Energy Rock
VV, Haydamaky, Mad Heads and others.
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The author project by Serhiy Sakhno the drummer of the legendary VV. "Akapulko" presents a completely new musical style, "trip-twist", as well as an incredible mix of Ukrainian melodies, dynamic hard "rock'n'pop", and the bluesy psychedelia of the 60s combined with the highly fashionable today "new sound of Berlin"...
| Domestic price: 222.60UAH,
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"Anna" has released a truly thoughtful piece. The powerful sounding and the characteristic vocal all of that is clear, this is familiar, but I'd like to separately mention two other aspects. First the new lyrics of the group carry even more semantic meaning. And, second, this is, actually, construction of the compositions..
| Domestic price: 348.60UAH,
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It is exactly such music that practically the whole Europe listens to now the young part of population, accordingly. It is exactly such music that Ukraine lacks at present. At least, such bright cocktails of punk, pop, grunge, Brit-pop practically nobody does that. And it is worth trying...
| Domestic price: 180.60UAH,
International price: $12.90USD
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Something is changing inside. The feeling is as if Andriy Khlyvnyuk submerges much deeper now, and peers much closer, and than suddenly opens up and appears probably even defenceless, vulnerable and because of that, however strange that may be, stronger. Even if it is painful. And this movement is there.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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Regarding songs by Boombox, it has always been interesting to listen to the lyrics among other things, due to their disposition to (and the ability of) playfulness. But the further, the less verbal balancing they contain but more poignant senses, refined formulas, comprehensive observations. The new (mini)album "Naked King" is a very vivid evidence of that..
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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It is not that Ukraine has few serious, heavy rock groups they exist, and new ones constantly appear, and more and more actively. But far not each group manages to furnish their appearance on the large scene in such a high-quality, noted and convincing way as the group White has managed. However, maybe, it is logical...
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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Brand new single by VV! Disc includes three new songs, two remakes of the songs of Victor Tsoy and "Kino" group in Ukrainian and great video clip "Zoryana Osin'"
| Domestic price: 278.60UAH,
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The group "VV" has recently celebrated the 20th anniversary of their creative life and have released a new album. The age is respectable not only for a group even for a person it is already quite a lot. One can and should sum up some results and draw conclusions. Actually, the album "There Were the Days" has become this kind of summarizing.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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The new work by VV managed to cause a lot of agitation even before the official release and that was absolutely deserved. This refers both to the song, and the video for it Oleg Skrypka and his friends are not afraid of subjecting themselves to creative experiments, that is why the video "Chio Chio San" for many became a real surprise..
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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Even though "Wonderful World" seems to continue the trend of combining rock aesthetics with ethnics now it sounds different. It sounds as if the band was able to rethink and synthesize all the previous groundwork thus, when Oleh Skrypka defines this new piece as "velvet symphonic punk", that is not that much of an exaggeration..
| Domestic price: 278.60UAH,
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...cocktails by Gogol Bordello become more transparent. Not so much quiet, rather more considered, balanced internally. It seems to be a carnival of weird masks, behind which the simple idea lurks: no one makes you agree to everyday mediocrity. You can do it otherwise.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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..the debut disc by the group "Dalai Lama" is a mouthful of cheerful hope indeed. Not least of all due to diversity of the material. Dalai Lama switches from alternative rock to grunge, mixes up punk and disco, changes the internal tension of trip-hop for the seeming transparency of post-rock, quotes funk inside out, just has fun with the sound and does it confidently.
| Domestic price: 208.60UAH,
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There is in all that music some adult thing that lets one know nothing occasional, toy-like happens here. Adult guys create adult songs and drink beer in the adult way (even if they do not drink it). Leather jeans should be somewhere at hand
Domestic price: 208.60UAH 156.52UAH
International price: $14.90USD $11.18USD
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Alternative music? yes, this is it. Sympho-rock yes, moreover, already now the group feels very confident in this sense, works at a large scale. Gothic? yes, this is exactly the word that is the first to occur, if one speaks about the atmosphere as a whole, and about some texts in particular. Melodious heavy metal? this, obviously, was the basis from which what we hear now grows.
| Domestic price: 460.60UAH,
International price: $32.90USD
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How many people, having first heard the songs "In the Country of Illusions" and "No", decided that they should certainly buy-listen to the new disc by Dymna Sumish? I think, more than one thousand. How many of them will be disappointed having bought-listened to this disc? I think, none Dymna Sumish, sure, is one of the most interesting groups on the Ukrainian independent scene.
