Volodymyr Agafonkin
🇺🇦 Engineer at Mapbox, creator of Leaflet, open source enthusiast, algorithms geek, speaker, musician (Obiymy Doschu), baker, father of twin girls, Ukrainian
- Reposted by Volodymyr AgafonkinОбійми Дощу — Діти Obijmy Doshchu — Dity (Children) youtu.be/148g23r8PjI Music video is made by children, btw
- Turn on the sound — this is how nearly every night sounds for me and my family. Imagine getting used to that, living, working, raising kids. A lesson the world didn’t learn from WW2: when you tolerate and appease evil, it grows stronger, and you won’t notice until it reaches your home.
- Just voice, guitar, birdsong, and rustling leaves. The first video in a new series where I'm playing my songs live in their rawest form, stripped down & outdoors. This is “Hurricane”, recorded alone in a forest — the song's meaning blending seamlessly with the sounds of nature 🎵 youtu.be/Mcor1u_FX_0
- Reposted by Volodymyr Agafonkini'm four songs into this album and it's absolutely fantastic. give it a listen
- 🎵 2 weeks ago, me and my band Obiymy Doschu have released “Vidrada”, our new album, passionately crafted in Kyiv for 7 years. I've never been more invested in a project, and will be proud of it for the rest of my life. All my love, dreams, hopes and worries in one record. ⬇️
- 50 minutes of music blending melodic progressive rock, cinematic live strings, jazz, classical, pop, post-rock, and a touch of melancholy. Even if you don't know Ukrainian, you will feel the emotion. Listen on all platforms ❤️ rain.in.ua/go/vidrada-en
- Friends, let me share one more music video with you. ❤️ This one is very personal — I wrote this song, called “After the War”, in March 2022, capturing a dream familiar to every Ukrainian: the longing for peaceful life filled with everyday routines and small joys, and a deep yearning for home. 🇺🇦⬇️
- The music video, filmed in a dormitory in Irpin that was devastated during the Russian occupation of part of the Kyiv region, blends seamlessly with touching illustrations by a Mykolaiv-based artist, symbolizing rebuilding and renewal. ⬇️
- When writing the song, I wondered — would I see my home again? And would it remain the way I remembered it? Millions of Ukrainians were experiencing the same emotions at that moment: soldiers on the front line, families with young children forced to flee into the unknown. ⬇️
- So I want to dedicate this song, “After the War”, to every Ukrainian who's far from home and longing for the moment they can return. It's the concluding single before the full album is out on May 30. Watch the full video here (it has English subtitles): youtu.be/RqmqA4fM8XA
- Friends, me and my band has just opened @bandcamp.com preorders for an album we've been crafting for over seven years — a labor of love I'm truly proud of and believe can stand among the most beautiful prog rock records of recent years. Out May 30. ❤️
- It's melodic progressive rock with lush live strings, jazz, pop, post-rock and neoclassical influences, a touch of melancholy, poetic Ukrainian lyrics, and a rich immersive sound mixed by Bruce Soord. Exclusive to @bandcamp.com are HiRes audio (24/96k) & official acoustic guitar tabs for all songs.
- Our debut album Elehia came out in 2009 and I’m still proud of it. Happy that there are people who still enjoy it ❤️
- In other words, a regular Ukrainian Thursday.
- Reposted by Volodymyr AgafonkinJust released an update to my point-in-polygon library. Now smaller and faster, but most importantly more accurate with robust floating point maths thanks to the excellent robust-predicates library by @agafonkin.com github.com/rowanwins/po...
- One more music bit I want to share: a live video from a recent acoustic performance in Kyiv, with a song about not giving up — feels especially relevant that's it out today, after yet another mass missile strike on Ukrainian civilians. youtu.be/0oMRsFizTTg
- Reposted by Volodymyr AgafonkinA day in ukraine: morning coffee, kamikaze drones, blackout, zoom calls, intercontinental ballistic missile, lunch, another blackout, dinner
- Friends, I want to share something precious to me. Today my band has released a new song and video we put our heart and soul into, a true labour of love. I can't put into words how proud I am of the result. Please watch, listen, add to your playlists and share with friends. ❤️ youtu.be/148g23r8PjI
- Reposted by Volodymyr AgafonkinУ цього етеру злочинно мало переглядів, хоча це один з найзатишніших випусків "Теревенів". Тож дуже раджу увімкнути собі десь на фоні та послухати нашу з @agafonkin.com бесіду про музику, цілеспрямованість, випічку і трошки про професійні цілі. youtube.com/live/xEbyKC6hZmQ
- Reposted by Volodymyr AgafonkinObiymy Doschu — Na Vidstani youtu.be/yt6PGTyLNVE
