April 26, 1986. At 01:23, two explosions echoed through the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In the sky above Pripyat, a glow emanated from the burning reactor, releasing tons of radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere. The event forever changed the lives of ordinary people.

Maksym Merkulov, also known as Whaler, incorporates conceptual and, to some extent, cinematic elements in his work. With releases such as Mothership, which tells the story of an artificial intelligence wandering through space, and Noncommon Sense, which explores the journey of internal transformation, the artist returns to the narrative format to recount the event that left a profound impact on both him and the entire planet.

He sublimates his experiences of the disaster's consequences into a haunting soundscape filled with the hum of reactors, the crackling of dosimeters, and the chatter of internal communication systems.

In his compositions, Whaler places great emphasis on melody and atmosphere, drawing from his classical and jazz background. His diverse catalog features IDM-inspired tracks, pure ambient pieces without a single beat, and heavily rhythmic compositions with broken beat patterns, as showcased in his latest release, "Dome."

Mastered by Bogdan Zaiets
Designed by Anton Pcholkin

Buy all

26 04

The third episode of Gianmarco Del Re's Ukrainian Field Notes aired on Wed October 19 on ResonanceFM at 5:30pm - 6:30pm GMT.

Third episode of the podcast with Odesa based musicians Leonid Zhdanov and Nataly Hrytsenko, aka Casa Ukrania, discussing the current situation in the country in the aftermath of the recent shelling of Ukrainian cities on Monday 10th of October.

Tracklist:

Misha Ziganoff - Oi oi di Koilen
Casa Ukrania – Trunok u Darunok
58918012 – Previous Experience (background)
Undo Despot – Asterisk
05:AM – Hats & Snares (background)
The House of the Hidden Light – The Abducted Automaton.
05:AM – CH8 (background)
Poljie – Maliunok
05:AM – NNM (background)
Casa Ukrania – Dalnyk
05:AM – Odesa Winter (background)
Ginger Snaps – Zaida
58918012 – Roar of the Skies (background)
Misha Ziganoff (reprise)
Casa Ukrania – Krov Moia (Acoustic)

Ukrainian Field Notes - 19 October 2022 - with Casa Ukrania

П’ятий епізод присвячений задроству в продюсуванні та прослуховуванні музики. Окрім нових релізів, невиданого та маловідомого матеріалу українських продюсерів, @vlad-suppish повідає про таке явище, як Foxxtober, розповість про те, як збіги надихають на творчість та, в кращих традиціях радіо, вітатиме знайомих артистів з днем народження.
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The fifth episode is devoted to nerdiness in producing and listening of music. In addition to new releases, unreleased and little-known material of Ukrainian producers, @vlad-suppish will talk about such a phenomenon as Foxxtober, talks about how coincidences inspire creativity and, in the best tradition of radio, congratulates familiar artists with their birthdays.
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Підтримайте Gasoline Radio:

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НЕВИДИМА МУЗИКА #05 14/10/2022

More info:

https://gasolineradio.com/shows/unknown-idols/unknown-idols-08-01-04-2023

Follow host:

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https://instagram.com/le_na__mi

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UNKNOWN IDOLS #08 01/04/2023

Here's something new. 

DJ mix, ad block, shopping mall music compilation, New Age band concert, YouTube improvisation, symphony of mistakes? 

What? 

For the first time in the project history, the editors of Right.FM have more questions than answers. There is a new entry in the catalog - the work of Ivan Radzievsky aka John Rock, who first gave us the Rabitza (@rabitza-records)club, then the Chateau Leopard band, and now this one. While listening, you involuntarily feel like a piece of cooked sausage on a cutting board. You choke on the knife, you accept everything and understand everything, then you let go, and then you start all over again and throw it off again. 

Try to experience it, and then do not thank. 
It's too late to thank.


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Что-то новенькое. 

Диджейский микс, рекламный блок, сборник музыки для супермаркетов, концерт нью-эйдж группы, ютуб-импровизация, симфония ошибок? 

Что?

Впервые за все время существования проекта у редакции Райт.ФМ больше вопросов, чем ответов. В каталоге новая запись — работа Ивана Радзиевского aka Johnny Rock, сначала клуб Рабица, затем группа Шато Леопард, а теперь и это. При прослушивании невольно чувствуешь себя куском столичной колбасы на разделочной доске. Задыхаешься от ножа, принимаешь всё и понимаешь всё, затем тебя отпускает, а потом всё сначала и с новой силой. 

