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Last Pieces

kolya - Last Pieces

I wrote this track a couple of days before the Russian large-scale invasion of Ukraine. An hour before all major cities of my country were bombed for the first time I was preparing new music to meet the spring with. Instead, I’ve met the horrible emergency. I’ve learned not to panic in vain, I’ve adapted to sirens and curfew, to a constant need to help others – to wartime. 

The title was supposed to be а self-fulfilling prophecy for me. I am chasing love. Instead, it is hatred for the occupiers that helps me to deal with the new reality today. This and also, pity and disgust for russia. I guess, these feelings will never change, but I want something else. Will my peaceful life ever be back here?

There’s a new trend in Instagram now, which makes Ukrainians «post a random photo before the war». These tiny documents of peaceful times may seem nostalgic because our lives did really change dramatically. But as soon as we refuse to give up on our lost peace, the regretful feeling becomes overshadowed by the will to win. I want this track to be such a document – both nostalgic in the moment and hopeful for the next life, an image of a peaceful world before and after the war. 

Buy the track on Bandcamp: https://ivanskoryna.bandcamp.com/track/love-filled-eyes

All the income will be donated to the very local Kyiv volunteers I’m currently working with. 

Also, here's the music video I made at the same time, mixing my personal archive with some Youtube content: https://youtu.be/G-x37mjYt38 

I guess, after months of infowar I felt the damage to come. Sure, it’s ridiculous how I’ve chosen footage of such simulated destruction in other countries considering how russian missiles ruined Ukrainian cities for real. But I prefer to leave this clip as it is. Video pieces of evidence of russian war crimes are made for the trial, not for music.

love filled eyes

my mom sends me photos from relatively safe places (version 2)

"Щит частин"
Inspired by an Armenian novelist, An expression of psychological suffering, purely by his personal story written with metaphor and poetry and recited by Sasha Vosk. Guarding or watching over an evil, malevolent being sleeping under the sand of a beach, so that it doesn't wake up to avoid the massive destruction of all the surrounding flora and fauna.

>>>> For Astrid. H

Producer: Comechelet // @comechelet
Vocals: Sasha Vosk // @sasha-voskova
Design____
Render: Asdrubal 
Type: Texture404
Post-production: Jersahin Márquez

Comechelet x Sasha Vosk - Щит Частиц

Sound by Oleksii Podat
Vox, prod, etc by me :333
Originally written and performed by Taras Petrynenko

Thanks to all the people who in some way contributed to this: Zhenya from Pree Tone, Mykyta Zaslovekit, Eva Repyah, Artem Kaliahin, Nastia Cyberpes.

Україно

FREE YOURSELF
FREE YOURSELF FROM FEARS AND BLINDS
SELFISH NEEDS
REBEL OF SILENT
SHOW YOUR RAGE
REBELLION ELF
DON'T CARE WHAT THEY SAY
DON'T FIT THEIR WAY
ALL PLAYING GAMES

WAKE UP! WAKE UP!
WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!

YOU STILL ALIVE
YOU STILL ALIVE
YOU STILL ALIVE

WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!

I LOST ALL OF MY FRIENDS
LOOSE IN A VAIN
I DON'T FILL SAFE
TRUST YOUR INSTINCT
SMILE OF DECEIT
DESPITE ALL OF MY RAGE

WAKE UP! WAKE UP!
WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!

YOU STILL ALIVE
WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP! WAKE UP!

PUNK MONOLOGUE

https://undodespot.bandcamp.com/track/i-don-t-feel-my-heart

i don’t feel my heart

Now available for pre-order on LP + digital: 
Svitlana Nianio & Tom James Scott - 'Eye of the Sea'. 

https://skiremusic.bandcamp.com/album/eye-of-the-sea

Orders ship from 7th July. 

Recorded in correspondence throughout a calamitous and uncertain 2020, “Eye of the Sea" is a collaborative record made by Tom James Scott of the United Kingdom and Svitlana Nianio of Ukraine. Active since the late 1980s, Nianio has released a treasure trove of diverse and beguiling music under her own name, as a member of the legendary Ukrainian experimental unit Cukor Bila Smerť, and in collaboration with the late musician and instrument maker Oleksandr Yurchenko. For his part, Scott has steadily published solo recordings since the mid aughts on labels such as Bo’Weavil, Students of Decay, and Where to Now?, and worked often in collaboration with kindred spirits like Andrew Chalk and Timo Van Lujik. 

“Eye of the Sea” began as a series of intimate, muted piano sketches put to tape by Scott, which Nianio embellished and re-contextualised with voice and instrumentation before returning them to Scott for further overdubbing, editing, and mixing. Listening to these recordings, I’m struck most by their patience, frailty, and beauty. Soft piano lines unspool alongside Nianio’s weightless voice on tracks such as “Slowly Turns the Spring,” which achieves a richly devotional air, and “Lotus,” a piece that all but halts the passage of time as it slowly blooms into expression. But despite their elusive, gauzy palette, there is a startling directness to these recordings that feels unique in the oeuvres of both musicians. Much like Nianio’s wonderful “Lisova Kolekciya,” (reissued by Scott on Skire in 2017) there is the sense that this music, particularly the vocal arrangements, is firmly rooted in some hermetic, primordial tradition. Ultimately, “Eye of the Sea” is a work of romantic, phantasmagoric beauty shot through with morning light; one which draws deeply on 20th century classical, chamber and liturgical musics, and ambient minimalism to arrive at a distinctive voice of its own. - Alex Cobb (Students of Decay/Soda Gong)

Svitlana Nianio: voices, sound effects, keyboards
Tom James Scott: keyboards
Timo van Luijk: bowed string on 'Eye of the Sea'

Engineered by Sergii Khotiachuk and Tom James Scott
Mixed by Tom James Scott
Mastered by Noel Summerville

Design by Chris Bigg
Photograph by Kieran McPeake

Catalogue number: SKR11
Label: Skire
Year: 2023

Svitlana Nianio & Tom James Scott - 'Chains' (SKR11)

I Will Never Forget This Life / I Will Never Die

I Will Never Die

part of Pre-Heat compilation of non-album tracks released ahead of my Heat EP on Bio Future Laboratory, out now

PUNK MONOLOGUE

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