The story of (Un)spoken words began in July 2019, when Anton Ra composed the verse arpeggios; just a month later, the music was fully tracked. From the very start, the song’s concept was rooted in genres like New Wave and Post-Punk, making it the first track of this stylistic direction in Mixte’s repertoire. A bit … Read more
The first version of the song was composed and recorded within a fairly tight timeframe in April 2016. The track was actively played during rehearsals by the first lineup of Mixte in 2020–2021, but it truly gained a second lease on life when the band transitioned into a trio format with Luc behind the drum … Read more
Anton Ra had long cherished the idea of creating a song where the bass guitar would take center stage. This concept began to take shape in August 2021, when the opening melody was composed. Throughout the autumn of that year, as well as the summer and autumn of the following year, the track was continuously … Read more
Connecting to Space is a classic example of a song whose creation history is complex and thorny. The first version of the track was created back in Kazakhstan in the very early 2010s. The song was quite long, and from that old version, the modern one retains only the first two riffs; the rest was … Read more
The story of the song begins in December 2016, when Anton Ra was exploring a collaboration with Kevin, a vocalist from Rheine. After receiving some initial musical ideas from him—specifically a verse and a chorus—Anton reworked them beyond recognition. Once the collaboration with Kevin came to an end, Anton Ra composed a bridge and the … Read more
We are launching a series of posts where we’ll be sharing the stories behind the making of the songs from our debut album, Chapter I (link in bio), beginning with ‘Emergence’. This is the very first song by Anton Ra that he felt confident enough to share with the world. Emergence was created in the … Read more