Full interview with Ivan Len'o, Volodymyr Sherstiuk and Oleksander Demyanenko of the Ukrainian rock group KOZAK SYSTEM at the Bloor West Village Toronto Ukrainian Festival, Toronto, Canada, Friday September 13th, 2013 (Iнтерв'ю з Іваном Леньо, Володимир Шерстюк, Олександр Дем'яненко «Kozak System», Торонто, Канада, 13 вересня 2013 р.) - KOZAK SYSTEM is the new rebirth of the group that created six albums for Haydamaky which has since passed into history. - What are your musical influences, music groups? 1:37 - Music groups, kobzar players, singers that have influenced us include: Drevo, Hilka, Yurko Fedynsky, Taras Popenechenko, Taras Selenko, Ivan Tkalenko, Rakhil Rusnak, Kvitka Cisyk (Древо, Гілка, Божечі, Юрко Фединський, Тарас Попенеченко, Тарас Селенко, Іван Ткаленко, Рахіль Руснак, Квітка Цісик) 3:15 - Is the (music scene) atmosphere in Ukraine ready for this (KOZAK SYSTEM)? 5:08 - In Ukraine there is the birth and formation of groups of people, "castes", youth who do not want to watch/listen/consume current television programming because it is unfortunately dominated by Russian language content. These people have long understood it is not worthwhile to pay attention to the television and have shifted their attention to the internet and festivals. Many festivals in Ukraine provide the opportunity to listen to alternative Ukrainian music 7:25 - Vasyl Popadiuk, Brian Cherwick, Dovira (Stacey Yerofeyeva), Torontula, Zapovid, PYX 10:08 - Lyrics to our album "Shablya" were based (influenced) on the work of popular modern contemporary Ukrainian poets including Serhiy Zherdan, Sashko Polozhynsky, Dmytro Lazutkin, Yurko Izdryk, Artem Polezhak (Сергій Жадан, Сашко Положинський, Дмитро Лазуткін, Юрко Іздрик, Артем Полежак) 12:50 - I would like to hear Ukrainian Canadian bands sing orginial lyrics with current contemporary themes here in Canada (similar to rap music with an emcee, MC), not just traditional folk songs from hundreds of years ago in Ukraine - then their music will be interesting to greater Ukraine 13:32 - Володмир Кличко, Віталій Кличко (Vitali Klitschko, Volodymyr Klitschko) 14:42, 24:38, 27:34 - Ukraine is not the country today that existed when Ukrainian immigrants left; importance of Ukrainian diaspora to live, travel and work in Ukraine 20:04 - If you want to change something in Ukraine, come here and change it yourself 21:35 - How do you know what is happening in Ukraine? Through Ukrainian media which has its own agenda, biases, goals 22:04 - This is our third time to Canada and I have a lot of advice for Ukrainians in Canada 23:42 - Valeriy Odaysky, Combat Hopak (Валерій Одайський, Бойовий Гопак) 25:10 - The Klitschko brothers (Vitali Klitschko, Volodymyr Klitschko) used our KOZAK SYSTEM song "Brat za Brata" (Брат за Брата) for promotion purposes; Political party UDAR 28:09 - Thoughts and impressions about Canada 29:48 - Absence of sexy Ukrainian Canadian girls, women 33:30 Kozak System http://www.kozaksystem.com Andy Holowaty https://www.youtube.com/user/UANews4ENMedia Ukrainian music, Ukrainian interview, Ukrainians Canada, Ukrainians Toronto.

• published: 02 Oct 2013
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