Odesa Melancholia
Debut LP album Odesa Melancholia is a sonic love-letter to the risk-taking, boundary-pushing artists who inhabited the underground scene of Odesa in 2000s, and a meditation on the sounds that arise when genre is left behind, and only raw expression remains. It draws inspiration from numerous jam sessions that unfolded in apartments, studios and basements, some began near the Opera House with saxophone melodies filling the daytime air and ended on the shores of the Black Sea. Others began as simple synthesizer loops or acoustic bell patterns, soon accompanied by saxophone and voice, evolving into spontaneous soundscapes. Memories of these jam sessions transformed into the tracks of Odesa Melancholia—stretchy harmonium frequencies, esoteric bass sounds, and the echoes of saxophone, voice, and synthesizers.
credits
released January 3, 2025All songs composed and performed by Nalobi Zrobe
Mixed and mastered by Hennadii Boichenko
Design by Ksenia Kil
Recorded at WorldCreationStudio, Montreal, 2022