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Our bot decided to play Зона Призначення (Destination Zone) by AndrosLand at 2:04 AM. The songs comes from the compilation Electronic Resistance - A Darkwave / Post-Punk Compilation From The Ukrainian Underground

Del Cano is our featured Ukrainian artist tonight. His song Casa airs at 2:10 AM.

https://samopalrecords.bandcamp.com/album/del-cano-recuerdo-ep-s-r-101

We begin the program tonight with a short set of experimental music from Florida, hand picked by the bot's assistant.

The fifth song of the program is the bot's idea: Somniat Praeterita by ProtoU (Sasha Puzan.) That's our Ukrainian song of the day.

In the early days of the war, Sasha fled the country with her young son, but last we heard, the two of them returned to Kyiv and reunited with Sasha's husband Oleg (aka musician Dronny Darko.)

After playing ProtoU, the bot is in control and anything can happen....

ProtoU

Ah, the bot decided to play a song by another Ukrainian female experimental musician (there aren't many.) At 3 AM, hear Bombas by Bryozone (aka Ganna Bryzhata.)

Bryozone

The bot selected the song Tyolky by DakhaBrakha as the Ukrainian song tonight, airing at 2:43 AM. This is convenient, because they will be at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston this Sunday evening: https://www.berklee.edu/BPC/events/dakhabrakha

They do a fantastic multimedia performance. Highly recommended.

Today's Ukrainian song isn't on until 6:09 AM. It's by an artist who writes his album and song titles in Ukrainian only. That's refreshing, but it means we have to run everything though a translation app and hope for the best!

The musician is Джоні Зашморг (Johny Zashmorg) with his song Бурштин (Amber). It's from the album Стволи і Хрести (Trunks and Crosses).

https://erythroleukoplakia.bandcamp.com/album/--24

Most of the Ukrainian music we play every night is available on the platform bandcamp.com, where the artists sell their music directly to the fans. "Bandcamp Friday" is back--it's a day when the company does not charge the musicians the standard Bandcamp fee of about 11%. Whenever you purchase music on "Bandcamp Friday", approximately 93% of what you pay goes directly to the musicians. The other 7% or so covers bank processing fees.

That means this is a perfect time to support Ukrainian bands, and all the other musicians you enjoy. We are playing Ukrainian music for the entire first hour tonight. Songs were selected by the bot's assistant instead of the bot (thank you, bot!)

Bandcamp Friday begins at 3:00 AM here in the eastern time zone, and ends at 3:00 AM tomorrow morning.

The music will go from dark to electronic to spacy to ambient in the first hour. We'll play a few more Ukrainian songs after 3:00 AM. Links to the music on Bandcamp are listed for the Ukrainian songs below.

At 12:22 AM the bot plays tonight's Ukrainian song, На свято чисте ми скликаєм тіні святих часів, часів благословенних by Terbot. They are from Kovel', Ukraine.

https://knittedsea.bandcamp.com/album/terbot-album-2022

Following Terbot is a second Ukrainian song, Ritual 2, by Naughty Saw.

https://naughtysaw.bandcamp.com/

At 12:17 AM we play our featured Ukrainian artist, Pororoka, with their song Дим (Dym).

Posted on their facebook page on April 11:

In general, in terms of musical affairs, during the 47 days of war, as a band, we felt some attention from ordinary foreigners. People listen to our music and support Ukraine. To date, we have a small plus on the bandcamp - about 200 dollars net. Basically, this amount was collected during the first 20 days of the invasion. Considering that our band is not promoted, this is an interesting result. Of course, we already know who to transfer the money to as soon as Bandcamp makes the payment.

We believe in our victory. And we invest in it!

And thank you! :)

https://www.pororoka.com/about https://pororoka.bandcamp.com/album/pororoka https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZeWCOp6Cs4 https://www.facebook.com/pororokaMusic

Our featured song tonight airs at 12:33 AM. It is the song Опадання by Неймовіра, from his album Музика Сутінок. is a solo project of Vlad Yakovlev, from Kovel', Ukraine.

https://knittedsea.bandcamp.com/

Our Ukrainian song plays at 1:07 AM, "Airflows" by protoU, aka Sasha Puzan from Kyiv. She has 13 albums on the Cryo Chamber record label, including collaborations with other artists. ProtoU's sound could be described as "dronescapes."

In this interview by Gianmarco Del Re of Fluid Radio, we learn that Sasha is also a violinist and singer. She and her son left the country a few days after the war started, leaving her husband behind. His name is Oleg Puzan, and he collaborates with Sasha on some albums under his alias Dronny Darko. We'll feature Oleg's music on a future program.

Here's a long interview with Sasha:

We love it when the bot plays a song by Zavoloka, because it gives us another opportunity to post this fantastic photo of her. Zavoloka is Ukrainian artist Kateryna Zavoloka, who is now based in Berlin. Her website includes her bio, discography, photos, and videos, including a music video of "Ornament", the song the bot plays at 4:22 AM on today's program. https://zavoloka.com/about/

Listen to more of her music at https://zavoloka.bandcamp.com/

Randomly selected by the bot:

At 2:21 AM: Casa Ukrainia, of Odesa: https://casaukrania.bandcamp.com

At 4:01 AM: Polje, from Kyiv: https://polje.bandcamp.com

We played them before on this program, and have no recent news about these artists, so we'll just let the bot play the music.