Попробуйте это пережить, а потом не благодарите. 
Поздно уже благодарить.

@acid-john-88 
@acid-radzo

right.cast — John Rock

Kyiv-based @gasolineradio is opening a music label with a first release on 26th of April. This first effort is from the Ukrainian musician from Kharkiv - Maksym Merkulov aka @thewhaler. It is dedicated to Memorial Day of the Chernobyl tragedy.

Pre-order

Premiere: Whaler — Зрада (feat Mykola Lebed)

First listen: @thewhaler - Мирний Атом (Gasoline Records)
Максим Меркулов aka Whaler: «Я написав цей реліз протягом кількох квітневих ночей, переглядаючи архівні відео Прип'яті перед катастрофою. Аварія на ЧАЕС стала моїм першим знайомством з методами тоталітарної машини, що перемелює людські життя, обмінюючи їх на час, репутацію, гроші чи політичні переваги. Я назавжди запам'ятав, наскільки безликим та жорстоким може бути символ, за яким йдуть люди. Через це їх смерті та скалічені життя стають ще більш трагічними – людей, які йшли на самопожертву, ліквідуючи аварію, чи просто тих, хто опинився поруч».

Mastered by Bogdan Zaiets
Desidgned by Anton Pcholkin

Pre-order gasolinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/26-04

Listen full album

First listen: Whaler - Мирний Атом (Gasoline Records)

More info:

https://gasolineradio.com/shows/guestmix/walakos-live-15-04-2023

Follow artist:

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https://instagram.com/walakos

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GASOLINE GUEST MIX: WALAKOS (LIVE) 15/04/2023

Known to Mystictrax listeners by a track Celestial Gloom from the CODE compilation, multi genre experimentalist @slavadyadyunmusic aka Revshark created another masterpiece full of unique sound album.

The great inspiration for the 'Integrity' album by Revshark was the native city of Kremenchuk and its people. The track 'Fortress' has a direct reference to the history of the creation of the city, and the sound of the album reflects both the relentless movement and the meditative calm of the industrial riverside town. Therefore, in some sense, this album can be considered biographical.

Music by Slava Dyadyun aka Revshark
www.instagram.com/_revshark_/
3d cover by Vitalii Novosel'tsev
www.instagram.com/novoselcevv/
Mastering by Taras Bryl
www.instagram.com/cla.sps/
A&R by Volodymyr Baranovskyi
www.instagram.com/lostlojic/

Revshark - Outskirts (Integrity, 2d June)

Premiere of track by @thewhaler from EP "26 04" that will be released via @gasolineradio (Gasoline Records).
Pre-order link: https://gasolinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/26-04

Whaler: "I wrote this release over several nights in April, watching archival videos of Pripyat before the disaster. The accident at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant was my first introduction to the methods of a totalitarian machine that grinds people's lives, exchanging them for time, reputation, money or political favors. I will always remember how faceless and cruel a symbol can be that people follow. It makes their deaths and mutilated lives all the more tragic - the people who sacrificed themselves to clear the accident, or just bystanders".

Premiere: Whaler - Викид (Gasoline Records)

More info:

https://gasolineradio.com/shows/guestmix/fusion-selectors-w-oleksii-makarenko-02-04-2023

Follow artist and formation:

https://soundcloud.com/oleksii_makarenko
https://instagram.com/mkrnk.oleksii

https://instagram.com/fusionjams

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FUSION SELECTORS W/ OLEKSII MAKARENKO 02/04/2023

DC Promo Tracks #1148: "Спогад" by Whaler is part of the release "26 04" on Gasoline Records @gasolineradio  

Buy Now: https://gasolinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/26-04 

More Promo Tracks: https://www.dreamchimney.com/promo

DC Promo Tracks: Whaler "Спогад"

https://gasolinerecords.bandcamp.com/album/26-04

April 26, 1986. At 01:23, two explosions echoed through the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. In the sky above Pripyat, a glow emanated from the burning reactor, releasing tons of radioactive isotopes into the atmosphere. The event forever changed the lives of ordinary people.

Maksym Merkulov, also known as Whaler, incorporates conceptual and, to some extent, cinematic elements in his work. With releases such as Mothership, which tells the story of an artificial intelligence wandering through space, and Noncommon Sense, which explores the journey of internal transformation, the artist returns to the narrative format to recount the event that left a profound impact on both him and the entire planet.

