She Makes Music
In 2021 musicians and sound producers from Ukraine and the UK created 10 new compositions combining unexpected instruments and styles.

- Date
- 7 November 2022
- Category
- Music
Over one month participants worked together online in international groups, developing songs from initial concept to fully produced and mixed tracks.
Within this diverse mix of compositions, you can immerse yourself in songs inspired by Japanese mythology, multi-layered dreams, phantasmagoric dialogues with your inner voice and more.
About the Tunes
Kitsune is a dark fairytale inspired by Japanese mythology and the cyber spirit of “Love, Death & Robots”. Emotional. Magical. Experimental.
Forest dives into a narrative of struggles, adversity and finding light at the end of a persons metaphorical dark forest. Blending instrumentation and melody that flits between light and dark moods, high energy rhythms and melancholy vocals with brooding lyricism. Forest will be lapped up by fans of Alternative Pop and Indietronica, and promises to take the listener on an epic, dream-like journey.
Flow was born through a collaboration between two Ukrainian music artists. The girls met in a pretty similar phase of big changes in their lives, so they were on the same wave and quickly came up with an idea for this song. In the process of exchanging ideas, they caught the same flow that is described in the song. Powerful, clean and sensual vocals are combined with moody but catchy electronic music which make you dissolve in the track.
Zozulya combines Ukrainian folklore with English lyrics and modern electronic music. The cuckoo in Ukrainian culture is a symbol of sorrow and widowhood, longing for life and the past. A harbinger of spring and long life, and at the same time death and misfortune. Zozulya tells the story of a girl who fell in love with a married man. A cuckoo flew in her house and began to forge, a warning of trouble. At the same time, the first tapes in English encourage you to find your own way and not give up.
Take It Slow starts with a long and epic indie vocal intro. Singing on endless processes in human lives in comparison with some very natural processes on the Earth, the song turns to a deep-diving atmosphere sounding more like trip-hop with a minimal beat, flying transcendent pads, chords and huge bass. So. Take it slow. Trust the process and enjoy listening with your subconscious.
Dream Flight, synth-pop single, is dreamy, sophisticated and light. Are you ready to fly in dreams and in reality?
Dream Phone is an electronic experimental track about being in a multi-layered dream, where only your phone awakens you to reality. If there is any reality...Velvety mysterious vocals, ambient sounds, Ukrainian sopilka and rich electronic parts accompany you through this “dream in a dream” journey.
Turn It Up is an experiment with samples, rock strings, a warped whisper and the feedback of an omnichord mutated into a groove. Ready yourself for electronic experimental eclecticism fused with dark pop, sounding like international indie, alternative analogue/digital music of the 90’s and the future.
Inner Voice Help Center is a phantasmagoric dialogue with the inner voice, allusion to seeking support in the Help Center, being put on hold and being deaf to yourself. How often do you talk to your inner voice? Have you been heard most of the time?

Credits
Artists:
Anastasiia Kyslynska, Anastssiya Simonovich, Anna Fadieieva, Anna Heller, Anna Shchybryk, Carla Duffy, Carolyne Oakley, Cheesorable, Clare McNulty, Elle Alicia Bennet, Emily Mercer, Evheniya KlenovaIride, HasanovaIryna Muha, Katerine Kudasheva, Kristina Fedorniak, Masha Petrovska, Matilde Mirotti, Oksana Kogut, Ola Orlovska, Pixi Ink, Sylvia Daley, Viktoriia Troianchuk
Managers:
Maria Vynarska, Ivanna Oliinyk, Alevtina Chabanenko
Mixing/Mastering:
Yuriy Bulychev
Partners:
She Makes Music was a partnership project between Brighter Sound and Unbeaten Path and their education program Music Up. The project was supported as part of ‘Culture for Changes’ with the support of Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and British Council.