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The Hik
3+ albums
acousticfolkfemale vocalistsbeatNederbiet
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There are two bands with this name: 1) Appeared in Netherlands. Two old geezers and two kids young enough to be their sons. Sounds unlikely, but The Hik proves it is possible. It's the love for music that ties them together, age is of no concern. From The Treble Spankers - no longer active - or more recently The Herb Spectacles & Los Tiki Boys, plus dutch beat outfit De Biet a youthful quartet was formed, regrinding those fine old sixties garage tunes in their own peculiar way. myspace: www.myspace.com/thehiknl 2) Coming from Russia, Moscow. http://www.facebook.com/hikband http://www.myspace.com/hikband HIK appeared in the Spring 2012 when the vocalist Sasha Vinogradova asked her friend and guitarist Yuri Churchkhelov to accompany her at the concert in the Turgenevskaya library (Moscow). In may they asked their friend Sergey Kuzmishev who plays the double bass to perform with them in St.Peterburg. Thus he was in. Then they found Igor Gorelikov, he plays the violoncello. And finally in November 2012 the drummer Igor Russkih joined them. This music has a rather special sound, maybe because the band members have very different music preferences (from delta blues and IDM to punk rock). The repertoire of the band includes compositions in various styles from deep, long-drawn-out ambient tracks to heavy guitar reefs. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of the band sound is a rich using of reverb and delay. Once they were asked about the name of their style. The double bass