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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
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