Concrete Listening Show: Record Launch Event | ILYICH

Concrete Listening Show traces ways of listening through words, jazz, and electronic music.

This show takes the form of a listening session and record launch at Refugee Worldwide Radio. Outside the radio booth and in the presence of guests, the vinyl record of the forthcoming album afterlife by ILYICH will be launched into orbit.

afterlife is a musical journey through fantastical stories, soundscapes and the pulse of a new beginning.

Conceiving the afterlife as something unfolding now, the album afterlife is responding to the military invasion of Ukraine with semi-fictional narratives, cinematic soundscapes, bass grooves and poems, string orchestras and broken beats. afterlife is a practice of grieving and new beginnings, life after the latest moment of personal and collective history. The album embraces an uneasy place as the dawn of the fantastical.

Accompanied by allied musicians of various genres, ILYICH embarks on this journey and explores its multidimensional map. The album invites the audience to join forces by listening, dancing and redreaming the world as a world after war.