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Artist
PARADUSH
12+ albums
UkrainesoulBossanova
about
PARADUSH on one bee-line PARADUSH was founded by Marina Chabanova, a singer with hard-to-find color of voice and approach to singing in Ukraine, and Anatoly Shmargun, a drummer and percussionist who studied in Holland and participated in the best of Ukrainian pop/rock/indie/jazz crossover bands. They started performing jazz and bossa-nova classics together back in the day, in the year of 2001, playing in most of clubs in Kiev and several festivals in Ukraine. Then they decided to make something else, not jazz. Their “something else” has resulted in extremely unusual project: songs of Andrey Makarevich and his “Time Machine” band, which itself is the classics of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet rock music. PARADUSH (two words combined, actually meaning “a soul-pair” in Russian & Ukrainian and sounding quite Brazilian-Portuguese as one word) made those songs be heard in a different way. Brazilian-Latin flavor with some hints of jazz is the strong taste of this band’s music. So forget about Mr. Makarevich and the way he plays his own songs now! PARADUSH took his songs as any other jazz standard, pop/rock song, etcetera, and remade them in the way that only this band could. But wait… most of jazz standards were predominantly pop ditties or songs from musicals in the beginning, weren’t they? In the nineties, quite a few alternative rock songs were transformed into some kind of nu-jazz. Similarly, in the hands of PARADUSH, classic Russian rock songs became “victims” of these bea
