The Making of Basement 626

Name: The Making of Basement 626
Genre: Documentary, Music, War
Released: 2025-06-05
Duration: 41 min
Rating: 10

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Year: 2025

Runtime: 41 min

Type: Movie

Genre: Documentary, Music, War

Overview

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.