Ukrainian Field Notes XLVI

Lots of in depth interviews this month mostly recorded back in May in Ukraine which you can both listen to and read. In Dnipro, I reconnect with old friends Roman Slavka, Eugene Gordeev and Igor Yalivec to talk about Module

ACL 2023 ~ The Year’s Best Ukrainian Music

Nearly two years after the invasion, the Ukrainian music scene has continued to flourish, responding to war with creative fire.  We continue to be astounded by the volume, variety and vitality of the new music released by Ukrainian musicians, which

Ukrainian Field Notes XXVII

For the current episode YurcSa discusses how the war has influenced his sound, Noirnor sends us her interview from Berlin, JmDasha founds herself having to move to Ivano-Frankivsk from Mariupol, Dima K. gets overwhelmed by Koloah’s “Breath”, Kurl go deep

UKRAINIAN FIELD NOTES

“For the past eight years, they kept telling us we were going to be invaded. We didn’t think it would actually happen.” And then it did. My friend from Cherkasy, told me that her first reaction to war was to