from AZOV (PART I, Mystictrax) V/A EP, 3/22/2022
https://mystictrax.bandcamp.com/album/azov-part-i
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Ukrainian musicians are directly involved in the war against the russian occupier: someone on the front line in the army, territorial defense of their hometown, someone helping to relocate people to safe places or , We decided to collect tracks of freedom fighters and direct funds to the needs of the legendary brave Ukrainian army forces. Join the resistance!

Хор «Осоння» & @thewhaler, Lviv
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Mastering by @monotonne_official
A&R, PR, Graphic design by @lostlojic

https://mystictrax.bandcamp.com/album/azov-part-i
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Хор «Осоння» & Whaler - В Темную Нічку (AZOV I)

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“VA: NOTATOK 1” is the label's debut release and kicks off our “NOTATOK” fundraising compilation series. The album contains tracks by musicians from Odesa and Kyiv, performed in various genres: from bedroom jazz to herbal ambient and Cossack Duma.

80% of the proceeds from the sales of this compilation will be transferred to the accounts of several volunteer organizations that help the Ukrainian military and civilians affected by the war started by the terrorist state of the russian federation.
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“VA: NOTATOK 1” є дебютним релізом лейблу і відкриває серію наших фандрайзінгових компіляцій “NOTATOK”. Збірка містить композиції від музикантів із Одеси та Києва, виконані в різних жанрах: від бедрум джазу до рослинного ембіенту й козацької думи. 

80% доходів від продажів цієї збірки будуть переведені на рахунки кількох волонтерських організацій, які допомагають українським військовим та цивільним, що постраждали від війни, яку розпочала держава-терорист російська федерація.

Polje - Maliunok

Ñð³áíà Ï³äêîâà Live 96

Sous Le Pont Mirabeau

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YARN-Yarn 1992

This song about young girl and the first time she saw that beautiful boy.

Vachoka - Kohala

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Come Angel / Tsymbrovsky 1995

Researchers of Ukrainian underground music A. Klochkov & I. Shelekhov present 1,5 hour podcast with little-known and unreleased music of Kyiv, Kharkiv and Chernihiv scene of the end of '80s - first half of '90s.

1. Олександр Юрченко - фрагмент з симфонії №1 "Лічи до Ста" (1994)
2. Цукор Біла Смерть - Відень спить (Село 1993)
3. Колежский Асессор - Военная Музыка (Колл.Асс. 1987)
4. Чичка-Дричка - Повелитель Бляха-мух (Грудная жаба на экспорт 1990)
5. Верба Хльос - Хто Місяць Ховає (1995)
6. Казма Казма - Щучий наигрыш (Пляски Трубадуров 1991)
7. Пан Кифаред -  Трек 8 (В Графиках Пыли 1991)
8. Фоа Хока - Щастя (Невідомість 1996)
9. Самшит не Сахар - Трек 3 (Самшит не Сахар)
10. Годзадва - French song (Sadismysmile 1991)
11. Квітчала в Серпні - Untitled 2 (VA Сховайся 1995)
12. Уксусник - Первое письмо барину (Выдумка это надо 1990)
13. Раббота Хо - Биплан (Гадкие Лебеди 1995)
14. Казма Казма - Падуан "Ласточка" (Пляски Трубадуров 1991)
15. Шейк Хай Фай - Shells (Isn`t May Dream - Sonic Dream 1991)
16. Langsames Steuer - Es Donert/Грім Гримить (Повілне Кермо 1994)
17. Світлана Охріменко, Олександр Юрченко - Трек 7 (Знаєш, як? - Розкажи 1995)
18. Шейк Хай Фай - Bananas Whole Year (1993)
19. Коллежский Асессор - Сани (Концерт в Харькове 1987)
20. Maket - Flight (Bang 2018)

'90s Ukrainian Underground @ 20ft Radio - 18/12/2019

Now available: Svitlana Nianio & Oleksandr Yurchenko's 'Znayesh Yak? Rozkazhy' ('Know How? Tell Me'). Recorded in an abandoned park in Kiev in 1995, this is the first official release of 'Znayesh Yak? Rozkazhy' outside of the duo's native Ukraine, and is presented in conjunction with Glasgow's Night School Records.

Order the 12" vinyl edition here: tinyurl.com/vw3lgpe

Digital only here: tinyurl.com/rzk2ehc

All orders will ship after 21.02.2020.

Svitlana Nianio and Oleksandr Yurchenko are musicians with a long history in the still-mysterious Kiev Underground. Nianio’s first group Cukor Bela Smert [Sugar, The White Death] were active from the late 80’s through to the early 90’s, and following an intense period of touring, collaboration, experimentation and a string of mixtapes and self-published recordings, Nianio’s first official solo album ‘Kytytsi’ was released in 1999 by Poland’s Koka Records. Oleksandr Yurchenko, a longtime collaborator and a pivotal figure in the Kiev music scene, was instrumental in creating the Novaya Scena, a loose conglomerate of artists who encouraged each other to excavate both the sounds of the West and Ukrainian tradition. ‘Znayesh Yak? Rozkazhy’ (‘Know How? Tell Me’) is the duo’s most fully realised collaboration, an enchanting, complete world in which Yurchenko’s instrumentation and playfulness with form frames Nianio’s otherworldly soprano, recalling Liz Fraser steeped in contrapuntal melody and hymnal improvisation. Originally made available on a self-released cassette in 1996 (re-issued in 2017 by Ukraine’s Delta Shock label) where the album was twinned with ‘Lisova Kolekciya’ (re-issued on LP in 2017 by Skire) this is the debut release of ‘Znayesh Yak? Rozkazhy’ outside of Ukraine.

Recorded in an abandoned park in Kiev during a fertile period for artists and musicians following the collapse of the Soviet Union, ‘Znayesh Yak? Rozkazhy’ sees Nianio and Yurchenko combine Casio keyboard, hammered dulcimer, percussion, and Nianio’s unmistakeable soprano vocalisations to create music sympathetic to the specific locations in which they chose to record. Yurchenko’s contribution is perhaps more present on this recording than anything else we have heard from the duo. His percussive dulcimer playing provides the basis on which Nianio can weave delicate keyboard lines while playfully contorting her voice, shifting from a low register reminiscent of Nico to what could be perceived as the call of a bird or an animal in distress. Whatever the intent, the effect is haunting and beautiful in equal measure.

There’s a prevailing earthiness on the recordings, found in the warm hiss of the lo-fi means of recording or the grinding, unspecified sounds that occasionally accompany the melody, like drones created on the fly by hands trying to keep warm in the ice. A prevailing mood of fragility and beauty seeps from these melodies, delicate moments of clarity spun by the two musicians. ‘Znayesh Yak? Rozkazhy’ is a dream spun in twilight, a crystalline, private world where the listener feels both alien and welcome.

Recorded in Kiev, Ukraine, May 1995
Produced by Svitlana Nianio & Oleksandr Yurchenko
Mastered by John Hannon, 2018

Artwork by Svitlana Nianio

Svitlana Nianio & Oleksandr Yurchenko - Untitled 4 (from 'Znayesh Yak? Rozkazhy' 12" + digital)

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