| Domestic price: 446.60UAH,
International price: $31.90USD
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"Brutal pop power" so they call it. But there is a great temptation to also add other words: post-rock plus acoustic acid jazz with trip hop education something like this, probably. However, all these names do not contradict each other because music like this as it is means going beyond the limits of specific style...
| Domestic price: 306.60UAH,
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The new disk combines songs about a variety of facets of our life there is blues and loneliness, exciting gospel and sex, punk and showing off, trip-hop and anger, poignant tango and war. The world is changing every day, dogmas keep replacing each other, but we hope...
| Domestic price: 222.60UAH,
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It easily combines the somewhat nervous manner of indie rock with the best displays of brit-pop, with cool emotionality of Scandinavian underground. However, these are nothing but relative definitions. Speaking otherwise, light, graceful melodiousness plus furious onslaught elegance and, at the same time, enormous tension of all forces.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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Serhiy Zhadan is one of the most "flexible" contemporary authors in Ukraine in what relates to the means of communication with the public. This is true both about live performances, and about the ways of, actually, publications. And "Fight for Her" is just another experiment of the kind. Cool poetry, tough, "raw" music, and interesting graphic...
Domestic price: 488.60UAH,
International price: $34.90USD
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Yuriy Zdorenko & Hash spin up and in quite an unexpected way. Actually, what could seem after release of their debut mini-album? That Zdorenko decided to cook another poignantly hot dish based on the recipe tested in the "Borsch" project. And what actually turns out?
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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Thus, a cradle... Let's see, maybe, something extraordinary will really appear from this cradle to the light of the day. In any case, there are preconditions for optimism for sure. During the three years of its existence, the group has had enough time to attain both a nice quality of the material, and, the main thing, their own manner.
| Domestic price: 208.60UAH,
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The first fourteen customers will receive this disc signed by Irena Karpa! the new album from Qarpa Band is the music of the world which does not exist. It does not exist outside big cities, the Web, the utter interpenetration of cultures, and dilution of borders. This is the voice woven out of thousand voice...
| Domestic price: 306.60UAH,
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"Kozak System" offers a bright mixture of modern and folk poetry, powerful rock, ska-punk with insertions of reggae, and everything is kept together by the serious frame of the Ukrainian folk root. In short - you should meet them again.
| Domestic price: 320.60UAH,
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..There is space both for an atmospheric ballad, and for the proprietary hard "art-bombardment", and a recitative prophecy/spell that makes you freeze in other words, listen. A worthy succinct statement.
| Domestic price: 502.60UAH,
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..the debut mini-album by the Kyiv group "Kraamola". Despite the relatively small content four songs plus a bonus the work definitely manages to catch with its energy, a powerful message. And it's not just that the music is heavy thus, by definition, it is tense, charged with energy.
| Domestic price: 152.60UAH,
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...the guys combine seemingly incongruous stuff. The second album by the band turns out as a "salad" where the team aspires to demonstrate the entire range of their music's versatility. In addition to the ethno-hop traditional for "Krapka", in their songs the guys focus on such styles as trip-hop, sweet-jazz, and even boogie.
| Domestic price: 306.60UAH,
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Their music is the mixture of everything that gets into your hands and is reinforced by a powerful and skilful spiritual section. You can find practically everything here, starting with grunge and ending with raggy, and all that is fully stuffed with Byelorussian outlook and sense of humour...
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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If one has a look at the song titles one would think that the meeting with the music would be quite
predictable, probably. But this distance impression changes to some extent once you start listening. In fact, perhaps, the main surprise is how softly electronics and progressive rock are combined here.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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Artistic tools of alternative music, expressive male vocal with a number of emotional tints, introduction into the body of the songs of singing in the authentic manner, extraordinarily appropriate sounding of folk winds all of that creates a very saturated, literally electrified atmosphere. It is in this connection that it's nice to note that lyrics of the songs in no way yield to the music.
| Domestic price: 348.60UAH,
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..despite the relatively exotic terminology, these songs focus on such simple and complex, fundamental things in their inclusiveness: Life. Death. The path. The forest of ideas. In the album "Shaman", Merva weaves densely and amplifies this with the corresponding sound range, which by no means inspires relaxation.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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...having changed the vocalist, recorded a bright album and dramatically altered their image (playing true rock in neat suits that is well-aimed, indeed)) Motor'rolla has presently became one of the most interesting Ukrainian alternative teams. I mean alternative not as the music style, but just as a method of self-expression, world perception.
| Domestic price: 306.60UAH,
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Mastering of this release was performed in the USA, in the studio of the legendary sound producer Bob Ludwig, whose experience during the almost half-a-century career includes work with over 1200 musicians. This mastering was born at the height of "Dolce Vita Tour" in 2010 and as brightly as possible it conveys the integral, bright sound of the live concert performance.
