Shevchenko is a Dutch electropop band and was formed in the year 2010. Their music is often associated with the chillwave movement, but they are mainly influenced by the ‘80s synthpop, Italo disco and house from the ‘90s.

The indietronica adventurers Bram de Gruijter and Mark de Groot are inspired by vestiges from the Sovjet era and holiday memories from their youth. The band was created out of love for French house and electrical guitars. The combination of wave-like synths and Balearic beats create a solid basis, which is filled with summery guitartextures in a bath of reverb.

They would best describe the genre as being sungaze. A term with which the shoegaze-survivors refer to as the summer holiday-feeling. Shevchenko loves parties, but takes you to dark places, chased by feelings of melancholy.

Shevchenko is:

Bram de Gruijter
Mark de Groot


Contacts :
. Tour // Etienne Ziller // Etienne.Ziller@gmail.com 
. Label // Brian Colin // Brian.Colin@umusic.com 
. Publishing // Ismael Lefeuvre // Ismael.Lefeuvre@ilcm.fr

Ceci n'est plus du folk is a project that explores the possible relationship between traditional folk and electronic arrangements. I have chosen well known folk tunes from different regions of Italy and kept the fragments that I consider to be the key element of each song. Starting from these quotations I have stitched around them new musical elements that incorporate electronic production, seeking to give what I perceive as reasonably dated music contemporary relevance through recycling and renovation. Besides being a tentative experiment to test if merging Italian folk elements with electronic arrangements can lead to a result that is conceptually and aesthetically satisfactory, this is also a way to incorporate my origins into my compositions while exploring how travels have affected the amount of Italian character in my music. I have picked songs that belong to the repertoire of Italian folk, but with ears and taste of someone who has travelled, lived and studied music abroad, developing a compositional style that reflects the music and stimuli I have been exposed to over the last few years. The EP can be purchased on bandcamp http://janetdappiano.bandcamp.com/album/ceci-nest-plus-du-folk

if you stumbled here looking for a different project of mine, this is probably the place you want to be taken to: https://soundcloud.com/noireve

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