{"id":12510,"date":"2022-04-15T10:33:35","date_gmt":"2022-04-15T15:33:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/?p=12510"},"modified":"2022-04-25T20:07:12","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T01:07:12","slug":"a-look-at-ukrainian-experimental-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/aivakhiv\/2022\/04\/15\/a-look-at-ukrainian-experimental-music\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at Ukrainian experimental music"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I was interviewed last week by UC Santa Barbara music professor and KCSB DJ David Novak on his show Selectric Davyland. The hour-long interview offers a highly personal take on Ukrainian music since the 1980s; David called it a “Personal and Political History (and a Playlist) of Ukrainian Experimental Music.” It features an adventurous mix of work by contemporary Ukrainian composers and bands from Kharkiv (The Moglass), Odesa (Kadaitcha), and Berlin (Zavoloka), as well as a piece of Polissian (Chernobyl area) traditional singing by the authentic folk ensemble Drevo, and a few bits from my own late 1980s-1990s Ukrainian-Canadian band Vapniaky<\/a>, a.k.a. Stalagmites Under a Naked Sky<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the points I make in the interview is that a common theme in Ukrainian music is the relationship to land. One finds this in all Ukrainian music, from contemporary classical to black metal, industrial, rave, ambient, and experimental. It’s of course evident in the avant-folk forms that have become popular in recent years (as in Dakha Brakha<\/a>, Go_A<\/a>, Folknery<\/a>, et al.), and is a theme that’s become all the more explicit in the statements of musicians, and some of the music being made right now, in the context of the current war and attempted Russian invasion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The interview can be listened to in Soundcloud; click below<\/a> or here<\/a>. The playlist, which you can find here<\/a>, includes links to further listening. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/distortculture\/selectricdavyland040422ivakhivukrainianexpmusic?utm_source=clipboard&utm_medium=text&utm_campaign=social_sharing<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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