Ot Vinta!
Ot Vinta! is a Ukrainian rock band from Rivne, known for developing their own self-designated music genre known as Ukrabilly.
History
The idea to create a band came to Yuri Zhuravel, the founder of the group, in 1993, and the collective started performing next year. In April 1996 the band debuted at the festival "Pearls of the Season" in Lutsk, and in December of the same year made their first recording in Lviv. Local media recognized Ot Vinta! as the best rock band of the year. In June 2001, after changes in its composition, the band recorded its first studio album. In July they performed in Moscow, and later were also invited to play in Poland and various locations in Ukraine. The band's new album Drygtyndymba, presented in 2003, became a TV and internet hit.In 2004 Ot Vinta! participated in the international music festival Muzicorama-2004 in Giżycko, Poland. In the same year they performed at several rock festivals in Ukraine and played a concert together with Ukrainian rock legend Sestrychka Vika. During the events of the Orange Revolution in 2004 the band toured Ukraine and Poland and gave a concert in support of the protests on Kyiv's Maidan Nezalezhnosti. In 2012 Ot Vinta! represented Ukraine at the international festival Sopot Top of the Top 2012. The band is also known for its participation in theatrical performances and comedy acts, and in 2010 its members took part in Ukraine's first Red Bull Flugtag.
Band members
- Yuriy Zhuravel - vocals, guitar, banjo, harmonica, music, lyrics, style
- Viktor Pylypchuk - vocals, guitar, ukulele, flute
- Volodymyr Zahyney - vocals, goat-bass
- Serhii Myronchuk - drums, percussion
Discography
Albums
- Drygtyndymba
- I Shouldn't Have Eaten Onions
- Ahead
- Ass-shake
- With Sweat and Blood
- Pilotka
Videography
- Woman Had No Trouble...
- I shouldn't Have Eaten Onions
- Oplya-Potato
- Ahead
- Grandma's Cabinet
- Song of May-Lilies
- Will Not Go
- I Love
- In the Dark-Dark Forest
- New Year Ding
- Come With the Crane
- "Ukraine Between My Legs"
- It's Christmas!
- Grandmother Smoked Crane
- 16 Tons
- Make Love, Dark-Browed, But Not With the Russians
- Our Boys at the War
- Forward
- We Coil