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Dreams of Trees | Сни Дерев

by Hanna Svirska
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Horyzont 03:33
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Svitanets 03:55
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Vodohrai 04:10
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Rodysiia 04:33
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Son 01:33
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Kazka 03:49
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Tepla zlyva 03:54
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Viter 01:54
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Kviten` 02:34
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Sny Derev 06:00

about

Ukrainian electronic artist Hanna Svirska releases her second release on Standard Deviation—Dreams of Trees | Сни Дерев, a ten-track Ukrainian-language album composed between 2022 and 2024. Built on a foundation of ambient textures, choral layers, and carefully chosen field recordings, the album reflects on a life interrupted by war—hovering between memory, suspended time, and the imagination of what lies ahead.

“This album is my transformation between 2022 and 2024,” says Svirska. “A journey where the silence whispers of ancient fears and unknown secrets, revealed only to those willing to feel them.”

Divided into three parts—nostalgia for pre-war times, the realities of today, and a fragile belief in the future—Dreams of Trees | Сни Дерев unfolds more as a sequence of dreams than a traditional album narrative. Svirska uses field recordings made during 2023–2024: the wind in the Carpathians, children in a Lviv fountain, Kyiv’s street noise, and a children's choir. These are not background effects but emotional anchors that deepen the texture of each track.

“Each track represents a separate dream with blurred lines between surrealism and reality, where one does not want to wake up,” she explains.
On the standout piece “Svitanets,” five women—aged 10 to 45—form a small choir. Their voices embody different stages of life, narrating a transformation of a human into a willow, as told by a river. The moment of rebirth is marked by a recording of a neighbor’s child crying. Ukrainian musician Revshark joins on guitar, weaving in spontaneous, atmospheric lines.

“I wanted each voice to reflect different stages of human life, various perceptions of death, and the infinity of existence.”

Other tracks work with symbolic tension: “Rodysiia” reimagines an old harvest charm to protect against a pest that stands in for Russian aggression; “Kazka” speaks to the emotional toll of nightly air raids and the loss of comfort. “Are there fairy tales from pain?” the song asks.

credits

released August 15, 2025

All tracks are written & produced by Hanna Svirska
'Svitanets' feat. Revshark
Original tracks mixed by Hanna Svirska
Original tracks mastered by UTC+16, Kyiv

Artwork by Hanna Svirska

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Established in 2020, Standard Deviation is a multidisciplinary label platform, working on the intersection of music, art and publishing. We aim to foster creative collaborative exchange between an aspiring Ukrainian scene and a global community.

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