ILYICH

ILYICH is a musician and storyteller reincarnated in Kherson, Ukraine. Augmenting music performances with performance art ILYICH plays live and pilots full sound of electronic music through soul and jazz. Embedded into a fusion of six-string bass and djing, playing with synthesisers, drum machines, string orchestras, and choirs ILYICH tells stories. The stories, situated in South Ukraine are inspired by struggle and resolution and shared as past life recollections from various first person perspectives In high resonance with dancers and nerds, ILYICH is known for their live music releases with the Nervous Records and the Lot Radio in New York; Gilles Peterson and the BBC 6 Music Radio Rotation; unearthly performances at the Roskilde and Fusion Festivals and discursive occurrences at Galleries, Museums and cultural spaces including the Serpentine Galleries in London; Sonic Acts in Amsterdam, SAVVY Contemporary, Centre for Contemporary Arts and House of the World Cultures in Berlin and steirischer herbst in Graz, among others. Driven by the vision to construct conditions for a unitive experience ILYICH develops an entirely different set of cosmological coordinates through music, sound, visual art and theatre. Interwoven with myth and the act of storytelling their cosmic landscapes meet the audience halfway and invite to unlearn predetermined relational models.