Gomel 1986 - Black Rain (Dark Ambient Mix)

To commemorate the 31st anniversary of Chernobyl disaster, in April 2017 the art collective Food of War and Naviar Records organized Clouded Lands, a show which aimed to raise awareness on the consequences that such catastrophic events bring in people’s culture and everyday life.

For this event, Naviar’s community recreated sounds, atmospheres and moods of one of the areas which were mostly affected by the disaster: the region of Gomel, in Belarus.

Just 70 miles away from the nuclear disaster, the Gomel region is where the Soviet government used artillery shells filled with silver iodide to make rain clouds that would “wash out” radioactive particles which were drifting towards densely populated cities. Witnesses say that that day in 1986 they saw black rain falling from the sky. The nuclear fallout is said to have caused an 80% increase in disabled births in the area, and to this day huge areas around Gomel remain uninhabitable.

Participants had to reimagine atmospheres and moods from those days in Gomel, and translate them into sounds. All songs were made in 2 weeks or less.

This album contains a selection of music Naviar received... more

released August 25, 2017

Mastered by Marco Sebastiano Alessi
Picture by Loren Gun
Design by Ewa Goral