Upes

Screen printed artwork, hand numbered, 75 copies on brown paper, 75 copies on grey paper + 50 copies risograph printed artwork
IYv is a project by Vytenis (Skeldos) and Inga (Rukana) from Lithuania and “Upes” (meaning “Rivers”) was released by themselves in 2017 in a small edition of 72 copies. While Skeldos is more towards the dark ambient sort of thing with hints of (post-)industrial music, IYv is much more on the melancholy side of things, accordion, electronica and Lithuanian vocals make up for a beautiful post-folklore album. The musicians themselves described the album in a perfect way so I will not try myself to capture the mood and spirit of the music:
“Upes” is an album about travelling. About the hearing of birds, close to the rock chains, which twists on the surface of mountains, through marks of our memory just like the rivers. The album was recorded in seclusion: in a log barn and wooden summerhouse. It’s decorated with deliberately left spontaneous inaccuracies and coherent crookedness. Nostalgic loops of ambient music tells a natural story about the composers: approaching gritty earth, enjoying crackling fire in the night, enduring live rain and swimming through the river streams