Cooperation log with Ukrainian artists
Here's a few artists we are glad to cooperate in terms of music export
Ukrainian electronic indie-pop trio that will turn your life into a real-time movie. The cinematic music of Disappeared Completely blends soothing acoustics with smooth electronic synths and organic duo-vocals. It’s like The XX married Massive Attack with Radiohead mood. More than a million streams won’t lie, so join the club.
- c/o pop (Germany)
- Cooperation Camp 2023
Krapka;KOMA is a Ukrainian multi-instrumentalist electronic girl duo. Following down the roads of indie-electronica, trip hop and nu-jazz, Ira and Alona break new ground using a crazy amount of instruments. Their sound is somewhere between atmospheric Bonobo and sonically challenging Radiohead. They have released an EP, three international collaborations, five music videos, a video game soundtrack and are performing abroad to support Ukrainian culture and the music scene and fundraising money for healthcare needs in their war-stricken homeland.
- ESNS (Netherlands)
- Westerpop (Netherlands)
sophistication. is a one-woman band guided by the Kyiv based musician Sofia Shvager who combines an acoustic guitar with a piercing voice making quite a minimalistic, calm and chill sound. She enriches her rather folk sound to create a slow city-meditation through her stories, a bit dark, a bit melancholy but still quite and warm.
- Songwriting camp Tiveden Americana Festival (Sweden)
- Radio Plugging
- Danish-Ukrainian Songwriting Camp (Denmark)
Love’n’Joy is a Kyiv-based rock group is one of the most successful Ukrainian live bands internationally, playing hundreds of concerts per year all over Europe, including festivals like Reeperbahn and support acts for Kikagaku Moyo, Boogarins, The Shivas and Petrol Girls with the plans to expand to the US and Canada in 2023. Their music is filled with sunny 60s vibes, the sea breeze of the Crimean coast, and trippy psychedelia. But they also have elements of hard rock – with Jimi Hendrix and Led Zeppelin among their influences – and plenty of heavy guitars, which give their sound a rougher edge. The strong lyrics reflect the spirit of a new, resurgent Ukrainian culture.
- ESNS (Netherlands)
- Radio Plugging
- Cooperation Camp 2023
Kurs Valüt is an electro duo from Dnipro, founded in 2017 to make minimal wave in Ukraine great again. Their music is created first and foremost for live performances. All songs are written in Ukrainian. All lyrical subjects and dark electronics carefully turn existential crisis into unstoppable energy on the dancefloor. Kurs Valüt has two LPs out and recently signed with German label No EMB Blanc.
- ESNS (Netherlands)
- c/o pop (Germany)
acoustic, indie
- Radio Plugging
- Cooperation Camp 2023
Zbaraski is a musician and sound producer from Lviv, who was born in the city and grew up in the mountains. He creates a sound unexpected for the Eastern European scene, and one which can be singled out for how well-produced it is. His debut EP Bo Ya Tak Khochu (‘Because I Want It Like That’) was released in 2019 to public acclaim, and established Zbaraski on Ukrainian scene as a promising new wave artist. In a nutshell, Zbaraski’s ‘bedroom pop’ music combines old R&B, soul, and hip-hop, with a base of Ukrainian lyrics sung in silky falsetto.
- Danish-Ukrainian songwriting camp (Denmark)
- Cooperation Camp 2023
Insomnia Taxxi (Iryna Novikova) is an international sound artist, composer, music producer in experimental electronic music and sound design from Ukraine, who lives and works in Sweden. She is active in film, theatre, sound design for digital art, as well as creator and practitioner of conceptual electronic music compositions. Iryna's sound world is characterized by dark melodies, experimental music with compositional form, vocals and synthesizers. She often uses unique video material during her concerts and collaborates with video artists and live VJs. All her work has a metaphysical, mythological, contemplative, social or political subtext.
- Danish-Ukrainian Songwriting Camp (Denmark)
- Cooperation Camp 2023
Hidden Element is an electronic act from Kyiv. By blending elements from breakbeat, techno and ambient, producer Igor Kirilenko creates forward-thinking music with shifty rhythms, cinematic samples and deep textures. Inspired by classic sci-fy movies, it is a perfect soundtrack for both crouded ecstatic club nights and solitary mind wandering.
- Cooperation Camp 2023
Sheetel is a four-piece rock band based in Kyiv, featuring singer/keyboardist Anton Sheetel, drummer Vova Akhremenko, cellist Artem Litovchenko, and bassist Oleksandr Musevych. Although the band’s genre can be defined as art rock, they distinguished themselves by drawing from a wider set of influences. Merging art rock, trip-hop, jazz, grunge, post-punk into a blend of shamanistically repetitive soundscape creates a meditative and hypnotic listening experience. The band is most loved for their live performances.
