Louis Franck - Vocals Dima Shurov - Keyboards Iura Khustochka - Bass Illya Galushko - Guitars Andrex Nadolsky - Drums
Influences
Medieval literature, David Bowie, Joy Division, Queen, Einsturzende Neubaten, Edgar Allen Poe, Compte Isidore Ducasse de Lautreamont, Kraftwerk, Al Green, Bach, Dilgo Khyentse Rimpoche, Miss Kitin, Bjork, Radiohead, Ray Charles, Nuit St George, Beaudelaire, Rimbaud, Henri Cartier Bresson, Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five, Serge Gainsbourg, Alexander Vertinsky, the Ramones, Stevie Wonder,Sigur ros, Sly and the Family Stone, Belle & Sebastian, Janna Aguzarova, System of a Down.
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Esthetic Education is a band based in Kiev.
The group formed in 2004 after Dima Shurov and Iura Khustochka left Ukraine’s most successful rock band Okean Elzi and decided to form Esthetic Education with Louis Franck. The band is revered in Ukraine as a ground breaking live act and a leader of the local independent music scene.
Festivals & Support:
Bars en Trans (2004) in France, support act for Moby at the Palace of Sports in Kiev (2005), Mega House Festival, Moscow (2006), Exit Festival in Yugoslavia (2006), Sziget (2007) WAN 2 stage, Maxidrome 2007 in St Petersburg with Placebo, support act for My Chemical Romance in St Peterburg and Moscow (2007), support act for Skin (singer of Skunk Anansie), Moscow 2007.
Various live events:
Voted best live concert of 2008 in Ukraine by Djem FM for Artefakt tour (a half art installation, half rock concert multi-media extravaganza). La Scene Paris (2004), Dublin Castle London (2004), the Spitz, London (2004) the song Horrible Disaster was included in the limited edition CD, Spitz Live2.
Soundtracks:
Several tracks from the album “Face Reading” featured in the film “Happy People” directed by Alexander Shapiro (2005). The track “Unbelievable” was used as theme song of the feature film “Orange Love” directed by Alan Badoyev with Aleksei Chadov in the lead role (2007). The song Machine is featured in the film “A bride at any price” directed by Dmitry Grachev with Pavel Volya in the lead role (2009).
TV/Radio/Press:
Video clip “Machine” (2005) was number one on the hit parade of Ukraine’s leading Music Channel M1, and was number 1 for three weeks in a row on radio Maximum, Russia.
Live shooting for Russia’s third National channel TVC in Studio 5 at Mosfilm studios, New Year TV show for Ukraine’s National Television Channel 1+1, live performance for Novi Kanal during the morning news program, Prosto Radio “Golden Best” program, Radio Maximum’s morning show.
Picture taken for: Elle, Cosmopolitan, Rolling Stone, Ego, Max, Afisha (cover shot), Moloko (cover shot), Time Out, Shtushka, Pink, TV Week, 10 Days (cover shot), Mixer (cover shot), Pyat Balov (cover shot) etc…
Discography:
2004 Face Reading
2005 Machine (Maxi Single)
2006 Live at Ring
2007 Werewolf (voted best Ukrainian album release of 2007)
Other:
The band has their own production company in Kiev (Esthetic Music) publish the leading youth Magazine “Moloko” and have started an indie festival “Moloko Music Fest”.
Vasil Vasiltciv (2006)
Unbelievable - 2007
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Just stopping by to say hello and give you some news. The award winning album 'Coolgilly and the Freakshow' from Centascope is available worldwide from CD Baby and directly from the merchandise page of the official website. You can also get the album from Apple iTunes, MSN Music, Rhapsody, Napster, Amazon.co.uk and many more.
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