Thank you for listening to Cosmik Repercussions for November 19, 2025.

Featuring New Music from: Fenra, Textbook Maneuver featuring Uziq, Ioa Beduneau, Anton Anishchanka.

Other Artists Featured: In the Nursery, Chromosphere, Aphex Twin, Edward Ka Spel, Bob Holroyd, Manitoba, Radioseven, Experimental Audio Research, Boards of Canada, Juno Reactor, The Juan MacLean.

For a full track listing please visit: https://cfmu.ca/episode/cosmik-repercussions-episode-for-2025-11-19/

Featured Artist of the Week: Anton Anishchanka.

Anton Anishchanka is a field recordist, sound artist, curator and composer from Minsk, Belarus. Combining field recordings, synthesizers, reel to reel tapes and archival sounds, he creates his own musical narratives within the ambient, electroacoustic, and experimental genres.

His forthcoming album ‘Krope,’ released 28th November via Shatkavalka, reimagines traditional Belarusian music through contemporary sound art. Weaving rare folk vocals with harmonica, vibraphone, analog synths, and field recordings from Belarus’s fading rural landscapes, the album creates a richly textured sonic world. It’s a conceptual odyssey rooted in decades of ethnographic expeditions recorded during the 1960s-2000s. Conceived as a six-part suite, it offers listeners a cinematic journey into Belarusian heritage, narrating the destinies of their ancestors and own paths during World War II and the Soviet era.

Born from the interplay of nature, culture, and personal reflections, ‘Krope’ offers intimate fragments of lived experience. Through the hiss of a passing train, the murmur of a stream, the low hum of wind, it captures the movement of everyday life and the haunting emotions felt by generations before. Grief and regret give way to disarming love, shaping the ethos of Belarusian culture. From the opening song to the final vigil of death, ‘Krope’ sketches a path where personal and ancestral histories intertwine. The album reveals how the same inevitabilities – love, departure, loss – still reverberate today, linking past and present in painful continuity.

Shaped in collaboration with ethnographer Iryna Vasilyeva, who curated archival songs revealing diverse facets of Belarusian culture, ‘Krope’ also incorporates recordings from remote regions – creaking forests, distant trains – capturing the ephemeral textures of rural life. Acoustic instruments and analog processing add warmth, complementing electronic layers and archival voices. Like most of Anishchanka’s projects, ‘Krope’ is a deep listening experience and transcultural auditory voyage.

Courtesy of: Ian Sparks, 9PR.

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