на жаль, мес все-таки зійшов з розуму, а життя в гуртожитку не передбачає спокою.

Депась'є

гурт

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

A fragment of my reaction to the month of the war.

ALL THE INCOME WILL BE DONATED TO THE VERY LOCAL KYIV VOLUNTEERS I’M CURRENTLY WORKING WITH: https://ivanskoryna.bandcamp.com/track/cheap-gas-cheap-blood

1.

«After the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the country's ambassador to Germany, Andriy Melnyk, accused the federal government of "indifference”… Melnyk said that on Thursday, on the day the Russian invasion began, he was "welcomed by several ministers" in Berlin and turned to them for help: armaments and fuel for the army. "The answer was: in our opinion, you, Ukrainians, have a few hours. Now it makes no sense to help”». Source: Polska Agencja Prasowa, 25 February 2022.

2.

«The European Union continues to buy natural gas from Russia even as it tries to cripple its economy with sanctions. With prices soaring, the daily value of those imports has jumped, reaching a record 689 million euros ($755 million) on March 2, according to calculations by the Brussels think tank Bruegel. Energy payments are exempt from sanctions and there’s little appetite to include them for now, meaning gas will remain an economic lifeline for Russia as long as exports continue to flow». Source: Bloomberg, 4 March 2022.

3.

«From 4 a.m. on 24 February 2022, when the Russian Federation’s armed attack against Ukraine started, to 24:00 midnight on 23 March 2022 (local time), the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) recorded 2,685 civilian casualties in the country: 1,035 killed and 1,650 injured.

This included:
– a total of 1,035 killed (214 men, 160 women, 14 girls, and 28 boys, as well as 48 children and 571 adults whose sex is yet unknown)
– a total of 1,650 injured (181 men, 140 women, 28 girls, and 23 boys, as well as 67 children and 1,211 adults whose sex is yet unknown)…

Most of the civilian casualties recorded were caused by the use of explosive weapons with a wide impact area, including shelling from heavy artillery and multiple-launch rocket systems, and missile and air strikes.

OHCHR believes that the actual figures are considerably higher… OHCHR notes the report of the Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine, according to which as of 8 a.m. (local time) 24 March, 128 children had been killed and at least 172 injured…». Source: OHCHR report, 24 March 2022.

Cover: Artwork by Nikita Kadan.

Cheap Gas, Cheap Blood

the language of tears, i speak to tragedy in it

“VA: NOTATOK 1” is the label's debut release and kicks off our “NOTATOK” fundraising compilation series. The album contains tracks by musicians from Odesa and Kyiv, performed in various genres: from bedroom jazz to herbal ambient and Cossack Duma.

80% of the proceeds from the sales of this compilation will be transferred to the accounts of several volunteer organizations that help the Ukrainian military and civilians affected by the war started by the terrorist state of the russian federation.
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“VA: NOTATOK 1” є дебютним релізом лейблу і відкриває серію наших фандрайзінгових компіляцій “NOTATOK”. Збірка містить композиції від музикантів із Одеси та Києва, виконані в різних жанрах: від бедрум джазу до рослинного ембіенту й козацької думи. 

80% доходів від продажів цієї збірки будуть переведені на рахунки кількох волонтерських організацій, які допомагають українським військовим та цивільним, що постраждали від війни, яку розпочала держава-терорист російська федерація.

bryozone - lychenyi chas

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)

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.

Cheap Gas, Cheap Blood

ivan skoryna

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