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.. There is no pursuit for the sake of acknowledgement and there is no temptation of observing style limitations, but there is the ability to make it maximally as exact as you consider necessary. Sheer rock music grows from this root, creativity not for the sake of freedom, but as its direct result.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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We wanted to introduce this album here for several reasons at once. First, it has an interesting general concept as can be seen from its name already, the album is devoted to the matters that for many decades have been helping people to kill both each other, and oneself. Secondly these texts do touch with their merciless straightforwardness, frankness of evaluations, bitter irony.
| Domestic price: 348.60UAH,
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This is music with its own identity. And it's not only about interesting arrangements listen to the lyrics: this is not simulation of rural folklore, this is its urban rethinking, but not limited to the city. Somewhere there, a universal key to the roots reside...
| Domestic price: 404.60UAH,
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..topics of songs by Opozicia cover an extensive range of themes. And, strictly speaking, Christian morality is the foundation, not a flag. That is why in the group's texts it is possible to hear a great number of poignant social issues these guys are not afraid to admit that problems exist, they are not afraid to give them their true names.
Domestic price: 200.20UAH 110.18UAH
International price: $14.30USD $7.87USD
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Here, city nervousness, sharpness surprisingly intersect with rootedness in some most ancient cultural layers. Yanka seems to not even sing, but practice witchcraft and she does not copy known standards, but just takes her skills from some primary source. Not that she revives rather, gives birth anew to some mystic passageways between the world...
| Domestic price: 488.60UAH,
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Yanka Kozyr Orchestra not simply create music they create their own mystery of sound, live and bright. And the music matter appears here so saturated, dense, enriched that it seems that it is visible, one can touch it, one can breathe it under water...
| Domestic price: 348.60UAH,
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First, everything is as ever loads of drive and salty humor, easy-going fun and tricky jibes. And then you somehow suddenly realize that you listen to topical songs, poignant enough to feel reluctant to laugh but, at the same time, so fiery that, nevertheless, this does not destroy the mood...
| Domestic price: 418.60UAH,
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To your attention the second release of the album in another (cardboard) packaging. ...And then you somehow suddenly realize that you listen to topical songs, poignant enough to feel reluctant to laugh but, at the same time, so fiery that, nevertheless, this does not destroy the mood...
| Domestic price: 502.60UAH,
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Perkalaba unexpectedly, without any announcement produced its third album. Well, and it was right to do that it has been long time already that we've been willing to hear something new from the spheres of absurd folk, and Perkalaba still stays virtually the main Ukrainian guide in the wilderness of these unexplored paths and ladders.
| Domestic price: 390.60UAH,
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With their second album, Pins reinforce the impression that the group does not agree to the role of a simple mirror. To see, think, understand and seek. They may not always find but do not stop. Eventually, perhaps, no answer is final the more one gets to know, the more one has to cognize.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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..there are increasingly more "problem-free" songs. Perhaps, it is just a way of self-defense but "Postsense" protects itself otherwise. This group attacks. Does not turn away, does not invent politically correct formula. They call unpleasant things their proper names so, their album is not for those seeking for alienated comfort.
| Domestic price: 208.60UAH,
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The new album by Rolliks is not for those inclined to a moderate outlook. From the very beginning, the group's songs stood out due to their evident uncompromising nature and in the new album this evident fact has not disappeared.
| Domestic price: 306.60UAH,
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In order to make it a bit clearer at once, we will say the following: the group Rura was assisted in preparation and release of this album by, among others, the groups Perkalaba and Pan Pupets. And not only (im)morally but also physically...
| Domestic price: 208.60UAH,
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The fourth album by Skinhate and the first one in the recent 10 years is, as ever, true musical fury. An unprepared listener will be just carried away, a prepared one comforted with the powerful hardcore mix and meaningful anger.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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Given the impression that it is able to produce it is even a pity that out of the three albums by the group, only this "Poisoned Dreams" has been released on physical media. Powerful stuff and not only due to the style. Although, sure, high-quality performance of heavy music it is always interesting. But here it is also about the contrast...
