OLEXI NYKOLAIV is an electronic music artist, producer and pianist from Kyiv, Ukraine, based in Berlin. His broad artistic style is situated in between baroque, avant garde jazz, hip hop and contemporary experimental music and influenced by artists and composers as different as Arca, Vessel, Cecil Taylor, Giacinto Scelsi as well as the representatives of Ukrainian underground music such as Alexandr Nesterov. He describes the process of creating music as part of building an authentic worldview, which he refers to as “the street attitude towards the sublime”, rooted in post-existentialist philosophic tradition, and the conception of “new sincerity”, implying the simultaneity of humour and seriousness.

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