afterlife is a musical journey through fantastical stories, soundscapes and the pulse of a new beginning.
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Conceiving the afterlife as something unfolding now, the album afterlife is responding to the military invasion of Ukraine with semi-fictional narratives, cinematic soundscapes, bass grooves and poems, string orchestras and broken beats. Afterlife is a practice of grieving and new beginnings, life after the latest moment of personal and collective history. The album embraces an uneasy place as the dawn of the fantastical.
Accompanied by allied musicians of various genres, ILYICH embarks on this journey and explores its multidimensional map. The album invites the audience to join forces by listening, dancing and redreaming the world as a world after war.
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Released on the 29th of February 2024
Length: 43:47min
Credits:
- At the Door with Takuya Nakamura / Composed and arranged by ILYICH. Trumpet by Takuya Nakamura
- Prologue with Susanne Sachsse / Composed and arranged by ILYICH. Text by ILYICH. Voice Susanne Sachsse
- Redreams with Ziggy Zeitgeist / Composed and arranged by ILYICH. Drum score ILYICH. Drums by Ziggy Zeitgeist
- It’s Love / Composed and arranged by ILYICH. Text by ILYICH.
- Frau Fisch with Hani Mojtahedy / Composed and arranged by ILYICH. Voice by Hani Mojtahedy. Text Hamid Sharifi
- Kalpa / Composed and arranged by ILYICH
- What was then, is also now with Oleksandra Kazakova / Composed and arranged by ILYICH. Text by ILYICH. Voice by Oleksandra Kazakova
- Mykolaiv / Composed and arranged by ILYICH.
- Satellite Island / Composed and arranged by ILYICH. Keys by Oleksandr Cherno
- It’s Love, You See / Composed and arranged by ILYICH. Text by ILYICH.
- Like Moonlight in Daylight with Olivia Lucy Phillip / Composed and arranged by ILYICH. Text by ILYICH. Voice Olivia Lucy Phillip
- Relay with Move 78 / Composed and arranged by ILYICH. Drums sample by Move 78
- Epilogue with Susanne Sachsse / Composed and arranged by ILYICH. Text by ILYICH. Voice Susanne Sachsse
Mixing: Viktor Kurando
Mastering: Eugene Diggidon Don
Supported by Berlin Senate Department for Culture and Europe and Musicboard Berlin
LISTENING SESSION AT HOUSE OF WORLD CULTURES, BERLIN:
