All you need to know about Okean Elzy & Svyatoslav Vakarchuk... A Personal Blog for English Speakers! Alexa Heinze
26 October 2015
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk: Lecture at Columbia University, New-York - 24 October 2015
Last Saturday, Svyatoslav Vakarchuk held a lecture at Columbia University (New-York) about the 7-step strategy for Ukraine, the biggest enemy of Ukrainians (which is mistrust) and the importance of education.
Here are the videos!
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| S. Varkarchuk, Columbia University, 24 Oct. 2015 Photo: © Julia Gorodetskaya |
Many thanks to my friend Inna for sharing with us this video! :)
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23 October 2015
Kristina Solovii: "Под облачком - Pod oblachkom" - New video!
On Thursday, Kristina Solovii released the second official video of her album "Жива вода - Zhyva voda": "Под облачком - Pod oblachkom"...
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| Kristina Solovii © Victoria Kvitaka |
This song has something special for Kristina because, thanks to it, she heard for the first time about her roots in the Lemko area. She was 11 years old.
Kristina Solovii: "Под облачком - Pod oblachkom" became a symbol of my love for Lemko culture. I listened to it and my mother told me about our Lemko roots, about some people with strange customs and such a nice, but sometimes strange, dialect. Many of these people are no longer alive and I'll never meet them... But I can always use my imagination to think about them: That's what basically inspire me when I sing this song. This is probably the dearest song to me, the one that has an indissoluble mystical connection with my roots. "
Yana Altukhova (Video director) said that this song is absolutely magical. There is something linked to the history that is described in the brilliant film "Тiнях забутих предкiв - Tinyah forgotten predkiv": There is love - that can conquer death-, attraction, swirl, enigmatic magic of human relations.
Yana Altukhova, about this video: "It was immediately clear to me that the action should take place in a real forest, at night. A bit later, I had the idea that our heroine would be a charming nymph who lives in this forest. Using 3D mapping technology, we created for her new imaginary world in which she lives. We invented for her some fellows, spirits, plants, flowers... We gave her the opportunity to control the forces of nature - water, fire, air.
With this clip, we would like to transmit the magic of the words of this song and the incredible atmosphere of Ukrainian mythology."
You can also listen to it on SoundCloud.
Video
Director: Yana Altukhova (Red Glass)Video assistant: Stas Hurenko
Director of photography: Serzh Pivnenko
Gaffer: Yevhen Dzyuba
Line producer: Olena Pyelymsʹka
Art director: Denys Husakov
Stylist: Dasha Dubas
3D mapping: Maks Poberezhsʹkyy & Oleksiy Tyshchenko
Post production: Heorhiy Sahitov
@Red Glass production 2015
Source: https://www.facebook.com/khrystyna.soloviy
20 October 2015
Okean Elzy: "Життя починаеться знов - Zhyttya pochynaetʹsya znov" - about video shooting
Victoria Kvitka, the official photographer of Okean Elzy, took some beautiful pictures during the shooting of the video clip for "Життя починаеться знов - Zhyttya pochynaetʹsya znov". Here are some of them...
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| Photo : © Victoria Kvitka |
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| Photo : © Victoria Kvitka |
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| Photo : © Victoria Kvitka |
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| Photo : © Victoria Kvitka |
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| Photo : © Victoria Kvitka |
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| Photo : © Victoria Kvitka |
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More information about this song/video can be found here.
Click here to read the English translation of "Життя починаеться знов - Zhyttya pochynaetʹsya znov".
15 October 2015
Okean Elzy: "In memory of Boris Nemtsov" - acoustic concert in Basel, 9 October 2015
On 9 October, Okean Elzy took part to a concert in Basel in memory of Boris Nemtsov.
Pictures are very rare...
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| Okean Elzy - Basel - 9 October 2015 "In memory of Boris Nemtsov" Photogr. Unkn. |
But a video is available on the web!
Svyatoslav said that he really wanted to attend to this concert: the 9th of October is Boris Nemtsov's birthday and it is a significant and meaningful date for him.
Of course, this was an emotional event... but, after about 2 months without being on stage, Slava also said that he enjoyed meeting his old friends on this occasion! :)
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| Okean Elzy - Basel - 9 October 2015 Photogr. Unkn. |
That is the magic of music: happiness is never far away from pain... and it brings humans being together!
12 October 2015
Happy birthday, Okean Elzy!
The famous Ukrainian rock band Okean Elzy is celebrating today its 21st Anniversary...
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| Okean Elzy, June 2014 Photo: © Victoria Kvitka |
Happy birthday, guys! :)
03 October 2015
Kristina Solovii released her first album!
The first album of the Ukrainian folk singer Kristina Solovii has been released on the 22nd of September...
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| Kristina Solovii Photo: © Victoria Kvitka |
... and is available on Google Play & ITunes!
Svyatoslav Vakarchuk is the Producer of this album - I've already said a few words about this in an older post... :)
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| Kristina Solovii Photo: © Victoria Kvitka |
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| Kristina Solovii Photo: © Victoria Kvitka |
You can also listen to it on SoundCloud.
Enjoy!! (What a voice!)
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