Okean Elzy: Winner of the Best Rock Band award at 2016 Ukraine National Music Awards

On the 25th of February, Okean Elzy won the "Best Rock Band" award at the "YUNA-2016" - Ukraine National Music Awards...

© Okean Elzy Official

That evening, Kristina Solovii won the "Best Music Video" award for her song "Тримай - Trymay":

Kristina Solovii - YUNA 2016
Photogr. Unkn.

Congratulations! Вітаємо!  

For more information about the 2016 YUNA awards, click here!

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"...

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."

  Let me remind you that Kristina's album is available on Google Play & ITunes!

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

Kristina Solovii released her first album!

The first album of the Ukrainian folk singer Kristina Solovii has been released on the 22nd of September...

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... :)

Kristina Solovii
Photo: © Victoria Kvitka

Kristina Solovii
Photo: © Victoria Kvitka

You can also listen to it on SoundCloud.
Enjoy!! (What a voice!)