ACL 2025 ~ The Year’s Best Ukrainian Music

For over three years, Gianmarco Del Re has been chronicling the creation of music under fire in two books and forty episodes of Ukrainian Field Notes to date.  Few had imagined the war would go on for so long, with

Poly Chain ~ Nemesis

Poly Chain (Kyiv-born Sasha Zakrevska) has been making music for a dozen years, and on Nemesis she takes inventory of her journey.  The tracks span that entire length.  Shifting from ambience to club music and back again, the album also symbolizes