The Making of Basement 626
The Making of Basement 626
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10.0
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2025

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41m

The Making of Basement 626

Summary

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.

Director, Writer

Vadim Pinyagin

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Released

Original Language:

Ukrainian

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$0.00

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Keywords

jazz
improvisation
music documentary
russian invasion of ukraine (2022)
ukraine
ukrainian
war
documentary
music
recording an album