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*Genre: Folk Symphonic Black Metal
*Country: Ukraine

Born in Kharkov, Ukraine, the daughter of political refugees and raised in the suburbs of Boston, Alina moved to Austin after art school and started off singing on Sixth Street. Her debut album, Placelessness (2007) earned both national airplay and critical acclaim. Her last album Everyone is Crying Out To Me, Beware was sung in Russian and covered the music of Siberian punk-folk singer Yanka Dyagileva.
Produced by Steve Revitte (Liars, Beastie Boys, Black Dice), Make Your Own Danger is Simone’s lushest and most fully realized work to date, with exotic touches that include flute, autoharp, horns, Brazilian drumming and vocal loops.

Sound In Silence is proud to welcome Endless Melancholy to its family, presenting his new album A Perception Of Everything.
Endless Melancholy is the self-descriptive music act of Oleksiy Sakevych, based in Kyiv, Ukraine. Since 2011 he has released six albums, a remix album, a compilation and many singles and EPs on labels such as Preserved Sound, Twice Removed, AZH Music, 1631 Recordings, p*dis, Dronarivm, Thesis, Past Inside The Present and his own Hidden Vibes. He has worked on collaboration/split releases with artists such as Desolate Horizons, Lights Dim and Hotel Neon, is also member of the post-rock band Sleeping Bear and has released music under the aliases of Moonshine Blues and bc_ranger.
A Perception Of Everything is the seventh full-length album by Endless Melancholy and his first for Sound In Silence. It is an album, inspired by traveling and visiting new places. It is made of field recordings made using a microcassette tape recorder, tape loops and synth pads. It is an album about the constant attempts to live in harmony with yourself and searching for your inner peace. About trying to shape your own perception of everything in this fragile and ever-changing world.
A Perception Of Everything is a sublime album of wonderful soundscapes, carefully mastered by George Mastrokostas (aka Absent Without Leave) and highly recommended for devotees of ambient pioneers such as Brian Eno, Harold Budd and Steve Roach.
This is a limited edition of 200 handmade and hand-numbered collectible copies. It is packaged in a lovely hand-stamped 127mm x 127mm 260 gsm ivory cardboard envelope with the front cover image printed on a polaroid style photo paper and an insert sheet containing tracklist and information printed on a 170 gsm azure cardboard. It also comes bundled with a download code coupon and a Sound In Silence card.

HV056 The Green Kingdom - Springhill
The Green Kingdom is Michael Cottone, based in Michigan. His compositions blur the line between soundscape and structure, utilizing a variety of processed acoustic and electronic sources, sampled textures and field recordings. 'Springhill' is a new album by The Green Kingdom, following releases on such labels as Dronarivm, Archives and Past Inside The Present.
"This album is about home. Springhill is the name of the neighborhood my family lives in, and in a way, this album is a sonic love letter to our little piece of this earth and its surrounding areas. Little themes to soundtrack our daily existence and appreciate the beauty that surrounds us, but is often easily overlooked. My hope is that it can be the same for your home, wherever that may be." - Michael Cottone.

Acclaimed Ukrainian experimental electronic musician Heinali releases livestreamed solo performance from a basement in war-torn Lviv, raising crucial funds for Ukrainian humanitarian initiatives.
Beginning on May 10th 2022, Ukrainian musician Heinali (Oleh Shpudeiko), together with the live from Ukraine team, inaugurated a series of livestreamed performances directly from a basement and makeshift bombshelter in Lviv. Though billed as a fundraising mission, the concert series also serves a poignant and powerful window into the lives of the beleaguered Ukrainian citizens and creatives, battling the unthinkable realities of producing music in a country at war.
His most recent stream will be released as a live album by Injazero Records on October 28th. Oleh writes:
Explosions woke us in Kyiv at 4 am. That day and the following day, we did not sleep. I took several shirts, underwear, papers, and my modular system. On the road to the Polish border, my mother lost consciousness. On the road to the Hungarian border, our car drifted into an opposite lane of a serpentine, narrowly escaping lorries floating toward us half sideways in a sudden snowstorm.
We were the lucky ones. They crossed the border, and I spent the next month in Lviv as the battle of Kyiv was raging. At my... friend's music school, we organised a series of fundraising broadcasts with performances of Ukrainian musicians who, like I, fled to Lviv. As the air raid alarms grew more frequent, we had to cancel or postpone live streams until we settled on broadcasting the next performance from a bomb shelter nearby.
It took two 50m Ethernet cables, coupled together and shielded from the rain with a plastic bag. And fixing the issue with the electricity. I played a set based on Organa, an album I had worked on for the past year until the Russian invasion brought it to a halt. It reimagined the XII and XIII century polyphonic compositions of the Parisian school in modular synthesis. A genuinely bizarre juxtaposition, considering the circumstances.
But when I started playing, something happened, and for these twenty minutes, I felt like I reconnected, for the first time since the invasion, with the part of myself I thought was gone for good. Tatyana, one of my friends present, put this feeling into words: “Heinali's music miraculously fits the bomb shelters and transforms them into a sacred space of Roman catacombs.”
That night I returned home and checked the news. It was the Bucha massacre. And the miracle quickly dissipated as I felt like every one of these people was me. And they were all of us.
The music Oleh produces is not overtly mournful, but a celebration of life even in a challenging and oppressive environment. A celebration of the Ukrainian people and testament to their bravery; willfully uncompromising protest music.
For the performance, seated before a compact modular rig he managed to save, Oleh coaxed airy figures based upon Medieval counterpoint into tangled thickets of polyphony and rich, thrumming drones. As noted by Philip Sherburne in Pitchfork, “In any other context, it would be profoundly beautiful; given the war raging outside, this quiet act of perseverance takes on even greater significance.” The violence being visited upon the country only makes the contemplative stillness of Heinali’s music that much more striking.
All proceeds from the live album will be donated to Musicians Defend Ukraine, a charitable foundation picked by the artist.
Bank details for donations:
linkpeak.io/l/defendukraine
Live from Ukraine production andvolunteer team:
Michael Balog, Ivan Kostyk, Alexey Shmurak, Iryna Kirchanova, Tatyana Voloshyna, Anton Hauk.