Ethereal Riffian Post “Eternal Home” Video
There hasn’t been a peep so far as I’ve heard from Kyiv’s Ethereal Riffian since the band led by guitarist/vocalist Val Hornev called it a day following the Fall 2019 release of their relatively-stripped-down Legends (review here) album, and but for the circumstance behind “Eternal Home,” I have to wonder if there would be in the first place. The Ukrainian meditative heavy specialists’ return comes on the heels of the war-destruction of a band associate’s home (and pets) — the brother of their sound engineer — and the two-minute instrumental clip of the first new Ethereal Riffian track in half a decade coincides with a fundraising effort on the part of Robustfellow Productions to give money to those affected by the bombing that took place on July 8.
Because, hey, by the way, this war is still happening too. Content in the first place to engage in a proxy-war gambling with other countries’ lives (big change), nobody in my home country seems to want to talk about it anymore — Democrats are fearful of being portrayed as warmongers, Republicans are christofascists poised to pull apart the country’s admittedly imperfect system in favor of pro-Russian demagoguery — and I’m not saying Israel/Palestine doesn’t also deserve attention, but nothing here has been solved and won’t be so long as the violence continues. Which it seems like it will until I guess Vladimir Putin has a new Soviet Union cast in whatever image of one he has in his mind. It will be a relief when the floods come.
Two minutes of peace in all this and the dissolution of civil liberties too is welcome. I don’t know what if anything it will lead to from Ethereal Riffian, but the video is gorgeous and the song is serene, and in 2024 you take what you can fucking get for reminders that there’s more to this world than horror and the potential for more horror.
To wit:
Ethereal Riffian Drops New Mesmerizing Music Video in July 2024
Mystic rock band from Kyiv, Ethereal Riffian, which seemed to be on hold since November 2019, drops a new mesmerizing music video called “Eternal Home”. The band worked on this meditative composition as a two-piece.
On July 8, a russian terrorist state bombed one of the largest children’s hospitals in Europe. The same day one part of the residential building in Kyiv was destroyed completely by one of their missiles. Brother of our sound engineer lived in this building with his family. Luckily, none of the family members was at home, but this inhumane atrocity took the lives of their cat and dog, and also their home.
All funds gathered from this campaign will go to help our sound engineer’s brother’s family and their neighbors,” comments Val Kornev. “In a world disrupted by wars, keeping the light kindled is crucial. This music video intends to give a small island of peace to people wherever they are and whatever their life conditions are at the moment.”
Robustfellow Prods. joins the charity initiative and prepares massive BUNDLE with rare Ethereal Riffian releases. Also, all July sales will go to support the neighborhood that suffered from the bombing.
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