DakhaBrakha explained

DakhaBrakha
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Origin:Kyiv, Ukraine
Genre:Ethno-chaos
Years Active:–present
Current Members:Marko Galanevych, Olena Tsybulska, Iryna Kovalenko, Nina Garenetska

DakhaBrakha are a Ukrainian folk music quartet which combines the musical styles of several ethnic groups.[1] [2] They were a winner of the Sergey Kuryokhin Contemporary Art Award in 2009 and the Shevchenko National Prize in 2020.[3]

DakhaBrakha are a project of the Dakh Contemporary Arts Center, led by Vladyslav Troitskyi and born as a live theater music crew. Troitskyi continues to be the band's producer. Members of DakhaBrakha participate in the centre's other projects, notably in the all-female cabaret project Dakh Daughters, as well as in the annual Gogolfest festival.

Name etymology

The group's name derives from Ukrainian verbs and , while also playing on the Art Centre's name "Dakh" (literally "roof" in Ukrainian).

Members

All of the members except Marko Halanevych are graduates of the Kyiv National University of Culture and Arts. Nina Garenetska also takes part in the Dakh Daughters project.

Discography

Soundtracks

Origin

DakhaBrakha were originally a daughter project of Ukrainian the avant-garde theater Dakh and its artistic director Vladislav Troitsky.[8]

Festivals

DakhaBrakha performed in June 2014 at the Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival held in Manchester, Tennessee. DakhaBrakha were invited to participate through the globalFEST showcase. They were proclaimed by Rolling Stone as "Best Breakout" of the festival.[9]

They played at the Glastonbury Festival on the West Holts.[10] They performed in July 2017 and July 2018 at the Finger Lakes GrassRoots Festival of Music and Dance held in Trumansburg, New York. In 2017, they performed at the South by Southwest festival (SXSW) in Austin, Texas. DakhaBrakha performed at the 2017 Sziget Festival in Hungary. In 2018, the group performed with Latvian group Tautumeitas at Latvia's World Music Festival Porta 2018. In 2019, they performed at the Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts in Manhattan.[11]

They performed during the first weekend of the 2022 New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival in New Orleans, Louisiana.[12]

DakhaBrakha played a well-received set at the Festival International de Louisiane in Lafayette, Louisiana, on April 30, 2022.

Film appearances

In 2023, when the Ukrainian animation (based on the play The Forest Song by Lesya Ukrainka) was released. The audience saw an animated version of the band members as characters of the animation.[13] Soundtracks of the Mavka animated film also belong to DakhaBrakha due to their ethnic motives required by the film`s plot.[14]

"The team recreated the ethno dance and other ceremonial elements with the help of experts from the Ivan Honchar Museum National Center for Folk Culture. The music for this episode is an authentic vesnianka performed by the DakhaBrakha band: the musicians not only created the song for Mavka, but also appear in the cartoon as Lukash's friends, village musicians"[15] [16]

Other performances

Influence on other artists

External links

Articles

Notes and References

  1. Web site: DakhaBrakha: globalFEST 2014. June 20, 2014. npr.org. January 16, 2014. Anastasia. Tsioulcas.
  2. Web site: Put Language Aside, Then Let the Music Take Time to Speak. The New York Times. June 20, 2014. June 17, 2014. Jon. Pareles.
  3. https://suspilne.media/16539-prohasko-dahabraha-opera-jov-stali-vidomi-laureati-sevcenkivskoi-premii-2020/ Суспільне UA: Прохасько, ДахаБраха, опера «Йов». Стали відомі лауреати Шевченківської премії-2020
  4. http://www.chaskor.ru/p.php?id=8624 На межі review
  5. Web site: David Beckham's House 99 ad features song by Ukraine's DakhaBrakha (video) . 2023-09-13 . www.unian.info . en.
  6. Web site: DakhaBrakha Records Soundtrack to Mavka . 2023-09-13 . MAVKA the forest song animated feature film MAVKA . en.
  7. Web site: Song by Ukraine's Dakha Brakha becomes part of Fargo OST . 2023-09-13 . www.unian.info . en.
  8. Web site: "Сны потерянных дорог" – на фестивале "NET". Russian. November 23, 2009. "Dreams of the Lost Road" – The "NET" Festival. June 20, 2014. tvkultura.ru. December 24, 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20191224195645/https://tvkultura.ru/article/show/article_id/25020/. dead.
  9. Best Breakout: Dakhabrakha Photo – 45 Best Things We Saw at Bonnaroo 2014. Rolling Stone. 2016-06-16. 5 July 2015.
  10. Web site: Glastonbury 2016 – DakhaBrakha. BBC Music Events. 2016-06-27.
  11. http://schimmelcenter.org/event/dakhabrakha-2 DakhaBrakha 2019 performance details
  12. Web site: 2022 New Orleans Jazz & HeritageFestival Music Schedule . 2022-04-20.
  13. Web site: About the project . 2023-09-19 . MAVKA the forest song animated feature film MAVKA . en.
  14. Web site: DakhaBrakha band recorded first tracks for Mavka. The Forest Song OST . 2023-09-19 . MAVKA the forest song animated feature film MAVKA . en.
  15. Web site: Автентичний образ Мавки та саундтрек-веснянка від "ДахаБраха": нове музичне відео від "Мавка. Лісова пісня" . 2023-06-13 . usfa.gov.ua . uk-Uk.
  16. Web site: CREATORS OF "MAVKA. THE FOREST SONG" ANIMATED FEATURE PRESENT A NEW SPECIAL MUSIC VIDEO FROM ONE OF THE ICONIC FILM'S SCENES OF A RITUAL SPRING DANCE . 2023-09-19 . MAVKA the forest song animated feature film MAVKA . en.
  17. Web site: Boilen . Bob . January 16, 2021 . DakhaBrakha: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert . September 14, 2023 . NPR Music: tiny desk concerts.
  18. Web site: DakhaBrakha - Elbphilharmonie Mediatheque . 2023-09-15 . www.elbphilharmonie.de . en.
  19. Web site: Onda . Aki . 2023 . Transmissions From The Radio Midnight . 26 January 2024 . Bandcamp.

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