"Clarinets of the Moon" is an album by Ukrainian artist Bayun the Cat and English artist JD Roberts. "Clarinets of the Moon" is a light, ethereal conversation between reeds and electronic sounds - between artist and landscape. This sonic diary album blends soundscapes, woodwinds, organs, cinematic, and intimate elements.

We hear geese flying overhead, a friend's heartbeat, and reeds whispering in the wind. In moments, the clarinet sounds almost human - fragile, meditative, searching - as if humming to itself in solitude.

Bayun the Cat (Dmytro Postovalov) is a Kyiv-based musician, exploring the adjacent territories between ambient, classical, experimental, improvised, and world music. Music curator of the multi-disciplinary project Blue and Yellow through Black and Gray.

JD Roberts (Jonathan Roberts) is a British ambient composer and woodwind player, co-founder of the Ambient Leeds monthly festival.

"We started working on Clarinets of the Moon before the full-scale war, but the bulk of the material was composed in 2022. This is music about accepting what is difficult, if not impossible, to take; about regretting what humanity hasn't learned while admiring the resilience of the human spirit; about the deliberate growing of meaning and hope seemingly from nothing; about small joys that heal great sorrows; about searching for strength and inspiration in nature, history and the best of human qualities; about reflection and beauty, and finding a place for these even when everything around you screams that it is not the time for such things.
The album emerges mainly from ambient, but is also inspired by folk and neoclassical forms, with soundscapes, woodwinds, and organs blending cinematic and intimate elements into a single reflective sound. Sometimes melancholic, sometimes calmly joyful, this album remains reflective throughout, immersing the listener in an array of varied soundworlds." ~ Bayun The Cat and JD Roberts

JD Roberts:
Alto saxophone, clarinet, Electronic Wind Instrument, Korg Volca Keys, stick, spanner, bells.
Field recordings: Holywell Park, Jamaica; Isle of Eigg, Scotland
Bayun the Cat:
Software synthesizers, kalimba, melodica, divya svara, tbilat, programming.
Field recordings: Kyiv, Bobryk (Kyiv region), Krivyy Rih, Ukraine.
Conaill Durcan: bodhran (5, 8)

Daddy’s Book is dedicated to the memory of Volodymyr Vakulenko-K.

Mixed by Bayun the Cat and JD Roberts.
Mastered by JD Roberts.

Visual was made by @systemnapotvora and is based on a painting by Lala Lotos - @lala_lotos.

Bayun the Cat:
https://dadra68.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/bayun__the__cat/
JD Roberts:
https://jdrobertsmusic.bandcamp.com/
https://www.instagram.com/jdrobertsambient/

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