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

"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

https://www.nts.live/shows/cxema/episodes/cxema-12th-september-2022

Cxema w/ Oleksii Podat 120922

Yes, I've downloaded an orchestra.

Golden Hour In Limbo
Cheap Gas, Cheap Blood
Untitled
Untitled
Idiots Of The Free World
Love-Filled Eyes
Whatever Hurts Is Real

Black ambient 2022 / Heavy culture (live, Na Chasi, 23.07.22)

ob_recycle2__breaks

Bryozone — Eye Of Delirious 
@gannabryzhata

“Eye Of Delirious” is a long-awaited debut Muscut's release of Chillera’s band bass player Ganna Bryzhata — an Odesa-based sound artist. An ambient LP is a smoothy-flow sub-nautical journey with the songs of Black sea sirens glowing under the moon.

Format: C40, cassette / Digital
Edition: 100, hand-numbered
File under: ambient, dub, experimental

Face A:
Smoothy Flow 
Sub Nautica 
Sequence One 
Glowing Sirens 
Ghost Tribe

Face B:
Ambiency 
Liminal Tribe
Eye Of Delirious 
Fateful Torment 
Ground Floor

Mastering by Gennadiy Boychenko 
Artwork by Volodymyr Pavlov 
Graphic design by (DN) daynight.info 
Neu Medieval and Heymland typefaces by KTF 
Riso print by Hands on Press 
Muscut, 2023

Eye Of Delirious

Order

Bryozone - Smoothy Flow (Muscut 27), March 2023

ROOM OF WORDS (2023)
MARIA MATIASHOVA

music Oleksii Podat 
voices Karina Piliugina, Verona
recording, mixing Dmytro Oleksiuk
translation Roksolana Mashkova
graphic design Yaroslava Kovalchuk
font design Ivan Tsanko
special thanks Dima Tolkachov, Ihor Babaiev, Nika Popova, Nastia Kolodka, Vladyslava Kozlenko

Room of words is an installation created in Kyiv at the beginning of 2023. Almost exactly one year after the start of the russian full-scale invasion, the young artist Maria Matiashova decides to share a testimony of an invisible process that Ukrainian people are going through on a daily basis, a process that does not only deal with physical circumstances, but also with language improvement and development. The research started out of necessity and became the bearer of a great reflection on the role of language in her personal geography at this moment in history. In the process of selecting words to record, the artist identified key functions of language for her:

- language can protect, like the words used as passwords to easily enter certain areas of the city at the military checkpoints in Kyiv, key-words underlining on one side the belonging and on the other unveiling the possibility to distinguish through wrong pronunciation the enemies; 

- language is play and exchange: like a child's game of passing the ball and exchanging words in association; 

- language is memory: a childhood memory from which to distance oneself if this is the language of the occupier;

- language is a political statement of resistance and also an instrument of oppression. 

Without any intention to relate her research only to war, the artist tries finally to define language as a source of aesthetic experiences creating a contemporary Manifesto of Ukrainian language. The words selected were chosen for their musicality and evocative characteristics, many are synonyms of more common words, some are words that were repressed during Soviet times and deserve the freedom to be expressed again. The aim is to inspire and reestablish the use of those words as an act of love, beauty and revolution. 

As Maria Matiashova said, 'Room of Words' is a play without a plot. It is a contrast between the smooth sound of Ukrainian words and the painful underlying reality of its meanings. Like in a Pandora's box, the spectator can choose to enter the room of meanings and discover the hidden truth of a life during war, of a struggle that this time has the sound of the Ukrainian language, but tends to symbolize and describe the characteristics of the universal struggle of human nature.

room of words - maria matiashova / music by oleksii podat

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

i don’t feel my heart

Pre-order is open!
Oleksandr Yurchenko - Recordings Vol. 1, 1991—2001
Format: 12” LP / Digital
Catalog: Shukai 7
Release date: June/July, 2023 (TBA)
File under: Ambient, Electroacoustics 
A1: Count to 100. Symphony #1 (edit 2001)
B1: Intro
B2: Merta Zara #3
B3: Playback #1
B4: Playback #2
Composed and arranged by 
Oleksandr Yurchenko in 1991—2001
Mastered by Giuseppe Ielasi
Compiled by Dima Nikolaienko,
Dmytro Prutkin and Sasha Tsapenko
Liner notes by Vlad  Yakovlev
Graphic design by Day Night
Artist photos by Ivan Moskalenko
Tape photos by Vlad Yakovlev

Black ambient 2022 / Heavy culture (live, Na Chasi, 23.07.22)

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