Ptastvo

War brings many experiences. It is brutal, dirty, random, cold, and overwhelming. War means having no plans for the future; it’s not knowing when and how it will end; it is the ground being knocked out from under your feet. War brings out both the best and the worst in people. War is gritty.

The theme of The Grit is personal musical processing and acceptance of wartime, told from the perspective of a Ukrainian volunteer and veteran. It paints wartime experiences in raw colors without romanticizing them, raising themes of hardship, anger, compassion, love, and loss through a sincere description of reality. It also tries to convey the energy needed to go on, because life always finds its way around.