WZBC 90.3 FM Newton
Boston College Radio, Chestnut Hill, MA
Student-run radio station at Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Mass. USA
Oct 11, 2022 1:00 AM – 7:00 AM
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Our daily Ukrainian song airs at 2:12 AM tonight. The bot randomly selected a tune by Blablarism (Oksana Zmorovytch) entitled Aelveora. It's from her album Agnostodynis: https://fabrikarecords.bandcamp.com/album/fp012-agnostodynis
Here's a video that someone (a record label rep?) made for this song:
Oct 4, 2022 1:00 AM – 7:00 AM
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We kicked off the overnight program with a lovely piece entitled Поруч, by В'язане Море (Knitted Sea). В'язане Море is the project of Vlad Yakovlev from Kovel', Ukraine.
https://knittedsea.bandcamp.com
Sep 27, 2022 1:00 AM – 7:00 AM
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At 1:06 AM, the bot plays the featured Ukrainian song, First Rays of Hope, by 58918012 (Yurii Popov.)
https://58918012.bandcamp.com https://www.instagram.com/erringmind/ Yurii's music blog is fun: https://www.faetonmusic.com/ |
Sep 20, 2022 1:00 AM – 7:00 AM
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The Ukrainian song is at 2:00 AM tonight: La Porte de L'Enfer by The House of the Hidden Light.
https://thehouseofthehiddenlight.bandcamp.com/
Sep 13, 2022 1:00 AM – 7:00 AM
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We have two Ukrainian songs tonight:
1:44 AM - Zoom by Actually Alone
1:47 AM - Trumpets of the Latter Day by La Horsa Bianca
Most members of La Horsa Bianca left their hometown of Kharkiv a few months ago, when it became dangerous to live there. They had moved, along with their families, to different cities, except for one who stayed behind and became a war correspondent and photographer. We hope with the recent developments in the war, they will all be able to return to Kharkiv soon.
https://lahorsabianca.bandcamp.com/
Previous news of La Horsa Bianca:
May 20, 2022: https://spinitron.com/WZBC/pl/15988072/Seventh-Bot-of-a-Seventh-Bot
June 26, 2022: https://spinitron.com/WZBC/pl/16050492/Bots-on-Parade
July 15, 2022: https://spinitron.com/WZBC/pl/16192029/Seventh-Bot-of-a-Seventh-Bot
Sep 6, 2022 1:00 AM – 7:00 AM
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The bot randomly selected four Ukrainian songs for the program tonight.
2:33 AM: Вершники (Riders) by Неймовира (Neimovira)
https://knittedsea.bandcamp.com/album/album-2022
3:10 AM: Stella Askaris by Tchornavidma
https://tchornavidma.bandcamp.com
3:52 AM: Coma Cluster by Akhluth
https://kalpamantra.bandcamp.com/album/coma-cluster
4:13 AM: Slow Drifting by Rudnic Ore
https://rudnicore.bandcamp.com
Aug 30, 2022 1:00 AM – 7:00 AM
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Tonight's featured band is a duo from Kyiv who call themselves Миша Лигуревич (Misha Ligurevich). We cannot find a clear translation of the song title, "Ой, не світи місяченьку", which airs at 1:55 AM. You can find this song on their debut album Заговоры и песни (Songs and Conspiracies) on bandcamp: https://erythroleukoplakia.bandcamp.com/album/--27
According to the webzine Neformat, Misha Ligurevich is Roma Chumak and Semyon Dokiychuk, who are former members of the psychedelic post-punk project Brezhnev and Dao. We'll have to find the music of Brezhnev and Dao for a future program!
Aug 23, 2022 1:00 AM – 8:00 AM
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We have two rather dark Ukrainian songs for you tonight. First, it's Casa Ukrainia, from Odesa, with their song Maruna airing at 1:27 AM.
https://casaukrania.bandcamp.com/
At 1:44 AM the darkness continues with the song 88 by Wool, who are from Kyiv.
Aug 16, 2022 1:00 AM – 8:00 AM
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At 1:29 AM the bot plays the daily Ukrainian song. Tonight it's the song Moldovanka by Polje.
Aug 9, 2022 1:00 AM – 8:00 AM
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To choose tonight's song, we went back in time to a 2018 compilation on Ukraine's Khatacomb label. The artist, Tchornavidma, created this spooky instrumental entitled Stella Askaris, which airs at 1:40 AM on tonight's program.
He is based in Zaporizhzhia, not far from the nuclear power plant that the invaders started shelling again yesterday. Spooky music seems appropriate at this time.
Tchornavidma has been making gloomy music since 2011, and his numerous releases on Bandcamp are free to download (or "name your price.")
https://tchornavidma.bandcamp.com
Aug 2, 2022 1:00 AM – 8:00 AM
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The bot selected three Ukrainian songs to play in the middle of the night.
3:19 AM - The Mirror of Mrs Berd by Zinaida Opomnis!
