Mature Boombox

Boombox is one of the two Ukrainian bands, which, according to the music reviewer Yurko ZELENY, under current difficult conditions for local musicians, have succeeded to break through (S.K.A.I. is the second one). After 2004-05 nothing new has appeared on Ukrainian music stage. The rest are veterans. Besides, Yurko thinks, they are successful in the Russian market. In a sense, Boombox is one of the most exported rock bands in the East. The band is actively expanding beyond Ukraine, specifically to Russia. (Though the export of Ukrainian music should take place with the governmental assistance.)

So, on November 18 the CD Middle Age was presented in Moscow. Nearly 3,000 people came to listen to the new songs, as well as the hits, to the famous Moscow-based club Milk. (You can see the photo reports in social networks.)

“That was a tremendous event,” TNMK director Bohdan UTSEKHA said after visiting the concert. “The concert was a contrast one, in the sense that the audience was listening attentively to the new compositions, it ‘tasted them’ so to say. And it started immediately to sing the ‘certified’ songs, which have music videos, and people got somewhat crazy when they heard the hits. Incidentally, I know Russians from Siberia, who after becoming fond of the band’s creative work, began to learn Ukrainian language.”

Bohdan went on, “Middle Age is an ‘adult’ album. The band has become more mature. Figuratively speaking, it now wears suits instead of T-shirts and shorts. The CD is a kind of paying tribute to classical rock’n’roll. Whereas previously the ‘treats’ of Boombox were singing, acoustic guitar, and DJ sketches (it all resembled a fuffonade in combination), now the guys have played the music they had loved and listened to for their entire lives.”

Director of Boombox, Oleksii SOHOMONOV, summed up: “In my opinion, the album is a personal one, even too personal. From this angle we can say that it is more adult. Not all young musicians are able to reveal themselves to such an extent. But you should come and receive evidence of that yourself. It will be cool.”

The presentation of the new album is scheduled for December 9 at the capital’s concert hall Stereo Plaza.