23rd July, Thursday, 20:00. Munk, Nizhnyaya Syromyatnicheskaya 1/4c11, opposite Winzavod. Free entry, registration required. Link https://lemymunk.ticketscloud.org. I have been looking at this poster for a few minutes now and it still does not feel entirely real. A year without a show does something to you. You keep making music, keep rehearsing, keep believing it will […]
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It is happening. An actual concert, my own, and I cannot quite believe I am typing this. There has not been a show for a year. That is a long time to sit with music that wants to be performed. I kept working, kept writing, kept looking for the right moment and the right space.
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On the 23rd of May I am releasing a track called Unique. And it is not what you would expect from me. I came across Artem Dermendzhiev through a friend’s Instagram stories. She was recommending him, I noticed his work, wrote to him the same day. We started making this track almost immediately after that.
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Three drummers, a percussionist, and a sitar walked into a room. No guitars, no bass. That was not the plan, but it turned out to be the point. Our jam on the 3rd of May took shape around what actually showed up rather than what was expected. The sitar changed everything. It pulled the atmosphere
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We tend to play in one mood. Same people, same energy, same direction. It works, but it settles into a pattern without you noticing. This time we are doing something different. On the 3rd of May, we are gathering warm, open musicians for an improvisation session with a specific twist. Each participant will draw an
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Cover shoot days have their own rhythm. You arrive, the setup takes longer than expected, and then somewhere in the middle of it all the right frame appears and you know immediately. Today was for a new dance track. Something with a different energy to BLUE, more immediate, built for movement. The cover needed to
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There is something about a song that takes its time getting to you. BLUE has been sitting with me for a while. Not in a difficult way, more like a quiet companion. The kind of track that doesn’t rush to explain itself. I kept coming back to it during sessions, adjusting small things, listening to
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Nearly two years of monthly sessions now. Sound Dialogues has become something I look forward to more than almost anything else in my creative routine. When Rob McIntosh first suggested co-running these online gatherings back in June 2024, I wasn’t sure what to expect. Virtual format felt limiting somehow. But distance creates its own kind
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‘Secrets and Dreams’ went through more rewrites than any other track on the album. I’d write in Russian, translate to English, lose the meaning, start again. Three complete versions before we found something that worked. So performing it live meant carrying all those ghosts of previous attempts. The studio version has layers — Vlad built
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Sometimes the simplest songs deserve the simplest treatment. We filmed ‘Morning’ as a live session, and it’s now on YouTube. Just me, the guitar, and whatever honesty I could bring to that room. No studio tricks, no layered production to hide behind. What you hear is what happened. This track always felt different from the
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