In January 2025, experimental jazz duo Myshko Birchenko and Yevhen Puhachov, members of Hyphen Dash, travelled to Kramatorsk without any pre-made drafts or demo recordings to use music as a vessel to capture the emotions present in a place on the edge of a battle for survival and explore the therapeutic nature of music and improvisation in the brutal reality of war. They packed all the equipment into a car, drove 700 kilometres from Kyiv to the frontline city Kramatorsk, and turned one of many basements which serve as shelters into a makeshift recording studio. As a result, they recorded over 300 minutes of music, which were eventually distilled into a 90-minute album.
Genre: Documentary, Music, War
Stars: Myshko Birchenko, Yevhen Puhachov, Maryna Pleshcheieva, Andrii Pleshcheiev
Crew: Vadim Pinyagin (Director), Daniel Khomych (Colorist), Andrii Shakhadynets (Technical Advisor), Vadim Pinyagin (Writer), Vadim Pinyagin (Director of Photography)
Country: Ukraine
Language: Український
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Runtime: 41 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jun 05, 2025
IMDb: 1