Meet Luk, the electronica band from Ukraina.
how are Luk now ?
We are ok. We are planning to start working on our new album this year. You will be able to listen to one of our new songs soon. We’ll present it on our official compilation that will be released in a few months. But unfortunately this compilation of our best songs will be released only in Ukraine. If some European labels want to work with us, we are glad to cooperate.
if you’ve been asked to mention five Verbs that would best associated to your music, what would that be?
what is the best record you bought in the last 6 months?
Radiohead “In rainbows”. In our humble opinion, Radiohead is one of the best modern groups. Thom Yorke and his group made revolution in music with album “Ok computer”. After that they have modified the style of group and have proved that their views on music don’t go beyond guitar music. Doublet (albums “Kid A” and “Amnesiac”) has hit the mark. Radiohead have won on the territory of electronic music just as they made it before on other territories. May be new album of the group isn..t so much revolutionary, but melodic of these songs is beautiful and the voice of singer comes straight to the heart.
Would you mind share us some stories about the music scene in Ukraine? any other nice band you can recommend our readers?
Ukrainian music scene is rich in perfect groups. Most of these bands are underground acts, but they are making really interesting music. For example, a group from Dnepropetrovsk, that has very strange name “…and my friend truck” consists of only three musicians: bass-guitarist, drummer and singer. It can seem unusual, but most of their songs have pop-rock structure and it’s easy to imagine them on European radio stations.
Kharkov is playing a remarkable role in Ukrainian music life. Group 5nizza from Kharkov was very popular in former Soviet Union countries. Two boys – guitarist and singer – made the mixture that consisted of reggae, rock and pop. Now they have own projects, and their groups are one of the most interesting things that are going in Ukrainian music. There are also a lot of perfect jazz groups in Kharkov.
And at last we want to recommend your readers group that is surely one of the Ukraine’s brightest diamonds. It is called “Esthetic Education”. Most of their songs are in English, and really it is such a feeling that they came to us from an English club of the 60′s. Belgian-Ukrainian-Russian frontman Loui Frank reminds of Jim Morrison (frontman of the Doors), his energy has such strength that it’s hard to find another example. But this doesn’t mean that the style of this group came only from the 60′s. Attentive listeners can find in their music influences of the modern music, such as post-rock groups (Sigur Ros, Mogwai), post-country singers (Sufjan Stevens, Devendra Banhart). But we can say in spite of this influences “Esthetic Education” is one of the most distinctive groups in Ukraine.
five best albums that actually stay in your heart forever?
1. Bjork “Post”
2. Air “Moon safari”
3. Mum “Finally we are no one”
4. Muse “Origin of symmetry”
5. The Doors “The Doors”
what is your top five songs that heavily rotate on your playlists?
1. Portishead “Only you”
2. Muse “Unintended”
3. Massive attack “Teardrop”
4. Goran Bregovich «Sex»
5. Bjork vs. Thom Yorke «I’ve seen it all»
last words?
We want to wish all of you to be always elated. Listen to the music, that your heart says to you.
www.myspace.com/lukpage
www.luk.com.ua
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