3:28 AM - Bye, Friend by Osfill Klayse
5:05 AM - Зубья созвездий (Star Teeth) by The House of the Hidden Light
Jul 26, 2022 1:00 AM – 8:00 AM
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Our high-quality livestream has been kaput since Sunday. An alternative feed is available here:
http://amber.streamguys.com:4880/stream
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Today's Ukrainian music offering is the piece "First Rays of Hope" by 58918012, playing around 2:05 AM. Yurii Popov creates his solo work under the name 58918012: https://58918012.bandcamp.com/
Every time we profile Yurii before, we love to mention his website, https://www.faetonmusic.com, where he reviews music submitted to him by artists from all over the world.
He just released a new album on July 21, and we'll play something from it on another program soon.
Here's an interview with Yurii from earlier this year by Gianmarco Del Re for internet radio station Fluid Radio:
Jul 19, 2022 1:00 AM – 8:00 AM
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Bot's pick tonight! At about 3:46 AM, the bot plays the song "Mikrokosmos (For George Crumb)" by the King Imagine Online Sextet. Alexeiy Mikryukov, from Kyiv, has been collaborating with other musicians and making his own music for decades under the moniker King Imagine.
Explore his music here: https://kingimagine2.bandcamp.com/music |
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The bot selected a second Ukrainian song for tonight's program. If you're awake at 4:05 AM, you may hear "Д-город (D-City)" by the group Dahau Holidays from Donetsk. According to the band, "In the text of the song Donetsk appears in the image of a woman whose painful love through disgust and pain, leads the lyrical hero to death."
Dahau Holidays is no longer living in Donetsk. They write, "In May 2014, due to the Russian invasion, our couple Vadym and Kseniia were forced to leave our native Donetsk. Having moved to Uzhgorod, we rented an apartment and sheltered two of our friends, who also left Donetsk. Since we were all musicians inspired by the dark scene, in October 2014 living together we decided to create a DIY post-punk project. This is how the Dahau Holidays group was born."
https://dahauholidays.bandcamp.com
Jul 12, 2022 1:00 AM – 8:00 AM
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Today, at 1:17 AM, we listen to a song from Del Cano, who is from Odesa. The man behind Del Cano is Serhiy Vovk. In the music zine Neformat, he talks about how the war has affected his music.
(translated from Ukrainian)
Not so long ago, the experimental project Del Cano released its new album "FROM THE AIR!", the recording of which stretched over a year.
Serhiy Vovk, the founder and sole participant of the project, conceived this full-format album under better circumstances, with different opinions. So his work now contrasts with the life that has come in Ukraine.
"These were romantic-cosmic moods characteristic of the Del Cano project. Let me remind you that the very first composition of the project, "Comienzo" (2014), was a general intro and celebrated the launch of a rocket into space. And now, when most of the album was already recorded, the war began. This is the complete opposite of what my music was about. A blow to the cosmic "Dream" and shattered nostalgic romance. The second part of the album is darkness with flashes of hope," Serhiy shares with Neformat.
Neformat is a Ukrainian music zine that focuses exclusively on the Ukrainian music scene. http://neformat.com.ua
Jul 5, 2022 1:00 AM – 8:00 AM
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The bot selected two mysterious artists to feature on tonight's program.
At 3:26 AM, we hear from Naughty Saw. According to the Ukrainian music zine Neformat, "Since it is not known in which city Naughty Saw lives, it is suggested that he can live among dilapidated buildings and wagons left on the tracks or among empty concrete boxes." https://naughtysaw.bandcamp.com
Naughty Saw
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Later, hear two songs by таквотжеоні that the bot selected.
At 5:29 AM, it's "Danses Macabre", and at 7:18 AM, hear their song "В ылезай".
таквотжеоні is another mysterious artist. We don't know who is behind this project, where they are based, and how the war has affected them. But we enjoy their music! https://soundcloud.com/user-783588927
Jun 28, 2022 1:00 AM – 8:00 AM
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Tonight we feature King Imagine, aka Alexeiy Mikryukov, from Kyiv. There is quite a bio of him here, covering his career through 2006: http://www.southerncitylab.net/2014/05/SCL131.html
Many of his recordings since 2013 are here: https://kingimagine2.bandcamp.com/music
Jun 21, 2022 1:00 AM – 8:00 AM
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Tonight the algorithm selected two Ukrainian songs. Starting at 3:00 AM, hear Sherpa the Tiger, followed by 58918012 (aka Yuriy Popov.) We profiled them both previously:
58918012: https://spinitron.com/WZBC/pl/16093290/
Sherpa the Tiger: https://spinitron.com/WZBC/pl/16066961/
Jun 14, 2022 1:00 AM – 8:00 AM
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The bot picked the featured Ukrainian song tonight, and is playing it near the start of the program: "Pa" (translation: "None") by Polje, aka Viktor Konstantinov. One of Polje's Bandcamp web pages states that he is in Kyiv, and another says Odesa. Perhaps he left Odesa because it's likely to be attacked eventually.
We profiled Viktor previously, on May 31: https://spinitron.com/WZBC/pl/16025605/
Jun 7, 2022 1:00 AM – 8:00 AM
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Ah, this is one the programs where the bot randomly selected a Ukrainian song from the WZBC library. It plays at 5:43 AM, and is a rock song by Teplа́, from Dnipro, Ukraine. https://tepla.bandcamp.com