Taras (preview) by Iryna Muha

MuHa – Richenka from Darius Powell on Vimeo.

JULY 17th at Nottingham Contemporary ALBUM RELEASE PARTY!!

We are finalising bits and pieces for the album release- mixing and mastering, registering and supplying boring legal staff, artwork and CD replication – all nearly there!
The summer is on the way for us to get lost in fests and celebrations again, now with our debut album Taras.

New Roots Independent Musi platform at the NEw Art Exchange , Nottingham April 24 2010

Experience an evening of experimental audio fusion, featuring world music and dance at the hub of international culture, organised by MuHa and hosted by Nottingham’s New Art Exchange.

APSARA, April 24th

Read more about featured artists, the venue and rest of the details here

Just received Dmitry’s master of TARAS- the song that gave the name to the MuHa’s debut album which is due to release on 4th of July 2010- to coincide with US Independence Day. The song is very powerful- Ukrainian soul is riding the step!

Taras Bulba is a Cossack, a Ukrainian folk icon which was created by a genius Ukrainian writer Nikolai Gogol. His story is about strength, brotherhood, family, pride, the love to the motherland-to name just a few.

And the cover for MuHa’s album TARAS is being designed by my Ukrainian friend who does something like this :

What is Love is sang in English, Punjabi and Russian with the use of Kathak rhythm. Guitar, vocal, kouxian, singing frog.

Tech stuff: acoustic Ronald AC 60 amp, Shure SM 58 vocal mic, Boss RS 20XL loop station (has two inputs for guitar and for mic which is very useful). Recorded with a simple digital camera Pentax following a simple editing in Windows Movie maker.

What is Love is a song in English, Punjabi and Russian with Indian Kathak and chineese kouxian

I don’t sing many covers of Russian bands, only those that influenced me very much during my uncertain and a bit crazy 20s in the country that was still in convulsions of regime change a decade before. We play this one- My Love by the band called Auctyon.