The compilation album ‘24.2.24’ by Ukrainian label ‘OCHI’ includes 60 tracks recorded by 50 Ukrainian artists, including military personnel. The label will donate all profits from the album sales to the MUSICIANS DEFEND UKRAINE foundation
The artists recorded all compositions between February 24, 2023 and February 24, 2024.
Among the genres represented in the compilation album are ambient, hard techno, noise, dubstep, breakbeat, and field recordings.
‘24.2.24’ opens with the track ‘De moyi sny’ by Maxym Liutcode with Kryvtsov’s voice and poems. ‘These are the words of poet and machine gunner Maksym Kryvtsov, recorded in the dugout of one of the positions. He died two months before the release of this compilation album’, the release description reads.
‘This work is an attempt to create a time capsule that preserves fragments of the opinions and ideas of someone who should be fixed in our cultural code. People who had something to say to us but were killed by russia’
You can purchase ‘24.2.24’ and support MUSICIANS DEFEND UKRAINE on Bandcamp. The price is from $24.
Snippets of the release are available for listening on SoundCloud.
About Maksym Kryvtsov
Maksym Kryvtsov was a Ukrainian poet and serviceman with the call sign ‘Dali’. He died on January 7, 2024.
Kryvtsov joined the army as a volunteer back in 2014. After that, he worked at the Center for Rehabilitation and Readaptation of ATO and JFO participants and Veteran Hub. He returned to the front in 2022 after the outbreak of a full-scale war.
In 2023, with the participation of the publishing company ‘Nash Format’ Maksym published the collection ‘Poems from the Loophole’, which PEN Ukraine named one of the best poetry collections of the year.
About the ‘OCHI’ label
‘OCHI’ is a Ukrainian label launched by Dmytro Svitlov (aka be_ca_di), an electronic artist and resident of the Shum.Rave formation from Sloviansk.
‘OCHI’ unites 22 artists from 16 cities of Ukraine. According to Dmytro, the label’s goal is ‘to bring something new to the electronic music industry in Ukraine and Europe’ and to allow Ukrainian artists to develop and experiment: without deadlines, formats or genres.
The Strategic Media Support Program project will implement the Lviv Media Forum with the financial support of People in Need (PIN) and Pioneer Foundation.
