Oleksandr Yevtushenko

The Kraina Mrii music publishers founded by the VV front man Oleh Skrypka is one of the youngest labels on the Ukrainian phonographic market. It aimed at rationalizing of the publishing of their band’s albums and parallel projects, in particular, solo works. The publishers also announced about...

Ukrainian discography counts albums that have become a sort of artifact, a “litmus paper” of their times. It was in the late 1980s that the rock stage began to acquire popularity, especially after the triumphant concerts of the Chervona Ruta Festival. Vika Vradii, bands Braty...

Each December the biggest and the most prestigeous international festival-competition called the Global Battle of Bands ends with a gala concert in London. The main intrigue of the impresa is that young bands from the whole world will compete for getting the $100,000 grand-prix. The respectable...

On Nov. 4, 2008, Sviatoslav Vakarchuk, the vocalist of the rock band Okean Elzy, presented his project titled Vnochi (At Night) in the Ivan Franko Theater. It sometimes happens that leaders of successful music bands feel an acute need to step out of the limits, i.e., change their music trend,...

To date Haidamaky is probably the only Ukrainian group to go on a professionally organized tour of several European countries to promote their album “Ukraine Calling” issued on the German label East Blok Music. In Ukraine this album is called “Perversions.” Like the two previous ones, the latest...

The destiny of any performing company is like that of any individual; it can be happy and bright or unproductive and dramatic, for all of us are born under our particular stars. The Kyiv Chamber Choir was obviously born under a happy star, promising this performing group sure and steady creative...

The slogan “Don’t Sell Yourself!” was unfurled on the squares of Odesa, Vinnytsia, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lviv, Luhansk, and Kyiv. Everywhere public demonstrations took place under the motto “Stop Human Trafficking!” This is how the international civic organization, School of Equal Opportunities,...

Do you know that the most advanced musicians of the electronic vanguard in Kyiv and Kharkiv have rallied around a small independent music label called Next Sound? To those who might raise an eyebrow at the concept behind the name, it should be understood as “sounds of the future.” The music that is...

Back in 1969, Volodymyr Kushpet, Heorhy Hrabar, Kost Novytsky, and Oleksandr Zuyev, then Kyiv Conservatory students, put together a folk rock group that was destined to become one of the most outstanding Ukrainian pop music groups of all time. In 1971 they were joined by Valery Viter, who had...

Kyiv's audio company Atlantic has launched a unique CD series, envisaging disks and audio cassettes with a variety of modern Ukrainian music, representing the most popular rock groups and solo performers specializing in all genres. Every such album will be structured so the listener can have an...