Crying Cicadas – a single from the new project Seinsart by our resident artist Ilya Karpushkin.

"Crying Cicadas" is an immersion into an intimate sonic landscape where post-rock meets ambient, and instrumental shoegaze dissolves into a pulsating wall of synths.

Here, guitars are an extension of the nervous system—lines of communication: their meditative ripples drown in a thick electronic haze, creating the sensation of an endless fall. The music doesn’t progress linearly—it emerges like a sudden gust of wind and cuts off, leaving behind only the vibration of an unfinished gesture, a looped micro-string.

This track is pure tension, like a taut string ready to snap at any moment. There are no climaxes in the traditional sense—only an increasing density of sound that compresses space, turning it into a resonance chamber for tremulous, unspoken emotions.

Why "Crying Cicadas"? The track is based on a field recording of cicadas singing in Turkey, captured by Ilya. Cicadas are creatures that live in darkness for years, only to emerge one day and fill the world with their song. Their voices are a metaphor for Ilya’s creative process: this is music born in the depths of subjectivity. It doesn’t strive to be "comfortable"—it exists because it cannot do otherwise.

Seinsart is a new project by our resident artist Ilya Karpushkin. While Ilya typically plays indie rock with varying degrees of jazz and rhythm & blues influences, Seinsart marks his debut in electronic music.

Ilya lives with schizophrenia, and for him, music is a way to express and articulate his emotions—an intrinsically valuable act, a means of self-expression.