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Yeezhak

Yeezhak (ЇЖАК)

March 22, 2022 /

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YEEZHAK is a Philly-based rock group, which performs in Ukrainian and English. Musical influences include American indie, kiwi-rock, alternative noise and classic Stones.

The Ukrainian-langauge texts featured in YEEZHAK songs come from poems written by contemporary Ukrainian poets as well as from Ukrainian folklore.

YEEZHAK

Mark Andryczyk – guitars, vocals
Yaryna Yakubyak – keyboards, vocals, percussion
Roger Bodine – bass
Christian Hayes – drums

YEEZHAK in 2022 is part of an Ukrainian-American music project, which has existed for over 25 years, uniting musicians in the US and Ukraine in creative collaborations.

History

Phase 1

YEEZHAK  was formed by Mark Andryczyk (Raze, Underraga, Kavune) in 1995 as a project involving musicians from Philly and Lviv, Ukraine.  In 1996 Andryczyk recorded the Album Sveter (Sweater) at Galvox Studios in Lviv together with musicians from the legendary Lviv rock groups Mertvyi Piven (Dead Rooster [Oleh “John” Suk, Yaryna Yakubyak, Roman Chaika, Misko Barbara, Liubko Futorskyi]) and Plach Yeremii (Jeremiah’s Cry [Taras Chubai, Sashko Kamenetskyi]).  Music for the album was written by Mark Andryczyk while the words belong to contemporary Ukrainian poets Viktor Neborak and Yuri Andrukhovych, as well as 1930s poet Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, among others. The laregly acoustic album, prominently featuring viola and sopilka (fife), was presented at live performances in Ukraine.

In 1998 the second Yeezhak album Vulkanizatsiia (Vulcanization), presenting a harder, noisier sound, was recorded at Lviv’s Studio Leva with the support of the Dzyga Art Association.  Featuring the same musicians as on the Sveter recording, plus Vulkanizatsiia’s producer Andriy Piatakov on drums for one track, and the poetry of Ivan Malkovych, Kostiantyn Moskalets, Ihor Rymaruk, Yuri Tarnawsky (The New York Group) and Ivan Franko, the album was launched with several concerts in Ukraine.

Phase 2

Mark Andryczyk and Yaryna Yakubyak married in 1999 and moved to Toronto leading to a break in YEEZHAK’s activity for several years.  In the summer of 2005 Andrycyzk gathers YEEZHAKs’ past members and, with the addition of drummer Andriy Nadolskyi (Plach Yeremii), records the EP KhmariPara (CloudSteamPair) at Studio Leva in Lviv and at Taras Chubai’s studio in Kyiv. Guitarist Marian Prystupa (Faino) performed with YEEZHAK at shows in Ukraine that year.

Phase 3

In 2007, Mark and Yaryna moved back to Philly and began playing with Mark’s former bandmates Roger Bodine (Doomed to Obscurity, Underraga, Grisly Fiction) and Christian Hayes (Kavune, Father Jack and His Idle Hours, Nature Films).  The new YEEZHAK line-up premiered at a 2008 show at the Ukrainian League of Philadelphia.

YEEZHAK performed acoustically at a poetry event for Viktor Neborak (2005), an evening memorializing the poet Ihor Rymaruk (Shevchenko Scientific Society, NYC, 2008) and at a gathering of prominent Ukrainian-American writers and musicians (Cornelia Street Cafe, NYC, 2009). YEEZHAK also perfomed acoustically at presentations of Mark Andryczyk’s monograph at Dzyga (Lviv, 2015) and at the Ukrainian Museum (NYC, 2015 ).

This latest line-up of YEEZHAK perfomed in 2012 in Philly (with Dora Shoturma of Maiden Creek Lodge lending vocals) and then set off to Ukraine for a concert at the Dzyga Art Association in Lviv in July 20012.  Original YEEZHAK member Taras Chubai joined the band on stage at the Dzyga show, playing viola.

In June 2017 this latest line-up of YEEZHAK  performed at a concert with Kharkiv, Ukraine’s Serhiy Zhadan and Sobaky v Kosmosi (Dogs in Outerspace) at the Ukrainian League of Philadelphia. Later that summer, on August 18th, YEEZHAK performed at the Slavic Block Party at the Maas Building in Philly, joined by Taras Chubai on viola. In 2019, Mark and Yaryna performed acoustic sets entitled YEEZHAK: Holky Unplugged at concerts  in Ukraine (August 18th at Khrystofor in Lviv and August 21st at Vagabundo in Ivano-Frankivsk). At concerts in 2012 and beyond, YEEZHAK performs songs from all three YEEZHAK recordings as well as new songs that will be part of a (hopefully) future album entitled Crossing Dunai.