| Domestic price: 152.60UAH,
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This is something new, born due to deep immersion into the old perhaps, that is why the press release states: "Stoned Jesus play vintage rock in the best tradition of the '70s, inspired not only by heavy blues, early progressive and classical psychedelics, but even grunge, stoner and post-hardcore of the '90s"...
| Domestic price: 348.60UAH,
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This album leaves an interesting feeling as if one has heard three in one. A sort of "arrivederci" to the previous album, completely different aesthetics. But it is only the first half (including by timing) of the disk. Next is "Black Church" through which one may already recall that Stoned Jesus started with vintage rock...
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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Well, here it is, "S.P.A.M." and it is worth having been waited for. In the deciphered form the name of the disc sounds in this way: "System of Programming an Alternative Mind". At least this means that TNMKongo is really fed up with something.
| Domestic price: 306.60UAH,
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..this time they even manage without their signature prankish skits between tracks. Moreover, the symbolism of the number 7 is multi-layered for example, it is a symbol of the unity of Heaven and Earth, the soul and the body. And if one perceives lyrics of the new album from this perspective maybe, that could turn out a fairly good story of wandering and revelation..
| Domestic price: 348.60UAH,
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The album sounds as if Sashko Polozhynsky has once again discovered his second breath. There is experience, there is comprehension and awareness but there is also a vivid, direct response to the world around. And the key feature of the new work is virtually its sparkle, reckless and sober at the same time. Self-irony in action. Without significant illusions
| Domestic price: 320.60UAH,
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..what is specific: the core of the Ukrainian archaic material is not hidden, not disguised as it could be and as it has already happened. On the contrary, the foundation is very expressive, while all the rest it is like pastel lighting. All those small sounds of country, rock, fusion, disco, club electronics they are as if New Year decorations on a living tree...
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
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"Kley.Mo" is the answer that Tol gave to itself to its own question. For about a year prior to release of this disc the group declared that it would be on vacations and it was far not a sure fact that it would ever get back on the scene. But the period of silence has passed, and Tol has not only returned to performances, but has also presented fresh material.
| Domestic price: 208.60UAH,
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And we will hear the music that is quite rare today in Ukraine pure rock. Clear rhythms and texts not deprived of the existential, firm guitar turns and energetic male vocal yes. This is just the color that has been recently lacking in the variety of Ukrainian music, and its a pity.
| Domestic price: 166.60UAH,
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This time "Fayno" once again offer their own lyrics and songs based on poems by such interesting and distinguished authors as Lazutkin, Lyubka, Honchar, Kiyanovska, Moskalets, etc. These interpretations are always interesting to listen to at least, because the accents sometimes sound very different...
| Domestic price: 306.60UAH,
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What has changed since the release of this album? It immediately strikes that the sound of Fiolet has become noticeably heavier and this, along with the rather significant insertions of electronics, creates a slightly different background for perception of the lyrics. Not that it is more aggressive, but there is a nuance..
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...sounding of the disc looks like illustration of the conclusion that the core of a person consists of feelings. Strong and far not always lyric ones. Hence tension, speed, harsh emotions but these are still paints. Because from within that very lyricism looms it is impossible not to notice it.
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In this version of the release, all the lyrics in the book are presented translated into English. \ POETY is a strong and sound, but at the same time multi-layered project by Solomiya Chubay. It is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of her father and it is a testimony to poetry, which happened not only due to, but also despite of. And that knows how to be different. Alive.
| Domestic price: 418.60UAH,
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..it sounds as if somewhere at a rather strange intersection of indie/alt-rock/dark cabaret, without going into any of these territories explicitly, fully. And this is how, one step away from the clear line, they are forming their own space: broken, stormy and muffled, painfully sharp and seemingly conscious of its mirages.
| Domestic price: 320.60UAH,
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...notwithstanding the title, it is not so sunny, but tense, even refractory, as it is a bit mad, stones are swimming as if it were the day after tomorrow. The theatre of absurdity. Happiness. And also about love...
| Domestic price: 348.60UAH,
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The guys from the Chernigiv group ShyZO define their own music as sweet rock. At least, it refers to the debut album, which you now see in front of you the musicians quite consciously decided to sweeten it, so that the way to the audience did not become too difficult and thorny. The position is, certainly, clear, thank you for warning but let us disagree.
| Domestic price: 222.60UAH,
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