SOYUZ (СОЮЗ) – II (2024 reissue) album art
Alex Chumak. License: All Rights Reserved.
СОЮЗ (SOYUZ) follows up their 2022 debut Force of the Wind with a stark but subdued reissue of their second album, II, first released three years earlier in 2019 with Masterskaya. The album captures a pivotal evolution in the band’s career, the recordings giving a snapshot of what would become their sound on Force of the Wind, yet with echoes of avant-psychedelic-pop footprints from yesteryear. Produced at a time when bandleader Alex Chumak had moved from Minsk to Kyiv, torn between the need to try something new and the homesickness it brought about, II nicely captures the slow burn of homesickness extended across a long bouts of travel and transience, through stylistic recollections of Mikita Arlou, Ethiopian jazz and Italian library music. [via Mr Bongo]
Design by Yevgen Anfalov, featuring the first official use of KTF Olivier by Yevgeniy Anfalov and Alex Chumak after Rygor Klikushyn. The accompanying monospace is JMH Typewriter. Cover photo by Vedrana Vukojević, with other photography by Alex Chumak.
You can buy the album from Mr Bongo and listen to it on YouTube.
Alex Chumak. License: All Rights Reserved.
Alex Chumak. License: All Rights Reserved.
Alex Chumak. License: All Rights Reserved.
Alex Chumak. License: All Rights Reserved.
Alex Chumak. License: All Rights Reserved.
Alex Chumak. License: All Rights Reserved.
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