1997-2002 FHF (First Human Ferro), a Ukrainian dark ambient project organized by Olegh Kolyada (now widely known by his martial & neo-classical project Oda Relicta) back in summer 1998, with first field recordings being experienced yet in winter 1997. The debut raw experiments date back June-August 1998 when “The Halo over Pontiff’s Hearse” was recorded. A year later in 1999 FHF started musical manipulations with harsher sounds which resulted into “Metaballistik: Viewed under Infra-Red” session, known as Ukrainian exceptional death industrial material ever. Both above-mentioned albums were released on tapes and cd-rs several times in limited editions in Ukraine and Poland. In 2000 a classical dark ambient album “Motherwards” was recorded, issued by a Belarusian label a year later as the first professional cd release of the project. 2001 was marked by a progression of the project’s musical swings with its ultimate death industrial output “Ferrari” and “Numinosum” issued in a while by Polish and Ukrainian labels respectively. The same year Olegh Kolyada launched his apocalyptic ritual side-project In Meditarivm recording two albums within several years: “Les Fleurs du Mal” 2000-2001 and “Uterus” 2002 released in a limited cd-r format in Poland and Russia. A re-mixed collection of FHF’s first ambient sketches was released the same 2002 year by a Ukrainian label under the title “Greater than Temple” cd-r.
2003-2008 After a hiatus FHF returned in 2003 with its best known material “Guernica Macrocosmica” cd on Eibon Records, the album which is still considered as a millstone of nostalghic ambient music ever. That very year the FHF project was split into two identities: nostalghia (pls visit the following link to get to know more details about the follow-up of “Guernica Macrocosmica” album “Prosa Profana” scheduled for mid-2009 www.myspace.com/fhfnostalghia) and realia which is still responsible for all dark ambient experiments. In 2005 two exclusive tracks for German Drone Records 7” series were recorded on behalf of In Meditarium project, issued a year later as “Mare Internum” vinyl recording. Late 2005 a Ukrainian OMS Records, based in Olegh’s native city Zhytomyr, released next FHF’s dark ambient material “Corona Astralis” cd. Joining forces with an Italian finest Eibon Records again in 2006 a brand-new harsh ambient album “Adamnation” cd was issued a year later. Finally late 2007 Olegh Kolyada initiated and compiled an exclusive international collection of the best dark ambient tracks “Energia” by the finest musicians to commemorate a centenary of world’s greatest space engineer S.P.Korolyov (1907-1966), born in Zhytomyr city too. Late 2008 the project was invited to take part in yet another great compilation “Sacral Symphony” issued by a Belgian EETapes.
2009 The current year onwards is devoted to collecting and releasing FHF’s finest music never released, now being strictly-oriented: Ostarbeiter as a moniker for early death industrial & power electronics experiments, FHF as an electro-acoustic radio-noise & dark ambient project, and In Meditarivm as an apocalyptic ritual one. The collection in question is entitled “Panoptikvm” and will be released as a series of several cds within a year or two. FHF's newest material is coming up titled "Stardust" .16/05/2009 FHF first ever live, onstage together w/Deutsch Nepal, Noises of Russia, and Filivs Macrocosmi. A commemorative date for the project and for the very Zhytomyr city too. Pls visit the pictures section to see the photo album about the event.
Upcoming:
2010 In Meditarivm "Broken Urn" Panoptikvm series 3CD Archive Box/Twilight Records
2010 In Meditarivm “The Great Limbo” Panoptikvm series LP/Twilight Records
2009 OSTARBEITER a.k.a. FHF “The Iron Era” Panoptikvm series CD/2LP Slaughter in Art
2009 FHF “Homo Shargey” Panoptikvm series CD/New Nihilism
2009 FHF “Stardust" CD/tba
2009 OLEGH KOLYADA FEAT. ALBIREON “Prosa Profana” CD/Palace of Worms
The Discography:
2008 FHF v/a “Sacral Symphony” CD/EETapes
2007 FHF v/a “Energia” CD/OMS Records
2007 FHF “Adamnation” CD/Eibon Records
2005 IN MEDITARIVM “Mare Internum” 7”/Drone Records
2005 FHF “Corona Astralis” CD/OMS Records
2003 FHF “Guernica Macrocosmica” CD/Eibon Records
2003 IN MEDITARIVM “Uterus” CD-R
2003 FHF “Greater than Temple” CD-R
2002 FHF a.k.a. OSTARBEITER “Ferrari” CD-R
2002 FHF a.k.a. OSTARBEITER “Numinosum” CD-R
2002 IN MEDITARIVM “Les Fleurs du Mal” CD-R
2001 FHF “Motherwards” CD
2001 FHF a.k.a. OSTARBEITER “Metaballistik: Viewed under Infra-Red” CD-R
