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 XXVIII

For this month’s episode of UFN, Dubplanet X aka Obriy explains how he transforms anxiety inducing sounds into sonic effects for tracks, Anton Malynovskyi draws a brief outline of the apocalypse, Sony Synth treads the thin line separating genuine from

ummsbiaus ~ melynchka / Enerhomor

The sounds of war become the sounds of music. ummsbiaus first appeared on international streaming services with “melynchka,” recorded in the early days of the Russian invasion.  She recorded this track on her phone, in her garage, using the sounds

Ukrainian Field Notes XXI

As we enter the second year of the full-scale Russian invasion, we pursue our survey of the experimental and electronic scene in Ukraine with another round of interviews taking us to Odesa, Rivne, Ivano-Frankivsk and Kyiv as well as Lithuania,