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Kobza (band)
Kobza is a vocal and instrumental ensemble of Ukraine from the 1970s and 1980s. VIA (music), VIA "Kobza" was the first of the bands of the former Soviet Union to go on a commercial tour on the American continent (1982). The original band leader was :uk:Зуєв Олександр Іванович, Oleksandr Zuev. One of the songwriters and current bandleader is Yevhen Kovalenko. History 1971–1985 Vocal and instrumental ensemble "Kobza" began its professional creative activity in 1971 as part of ":uk:Укрконцерт, Ukrconcert." In 1971, the ensemble was invited to take part, as an accompanying ensemble, in the recording of the record by singer Valentina Kuprina at the Kyiv studio of the All-Union record company "Melodiya." At the same time, the management of the studio liked Kobza's own material, and a decision was made to record the ensemble's solo album. Vocalist Valery Viter, a student of the Kyiv Art Institute and a former soloist of the amateur ensemble "Berezenʹ, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VIA (music)
VIA (Russian language, Russian: ''ВИА'') is an abbreviation for Vocal-[Music] Instrumental-Ensemble (russian: Вокально-инструментальный ансамбль, ''Vokalno-instrumentalny ansambl''). It is the general name used for pop music, pop and rock music, rock bands that were formally recognized by the Soviet Union, Soviet government from the 1960s to the 1980s. In Soviet times, the term ''VIA'' generally meant ''band'', but it is now used in Russia to refer specifically to pop, rock, and folk groups active during the Soviet period. In the Polish People's Republic, PRL and some other neighbouring satellite states of the USSR the term Big-beat (Eastern Bloc), big-beat was used instead. History The term VIA appeared in the Soviet Union in the 1960s and represented a model under which the Soviet government was willing to permit domestic rock and pop music acts to develop. To break through to the state-owned Soviet media, a band needed to become an officia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Of Ukraine
Ukrainian music covers diverse and multiple component elements of the music that is found in the Western and Eastern musical civilization. It also has a very strong indigenous Slavic peoples, Slavic and Christians, Christian uniqueness whose elements were used among the areas that surround modern Ukraine. Ukraine is also the rarely acknowledged musical heartland of the former Russian Empire, home to its first professional music academy, which opened in the mid-18th century and produced numerous early musicians and composers. Modern Ukraine is situated north of the Black Sea, previously part of the Soviet Union. Several of its ethnic groups living within Ukraine have their own unique musical traditions and some have developed specific musical traditions in association with the land in which they live. Folk music Ukraine found itself at the crossroads of Asia and Europe and this is reflected within the music in a perplexing mix of exotic melismatic singing with chordal harmon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music In Ukraine
Pop music in Ukraine is Western culture, Western influenced pop music in its various forms that has been growing in popularity in Ukraine since the 1960s. Decades 1970s The 1970s saw the emergence of a number of folk rock groups. One of the most prominent was a group known as Kobza (band), Kobza which included 2 electric banduras. Initially it started off as an instrumental group playing folk inspired cool jazz. Other groups gradually appeared on the scene primarily from Western Ukraine such as Medikus, Smerichka. Major contributions were made by songwriter Volodymyr Ivasyuk, Volodymyr Ivasiuk and singer Sofia Rotaru and Nazariy Yaremchuk. In a development the KGB defined as "radio hooliganism", from the end of the sixties thousands of high-school and college students In Dnipropetrovsk became ham radio enthusiasts, recording and rebroadcasting western popular music. Annual KGB reports regularly drew a connection between anti-Soviet behavior and enthusiasm for western pop cul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pesniary
Pesniary (also spelled Pesnyary, be, Песняры, ) was a popular Soviet Belarusian folk rock VIA. It was founded in 1969 by guitarist Vladimir Mulyavin. Before 1970, the band was known under the name Liavony (Лявоны). Style Pesniary combined various types of music, but mostly Belarusian folklore though often with various rock elements and later rock as well. Several of Pesniary's songs were composed by Aleksandra Pakhmutova. The surprising influence of early Frank Zappa was also notable. Biography Pesniary was one of the very few Soviet bands (and possibly the first one) to tour in America in 1976. They toured the American South with folk band The New Christy Minstrels. After Mulyavin's death in a car accident on 26 January 2003, the original Pesniary split. About five different bands claim to be the official descendants of the original Pesniary and tour and perform original Pesniary songs. These are: * Belarusian State Ensemble Pesniary – a state-produced band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volodymyr Kushpet
Volodymyr Kushpet (born 1948) is an influential Ukrainian baritone singer, and player on torban, kobza, bandura and lira, he is noted for reconstruction of traditional playing techniques on these instruments. He is the author of a primer for these instruments and an in-depth study of the institution of Kobzar Guilds, associations of itinerary blind singers in Ukraine. Volodymyr Kushpet studied bandura initially under Andriy Omelchenko and then later completed his studies at the Kyiv Conservatory under Serhiy Bashtan. Along with Kost Novytsky he was one of the founding members of the KOBZA pop group and played an electrified bandura in the ensemble. Later Kushpet performed in an instrumental bandora duo with Novytsky playing primarily classical transcriptions of instrumental works on the bandura. Kushpet beceameinterested in the authentic bandura and the kobza as played by Ostap Veresai, after being introduced to Heorhy Tkachenko. From the transcriptions made by M. Lysenko in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
