Heohrafiia osobystosti by Whaler & Kvitla

The first album of the young Ukrainian project Sum "Geography of Personality" will be released on the Kyiv label Mystictrax on May 5.

The project is the creative culmination between of vocalist and songwriter Maya Renevich and electronic musician Maxim Whaler.

"The inspiration for the release is to find ourselves in the concrete forest of the city, in which one way or another we both got. It is a sublimation of what is lacking and what is already too much. I do not want to talk about the meanings anymore, much of the beauty of the work is in the way everyone sees it. Throughout the album, the characters travel between stories that we (and you) are very familiar with, but rather forget, think over time. Yes, "Пізно (Late)" and "Яблуня (Apple tree)" are about a time you will not return "- Maya.

Renivich sings about turbulent times, romanticizing everything that happens to her - she "will whirl until the oxygen runs out, until she falls without strength and takes her last breath." Co-author of one of the soundtracks to the Ukrainian cinema "Stop-Zemlia" and "Sad Portraits", frontwoman of a few emo & skreamo bands.

"We recorded most of the album in a few autumn days, so the songs have similar emotions at the core" - Maxim.

Whaler began writing music from the lo-fi bedroom with guitar riffs, and later came to electronics. Usually his music is a mix of different genres, generative stories or deep melodic passages. Every time he prepares a special set for his live performances. He has releases on Ukrainian labels Dnipropop and Mystictrax.

Stas Kulakovsky, a sound engineer and author of the Inodi and Kulakostas projects, also worked on the composition's mastering.

Ukrainian Experimental Laboratory of Sound

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