- Cooperation Camp 2023
The Lazy Jesus is a Ukrainian sound producer, DJ and musician. His music is a vast texture of percussion and elements of Ukrainian roots. His DJ sets are surfing the waves of urban ethnic, ethno bass, breaks, footwork, jungle, zouk bass, beila funk and beila bass. In 2021, he presented the author's audiovisual project UA TRIBAL, in which he shows his vision of presentating Ukrainian ethnicity in a new form. In 2022, he released his debut album "UA TRIBAL Vol.1" on the Tunisian-French label Shouka and went on a European tour with participation in major festivals.
- Danish-Ukrainian Songwriting Camp (Denmark)
- Cooperation Camp 2023
African-Ukrainian hip hop project created in early 2019 consisting of 3 sisters showing their unique cultural background in their songs, style and, most importantly, in their energetic, lively performances. A symbiosis of modern genres from trap to hip hop, quoting other styles from R’n’B to rock. Debut album and a UA tour ahead!
- Radio Plugging
- International booking // Europe Day (France)
- Waves Vienna (Austria)
Tonka is Ukrainian progressive indie-pop project consists of vocalist Olena Karas, music producer and keyboardist Yaroslav Tatarchenko and drummer Denis Shvets. The band is distinguished with a minimalist naturalism in both music and visual aesthetics, and their compositions excite listeners with dynamic rhythms, non-trivial melodies and strong vocals.
- Reeperbahn Festival (Germany)
The band Gapochka went through a number of powerful and drastic transformations, including playing at the Global Battles of The Bands in London, before arriving at its current duo format in 2017. Today the band comprises Katya Gapochka and Yevhen Yakshyn. In summer 2022, Gapochka had its first European tour in support of Ukraine and also a tour all over Czech Republic with a popular local band Lucia. Full of lyrics, old-school and post-punk motives, the indie rock duo plays a melting pot of music genres. Since their first release, Katya and Yevhen have shown themselves as a powerful union of daring guitar and exceptional vocals.
- Music Navigator (Czechia)
- International booking // Praha žije hudbou (Czechia)
Junket is a band that was formed spontaneously on art exhibition where participants of Atomic Simao (Georgy Valchuk and Nikolai Shostov) created a symbiosis of electronic sound and live instruments (sax, flute). The specificity of the group is that they do not play pre-prepared compositions, but everything is created spontaneously, online, without a second double and the possibility of editing. Essentially their music an improvisational “fresh” created directly in front of the listener.
- Cooperation Camp "Music is the Answer"
- Reeperbahn Festival (Germany)
Ragapop is a side project of Ruslana Khazipova and Anna Nikitina of Dakh Daughters, in collaboration with Anton Ocheretyanyy. The idea behind the band was to combine the things each member loves in a mixture of performing art and music, which gravitates toward post-punk aesthetics as well as towards some lo-fi electronics. The first EP Siasya is a tribute to the famous 19th century Ukrainian poet Ivan Franko. It’s based on his not so well known lyrics and brilliant translation of Oedipus the King by Sophocles.
- Waves Vienna (Austria)
- International booking // Sziget (Hungary)
Five twenty-something guys started rocking in the middle of nowhere and made their way to top festivals, including one of the major European stages, Sziget. Self-identified ‘bedroom punk’, The Unsleeping organically combine the destructive rock of IDLES with the tender indie melodies of The Neighbourhood. Prepare to sing along to every song & feel the full range of emotions, accompanied by Stanislavsky system-based dramatic performances, nicely reminiscent of Joy Division.
- Radio Plugging
DZ’OB is an electroacoustic band from Dnipro, Ukraine striving to combine classical music tradition with contemporary electronic approach. DZ’OB not only synthesizes genres like classics, IDM, techno, dubstep, but also comes up with unique, eclectic sounds that blur the lines within ages, and traditions. The band was founded in 2014 and consists of 5 instruments: oboe, bassoon, violin, cello and electronics.
- Cooperation Camp "Music is the Answer"
They're bringing an eclectic mix of electronic and live sound, using samplers, flute, violin, drums and guitars. Lyrics are in English, Ukrainian and Lithuanian. Their first LP Shuma was acknowledged as one of the best albums of 2016 in Ukraine. 2019 consisted of various tours to support their album Ulitakis. In 2020 they released new material with a band from Malawi.
- Cooperation Camp "Music is the Answer"
Country and folk/americana singer
- Radio Plugging
Rap
- Reeperbahn festival (Germany)
- Eurosonic Noorderslag showcase (The Netherlands)
- Waves Vienna showcase (Austria)
Future pop
- Budapest Showcase Hub (Hungary)
- Music Conference Ukraine showcase (Ukraine)
- Waves Vienna showcase (Austria)
Ethno-electronic
- Music Conference Ukraine showcase (Ukraine)
- Spring Break showcase (Poland)
- Wianki festival (Poland)
- Westerpop festival (The Netherlands)
- WORM Rotterdam (The Netherlands)