Carpathiana

Ukrainian

I may be an old British punk, but at the same time I guess I am still a young Ukrainian, Yuri Baluk, the leader of the band CARPATHIANA once dreamt in his own borsch-time. The debut of CARPATHIANA on the English stage was in 1996 together with the band The Ukrainians. Later on the band & dj Baluk have taken part in numerous festivals and solo performances in Britain, Spain, Poland and Ukraine (Lviv, Kharkiv, Dnipropetrovsk, Crimea, Kyiv). The previous albums of the band – CARPATHIANA (1996) and LOVE (1998) - were distributed in Ukraine, Poland & the U.K. CARPATHIANA stands out among the numerous dance world music performers by the fact that instead of the mere use of samples, the band performs all the ethnical parts live, the Polish music magazine Plastik characterized the first album of the band. The leader of CARPATHIANA Yuri Baluk combines his performances within a band with solo DJ sets in the style of house, techno and drum 'n' bass on the club stage in Great Britain and Ukraine, in particular in the Palace of Sports (1998), the All-Ukrainian Festival Rock-Sich on the Trukhaniv Island (2006). To date, the band have played in Ukraine at the 'Krajina Mrij' and 'Slavske Rok' festivals in 2007, with club dates in towns such as Kostopil and, of course, Kyiv. 2008 has already seen the band's latest album release -'Eat My Borsch'- on Atlantic Records in Ukraine, and promises of a Major open-air concert in the centre of L'viv at the end of April, plus a summer festival t...