Bezodyna remix  by Flora Yin Wong (@floraytw). Taken from Katarina Gryvul (@katarina-gryvul) new album Tysha, out February 9, 2022, via Standard Deviation (@standard-deviation)

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TYSHA (Ukrainian for silence) is the second longplayer of Ukrainian-born, Poland-bread and Austria-based multi-instrumentalist and singer Katarina Gryvul. Following her enigmatic song ”In Coma”, which released in 2020 on Standard Deviation, Gryvul delivers an 8-track long album of blooming, emotional and tactile electronica pop ballads, resulting in an intensely personal journey into the artist's inner world at the most silent time of her life.

In an attempt to deal with her decaying perception of reality and the overwhelming sense of isolation caused by the experience of global pandemic, Gryvul finds refuge in silence. She is mesmerized by the all-consuming absence of sound, and the many ways in which silence can be perceived: silky, enveloping, calm, but also caustic, fractured and sharp. TYSHA was written entirely during the pandemic. Gryvul describes that being surrounded by people during that challenging period started feeling like ”a potential threat” and as something unnatural and artificial.” She says: “It made me feel like I was torn between two realities, virtual and real, and did not belong to any of them”.

TYSHA sounds imminently disturbing, yet soft, with ghostly harmonics, tempis and a wide variety of musical and lyrical influences. The album feeds from ”something that has already vanished” - a feeling of longing in a moment of uncertainty, crystallized in balladic writing and subtle elven-like soundscapes.

Gryvul, who usually works with classical instruments, now explores a more electronic sound with beats and apparent beatgrid structure, referencing the environment in which what once felt natural and organic started feeling artificial and synthetic. Varying in tempo, moods and instruments, TYSHAcreates an emotional journey, exploring different forms of silence, representing the tension between the virtual and the real world and reflecting Gryvul’s feelings of hostility and alienation in contrast with her longing for connection.

The album is supported with remixes by London-based artist Flora Yin-Wong, contributing on ”Bezodnya” with an ethereally soft and lyrically poetic rework and Belgian experimentalist Maoupa Mazzocchetti reinterpreting ”Tysha” as a gloomy, ecstatic and roaring piece for the dance floor.

Artwork photography by Sam Clarke

Art Direction and logo design by RAM

Mastered by UTC+16, Kyiv

Released by Standard Deviation

Premiere: Katarina Gryvul - Bezodnya (Flora Yin Wong Remix) [Standard Deviation]

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Because. 
I am doctor.

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gigs i did:

27.12.2024. @KC Ziva - Zora w/ Cocktail Party Effect 
13.12.2024. @Vjeran Pas, Belgrade
16.11. 2024. @KPTM - Drip N Bass
8.11.2024. @KC Ziva - memorial fundraiser
11.10.2024. @Drugstore, Belgrade - SLUTka w/ Alex Wilcox
21.09.2024. @Secret Location, Novi Sad - GOMILA x SUTRA w/ anymodal
07.09.2024. @KC Ziva - Crvenilo w/ Van Boom
30.08.2024. @Jugosped - SEČA (SUTRA & friends)
17.08. @Secret Location, Serbia - Nebuloza Gathering Festival
03.08.2024. @Beli Vir, Kać - ŽEGA (SUTRA & GOMILA)
21.06.2024. @KC Grad - w/ BRENDA, Bianca Intensa, Am Hi
15.06.2024. @Kota, Novi Sad - ŽEGA (SUTRA & GOMILA)
08.06.2024.  @Borisov Atelje, Novi Sad - GOMILA w/ Auco, Fujita Pinnacle
07.06.2024. @Klub Gromka, Ljubljana - Echo0003 w/ Auco
01.06.2024. @Drugstore, Belgrade - MaiTai x From The Heart 
27.04.2024. @Secret Location, Novi Sad - Gomila w/ asvanyviz2
05.04.2024. @KC Lab, Novi Sad - Spring Fest
23.03.2024. @KC Ziva - Inkubator 
01.03.2024. @KC Lab - All Girls Mesh It Up
12.01.2024. @KC Lab - Shades Marathon, Gomila
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31.12.2023. @Ljubimac, Belgrade
29.12.2023. @Drugstore, Belgrade - RADAR 8.0 w/ Main Phase, Oppidan
09.12.2023. @KC Grad, Belgrade - SUTRA w/ Flore
18.11.2023. @KC Ziva - Fantasia
16.11.2023. @KC Ziva - Noise Connection
10.11.2023. @KC Grad, Belgrade
27.10.2023. @Ljubimac, Belgrade
23.10.2023. @KC Grad - Gomila exhibition opening
29.09.2023. @KC Lab, Novi Sad - SLUTka 
02.09.2023. @Borisov Atelje, Novi Sad - GOMILA & PIRINAČ invite SUTRA
19.08.2023. @Secret Location, Serbia - Nebuloza Gathering Festival
12.08.2023. @Beli Vir, Kać - ŽEGA (SUTRA & GOMILA)
28.07.2023. @Kuglaš, Belgrade - Nebuloza Gathering Pre-party 
22.07.2023. @KC Lab, Novi Sad - Gomila
13.05.2023. @Secret Location, Novi Sad - Gomila
08.04.2023 @Slavina Pub, Novi Sad
05.03.2023 @KC Lab, Novi Sad - Gomila
10.11.2022. @KC Lab, Novi Sad - (first) Gomila

4/07/25 Hátiðni Art Festival - Iceland
 28/06/25 Clyde Built Radio -  Glasgow, UK
16/05/25 Smátíðni - Reykjavik, Iceland
22/03/25 Sabbath.Berlin - Berlin, Germany
15/03/25 Sleikur - Reykjavik, Iceland
16/02/25 Clyde Built Radio - Glasgow, UK
5/1 /25  MÖTH Community Radio - Hong Kong
13/12/24  Being Mixed End of Year party - Glasgow, UK

Premiere: Katarina Gryvul - Bezodnya (Flora Yin Wong Remix) [Standard Deviation]

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