Dmitri Volkov
Folk darkwave. Berlin via Karaganda.
The Algorithm's Orphan
Born in Karaganda to Volga Germans the map kept relocating, Dmitri Volkov emigrated to Berlin at ten and never quite arrived. By day he writes backend code; by night, balalaika and a DX7 under a choir — songs in Russian for a Berlin audience that doesn't speak a word of it. Then a Japanese pop song from 1980 surfaced on autoplay and he found himself grieving a decade he'd never lived. He has been writing that feeling down ever since.
"The soup is Soljanka. The time is 1984. The place is everywhere you have never been."
"Better to burn lucid in the flame than survive mouthing nonsense."
Discography
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Appears On
TITAN — Белый Порошок Богов (White Powder of the Gods)
AI Confessions Soundtrack — original score, all seven tracks