This album of the St. Petersburg folk ambient project Мира Древо (Mira Drevo) is dedicated to the numerous abandoned villages of the Russian North. The idea of this work came to the author during ethnographic trips inspired by an interest in Russian folklore and village culture. Many field recordings were collected: the stories of the elderly - about an uneasy life, war, beliefs and traditions; creaking floorboards of abandoned houses; rustling of spirits in the branches of dead apple trees; sounds of a cranberry swamp...

Additional recordings were made on Solovki, on the Vottovaara mountain and in the Karelian woods. Some of the acoustic instruments were captured during these trips on a portable recorder and later woven into the fabric of minimalistic synthesizer ambient. A significant contribution to the sound of this album was made by the soulful vocals of Anastasiya Kharchenko who sang several folk songs and lyric poems. Ltd x 100 hand-numbered copies in a digipak.