SAYLU is an electronic duo founded by two ethnographic musicians, Artemy Novoselov and Grisha Zelenko. The project releases music in the genres of organic house and ambient, drawing on the folklore of the peoples of the Far North, Altai, and Tuva.
Their first release was a recording of a live concert performed at the opening of the photo exhibition Sanctuary. The performance took place at the Museum Center «Ploshchad Mira» on June 26, 2025 — almost a century after the founding of the Stolby Nature Reserve, which the exhibition and performance are dedicated to.
The musicians performed a folk-ambient program titled Into the Forest, using sounds of bass guitar, topshur, ethnic percussion, and analog synthesizers to convey the atmosphere of Siberian nature. They also incorporated field recordings made directly in the reserve.
At times, when visiting Stolby, tourists and residents of Krasnoyarsk experience a sense of fear in the deep taiga among the rock formations. There is a belief that such feelings are connected to something mystical and inexplicable. The concept of the performance was to translate, through music, the transition from a primal sense of the otherworldly to a feeling of solitude with nature and inner peace.
