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Over the past three years we have covered many genres, with Ukrainian Field Notes often looking more like Mixmag than ACL. With the current episode we stray into KERRANG! territory, so maybe this should have been called Ukrainian Field (Metal) Notes. But before we venture into the largely uncharted (for ACL) waters of grindcore and extreme metal we return to Crimea with Aziza Eskander and pop…

Artwork by Maryia Primachenko To celebrate the summer solstice, we travel to the Carpathians with Sun Halø, before heading to Kyiv to discuss the ethics of triggering sounds with Ivan Skoryna while Oleksandr Hladun illustrates his sonic diary and new releases. Down in Ternopil, Motoblok discusses separation, Morwan sends us his interview from Berlin, while back in Kyiv BlazerJacket produce…

Ukrainian Field Notes XVIII

Monkey Riding a Four-Headed Beast (1982) Mariya Primachenko For the last Ukrainian Field Notes of 2022 we travel to Kyiv, Lviv, and Uzhhorod via Berlin, London and Ireland for a “genre fluid” episode taking in experimental, electronic and techno music mixed with metal and neo classical topped up with a dash of pop and indie and a dusting of prog rock. We start off with Lugovskiy who muses about…

Ukrainian Field Notes IV

The dragon has no one to bite, so it bites plants by Mariya Oksentiyivna Prymachenko The issue of equality and protection of LGBTQAI+ rights is becoming increasingly important in both the domestic and foreign policy of Ukraine, according to a report by Nash Mir (Our World) the Luhansk based Gay and Lesbian Centre, with political parties forced to articulate their views on LGBT+ issues.In its…