SOLIVAGANT

THE MAKING OF SOLIVAGANT

Solivagant began with a sound. The first track was Ethereal Dream, built around the handpan, and I wanted to keep exploring that texture.Zero Gravity followed, and for the first time I felt there was a story inside the music. Where Ethereal Dream felt calm and almost suspended, Zero Gravity carried hope.Then came Cassiopeia, written during a period when I was constantly worried about my parents, who were still living in frontline Kramatorsk. Its anxiety changed the direction of the project. At that point, I knew the story had to be finished.Space has always been personal to me. My grandfather worked in the field of space development in the Soviet Union, and as a child I remember seeing small models of spacecraft and photographs of cosmonauts.That fascination never left. I still look at the night sky, read about space, imagine distant realities and ask myself: what if?For a long time, though, I could not understand what Solivagant was actually about. Then, during a conversation with a colleague, something became clear: this was never meant to be a story about escape. It was a story about a mission. I kept thinking about refugees and displaced people from frontline cities who share old photographs, videos and fragments of their lives before the war. In their own way, they are doing what Emma is trying to do: saving the memory of a life in which they were once happy.The music came easily. The tracks almost found their own order. The plot did not. Every time I tried to make it perfectly logical, parts of it began to fall apart.Eventually, I understood that this uncertainty belonged inside the story. The people who became the emotional prototype for Emma are also living through a reality that often feels fragmented, unstable and impossible to fully explain. Once I allowed myself to stop explaining everything, the story finally found its shape. Looking back now, Solivagant also feels like a farewell to a period of my own life when instrumental music was at the center of my work. This album closes that chapter. What comes next will sound different.

CREDITS

Created, composed and produced by
Skiffska (Alina Moiseyenko)Story development
Skiffska
Liliia BoikoVisual development & character design
Liliia Boiko
Emma character profile, visual concept development, footage generationVideo production
Liliia Boiko
Solivagant I, Aurora Station, Cassiopeia
Visual generation and editingSound effects for video
Dmytro Boiko
Solivagant ISound consultation & early album feedback
Roman GatyloSPECIAL THANKS• To my family, for being part of the place this album came from.
• To everyone who listened, supported me, advised me, questioned things with me, and stayed close while Solivagant was finding its final shape.
• To everyone who continues to preserve the memory of their homes, cities and lives through photographs, stories, sounds and small fragments of the past.
• And to the Armed Forces of Ukraine, for making it possible for us to keep creating, remembering and imagining a future.

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