"Unsent Postcard" is part of the compilation Siren Songs: Solidarity With Ukraine released by Mailbox Records in April 2022.

PURCHASE: mailbox-label.bandcamp.com/album/siren-songs-solidarity-with-ukraine


Here are the words of compilation curator James McDermid about this release:

"On the 3rd March 2022, I received the following email through Bandcamp:

"Hello, I'm Stas Teterevlev - I live in a boat on an island in the middle of Kyiv. I really love what you do. I've been listening to your work today, it helps me a lot. I recorded this ambience and would be very happy if you would like to use it".

The recording was the moment Russia began their assault on Kyiv/Ukraine, 24th February 2022.

I watched on television - like everyone across the world - the horror of the invasion unfolding; however, hearing it as audio in the strange context that a resident there had captured it as it was happening - and me then listening to it from the safety of an apartment in England - was incredibly haunting and absolutely moving.

I took Stas' message to heart - flattered he'd included me amongst several other musicians he'd sent the recording to - and considered whether or not if his recording could be worked into music of my own, like he suggested. Instead I put out a call across social media for collaborators to help put together a compilation of their music that utilised the recording. I'm incredibly proud to announce that 'Siren Songs: Solidarity With Ukraine' is the result.

It's amazing how all the contributors involved in this, simply took on their own project with Stas' recording; exploring it through their own music with such creative and poetic results."