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10 years ago, Preserved Sound travelled to Kyiv to celebrate the release of this compilation of ambient music. Today, we look at the unfolding tragedy with shock and disbelief. You can pay what you want for this album, with all donations going to help those affect by war in Ukraine via Internationaler Bund Polska – a Polish charity currently helping people fleeing the conflict in Ukraine, through providing legal aid, psychological support and distributing humanitarian aid.
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It's Not Boring. It's Ambient is a double CD compilation of Ukrainian and Polish ambient artists released as a collaboration between Preserved Sound in Kraków (
www.preservedsound.com) and AZH Promo in Kyiv (
www.azh.com.ua/promo). The idea for the compilation came in autumn 2011 when the guys at Preserved Sound talked about doing a compilation of Polish ambient artists. After contacting friends at AZH Promo in Kyiv it became clear that they had also been having the same ideas about releasing a compilation of Ukrainian ambient artists. Thus It's Not Boring. It's Ambient was born.
Bringing together some of the best ambient music from around the region, It's Not Boring. It's Ambient aims to cross borders to present an ecletic mix of the genre that has become known as 'ambient'. Artists on the compilation include sound composer Heinali and electronic artist Nikolaienko from Ukraine, as well as improvised music artist Emiter and experimental musician Pleq from Poland, amongst many more.
It's Not Boring. It's Ambient was released at Les Kurbas theatre, Kyiv on 10 February 2012 at an event which Lights Dim, Heinali and Visionary Hours also played. Our aim is to show that music can cross borders where politics fails, and bring together some of these artists from Ukraine and Poland for concerts.
The physical double CD compilation is now SOLD OUT.
Mastering and Concept by Preserved Sound (Antonello Perfetto, Marek Kaminiski and Hayden Berry). Design and Concept by AZH Promo (Taras Khimchak and Sergiy Klepyk and others).
2012 © Preserved Sound PS5
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released February 10, 2012