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Gorchitza is an Ukrainian

Ukrainian

Ukrainian may refer to:* Something of, from, or related to Ukraine* The Ukrainians, people from Ukraine or of Ukrainian descent.* Something relating to Ukrainian culture....

electronic music band from Kiev

Kiev

Kiev or Kyiv is the capital and the largest city of Ukraine, located in the north central part of the country on the Dnieper River. The population as of the 2001 census was 2,611,300. However, higher numbers have been cited in the press....

. Band members themselves say they find it very difficult to define their style, which doesn't fit into any traditional stylistic boundaries.

According to international music press, the band is one of the brightest representatives of contemporary electronic music, alongside with well-known Western acts Morcheeba

Morcheeba

Morcheeba are a British band, mixing influences from trip hop, rock, R&B, and pop.They have produced 7 albums since 1995, two of which reached the UK top ten.-Biography:...

, Moloko

Moloko

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and Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

Sophie Michelle Ellis-Bextor is an English singer, songwriter, model and occasional DJ. She first came to prominence in the late 1990s, as the lead singer of the indie rock band Theaudience. After the group disbanded, Ellis-Bextor went solo, achieving widespread success in the early 2000s...

.

So far, they have accomplished over 100 joint stage performances with major international acts such as Nelly Furtado

Nelly Furtado

Nelly Kim Furtado is a Canadian singer-songwriter, record producer and actress. Furtado grew up in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.Furtado first gained fame with her debut album, Whoa, Nelly!, and its single "I'm Like a Bird", which won a 2001 Juno Award for Single of the Year and a 2002 Grammy...

, Faithless

Faithless

Faithless were a British electronica band consisting of Maxi Jazz, Sister Bliss and Rollo. The group is best known for their dance songs . Faithless recorded six albums. During their career they sold over 15 million records worldwide...

, Placebo

Placebo (band)

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, Morcheeba

Morcheeba

Morcheeba are a British band, mixing influences from trip hop, rock, R&B, and pop.They have produced 7 albums since 1995, two of which reached the UK top ten.-Biography:...

, Chemical Brothers, Coldcut

Coldcut

Coldcut are an English dance music duo, comprising Matt Black and Jonathan More. Their signature style is electronic dance music, featuring cut up samples of hip hop, breaks, jazz, spoken word and various other types of music, as well as video and multimedia.-1980s:In 1986, computer programmer Matt...

, Stereo MC's, David Guetta

David Guetta

Pierre David Guetta , known professionally as David Guetta , is a French house music producer and DJ. Originally a DJ at nightclubs during the 1980s and 1990s, he co-founded Gum Productions and released his first album, Just a Little More Love, in 2002. Later, he released Guetta Blaster and Pop Life...

, J.J.Johanson

Jay-Jay Johanson

Jay-Jay Johanson is a Swedish musician and singer-songwriter, known for his melancolic vocals. His music has integrated the trip-hop genre until he switched his sound to a more electroclash-oriented direction with the 2003 release Antenna, which featured "On The Radio"...

, Montefiori Cocktail, Red Snapper

Red Snapper

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, Richard Galliano

Richard Galliano

Richard Galliano is a French accordionist.-Biography:He was drawn to music at an early age, starting with the accordion at 4, influenced by his father Lucien, an accordionist originally from Italy, living in Nice.After a long and intense period of study Richard Galliano (born December 12, 1950,...

and many others performing in front of over 5,000,000+ audience all together. They played some of the biggest European festivals, including SOPOT (Poland), where Gorchitza became one of the 15 finalists among over 5000 candidates. The show was broadcasted to 1,000,000+ viewers worldwide.

Early stages

Gorchitza emerged through the efforts of composer, producer and musician Alexey Gorchitza (Alexey Laptev). For 6 years Alexey worked as a sound engineer at the local Kerch

Kerch

Kerch is a city on the Kerch Peninsula of eastern Crimea, an important industrial, transport and tourist centre of Ukraine. Kerch, founded 2600 years ago, is considered as one of the most ancient cities in Ukraine.-Ancient times:...

radio station, until he founded his own "Kublo-production", based at the studio of Sofia Rotaru

Sofia Rotaru

Sofia Mykhailivna Yevdokymenko-Rotaru known as Sofia Rotaru is a Soviet and Ukrainian pop singer of Romanian/Moldavian heritage....

. There he remixed tracks of Alyona Vinnickaya, the bands Number 482, Mumiy Troll

Mumiy Troll

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and many other famous Ukrainian and Russian

Russians

The Russian people are an East Slavic ethnic group native to Russia, speaking the Russian language and primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries....

acts. Then he began experimenting with computer music, but soon decided to create a live electronic project.

The first formation was compiled of two local bands, called Vedo (ukr. Вєдо) and Radiokefir (rus. Радиокефир), in 2002. The band was singing in Ukrainian

Ukrainian language

Ukrainian is a language of the East Slavic subgroup of the Slavic languages. It is the official state language of Ukraine. Written Ukrainian uses a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet....

and managed to win a renowned Ukrainian band contest Krashe Razom (ukr. Краще Разом), but soon the band broke up for any reason and the only thing remained was its name "Gorchitza".

Debut

The turning point in the history of the band marked the introduction of Alexey with a House vocalist Allois (Alla Moskovka), well known in Kiev club scene.

