi Fujita & Jan Jelinek – “Vague, Yet”
Kyle Bobby Dunn – “Buncington Revisited”
Bing Satellites – “Music for Horns No. 1 in G major”
Hidden Orchestra – “East London Street (Drums Only Version)”
Patricia – “Upper Peninsula (feat. Terekke)”
Memotone – “Ritual”
Colin Stetson & Sarah Neufeld – “Never Were the Way She Was”
Kasper Bjørke Quartet – “Paramount”

3.7 – The Mother of Hounds, pt. II

…, Hassan Tabrizi

Underneath Vaduz, the team must navigate an unfamiliar and unfriendly labyrinth to accomplish their mission.

Players
Dan (he/him) – Pvt. 1st Class Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Lina (she/her) – Mels Kazakova
Johnny (he/him) – Emiliano Macana

Music
utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Evan Bartholomew – “Leaving Behind Our Memories”
Alex Tiuniaev – “I Wish That They’d Sweep Down In A Country Lane”
Pauline Oliveros & Stuart Dempster & Panaiotis – “Suiren”
Kali Malone – “Empty The Belief”
Max Corbacho – “Timelapse”
melodium – “eye movement”
Stephen Scott – “Arcs”
Listening Mirror – “Without Saying Goodbye”
Viktor Orri Árnason – “IV. Er”
Dirty Beaches – “Stateless”

season 3 interlude – The Shadow Under Leningrad pt. I

– TASS (Telegrafnoye agentstvo Sovetskogo Soyuza)

With the city of Leningrad under siege from the Nazis, a trio investigates an interruption in bread delivery and discovers a much darker explanation than they could have dreamed of.

Players
Johnny (he/him) – Pvt. Georgi Nikolaevich Kipian
Jeremy (he/him) – Osip Rodionovich Ovechkin
Lina (she/her) – Valeria Danilovna Kareva

Music
utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Phill Niblock – “Stosspeng”
Morton Feldman – “Rothko Chapel 2”
William Basinski – “Cascade”
Mary Jane Leach – “Trio For Duo”

3.6 -The Mother of Hounds, pt. I

Les revenants ou L’ office des morts, Valère Bernard

The trio must go undercover in Liechtenstein to get their hands on a dangerous artifact before any other more nefarious ones can.

Players
Dan (he/him) – Pvt. 1st Class Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Lina (she/her) – Mels Kazakova
Johnny (he/him) – Emiliano Macana

Music
utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Andrew Lahiff – “Elsewhere the Sun Shines”
Celer – “Prelude to Obsession”
SymphoCat – “999 Renaissance”
Michael Wyckoff – “Existence”
Apocryphos – “Heartsick”
Biosphere – “Birds Fly By Flapping Their Wings”
Atrium Carceri & Cities Last Broadcast – “A Deeper Dream”
Pauline Oliveros & Stuart Dempster & Panaiotis – “Lear”, “Suiren”
Natalia Tsupryk – “Lihasaaret”, “Vaara”
m.0 – “Understanding”

3.5 – The Storm

The team find themselves stranded in the Belarussian forest in the middle of a blizzard, and something is driving the animals out of their minds.

Players
Dan (he/him) – Pvt. 1st Class Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Lina (she/her) – Mels Kazakova
Johnny (he/him) – Emiliano Macana

Music
utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Bohren & der Club of Gore – “Crimson Ways”
Bersarin Quartett – “Im Glanze des Kometen”
Caterina Barbieri – “Perspectiva”
Sarah Davachi – “Untitled (Live in Portland)”
Alva Noto – “Uni Mia”
Sarah Davachi – “Diaphonia Basilica”
utopologist – “Kupalinka”
Anenon – “Verso”
Eliane Radigue – “Kyema (Intermediate States)”
David Hykes & The Harmonic Choir – “Arc Descents”
Ben Frost – “Forgetting You Is Like Breathing Water”
Abul Mogard – “Quiet Dreams”

3.4 – The Knife in the Dreaming

After a Soviet submarine in the Mediterranean disappears while hunting for the rumored French stay-behind submarine, the team heads for its last known location in hopes of finding both it and the imperialists.

Players
Dan (he/him) – Pvt. 1st Class Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Lina (she/her) – Mels Kazakova
Johnny (he/him) – Emiliano Macana

Music
utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Rival Consoles – “Untravel
Brian Eno – “Matta”
Bing Satellites – “Indigo”
t e l e p a t h – “Longing for Your Love”
J.S. Aurelius – “The Beauty of Things (Mogollon Rim)”
Kevin MacLeod – “Shadowlands 1: Horizon”
utopologist – “Eyes the color of swamp or peat or mud”
Loscil – “stases” [1-7]
utopologist – “Stargazer”
Cliff Martinez – “Hi-Energy Proton Accelerator”
Brian Eno – “Stars”

3.3 – Blackcurrants for the Devil

“Kolga farm”, Estonian Open Air Museum

Matryoshka investigates the disappearances of everyone on a collective farm on the border of Estonia and Russia.

Players
Dan (he/him) – Pvt. 1st Class Pavel Antonovich Ivanov
Lina (she/her) – Mels Kazakova
Johnny (he/him) – Emiliano Macana

Music
utopologist – “Matryoshka”
Pauline Oliveros – “Ione”
Phill Niblock – “Hurdy Hurry”
Steve Roach – “Below”
Patricia – “German Friendship”
Sarah Davachi – “Hours in the Evening”
Biosphere – “Lost Horizon”
Eli Keszler – “Measurement Doesn’t Change the System At All”
Kali Malone – “Living Torch I”
r. beny – “Full Blossom of the Evening”
Federico Nardella – “Il Riflesso Opaco”