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Artist
Ole Lukkoye
12+ albums
psychedelicfolkexperimentalelectronicethno
about
The "Ole Lukkoye" Project (OL) has been living and developing since 1993 when its first album Zapara came out. Boris Bardash created a group belonging to a musical trend which turned out to be very difficult to define, though the group's music was undoubtedly contemporary. There was one thing common about the estimations of this music - the use of the word "psychedelia" in the sense of "clarifying the mind", but no precise label such as reggae, trip-hop, jazz, rock, etc. had been found. The main thing about the OL group has always been a powerful rhythmic base consisting of electronical loops and sequences along with live instruments - from the African jamba and the Turkish darabuka to the shaman drum. The combination of the sounds that belong to different ethnic cultures and the contemporary rock instruments paradoxically doesn't create a sense of eclecticism. The musicians don't play the music of this or that country but they create the language of their own images which is common for all nations, for the roots, the source, the oldest motherland. That seemed strange in the cold northern city of St Petersburg. So OL was taken as some natures wonder existing on its own. At different moments, according to the set task, the OL Project co-operated with musicians playing various instruments: bassoon, rubab, bass guitar, cello, banjo, trumpet, bayan (Russian accordion), etc. When Sergey "Macho" Kuznetsov joined the group he added visual elements (such as video performance, compute