N.B. Past YEEZHAK members are known to occasionally participate, unannounced, at YEEZHAK concerts worldwide.

Светер (Sweater)

1. У Собі (Within Myself)
2. … іншому (…to somebody else)
3. Музі (For the Muse)
4. Усвідомлення (Realization)
5. Зелені Звуки (Green Sounds)
6. Легше Для Серця (Easier on the Heart)
7. Ембер (для Ореста Василціва) (Ember {for Orest Vasyltsiv})
8. Тюльпани Два (Two Tulips)
9. і те, і те… (and that, and that…)
10. Музей Старожитностей (The Museum of Antiquities)

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Music – Mark Andryczyk

Words – Viktor Neborak (1, 2, 5); Miletii Kichura (3); Volodymyr Pavliv (4); Mykhailo Rudnytskyi (6); Mark Andryczyk (7); Bohdan-Ihor Antonych (8); Mykola Vinhranovskyi (9); Yuri Andrukhovych (10)

Mark Andryczyk – Lead vocals, Acoustic guitar
Oleh (Dzhon) Suk – Bass
Sashko Kamenetskyi – Drums
Taras Chubai – Viola, Percussion, Back Vocals
Yaryna Yakubyak – Back Vocals, Percussion
Misko Barbara – Sopilka, Back Vocals
Roman Chaika – Acoustic and electric guitars (1, 8)
Liubko Futorskyi – Electric guitar (10)

Recorded at GalVox Sudios – Lviv, Ukraine, 1996
Tape Case Design by Mark Halaway

Вулканізація (Vulkanization)

1. Біжить Їжак (Hedgehog Running)
2. Вона Танцює (She Dances)
3. З Народних Мотивів (Based On Folk Motives)
4. Краплі (Drops)
5. Темні Легкі Сніги (Dark Airy Snows)
6. Пісенька Про Черешню (A Tune About A Cherry Tree)
7. Climb
8. Один (One)
9. Savior
10. Музика, що пішла… (The Music That Went Away)

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Music – Mark Andryczyk

Words – Kostiantyn Moskalets (1, 2); Ivan Malkovych (3, 6, 10); Ivan Franko (4); Ihor Rymaruk (5); Mark Andryczyk (7, 9); Yuri Tarnawsky (8)

Mark Andryczyk – Lead vocals, Electric and Acoustic guitars
Oleh (Dzhon) Suk – Bass
Sashko Kamenetskyi – Drums
Taras Chubai – Viola, Back Vocals
Yaryna Yakubyak – Lead and Back Vocals, Percussion
Roman Chaika – Electric guitar
Misko Barbara – Sopilka, Back Vocals
Andriy Piatkov – Drums (4)
Liubko Futorskyi – Back Vocals

Recorded at Studio Leva –  Lviv, Ukraine, 1998
Tape Case Design by Mark Halaway

ХмаріПара (CloudSteamPair)

1. ВінДа-Он так (VinDa- On Tak)
2. Slow
3. Весільний Подарунок (A Wedding Present)
4. Втеча (The Escape)
5. Wolke

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Music – Mark Andryczyk
Words – Mark Andryczyk (1, 2, 3, 5); Ihor Rymaruk (4)

Mark Andryczyk – Lead vocals, Electric and Acoustic guitars
Oleh (Dzhon) Suk – Bass
Andriy Nadolskyi – Drums
Yaryna Yakubyak – Lead and Back Vocals, Percussion
Taras Chubai – Viola, Electric Guitar, Keyboards
Liubko Futorskyi – Lead and Back Vocals

Recorded at Studio Leva –  Lviv, Ukraine and Studio Tarasa Chubaia – Kyiv, Ukraine, 2005

Videos

YEEZHAK – Tokyo (live)

YEEZHAK – Втеча (escape)

 

Tar – Live Khyber Pass 2/16/93

March 18, 2022 /

The precursor to Tar was a hardcore punk outfit called Blatant Dissent, which formed in DeKalb, Illinois where singer/guitarist John Mohr and drummer Mike Greenlees were attending Northern Illinois University. Joining Mohr and Greenlees in Tar were original bassist Tim Mescher (only until 1991 and who also played for Snailboy), bassist Tom Zaluckyj and guitarist Mark Zablocki. Zaluckyj and Mohr played unique instruments, crafted of aluminum, designed by Ian Schneller of Specimen Products.[2]

The band released albums on the Amphetamine Reptile and Touch and Go Records labels before disbanding in 1995.
There are 3 different Bandcamp pages to find their releases Amphetamine Reptile years, Touch & go years & Live Releases from the band –

Thanks for the Live tape Don Sheluga

01 – Dean Martin
02 – Barry White
03 – Teetering
04 – Unknown
05 – Satritis
06 – Quieter Fellow
07 – Unknown
08 – Giblets
09 – Good Part
10 – Unknown
11 – Lady Steps
12 – Solution 8
13 – Unknown
14 – Theme
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Poppy – Live on WKDU

March 15, 2022 /

Poppy was first formed in the early 1990s with members of 2 of 80s Philly punk scenes favorites Electric Love Muffin (Brian Campbell) and Scram! (Craig Heim) with Kate Campbell’s powerful vocals and loud guitar. They returned a few years ago and have been playing all over Philly. They are playing this Wednesday at The Fire with Vakili Band, The Royal Fatback & Rick Fink OMB starting at 6:30.
Thanks for the tape Jackie.