He sublimates his experiences of the disaster's consequences into a haunting soundscape filled with the hum of reactors, the crackling of dosimeters, and the chatter of internal communication systems.

In his compositions, Whaler places great emphasis on melody and atmosphere, drawing from his classical and jazz background. His diverse catalog features IDM-inspired tracks, pure ambient pieces without a single beat, and heavily rhythmic compositions with broken beat patterns, as showcased in his latest release, "Dome."

Mastered by Bogdan Zaiets
Designed by Anton Pcholkin

Mystictrax is happy to present her latest work, Zabuttya. The central theme is escaping from reality. Because everyone has their own oblivion. It can be love, a hobby, or a computer game. Just something that can help our brain to release the tension, something that can help us to relax. The character of the main track finds her oblivion in the state of dissolving in supernatural transcendental meditation. There is no color, no sound, illusion, pain or remorse. There is only calm. She decides to stay there forever by making a deal with wandering spirits. They offer her a new body of wind and clouds if she never returns to the earth.
The EP consists of 4 tracks, 3 created in collaboration with Ukrainian electronic artists. Those who joined the search for the oblivion: Pymin, Lostlojic, Revshark, Seréen.

Hanna Svirska - Zabuttya

Ukrainian Field Notes VA is a fundraising compilation with a difference, music with a backstory that gives a first-hand account of the unfolding events since the full-scale Russian invasion in real time, and presents an overview of the changing face of the Ukrainian music scene dictated by blackouts and curfew restrictions.

What started off as an ongoing series of interviews with Ukrainian artists for the experimental music website A Closer Listen has now become a book comprising all 170 interviews conducted over the course of a year mapping out the electronic and experimental scene in Ukraine.

All musicians involved were asked to submit a track composed after February 24, 2022 to mark its publication. The resulting material reflects the diaristic nature of the book and deals with PTSD, displacement, separation, and loss, and shows at the same time the strength and resilience of Ukrainian artists with a meditative and uplifting reach.

The track listing follows the chronological order of the interviews, switching from ambient and electronic to classical and experimental in a seemingly random fashion, but war is chaotic and shattering, or as Serhii Zhadan writes in Sky Above Kharkiv, “War sharply changes ways of seeing, changes feelings.” Ukrainian Field Notes is a testament to the shifting sonic and human landscape.
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Ukrainian Field Notes VA - це благодійна фандрайзінгова компіляція, що відрізняється від інших, музика з передісторією, яка розповідає з перших вуст про події, що розгортаються з моменту повномасштабного російського вторгнення в режимі реального часу, і представляє огляд зміни обличчя української музичної сцени, продиктованої відключенням електроенергії та обмеженнями комендантської години.

Те, що починалося як серія інтерв'ю з українськими музикантами для сайту експериментальної музики A Closer Listen, тепер перетворилося на книгу, що містить усі 170 інтерв'ю, взятих протягом року, які окреслюють електронну та експериментальну сцену в Україні.

Щоб відзначити її публікацію, всім музикантам, які брали участь в інтерв'ю, було запропоновано надіслати трек, написаний після 24 лютого 2022 року. Отриманий матеріал відображає щоденниковий характер книги і стосується ПТСР, переміщення, розлуки та втрати, а також демонструє силу та стійкість українських митців з медитативним та піднесеним звучанням.

Трек-лист відповідає хронологічному порядку інтерв'ю, переходячи від ембієнту та електроніки до класики та експериментальної музики у, здавалося б, випадковий спосіб, але війна є хаотичною та руйнівною, або, як пише Сергій Жадан у "Небі над Харковом", "війна різко змінює способи бачення, змінює почуття". "Ukrainian Field Notes VA" - це свідчення мінливого звукового та людського ландшафту.

Credits:
The book "Ukrainian Field Notes" is available on the Bandcamp page of the UFN VA (https://systemnapotvora.bandcamp.com/album/ukrainian-field-notes-va)

Album mastering by Clasps
Album artwork by Dmytro Prutkin
All proceeds go to the charitable foundation Musicians Defend Ukraine (musiciansdefendukraine.com/en)

Ukrainian Field Notes 567 pages book is also available as PDF and ePub.
Spanish translation by Chema Chacón.
ebook PDF version: https://tinyurl.com/5n8hhbt2 
ebook ePub version: https://tinyurl.com/2znsn7rf 

Bonus items on the Bandcamp page for the UFN VA are the PDF & ePub versions of the book "Ukrainian Field Notes".

Ukrainian Field Notes VA

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