To fight back the darkness with courage!
Zavoloka & Noémi Büchi “Vidvaga”
Released by I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free

Credits:
Music composed and produced by Zavoloka & Noémi Büchi.
Mixed and mastered by Noémi Büchi.
Cover artwork by Kateryna Zavoloka

SONG 14

2023

Vidvaga

Zavoloka & Noémi Büchi  "Vidvaga"

Zavoloka's collaboration with Ya Tosiba on the track "Yare məni".
Watch the music video https://youtu.be/10PY6itA2tQ
and listen to Ya Tosiba's album "ASAP inşallah", released on Huge Bass:
https://hugebass.bandcamp.com/album/asap-in-allah

ASAP inşallah

Ya Tosiba "Yarə Məni"

Taken from Zavoloka "Amulet"
zavoloka.bandcamp.com/album/amulet
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Ability for the impossible.

Ukrainian folk instruments dissolve into abstract psychoactive sounds from the improvisational universe. The meditative engine of multi-instrumental music drives the magical means of influencing perception. This is the sonic amulet, which is decorated with radiant tones and the colorful ceremonial musical outline. Mythological music is spirited by epic historical times and ideas of freedom, dignity, and bravery. The acquired knowledge of ancient generations is infused into the present tense and crystallized into the art of liberation.

Transform pain into gratitude, fear into love, rage into action, self-importance into empathy, fatigue into inner peace, anxiety into courage, and hatred into strength. Say "no" to darkness and direct the light on it, disagree to compromise with yourself, create on the destroyed, free yourself from stipulations, believe in wonders, burn and resurrect free. Always remember your own path to walk.

And plant the blossoming cherry tree in the funnel from the bomb on the heart.

Dedicated to free Ukraine.
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Credits:

Music composed, arranged, and produced by Kateryna Zavoloka.
Ukrainian folk musical instruments:
Sopilka by Nata Zhyzhchenko.
Kobza by Dmytro Fedorenko.
Drymba, kolianka by Kateryna Zavoloka.
Mastered and lacquer cut by Noel Summerville.
Artwork design and video by Zavoloka.

Released by Prostir and I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free

https://zavoloka.com
https://prostir.art
https://ishallsinguntilmylandisfree.com

2022

Amulet

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Tracklist:
A1 - AES Dana - Ab Initio (Pax Edit)
A2 - Vera Logdanidi - Breathing Curtain
A3 - Priori - Top Soil
A4 - John Beltran - Nothing Stays the Same

B1 - Na Nich - That Was A Long Day
B2 - Saphileaum - Calm Seas
B3 - Artefakt - Tides
B4 - Anthony Rother - Victory Of Light

C1 - Vida Vojic - Show Me Beauty
C2 - Johanna Knutsson - Vemod
C3 - Volodymyr Gnatenko - Aards
C4 - Asyncronous - Hegelian Dialectics
C5 - Arthur Mine - Sequoia

D1 - Sebastian Mullaert - Just This
D2 - bvdub - Sail Among Your Suns
D3 - Zavoloka - Posvit
D4 - Nikolaienko - Hiking in Hydra

To celebrate their 10th release, Rhythm Büro, the Kyiv-based lablel, collective and party initiative, has prepared a rather special compilation entitled 'There Will Be Light.' The compilation focuses on deep listening, chill-out and ambient music, which encompasses the team's diverse approach to music, which can be experienced at their events and on their label. The idea behind 'There Will Be Light' was born several years ago as a concept for providing relaxing sounds, to invoke a sense of peace and calm, in headphones on the street, in the subway, at home or in the car. This notion is all the more pressing as Ukraine is being ravaged by war; the objective of this release feels all the more relevant and important. Rhythm Büro believes that everyone, everywhere, deserves to have the instruments to help them achieve a peaceful state of mind and they hope that through listening to this release, it can help them do so.

The artists featured on 'There Will Be Light' are a cast of Rhythm Büro's long-time collaborators as well as a few new names, both Ukrainian by origin and international. Igor Glushko, the label's head, has managed to transform the initial idea for the compilation into a real collaboration of like-minded artists contributing to the cause, the project has taken around three years to complete. Each track is released for the first time and has been produced by such artists as: AES Dana, Priori, John Beltran, Saphileaum, Artefakt, Anthony Rother, Vida Vojic, Johanna Knutsson, Volodymyr Gnatenko, Asyncronous, Arthur Mine, Sebastian Mullaert, bvdub, Zavoloka, Nikolaienko, and Rhythm Büro co-founders Vera Logdanidi & Na Nich.

The 2xLP compilation will be released together with Rhythm Büro's 9th release, the debut solo EP from Vera Logdanidi entitled 'Banksia'.

