yo could you pass these remixes in a decent quality? asking for a friend

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

the language of tears, i speak to tragedy in it

we'll just do it again

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

currently expressing in this 1 hour selection what does it feel like to be mad and sad at the same time

HELLO SPRING,
BYE MAD SAD MARCH

TRACKLIST:
MOLOTOV 20 – open
ОЛЕКСАНДР ЮРЧЕНКО – Лічи до ста • Симфонія №1 
8asxuKA – legiton fos
THE OWLEST – Василь Симоненко/Назарій Заноз "Гранітні Обеліски, Як Медузи"
X-TRAIN – Полюс
MOLOTOV 20 – XTC (kristina)
ФОРМУЛА ВОДИ – води гірський кришталь
X-TRAIN – Білий шлях
ТЕПЛО ЗЕМЛІ – Тіна
Квітка Цісик – Черемшина
PAN KIFARED – untitled II
ВЕЖА ХМАР – con
МАРІЯ БРУМАКА – Мандри
Оркестр Оранського – Казкар 
КРИВИЙ РІГ – Страх господній початок премудрости, а пізнання святого це розум
JOHN OBJECT – kiss
КОЛИСКОВА – Тиша, вечір на дворі

mad sad cure

Svitlana Nianio — Transilvania Smile, 1994

Release title: Transilvania Smile, 1994
Release subtitle: Original Soundtrack For The Dance-Theatre Performance
Release artist: Svitlana Nianio
Release date: 2023-08-04
Label: Shukai
Catalog: Shukai 8
Formats: 12” LP / Digital
File under: Folk, Classical

Linear notes:
Svitlana Okhrimenko (artist name: Svitlana Nianio) is a Ukrainian artist, musician, and signer. She is one of the most prominent representatives of the independent music scene of Kyiv in the late 1980s — early 90s. She has repeatedly recorded and performed in collaboration with other musicians and bands, such as Oleksandr Yurchenko, Sugar White Death (Cukor Bila Smert’), Ivanov Down, GeeNerve & Taran, and Blemish. Svitlana still performs and publishes new recordings today.
“Transilvania Smile” is one of the first solo works recorded in 1994. During this time, Svitlana repeatedly visited Germany, where she had the experience of playing in parks and on the streets, gathering contacts of the local art scene. Her cooperation with the international choreographic group Pentamonia, based in Cologne and consisting of several girls who performed in theaters, took part in various performances, and were engaged in music. They met in the 1990s during joint performances with "Sugar-White Death." After that, they corresponded, and the idea of doing something together arose. Svitlana attended several of their performances, which inspired her to write music for a new project, and the band members helped to realize their creative ideas. Later, they started rehearsing together.
The name “Transilvania Smile” was invented by the project participants, and it symbolized the mold on the mirror and the reflection of a smiling vampire. However, shortly before the premiere, they changed it to “Firefox”, as the participants actively used flashlights and the play of light and shadows in the scenography.
The premiere occurred in the local Urania theater, previously a gallery. Isabel Bartensein directed the choreography, and Svitlana played, sang, and improvised. She said it was an excellent experience for her and the band. Besides Cologne, they also performed in Aachen.
Later, Michael Springer offered Svitlana to record this material in his "Phanton" studio. They had already worked together and recorded music for their project (Svitlana Okhrimenko / Phanton). Michael was also interested in the Ukrainian independent scene and participated in the creation of several compilations that featured bands from Kyiv and Kharkiv. Svetlana played the piano and harmonium in the studio and also sang. After the recording, the material was never released in its entirety. Two compositions appeared on the cassette compilation “Shovaisia” (Hide) in 1995, some episodes were re-recorded for the “Kytytsi” album in 1999, but for a long time, the full version of this recording remained practically unknown to listeners and was kept in Svitlana's and Michael’s archives.
This album is one of the most personal and insightful works of Svitlana Nianio from the 90s, which you can now get to know in its original form and sound.
Tracklist:
Side A (45RPM)
Episode III
Side B (33RPM)
Episode I
Episode II
Episode III
Episode IV
Episode V
Episode VI
Episode VII


Credits:
Original Soundtrack for the Dance-Theatre Performance “Transilvania Smile” by Svitlana Nianio
Recorded in phantonstudio, Cologne, 1994—1995
Mastered by Michael Springer (phantonstudio)
Shukai team: Dmytro Nikolaienko, Dmytro Prutkin and Sasha Tsapenko
Liner notes by Vlad Yakovlev
Graphic design by (DN)
Svitlana’s stage photo by Christiane Bowinkelmann
Pentamonia Dance Group photos by Olav Faustmann
Special thanks to Michael Springer (phantonstudio) and Guido Erfen

Shukai 8
www.shukai.org
© ℗ Shukai / Svitlana Nianio
2023

Transilvania Smile

Episode III

Svitlana Nianio - Episode III (Transilvania Smile, 1994)

I as a slash symbol

Evening In The Grass

Велика ріка Хєнь-Юань

Цукор Біла Смерть – Велика ріка Хєнь-Юань (John Object Edit)

morning k (w/ Maryana Klochko)

and @johnobject and @johnobject-3

a) All The Air In My Lungs

b) i am having a good time and i will always be having a good time

c) CLUBS AND CHURCHES

d) This is a poem iwrote called tax the rich today hang them tomorrow:

Цукор Біла Смерть – Велика ріка Хєнь-Юань (John Object Edit)

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