The bot picked three Ukrainian songs for the program tonight. At 3:40 AM it's La Horsa Bianca, followed by Kojoohar At 3:46, and finally at 4:46 AM we have DakhaBrakha.

DakhaBrakha are incredible live, according to the bot's assistant, who caught their April 2022 performance in Somerville. Don't miss them when they return to Boston, this time on September 18 at the Berklee Performance Center in Boston:

https://www.berklee.edu/BPC/events/dakhabrakha

https://dakhabrakha.bandcamp.com

La Horsa Bianca (pictured above) were profiled here previously, on May 20 and June 6.

https://lahorsabianca.bandcamp.com

We have been following the wartime experiences of band members, especially their guitarist Kirill Gonchar, who chose to stay in the band's hometown of Kharkiv after the other members moved their families to safer areas. Kirill is using his video and photography skills to document the war, and we've been seeing his name in the credits on many war photos.

The Ukraїner website has a wonderful series of photo digests entitled "How Ukraine is resisting Russian occupation." There are 22 digests to date, and Kirill's photos appears in many of them. Start at https://ukrainer.net/thread-en/war/ and change UA to EN for the English-language version. Click open any of the digests.

A couple of Kirill's excellent war photos are in digest #7: https://ukrainer.net/photo-digest-7/ - look for the clotheslines, and the one with the lion.

The bot selected Легче чем бунт (Easier Than Rebellion) by Выставка Дисторшн (Distortion Exhibition), to play at 5:53 AM for you early risers. Distortion Exhibition is a solo project of Serhii Kovalenko, who is from Dnipro, Ukraine.

According to the Ukrainian music zine NEFORMAT, "Among his musical influences, the musician singles out The Fall, Shortparis, Sleaford Mods, Girl Band, IDLES, The Prodigy."

https://distortion-exhibition.bandcamp.com

https://facebook.com/distortion.exhibition

We promised one Ukrainian song every night. Tonight our sweet bot selected four songs, to play between 1:00 AM and 3:00 AM.

1. Vavil by Bryozone - https://bryozone.bandcamp.com/album/acid-frog-day
2. ГОЛОСОВІ ФОТОГРАФА by AOPTA - https://erythroleukoplakia.bandcamp.com/album/--3
3. Space background 06 by Pankifared - https://systemnapotvora.bandcamp.com/album/--3
4. A Doshchyk Nakrapaie (And the Rain Falls Down) by DakhaBrakha - https://dakhabrakha.bandcamp.com/album/the-road

Tonight we feature ambient noise from Буду Думати, which translates as "I Will Think". The song is entitled "Мухи у Роті" (Flies in the Mouth).

https://erythroleukoplakia.bandcamp.com/album/--19

Above is a poster for an upcoming concert. The information is from his Telegram page, under another project name, Milchenko Church. https://t.me/s/church_milchenka

Our song tonight is ГОЛОСОВІ ФОТОГРАФА (Voice of the Photographer) by AOPTA.

https://erythroleukoplakia.bandcamp.com/album/--3

The bot selected the featured song tonight. It's by the duo Kojoohar and Ködzid Goo, whom we last played on May 2. The bot plays their song "Сулема" at 1:40 AM.

One can never be sure whether the bot is selecting songs at random. Tonight we suspect an algorithm is in play, with the bot selecting a Ukrainian band with the industrial sound, because djeremy played a long set by industrialists Test Dept. on the program preceding this one. Nice choice, bot!

		https://kojoohar.bandcamp.com/
Kojoohar is Andrii Kozhukhar. We have no new dispatches this month from his city of Nova Kakhovka. On April 27, 2022, the following was posted on Bandcamp by Edward Sol, Yurii Samson, and Andrii Kozhukhar.
"Since February 24, 2022 we, the ones behind Kadaitcha, Starless, Kojoohar projects and Despot label, are staying in our home town Nova Kakhovka occupied by russian troops. The concomitant initial physical and psychological shock and pressure alternately transformed into either despair and frustration or the bursts of anger and rage. We decided to imprint this period of time in a small yet heavy release from two of our personal projects."
Edward Sol, who is mentioned above, is also on tonight's playlist, at 3:00 AM. The bot has selected two electronic music artists from Nova Kakhovka for this program.

Tonight we have a song by Bryozone, from Odesa. Bryozone is the electronic music project of Ganna Briyzhata, who also plays bass in the band Chillera. She contributed a Bryozone track entitled "Bombas" to the compilation Sestro ("Sister"), to raise funds to "directly financially support (ГО Сфера) Sphere (@womenspheresolidarity) which is a Kharkiv-based organization that actively helps women and LGBT+ people from eastern Ukraine in territories that are heavily affected by war."

Read more about this organization and the compilation at https://systemnapotvora.bandcamp.com/album/sestro

https://m.soundcloud.com/gannabryzhata

https://bryozone.bandcamp.com