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WF 12 - Last Witnesses

by dogs versus shadows

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about

In 1985, Svetlana Alexievich wrote ‘Last Witnesses: Unchildlike Stories’ to great acclaim. The book posed a central question: what was it like to grow up in the Soviet Union during World War 2?

Written as a series of first-person accounts based on interviews with the author, the book is often intensely sad, blunt, poignant. Real stories of displacement, the worst a war can bring and survival against the odds.

It would have been easy to paint this sound-world shades of grey and black. There are splashes of colour here and there, as there are in the stories themselves. Half-remembered beautiful mornings. Blue skies. A time of peace. Breaking sounds down to granular levels throughout this album is a technique I explored to simulate the unfamiliar and eerie worlds these children found themselves in.

Much can be gained from closely reading the stories of the ‘Last Witnesses’. To understand what it is to be human. To look through the darkness and find light, even in the hardest of times.

Dogs versus Shadows
Autumn 2020.

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released December 12, 2020

Written and Performed by Dogs Versus Shadows
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Cigarette Card Image - Lee Pylon

Design (Woodford Halse Livery) - Nick Taylor
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Layout & Additional Design - Mat Handley

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