Eastbloc Dispatches is the podcast for the Eastbloc culture you’re missing

From DJ and journalist Andra Amber Nikolayi, the Eastbloc Dispatches podcast is your pass to all the culture you could easily miss out on elsewhere, from central, eastern, and southeastern Europe, and various parts of the world recovering from the Soviet Union. And it’s full of terrific conversations.

Psychedelic Soldier: a burnt-out Russian tank headlight made into a synthesizer

Swords into plowshares … invading Russian tanks burnt up and made into synths. Sherman Drozd did just that, salvaging a destroyed part from near Kyiv. He shares the full story, and how the instrument was made. Well… Слава Україні! Музикантам слава!

Peter Kirn - April 28, 2022

An evocative album draws from Ukrainian sci-fi, in Cluster Lizard’s “Star Corsair”

Truly imaginative electronic music can let you screen science fiction in your mind’s eye. Dive into Cluster Lizard’s LP, close your eyes, and let their sounds be a score to legendary Ukrainian author, philosopher, and dissident Oles’ Berdnyk.

Peter Kirn - October 18, 2021

Cosmos and sound and art: join the Space Art Summer School, in Moscow – virtually

Peter Kirn - June 23, 2020

A marvelous sound machine inspired by a Soviet deep drilling project

Peter Kirn - September 25, 2018

Ninja Tune are doing their own multi-delay, and it looks wild

Peter Kirn - April 10, 2018

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