The Mystery of Oleksandr Yurchenko

The avant-garde composer was a prolific protagonist of the Ukrainian 1990s underground

Between 1988 and 1997, a rich Ukrainian underground music scene existed, concentrating in the country’s biggest cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv. It came into existence as an indirect consequence of Gorbachev’s Glasnost and Perestroika politics, and reached its peak during and after the period of collapse and dissolution of the Soviet Union from 1989–91.

In th…