Light In The Attic label together with Ukrainian archive label Shukai will release the compilation ‘Even the Forest Hums: Ukrainian Sonic Archives 1971-1996’. The project unites 18 tracks by Ukrainian artists of different genres — from Vodohrai vocal and instrumental ensemble to Tsukor Bila Smert (Sugar White Death)
The project is curated by producers David DBGO Mas and Mark Frosty McNeill, Light In The Attic owner Matt Sullivan and the Shukai team. It took five years to collect the material.
In addition to the digital release, the anthology will be released on vinyl — on two classic black records and transparent blue and yellow records. Another physical edition of ‘Even the Forest Hums’ will be in the format of a hardback book with a disk.
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Mariia Prymachenko’s drawing was chosen for the cover. Vitalii Bardetskyi, music journalist, author of the documentary ‘Mustache Funk’, wrote the texts for the edition.
On Bandcamp you can listen to two tracks from ‘Even the Forest Hums’ — the instrumental ‘Bunny’ by Kobza vocal and instrumental ensemble and ‘Play, the Violin, Play’ performed by Tetiana Kocherhina and Kyrylo Stetsenko.
The release will go on sale on October 18. You can now pre-order it on the Light in the Attic website. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the Livyj Bereh volunteer organization.
On March 1, 2024, Shukai released a vinyl album of the Tsukor Bila Smert (Sugar White Death) band titled ‘Recordings 1990-1993’. In addition to the vinyl album, a digital discography of the band, which contains 31 songs, is available on Bandcamp.
Shukai had previously released an LP featuring ‘Transilvania Smile’ (1994), one of the first solo recordings by the band’s co-founder Svitlana Niano.
