I was born and grew up in the city of Lvov. Surprisingly enough I still have the memories when my body was so small that my mum would hold me in her hands. And almost at that time I started singing prior to speaking and walking. I attempted to repeat the songs my parents were listening to at that time - Armstrong, Sinatra and so on. But, on the other hand, these were pop songs of that time and they were filled with innocence and bright ideas of happy life in future. Although, deep inside of me (through my ears) there was a constant sound of organ – I could spend hours and hours creating endless flows on my virtual instrument. Sometimes when there was a real instrument nearby, I didn’t lose an opportunity to make some improvisation (unfortunately, not so masterly).

Once I borrow my sister’s guitar and started fantasizing and soon in a few months I found myself with my first rock band. A friend of mine gave me "an electric oar” for free and parallel to my studies at electric hobby group (my classmate encouraged me to go there) I started experimenting with guitar sounds. Then I bought a drum set which tortured my neighbors for a while under the guidance of my friend and teacher Alfa (Alfinskiy Andrey). My neighbors really had hard time when there came a saxophone (it turned out to be even louder), but they survived with dignity and they even didn't break their heating radiators. Later there were some other groups of different genres (from trash metal, jazz to rap), also I had my studio for rehearsals and recording. At the same time I studied at Polytechnic institute at radio faculty, did pentathlon, swimming and boxing, sang in “Dudaryka”, went camping under the first yellow and blue flags and went on an archeological expedition...

Then I played with a colorful band "Astral plan" ("plan" doesn't mean drugs here, I was always against narcotics) when there appeared " Ocean of Elza" (we had concerts together and made friends). Cultural Fond of Ukraine got interested in us, and therefore there came a manager to assist with recording, tours with "Gadjukiny Brothers", "Yaremiya's cry", "VV" and so on. But I got bored with this, because I like to generate ideas and therefore I started searching for a deeper sense of life.  Thus I have disappeared for 7 years in the direction unknown to most of my friends, and I got back with a few songs of philosophical context (I made an album “Planet of love”) and sometimes I would sing them with not ordinary bands. Thus I met sisters Yaremchuk who liked my songs and we decided to make a band with other musicians who are now not part of "AtmAsfera". At that time we had an innocent name "Planet of love" and we tried to sing about love in opposition to lust, but which is called with the same word (love).

In "AtmAsfera" we started from simple songs with deep sense (album “Planet of Love 2”), then our music became “harder” and we made an album “To find”. And later on we started making experiments with ethno climates which resulted in recording an album “Forgotten love”. Now we carry on our searches in ethno style…

Andriy Shadiy