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[Max_the_Highlander]

Sorry Kathy but this music is empty for you because you never heard it.

Archaics as Kvitka songs may be beautiful but it is still archaics and just. Even Beatles are archaics now, in 21 century.

Question is - what is content?

Folk, romances - this everything is about relations in villages and cities in 18-19 centuries. Lost and gone. A kind of empty museum.

Modern music reflects the modern life so it's more "loaded" as for me.

Music from stage sounds better then museum music.

[Max_the_Highlander]

Actually I consider Ruslana as modern music... she sings with black rappers btw, in her last hit "The Moon Of Dreams".

Andrew Danilko last time works more for Europe and Russia... that's why his music lost the national traits and seems as mix of old-fashioned European disco with sickly-sweet Rissian pop.

Tartak and Tantsi Na Maidani Kongo are the cool and fresh mix of rap and hip-hop with Ukrainian folk, sound and language.

Kathy, when you begin to talk about I'm so young I automatically imagine old lady in rolling armchair with knitting...

[Max_the_Highlander]

I think we could be compared with Ireland. Irish pop and rock music took many from their rich folk tradition. So is in Ukraine. There is no star pop or rock who would not re-sang something folk.

But these are just influences, it’s not Mona Lisa portrait in gallery, it’s her portrait on T-shirt.

Yes, this country knows what trance and goa are.

I’m sure you didn’t hear ever the TNMK because they also have few cool remakes of folk songs – in dancing hip-hop way.

On Ukraine stager there are internationalists who work for Ukraine and Russia as Tina Carol, Taisya Povalyi, Andrew Danilko etc… and there are national artists who work mostly for Ukraine as Ruslana, TNMK, Ani Lorac etc…

Stereolisa is may be the only successful English-speaking project.

Kathy, so you don’t knit?

Some of your posts sound like you have rolling chair and some like you have rocking one. It depends.

[bm-21Lemko]

YouTube - Green Grey - п║я┌п╣я─п╣пЎя│п╦я│я┌п╣п╪п╟

music resembles U2

I prefer german and british music and american music rather than russian or ukrainian bands.

[Zbyszek]

Originally Posted by Kathy

MAX's opinion: I think we could be compared with Ireland. Irish pop and rock music took many from their rich folk tradition. So is in Ukraine. There is no star pop or rock who would not re-sang something folk.

No, they didn't take something from folk and rework it in an original way. That was my point.

Max, you will probably have a vision of me strolling down the street in the old fashioned suit and using walking-stick but I have to say my views on music are similar to Kathy's.
I was recently inspired by the songs of Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard from the Irish film "Once"(2007).
YouTube - If You Want Me.
These songs revoke the great time of European music - they are permeated with emotion and they say so much. I still can't forget the film. Max, you can't say they are old or old fashioned.
In fact, the music can be either good or bad no matter how old it is. I also agree that the most of modern Ukrainian bands do not touch my heart.
I remember the Russian duo Tatu which seemed once popular in Europe - in my opinion they just could not sing well. The TARTAK band really sounds like a tartak ( a place where timber is cut).
I like Maria Burmaka's songs though I do not regard them as outstanding.
YouTube - Maria Burmaka - Ne biysya zhyty (п°. п▒я┐я─п╪п╟п╨п╟ - п²п╣ п╠я√п╧я│я▐ пІп╦я┌п╦)