The Making of Basement 626
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.
- Year: 2025
- Country: Ukraine
- Genre: Documentary, Music, War
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- Keyword: jazz, improvisation, music documentary, russian invasion of ukraine (2022), ukraine, ukrainian, war, documentary, music, recording an album
- Director: Vadim Pinyagin
- Cast: Myshko Birchenko, Yevhen Puhachov, Maryna Pleshcheieva, Andrii Pleshcheiev
