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afterlife

by ILYICH

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    Afterlife is a musical journey through fantastical stories, soundscapes and the pulse of a new beginning.

    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.

    About the album:
    Calling the Cosmos:
    What is the response-ability of the artists and musicians in a historically critical moment? Many things have broken since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine and the initial occupation of Satelite Island, the artist’s birthplace. It is impossible to fully share a story of another war among so many others, and it is impossible not to share it. Informed by tragedy afterlife figures joyful ways of sounding a life after a breaking point. Embracing chaotic fractures as pathways of music the record summons a cosmos of the post-war future into the present.

    Genrefluidity:
    What is not music? The infiniteness of music goes far beyond the rigid limitations of state borders, self-righteous identities, stubborn egos, specific skills and instruments. Embracing transmigration to dream a boundless world inspired by difference, otherness and contradiction the album's afterlife creates a sonic playground. Here, the narratives of struggle and resolution, mingle with soundscapes and field recordings and take turns with jazz, fusion, pop, electronic music and instrumental interludes.

    Sonic Playground:
    On his musical journey, ILYICH travels in alliance with musicians and artists from Earth and many other worlds. Collaborators on the album include multi-instrumentalist Takuya Nakamura (JP/USA), drummer Ziggy Zeitgeist (AU/DE), artist and singer Hani Mojtahedy (KRI/DE), artists and actresses Susanne Sachsse (DE) and Olivia Lucy Phillip (UK/US), improvised jazz band Move 78 (UK/DE) and musicians currently displaced from Ukraine, multi-instrumentalist Oleksandr Cherno, singer Oleksandra Kazakova and sound engineers Viktor Kurando and Eugene Don.

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ILYICH, Takuya Nakamura - At The Door, with Takuya Nakamura 02:03
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ILYICH, Susanne Sachse - Prologue, with Susanne Sachsse 06:49
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ILYICH, Ziggy Zeitgeist - Redreams, with Ziggy Zeitgeist 04:39
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It's Love 01:31
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ILYICH, Hani Mojtahedy - Frau Fisch, with Hani Mojtahedy 02:46
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Kalpa 03:44
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ILYICH, Oleksandra Kazakova - What Was Then Is Also Now, with Oleksandra Kazakova 01:08
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Mykolaiv 04:53
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ILYICH, Oleksandr Cherno - Satellite Island, with Oleksandr Cherno 01:24
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It's Love, You See 02:46
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ILYICH, Olivia Lucy Phillip - Like Moonlight in Daylight, with Olivia Lucy Phillip 04:26
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ILYICH, Move 78 - Relay, with Move 78 00:44
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ILYICH, Susanne Sachse - Epilogue, with Susanne Sachse 06:50
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Afterlife is a musical journey through fantastical stories, soundscapes and the pulse of a new beginning.


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 February 29, 2024

- 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

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ILYICH Berlin, Germany

ILYICH is a musician and storyteller reincarnated in Kherson, Ukraine.

Augmenting music performances with performance art ILYICH plays live and pilots full sound of electronic music through soul and jazz. Embedded into a fusion of six-string bass and djing with synthesisers, drum machines, string orchestras, and choirs ILYICH tells stories inspired by struggle and resolution. ... more

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