Welcome to Artefacts – your quick guide to recently released ambient and drone records.
In this episode, we listen to works by artists from Ukraine. Created amid the ongoing war, these releases reflect resilience, reflection, and the search for peace through sound.
Made during a period of illness, Yurii Popov’s Consonance offers a minimal, looping calm intended as a sonic balm against pain and uncertainty — a quiet act of peace in turbulent times.
🔗 https://58918012.bandcamp.com/album/consonance
Using modular synthesis, processed found sounds, and field recordings from across Ukraine, Trees and Roots is an ode to nature’s resilience and a meditation on belonging and renewal.
🔗 https://gamardahfungus.bandcamp.com/album/trees-and-roots
Combining baroque harmonies and ambient guitar, Stupak’s Book of Sorrow offers a brief escape from the exhaustion of war — a moment of beauty and stillness.
🔗 https://projektrecords.bandcamp.com/album/book-of-sorrow
Synth-driven and cosmic in tone, Solace evokes both the serenity of space and the quiet tension of returning to Earth — a gentle reflection on escape and home.
🔗 https://unusualcosmicprocess2.bandcamp.com/album/solace
Reinterpreting 12th-century music by Hildegard von Bingen, this collaboration merges Ukrainian folk singing and modular synths to create a spiritual and contemporary act of remembrance.
🔗 https://heinali-yasia.bandcamp.com/album/hildegard
That’s all for this week’s edition of Artefacts: Ambient & Drone.
Thanks for listening — and check the show notes for links to all featured releases.
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