Taking its name from the opening lines of Heinrich Heine's Der Doppelgänger — later set to music by Franz Schubert — Still Ist Die Nacht gathers a sprawling network of collaborations into a single collection, compiled and directed by Aleksandr Popkov.
The release features work by Buna (Yaroslav Krasnov, Aleksandr Popkov), Infinite Source Loops (Aleksandr Popkov, Nadja Sky, Time Consumer), and 0018 (Administration Des Ventes, Nadja Sky, Time Consumer), alongside solo material from Aleksandr Popkov and Nadja Sky, and two collaborative tracks by Aleksandr Popkov and Vakhtang Markarasvili. Much of the material was recorded across distance, with parts developed independently by the participants and later assembled into their final forms.
The recordings draw on sampled acoustic instruments, guitars, and a detuned upright piano — heard across tracks such as Hellas, Letit, and Sotni Kolokolen. Buna's Doppelgänger takes Schubert's setting of Heine's poem as its source, filtered through Fyodor Chaliapin's interpretation of the work. Threaded throughout are texts by Novalis, Rainer Maria Rilke, Joseph Brodsky, Yaroslav Krasnov, Rezo Amashukeli, Shota Iatashvili, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Heine himself — writers drawn together less by period or tradition than by a shared preoccupation with night, shadow, and the self returned as stranger.