After raising funds for the International Rescue Committee from the first volume released in March, another set of artists gathers their work to drive a second campaign
For Ukraine Volume 2 is the second album released by Headphone Commute as a fundraising campaign for Ukraine. The independent magazine of electronic, experimental, and instrumental music is donating proceeds to the International Rescue Committee in an effort to provide support and supplies to displaced families and children amid the war. After raising over $7,000 from Volume 1, Volume 2 releases 25 tracks from a new set of artists looking to do their part in supporting the country through its crisis.
Working on the song together over a distance, they sent recordings back and forth, producing a song that is an urgent cry for peace and healing.
The album features the work of artists including keyboardist and songwriter Ryuichi Sakamoto and acoustic and e-violin musician Illia Bondarenko. Other tracks include work by Melbourne-based composer Claire Deak; French composer and pianist Emilie Levienaise-Farrouch; and Slowdive’s drummer and ambient musician Simon Scott, among many others.
Volume 2 is distinguished by its first track, a new piece composed as a collaboration between Sakamoto and Bondarenko entitled “Piece for Illia.” Working on the song together over a distance, they sent recordings back and forth, producing a song that is an urgent cry for peace and healing. This song comes off the back of Bondarenko’s work, uniting musicians from a Ukrainian bomb shelter and organizing a violin piece where musicians from across the world played together at once, representing over 29 countries. The work of both artists is evident in the track; Sakamoto’s orchestral past and synthpop origins fuse with Bondarenko’s jazz, baroque, electronic, and classical influences.
To see more from the album, visit Bandcamp
