Yana Pavlova was a collaborator and the “dearest and closest friend” of fellow Ukrainian artist Pavel Milyakov aka Buttechno.
Ukrainian experimental artist Yana Pavlova has passed away at the age of 35. No cause of death has been publicly disclosed at the time of writing.
News of Pavlova’s death was broken by frequent collaborator and fellow Ukrainian Pavel Milyakov aka Buttechno. “Farewell, my dearest and closest friend,” reads his Instagram post. “May your beautiful soul rest in peace. Your voice stays forever in our hearts. Voice full of true feeling, inner strength and melancholy.”
Although limited in her presence on social media, Yana Pavlova was a familiar face at Kyiv nightclub ∄, a clandestine haunt of the city’s underground arts community. It was there that she curated a night called Seredmistia, exploring sounds off of the beaten path of mainstream music.
Pavlova and Milyakov collaborated on the July 2021 album BLUE, which came out on the latter artist’s PSY X imprint. The seven-song package featured Pavlova’s vocals seamlessly incorporated into abstract soundscapes that seldom fit neatly into any single music category.
It only made sense for the two to reconvene on Wandering, which arrived by way of PSY X in January 2022. “Although the pair continue a similar collaborative process on their latest album, Wandering, the results are much darker,” wrote Drew Litowitz of the 10-song effort for Pitchfork. “It’s a record of harsh industrial feedback and mournful howls, one that relishes in its own bleakness.”
Shortly after Pavlova’s death, Milyakov shared their cover of “Song To Siren” by This Mortal Coil on his YouTube account.
We here at EDM Identity express our sincere condolences to the family and friends of Yana Pavlova during what can only be a difficult time.
