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𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙣𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝘾𝙤𝙡𝙤𝙜𝙣𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙐𝙠𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙚𝙢𝙚𝙧𝙜𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝟭𝟵𝟴𝟬𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙎𝙃𝙈𝟭 𝙘𝙤𝙡𝙡𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙍𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙞𝙖 𝙨𝙥𝙖𝙘𝙚, 𝙖 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝙞𝙣𝙙𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙡 𝙜𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣 𝙨𝙞𝙡𝙤 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙤 𝙖 𝙝𝙪𝙗 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙨, 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙨𝙚𝙨𝙨𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙘𝙪𝙡𝙩𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙡 𝙚𝙭𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙤𝙪𝙩𝙨𝙞𝙙𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙢𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢.

In 1990, cassette tapes arriving from Kharkiv and Kyiv introduced Erfen to the radical world of the Novaya Scena movement, where punk, avant-garde and folk influences coexisted. This encounter led to the 1993 compilation “Novaya Scena” and, soon after, to Ukrainian musicians traveling to Cologne. The informal recording sessions that followed between 1994 and 1995 document a unique meeting of scenes, geographies and sensibilities, capturing a rare moment of creative freedom and cross-border collaboration.

These sessions laid the foundations for what would become a unique document of exchange between the Ukrainian and Cologne underground scenes, captured across the different incarnations heard on STROOMS’s compilation.