СОЮЗ (SOYUZ) is a creative collective originally from Minsk, Belarus, that was founded by multi-instrumentalists Alex Chumak, the band's composer and principal arranger, and Mikita Arlou. After moving to Warsaw, Poland in 2022, they were joined by drummer Albert Karch and guitarist Igor Wiśniewski. The name of the band is translated as “union”, which reflects the creative nature of the relationship between its members and their collaborators. While the recordings of SOYUZ feature a wider array of instruments, live performances are reimagined by the quartet. They include musical insights from all the performers and leave room for collective improvisation.

The new album called “KROK”, released on October 24th, 2025, was recorded in São Paulo, Stockholm and Warsaw. The first full-length record of the project made in Belarusian language with the additions in Portuguese and Japanese, it highlights the band’s ambition for further international collaboration, featuring songs with the acclaimed musicians Tim Bernardes (Brazil) and Manami Kakudo (Japan). The genre of “KROK” is hardly identifiable: there are folk ballads and jazz-driven pop compositions covered in lush and often dissonant string and woodwind arrangements. The record explores themes of movement and migration, embracing the uncertainty, finding subtle moments of beauty in everyday life.

Support: personne
Anna Girsberger, Paul Studer, and Basil Schreyer had to find one another. All born in the early 2000s and shaped by the tension fields of digital dopamine, virtual encounters, and late-stage capitalism, they are ready to shake off the pace of modern life. They long for meaning beyond
the visible, for genuine connection. “attention economy” is both a critique of a world increasingly defined by visibility and a counterproposal to it: analog, warm, human music that evokes the surreal pop worlds of Aldous Harding, the uncompromising honesty of Sophie Hunger, and the lyrical depth of Adrienne Lenker.

personne ran before she could walk and sang before she could speak. “attention economy” marks personne’s bold first statement: an EP that came into the world as abruptly as the band itself. Uncompromising inventiveness, anger, and the courage to criticize unite these three outstanding musicians into a vibrant embodiment of hope.

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