Tungu (aka Sergiy Senchuk) is a Ukrainian, Chernigiv-based experimental sound artist, electronic musician, and bassist, who has collaborated with Mia Zabelka, Charles K. Noyes, Al Margolis, Frank Gratkowski, Maggie Nicols, and especially Taiwanese, Berlin-based cellist Hui-Chun Lin.
Henry Kaiser is an American, Bay Area-based prolific master guitarist, experimental and innovative improviser, ethnomusicologist, and film score composer (including to the films of Werner Herzog), considered a member of the ‘first generation’ of American free improvisers, and feels at home playing free improvised music of Derek Bailey, the electric fusion music of Miles Davis, or the music of the Grateful Dead. He has collaborated with the ROVA Saxophone Quartet, Fred Frith, John French, David Lindley, Wadada Leo Smith, Elliott Sharp, and Richard Thompson.
The Unexplained is Tungu and Kaiser’s second collaborative project, following Night Lamp (Shrike, 2025, with Mia Zabelka). Tungu is credited with samples and field recordings, and the album was created remotely between July 2025 and May 2024.
Tungu’s city, Chernigiv, was awarded the honorary title of one of the ten Hero Cities of Ukraine for its strong resolve and outstanding heroism during the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The Unexplained is a dark cinematic-ambient work, with Tungu providing samples and field recordings, and Kaiser colouring them with his commanding, idiosyncratic, and effects-laden electric guitar work, with Hui-Chun Lin’s cello on one piece. It sounds as if it is addressing the horrors of the endless war with the invading and ruthless Russia with its unsettling, unimaginable images and sounds, cementing an imminent sensibility of inevitable danger and chaos.
It may be the soundtrack of a bad, disturbing psychedelic experience, or, if you think deeper and further, unfortunately, faithfully capturing the zeitgeist of our current times, when reptilian, corrupt, and narcissistic rulers lead their nations to endless, futile wars.
Eyal Hareuveni
Henry Kaiser (guitar), Tungu (samples, field recordings), Hui-Chun Lin (cello)
