The Making of Basement 626
(2025)
June 5, 2025
(UA)
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Documentary, Music, War
• 41m
Overview
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.
Keywords
jazz
improvisation
music documentary
russian invasion of ukraine (2022)
ukraine
ukrainian
war
documentary
music
recording an album
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