They got to know each other almost by accident, when Alexey invited Allois to the studio, as he needed a strong female vocal part for a record. After only a few months of fruitful co-operation the new band Gorchitza had created enough material to play their debut-concert in the Kiev club "Kaif", on October 6, 2006. This day the band consider to be their official Birthdate.

Their first single Kiss Me Loneliness became a national radio hit (# 13 annual national radio charts Ukraine).

Their first major live appearance was a warm-up for Faithless

Faithless

in front of 10,000 audience on the stage of the Kiev Palace of Sports, in June 2007. Joint stage performances with international stars such as Nelly Furtado

Nelly Furtado

, Placebo

Placebo (band)

, Chemical Brothers, Stereo MC's, J.J.Johanson

Jay-Jay Johanson

and Red Snapper

Red Snapper

followed soon. Since then the band is being booked continuously for festivals, corporate events of well-known international brands, private parties and club shows.

International success

In October 2007, the band released the single One New Message, followed by a video clip. The track became the band's most recognizable song and brought Gorchitza international recognition and massive popularity. In January 2008, the famous British band Apollo 440

Apollo 440

Apollo 440 are an English band formed in Liverpool in 1990. Apollo 440 have written, recorded and produced four albums, collaborated with and produced other artists, remixed as Apollo 440 and as ambient cinematic alter-ego Stealth Sonic Orchestra, and created music for film, television,...

remixed the track One New Message, for which Gorchitza became widely known abroad - mainly due to house-made online promo.

In April 2008, Gorchitza got signed by Lavina Music, and released their first studio album Highlights. Half a year later, in October they became finalists of the biggest Polish festival SOPOT and got signed by EMI Music Poland.

In December 2008, Gorchitza became the first band in East Europe to release an album on microSD memory card, 10,000 copies sold. Nokia

Nokia

Nokia Corporation is a Finnish multinational communications corporation that is headquartered in Keilaniemi, Espoo, a city neighbouring Finland's capital Helsinki...

produced a series of mobile phones pre-installed with Gorchitza’s music.

Gorchitza's success in Russia began with a showcase at the popular Lounge Fest in Moscow, where the band performed together with Skye Edwards

Skye Edwards

Skye Edwards is a British singer-songwriter, born in East London. Her career began in 1994 when she and the Godfrey brothers formed the band Morcheeba, which released five albums with Skye as lead vocalist...

(Morcheeba

Morcheeba

Morcheeba are a British band, mixing influences from trip hop, rock, R&B, and pop.They have produced 7 albums since 1995, two of which reached the UK top ten.-Biography:...

) in August 2009.

Having gathered a lot of positive reviews in the press, Gorchitza returned with their first Russian solo concert in Moscow Rock-club 16 Tons, on March 17, 2010. According to media reports, the club couldn’t accommodate everyone — about 700 guests managed to come in, two times exceeding the capacity of the club.

After a successful market entry in Russia IKON

IKON

IKON is a Russian, Moscow-based company providing a wide range of services in the field of music marketing including different business areas such as talent management; booking; tour logistics; organization of concerts; sound recording; rights...

introduced the band for the first time to the German audience at Popkomm

Popkomm

Popkomm is an international trade show for the music and entertainment business, and also integrates a congress and festival. It is held in Berlin but has had entries from at least 55 other countries. Popkomm is organised by Popkomm GmbH, Berlin.- History :...

on September 9, 2010 in Berlin. The crowd mainly consisted of professionals and industry players including mass media representatives, A&Rs and CEOs of several labels and industry associations. The band's second gig in Germany took place in Hamburg on September 23, 2010 on the opening day of the famous Reeperbahn Festival and attracted a mixed audience of professionals and fans, locals and expats. The band’s first European tour outside its home markets Russia and Ukraine is scheduled for the winter 2010/2011 approximately starting in Germany and powered by IKON

IKON

Trivia

Gorchitza are Nightlife Award winners as "Best Vocal Club Project 2007".

Nokia released a special edition of its mobile phones pre-installed with Gorchitza's music, 15,000 pieces sold within the first month after release. They were the first band in Ukraine to release an album on SD memory card, over 100,000 copies sold.

Since August 2010 over 10,000,000 iPhone

IPhone

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and iPod

IPod

iPod is a line of portable media players created and marketed by Apple Inc. The product line-up currently consists of the hard drive-based iPod Classic, the touchscreen iPod Touch, the compact iPod Nano, and the ultra-compact iPod Shuffle...

users worldwide enjoy the band's second studio album "It's You" as a special "Appbum" edition.

Band members

Alexey Gorchitza (Alexey Laptev) — front man, key-boards, programming
Allois (Alla Moskovka) — vocals, lyrics
Malysh (Alexey Eliseyev) — guitar
Kuzya (Oleg Kuzmenko) — drums
Yarik (Yaroslav Polishchuk) — bass-guitar

Albums

Highlights (2008) — first studio album
Neytrino (2008) — Gorchitza’s (Alexey) solo album
Highlights RMXS (2008) — remix album
It’s You (2011) — second studio album

Singles

One New Message (2007) — single from the first studio album Highlights
Call It A Dream (2009) — single from the first studio album Highlights
Last Time (2010) — single from the second studio album It’s You
Final Cut (2010) — single from the second studio album It’s You, release scheduled for late 2010

Videos

External links

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