Cat number: RB010
Label: Rhythm Büro
Artist: Various Artists
Title: There Will Be Light
Release date (vinyl+digital): Dec 2023

There Will Be Light

VA - There Will Be Light [ Rhythm Büro 010 ]

Cluster Lizard "Herts"
https://clusterlizard.bandcamp.com/album/herts
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The pulse of the path.

In a massive heartbeat, daring waves rise one after another. The unbreakable tide of the lightning dance, where life and death collide in the eternal vibration of consciousness.

In previous centuries, Ukrainian warriors invented an audacious macabre ritual called Herts, a courageous death dance. Before the battle, a few ruthless Cossacks would leave their ranks to perform a mocking dance right in front of their enemy lines, laughing and shouting insulting indecencies at them. Herts, a mixture of laughter and death, was a psychic attack to crumble and degrade the enemy soldiers' morale.

And today our ancient Herts have returned to Ukrainian fighters to stand once again in front of the enemy, facing and mocking its grey unconscious masses of non-beings with fierce laughter.

This album is dedicated to those who can stare into the abyss with a smile. Fighters of the fight, for their home and their heart.


Music written, recorded, and produced by Cluster Lizard
(Kateryna Zavoloka & Dmytro Fedorenko)

Artwork and design by Cluster Lizard

Mastering by C-drik

The melody in Hymn is by Omelian Nyzhankivskyi

Special thanks to the Ukrainian volunteer defense unit Blind Fury for kindly providing us with their live combat field recordings, and their relentless and audacious fight for free Ukraine

Released by Prostir and I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free

Herts

Blind Fury

https://clusterlizard.com
Free Ukraine! 🇺🇦
Cluster Lizard – an interdisciplinary mixed media project by two Ukrainian artists Dmytro Fedorenko and Kateryna Zavoloka, based in Berlin.

Cluster Lizard uses experimental electronic music as its main element, integrated with analogue and generative video, photography, abstract paintings, and computer graphics.

Conceptual inspiration for Cluster Lizard was driven mainly by futuristic ideas of some prominent science fiction writers, experimental and radical sci-fi movies, abstract painters, futuristic techno-activists, and many other great artists, who offered their view of the future, far and near, social and esoteric, technical and spiritual.

Cluster Lizard creates a dystopian soundtrack for a bizarre sci-fi movie that has not been filmed yet.

Rhythm Büro is a Kyiv-based electronic music collective, event series, and record label that has carved out a significant space in the global underground scene. Since its inception in 2015, Rhythm Büro has hosted some of the most forward-thinking artists in techno, ambient, and experimental music, including Global Communication, Actress, Donato Dozzy, Surgeon, Oscar Mulero, Regis, Rrose, and many more.

The collective is known for its secret location events, often held in unique and industrial spaces around Kyiv, which have become legendary for their immersive atmospheres and high-caliber lineups. Rhythm Büro has also taken its showcase to major cities like Berlin, Paris, Tbilisi, Rotterdam, Prague and many more, establishing itself as a significant force in the international electronic music community.

One of the collective's most notable achievements is its annual festival, Natura. Held in a secret forest location just outside of Kyiv, Natura quickly became a beloved event for fans of deep, atmospheric techno, house and ambient music. The festival’s last edition, before the war, attracted a remarkable 4,000 attendees, all drawn to the unique experience of dancing in nature. Besides its carefully curated musical lineup, Natura distinguished itself as one of the first music festivals in Ukraine to champion an ecological agenda. The festival implemented a zero-waste policy, ensuring that all generated waste was recycled, with nothing sent to landfills.

The label arm of Rhythm Büro has released several critically acclaimed EPs, featuring both local talent and established names in the scene. Each release reflects the collective's commitment to deep, hypnotic, and atmospheric sounds, further solidifying its reputation as a tastemaker in the global electronic music landscape.

With its dedication to curating cutting-edge music and creating unforgettable experiences, Rhythm Büro continues to push the boundaries of what an electronic music collective can be, both in Ukraine and beyond.

🇺🇦 Free Ukraine!
https://zavoloka.com | Bookings: zavoloka@zavoloka.com
Ukrainian-born and Berlin-based Zavoloka is a blossoming composer, sound artist, performer, and visual artist who devotes herself to orchestrating uncompromising experimental music free from genre-dependent definitions and styles. Her works always stem from a very strong conceptual base, unveiling creations that are more than just music, exhibiting deep artistic research, and combining traditional and mechanical elements to show the boundlessness of her creative freedom.

From performing tantalizing live audio-visual sets and partaking in cross-genre art projects, co-running the experimental music labels Prostir, and its sublabel I Shall Sing Until My Land Is Free, and label Kvitnu (closed in 2020) with Dmytro Fedorenko (Kotra, VARIÁT), forming a band with Fedorenko called Cluster Lizard, and being renowned for visual cover art creations and graphic designs, Zavoloka is well and truly making an indelible imprint in the world of music and art.

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