Cells Interlinked – electronic/ambient/experimental music project based in Lviv, Ukraine. This is a duet of two musicians, Maria and Albert, who have been working in various genres of electronic, industrial, EDM and indie-rock music for more than twenty years. In this project, we explore the connection between the analogue sound of the 70s and the electronic-acoustic spaces of modern ambient music.
Music of Cells Interlinked inspired by classic analogue/berlin school sounds and based on the principle of deep interaction of simple, repeating melodic sequences. These phrases rotating around their axis, like a mantra in meditation, lead the attentive listener from the surface to the depth. They weave a web of sound in which everything, like in reality itself, is impermanent and interconnected.
The sound of the project is based on the use of analog synthesizers with the addition of endless guitar in the spirit of Eno/Fripp and acoustic ethno instruments and atmospheric vocals.
First album of Cells Interlinked, «Within», was created during the first year of the war that began due to the russian army’s invasion of Ukraine. But this music is not about war. It is the fruit of deep contemplation of simple things and the present moment. In all eras, the experience of crisis has led people to this look into the depths – to where the source of being, the answer to all questions and the solution to all problems of humanity is hidden.
We also made this album a dedication to Klaus Schulze – the master and pioneer of electronic music, who this year went beyond the boundaries of time and space and taught us to look closely into the abyss hidden in each of us and in everything around us.