Welcome new episode of our guest series in which ILYICH plays live and pilots full sound of electronic music through soul and jazz. 

Embedded into a fusion of six-string bass and djing, playing with synthesisers, drum machines, string orchestras, and choirs ILYICH tells stories. The stories, situated in South Ukraine are inspired by struggle and resolution and shared as past life recollections from various first person perspectives.

His new album "afterlife" is a musical journey through fantastical stories, soundscapes and the pulse of a new beginning. Conceiving the afterlife as something unfolding now, the album afterlife is responding to the military invasion of Ukraine with semi-fictional narratives, cinematic soundscapes, bass grooves and poems, string orchestras and broken beats. afterlife is a practice of grieving and new beginnings, life after the latest moment of personal and collective history. The album embraces an uneasy place as the dawn of the fantastical.

https://ilyich.bandcamp.com/album/afterlife-2

Tracklist:

ILYICH - At the Door with Takuya Nakamura
JoJo Mayer and Takuya Nakamura - Drummrworld
Takuya Nakamura Live Set at the Lot Radio New York
ILYICH - Redreams with Ziggy Zeitgeist
Kamasi Washington and Miles Mosley - MK 1
ILYICH - Kalpa
ILYICH - Mykolaiv
ILYICH - Satelite Island, with Oleksandr Chereno
ILYICH - It's Love, You See
ILYICH - Like Moonlight in Daylight, with Olivia Lucy Phillip
ILYICH - Relay, with Move 78
Pulse (feat. Matt Zara) - Slowya.Roll
Jab - 6 Degrees of Separation
Gin Tonic Orchestra - Do you Have?
Roberto Fonseca - 80s (Remix)
ILYICH - NADA
Son Lux - I Love You

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CHAPTER #2024 W/ ILYICH 24/03/2024

Cemetery of Melodies Alive

https://antonkats.net/cemetery-of-melodies-alive-steirischer-herbst/

sound installation / sound piece
steirischer herbst 21.09 – 15.10.2023

This newly commissioned sound installation meditates on early memories entwined with politics and music. The soundtrackʼs associative, poetic narrative draws on past-life recollections of war and music heard during childhood in Kherson, in a neighbourhood inundated after the Kakhovka Dam was blown up by Russian troops and threatened by possible sabotage of the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant not far upwind.

Work’s central musical reference is Weather Report’s “Palladium,” a piece with cult status in the USSR, eponymous with the physical element that one day might make cold fusion possible.

Threading geo-political and historical coordinates through music and semi-fictional post-mortem narrative purposefully collapses linear understanding of time. Critically embracing transmigration as an operational mode, the Cemetery of Melodies Alive establishes a sonic memorial, moaning the consequences of war in Ukraine. The work alerts the listener of the imminent danger of the destruction of the ninth-largest nuclear power plant in the world and the largest one in Europe. 

The three-channel sound installation explores the acoustic properties of the Doppler effect, revolving frequencies, waves, narratives and silences around the audience. An imaginative playground for ghosts and auditory hallucinations, the Cemetery of Melodies Alive prompts the audience to engage in critical practice after the breaking point.

The resilience of ghosts reminds the listener to re-silence towards certain music devoid of fixed meanings and solutions, with many melodies as means of breathing life into an ever-evolving political present. 

Credits:
Susanne Sachsee – Voice
Byron Kalomamas – Structural Design, 3D printing, visual rendering
Viktor Kurando – Mixing and Mastering

Commissioned and produced by steirischer herbst ʼ23

Cemetery Of Melodies Alive

@ilyichofficial comes as the harbinger of spoken-word, nerd, jazz, groove and soul.

ILYICH at migas 25.01.25

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You're leaving me

Say You Will Be Mine

I Will Find You

do you love the way i love you - raw version :)

Recorded @ moment festival | festsaal kreuzberg, Berlin 2019-06-10

Epikuer Lab  @festsaal kreuzberg ⚡ 10.06.19

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ILYICH @ The Lot Radio 02 - 14 - 2020

ILYICH is a musician and storyteller reincarnated in Kherson, Ukraine.

Augmenting music performances with performance art ILYICH pilots full sound of electronic music through soul and jazz. Fusing synthesisers, drum machines, string orchestras, live bass and choirs ILYICH shares otherworldly stories of struggle and resolution told from multiple first-person narratives.

In high resonance with dancers and nerds, ILYICH is known for their live music releases with the Nervous Records and the Lot Radio in New York; Gilles Peterson and the BBC 6 Music Radio Rotation; unearthly performances at the Roskilde and Fusion Festivals and discursive occurrences at the Galleries, Museums and cultural spaces including the Serpentine Galleries in London; Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, SAVVY Contemporary, Centre for Contemporary Arts and House of the World Cultures in Berlin among others.

After leaving Ukraine as a refugee in the late 1990s the middle name ILYICH disappears from the artist’s papers and reappears as a semi-fictional persona during the contemporary art exhibition documenta14, in Athens in 2017. ILYICH’s elusive origin and fluid identity, their sound, music and stories encourage imaginative exploration and challenge contemporary forms of marginalisation processes on Earth. Committed to developing artistic responses in the form of musical concerts, interactive sonic sculptures, and learning sites ILYICH is motivated to momentarily disrupt identitarian, fascistic, and hyper-individualised constructions of the self that separate us. ILYICH is the initiator of the Grounded Outer Space People, a nomadic artist residency/music ensemble tracing the relationship between transmigration and music and the host of the Concrete Listening Show at the Refuge Worldwide Radio synthesizing words spoken by musicians and artists intuitively connected through jazz, soul, house, electronic, experimental, and improvisation-based music.

Driven by the vision to construct conditions for a unitive experience ILYICH develops an entirely different set of cosmological coordinates through music, sound, visual art and theatre. Fearlessly interwoven with myth and the act of storytelling this cosmic landscape meets the audience halfway and invites to unlearn predetermined relational models.

Cemetery Of Melodies Alive

ILYICH

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