The next edition of We Out Here Festival: It Takes A Village weekly radio series is here. 

For this episode, Alex Chumak, composer and bandleader of SOYUZ steps onto the airwaves ahead of August. Responding to the theme ‘It Takes A Village’, he traces a path through the places and musical currents that have shaped his journey, from Belarus through Lebanon, France, Belgium, Canada, England and Brazil.

Moving across borders and influences, this show reflects a spirit of musical curiosity that resists fixed identity, where sounds travel, evolve, and reconnect across time and place. A reminder that the villages we build are not only physical, but formed through exchange, movement, and shared listening.

Where voices connect and communities grow, culture is almost always built together…