The Making of Basement 626

The Making of Basement 626 (2025) is a documentary, music film directed by Vadim Pinyagin rated 10.0/10.

In January 2025, experimental jazz duo Myshko Birchenko and Yevhen Puhachov, members of Hyphen Dash, travelled to Kramatorsk without any pre-made drafts or demo recordings to use music as a vessel to capture the emotions present in a place on the edge of a battle for survival and explore the therapeutic nature of music and improvisation in the brutal reality of war. They packed all the equipment into a car, drove 700 kilometres from Kyiv to the frontline city Kramatorsk, and turned one of many basements which serve as shelters into a makeshift recording studio. As a result, they recorded over 300 minutes of music, which were eventually distilled into a 90-minute album.

Cast

Myshko Birchenko

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Yevhen Puhachov

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Maryna Pleshcheieva

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Andrii Pleshcheiev

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