afterlife
House of World Cultures (H.K.W.)
Vinyl / Music Album
43:47min
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Expanding on the film If not now, when? directed by Anton Kats and presented in the exhibition As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories, the public is invited to launch a subsequent vinyl record, afterlife, by musician and storyteller ILYICH. The record is a musical journey through fantastical stories, soundscapes, and the pulse of a new beginning that conceives of the afterlife as that which unfolds in the present.
The album afterlife responds 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 beginning anew, embracing life after the latest moment of personal and collective trauma.
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 a world after war.
Credits:
– 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
Photos: Mathias Voelzke
Album Cover: Anton Kats and Igor Kritskiy
Released on the 29th of February 2024
Supported by Musicboard Berlin
