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Owl Generation is the project of award-winning British-Ukrainian accordionist Yuriy Chubarenko, a classically trained musician and graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London.

Yuriy initially studied at the Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music in Kiev, before coming to London to complete his Postgraduate Diploma in Accordion Performance at the Royal Academy of Music. He has since sought musical inspiration around the world, performing in cities across Europe, Asia and the USA, and winning national and international prizes as he goes along – including the Mortimer Development Award, and the Leverhulme Award. He has also performed as a soloist with the Ukrainian National Symphony Orchestra, the Renaissance Symphony Orchestra, the Lontano Ensemble, and for BBC Radio 4. He continually seeks to establish and expand the classical accordion’s repertoire by working closely with contemporary composers, and giving performances of original pieces.

Yuriy seeks a sound that transcends language, that finds its resting place in the inroads of unuttered emotions, and contains within itself the intrinsic voice of the heart. Yuriy has travelled across many seas, growing up in the Ukraine and studying in London, capturing the essence of his – and many others’ – journeys within the keys of his instrument. But he insists that his journey is only just beginning and that the evolution of music is ongoing. We cannot ever know the next step that this gentle art will take – we can just relax, and lose ourselves in its unmodulated footsteps.

The evolution of his music is exemplified by the Owl Generation project. Owl Generation takes the dedication and discipline of classical music, fuses it with the contemporary composition of popular culture and the end result is something new. Owl Generation occupies the middle ground between traditional and contemporary. From Nirvana to Radiohead, Yuriy has picked apart his favourites at the seams and resown them with love and diligence. These new arrangements took a great deal of time, practice, love and a steady hand.

Take “Paranoid Android” - reconstructing Radiohead's Beatles inspired epic, a song often recognised as one of the greatest of all time, and which is, in fact, three songs by three different composers, took patience and time. Owl Generation’s acoustic version, fusing accordion and acoustic guitar, simultaneously attempts to capture the song's soul and set it free.

To create the unique sound of Owl Generation, Yuriy’s weapon of choice is a custom classical piano accordion “Pigini Nòva”, hand made at the Pigini accordion factory in Italy. A year in the making, Yuriy’s instrument is the “Stradivarius” of the accordion world. 

Although Owl Generation is a solo project, Yuriy is no stranger to collaboration and some of his tracks carry the fingerprints of others. Alex Chubarenko, Yuriy's brother, lends guitar to some of the tracks while the strings of Nicolaj Nielsen can be heard on “All Of Me”.

Each of Owl Generation’s tracks is decoded note by note and later rewoven by hand. The tracks were mixed by Steve Price, a mixing engineer who has worked with names like Adele and Sam Smith. When it came to mastering Placebo’s classic track “Meds”, Price suggested involving Grammy-winning mastering engineer Tim Young who mastered the original track. The result is a unique style and feel of music that pulls the accordion firmly into the mainstream.

So far the focus has been on arranging alternative rock anthems, but Yuriy has big plans for Owl Generation and his eyes are fixed firmly on creating original compositions soon.

Owl Generation's definitive article is at once bold and cautious, strong and fragile and gloriously melancholic.

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Patrick Wall was born in Cork, Ireland in 1976. He first started singing in the late 1980s and always loved rock 'n' roll, blues and country music.
 
Hi main influences include blues based country and rock 'n' roll artists Jerry Lee Lewis, Moon Mullican, Hank Williams, Jim Reeves, Elvis Presley, Jimmie Rodgers, Bill Monroe and Gene Vincent. As well as this, he also has major African American blues influences such as Robert Johnson, Blind Boy Fuller, Lowell Fulson, Sleepy John Estes, Piano Red, Leroy Carr, Ray Charles, Professor Longhair and Champion Jack Dupree. A love of all this music gave him the idea to record himself.
 
Patrick released his first mostly country CD "Chill on the hill" in 2007 and followed it up with another in 2008 (a bluesier collection called "Lay me down beside my darling") and another (the Moon Mullican tribute "The leaves mustn't fall") in 2009. His newest CD (No. 4 - "I'll sail my ship alone", a blues drenched collection) was now just released in 2010. 

Patrick has supported many charities including the Waterford Hospice, Autism, Education funding, Chernobyl Children's project and Haiti earthquake relief with these CDs and/or at various music events. 

On these CDs, there is a mix of blues and country and some of the songs are the Moon Mullican classic "Lay me down beside my darling", a Jerry Lee Lewis inspired "Jealous heart", an out and out blues "Blue like midnight", uptempo rock 'n' roll like "Flip flop and fly" and the bluegrass standard "The leaves mustn't fall".
 
As well as music, Patrick also was interested in an academic career and obtained a BSc, MSc, and Higher Diploma from WIT and an MBS from UCC. He has lectured in various colleges and VECs.
 
Patrick is at present one of the few Irish artists to mix blues and country as well as doing country music with a bluesier style. He is the first Irish artist to record Moon Mullican songs. He lives in Waterford Ireland at present.
 
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Thanks for dropping by. This is my SoundCloud sandpit, my place on the internet where I put all my audio experiments. 

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