Pororoka issues rune-themed EP ‘Samhain’
Pororoka
The excellent Kyiv-based dark-folk project Pororoka releases the EP “Samhain,” a six-track, 21-minute work recorded between 2021 and 2025 and now available on all digital platforms. Frontwoman Svitlanka Sugak says the EP is a seasonal threshold piece: “It’s time to summarize and move on… Only those of us who have mastered this key ability – to release – are able to move on.”
The video for “Laguz (Performance, Drum Set, 2025)” is available as well now.
About Pororoka
The Ukrainian dark-folk project was founded in Kyiv in 2017 by vocalist/multi-disciplinary artist Svitlanka (Svitlana) Sugak and guitarist Eugene Kolyada. The band’s name references a tidal river wave. Musically the band focuses on voice, hand percussion, and acoustic/organic timbres combined with minimalist electronics.
Sugak, originally from Luhansk, relocated to Kyiv in 2002; she serves as the project’s primary songwriter, vocalist, and video producer. Selected tracks also credit Andrij Boichenko on vocals/backing parts.
A self-titled set was released in 2019 followed by “Polyn” (2021) and “Dym” (2021). During the full-scale war with Russia, the project continued issuing material that referenced place, history, and local events. In 2023 the band released “Vytoky/Origins” and “Hey, Look Around”. In 2024 they issued “Aidar,” an experimental single tied to the Aidar River.
In 2025 the band released the rune-themed EP “Samhain,” a six-track, 21-minute digital release distributed via Amuse/streaming platforms. A performance video for “Laguz” was released as well.
Pororoka also contributed twice to Side-Line’s Ukrainian charity compilations supporting humanitarian causes:
- “Electronic Resistance – A Darkwave / Post-Punk Compilation from the Ukrainian Underground” (2022) with “Dym.”
- “Electronic Resistance – Reconstruction” (2022) with “Hagalaz.”
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