afterlife

Vinyl / Music Album
43:47min

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

Composed, arranged, written and produced by ILYICH.

Tracks and extended credits:

• At the Door with Takuya Nakamura / Trumpet by Takuya Nakamura
• Prologue with Susanne Sachsse / Voice Susanne Sachsse
• Redreams with Ziggy Zeitgeist / Drums by Ziggy Zeitgeist
• It’s Love
• Frau Fisch with Hani Mojtahedy / Composed and arranged by ILYICH. Voice Hani Mojtahedy. Text Hamid Sharifi
• Kalpa
• What was then, is also now with Oleksandra Kazakova / Voice by Oleksandra Kazakova
• Mykolaiv
• Satellite Island / Keys by Oleksandr Cherno
• It’s Love, You See
• Like Moonlight in Daylight with Olivia Lucy Phillip / Voice Olivia Lucy Phillip
• Relay with Move 78 / 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

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