They have a new single out on Bandcamp called Brilliant Volume:

Live on Jackie’s show on WKDU from December 14, 1992

01 – Sugar & Water
02 – Driving Blind
03 – Unknown
04 – Calvin
05 – Wishing Well
06 – Unknown
07 – Sourball
08 – Close to Empty
09 – Undoing
10 – Toes
11 – Alligators & Lovers
12 – Helpless (Neil Young)
13 – Outro

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Emma

February 15, 2022 /

Emma was led by guitarist/keyboardist/vocalist/songwriter Rick Henderson, who previously led Khyber regulars The Chowderheads. Rick and I first played together after being recruited by Ben Vaughn for his side project The Wipeout Gang (which also led to me playing drums on one of the early Friggs singles because of Ben’s connection to that band). In the Wipeout Gang, Rick sang and played Farfisa, and I played drums. At the time I was the drummer for Napalm Sunday, another Khyber regular (I worked at the Khyber from 1988-1996). Napalm Sunday was my first band. I joined Napalm Sunday because one of the members was in a class at Temple with Electric Love Muffin bassist Brian Campbell and told Brian they needed a drummer. I graduated high school (Hatboro Horsham) with Brian’s older brother, Electric Love Muffin drummer Frank Campbell, who had lent me my first drum set. Our graduating class also included Justin “JD”  Froehlich, who played guitar in Love Chunks and Mel’s Rockpile; Kurt Wunder, who played swordfish in Love Chunks and trumpet in Big Mess Orchestra; Ken Buono, who played drums in Flight of Mavis (whose two other members, Frank Brown and Dave McElroy, graduated the year before us); Chris Orjokowski, who played guitar in the Little Gentlemen; and the saxophonist Jim Verdeur (The Beach Boys, Simon Kirke, The Soul Survivors, Bill Bruford, Liberty DeVitto, Dick Dale, Southern Culture on the Skids, Third World). It was something of a rock and roll high school, haha! I’m a part of the Muffin Chorus on the first ELM album. I probably wouldn’t have played in bands if it wasn’t for my friendship with Frank and Brian.

Anyways, Rick used to go to Alaska every summer to work the salmon harvest and after The Wipeout Gang he sent me a letter (or was it a postcard?) asking if I’d like to play with him in a new band to be called Emma. I was nearing the end of my time with Napalm Sunday (we did two self-released 7″s and a full-length CD called Musical Chairs (Record Cellar released the full length) and was excited to work again with Rick. When he returned from Alaska at the end of that summer, we were joined by Dean McNulty on bass. I knew Dean from the Khyber, where he was a regular patron. Dean had previously played with a band in New England that had released an album but I can’t remember the name of the band or what state they were from.

The songs you so kindly put on your site are from Emma’s first recording session, I think at Studio Red. The cassette was used as our demo tape for gigs. We distributed them in plastic bags along with the track listing on a playing card (as you reproduced) and, infamously, glitter. Four of the songs ended up on our first release, a gatefold double 7″: Blue Girl/Losing/Look What You Started Now/Our Time is Now. 

Our first full length (CD only, unfortunately) was Difference Engine #23, which came out in 1995. The home recording demo versions of Silent & Still and Younger, on which Rick played all the instruments, were included on Difference Engine. That was followed by our final full length, Garden City 44 in 1998. All the Emma stuff was self-released (Compulsiv helped some with distribution). I don’t think we ever played outside of Philly.

While together in Emma, Rick and I were later also in Ashtabula along with Bob Malloy (Strapping Field Hands) and Rich Fravel (Uptown Bones, Latimer). Rick played Farfisa in Ashatabula and I played drums. Ashtabula was on Siltbreeze and released a 7″ single, and EP called River of Many Dead Fish (vinyl and CD) and a full length called Possible Smokestacks (CD only).

In 1998, Bardo Pond asked me to play drums on the six-week tour of the US and Canada supporting their first record on Matador, Lapsed. (Before that I had played drums on a short tour with Brother JT.) By this time, Emma was coming to an end and I officially joined Bardo the year after the Lapsed tour and played on Set and Setting (1999) and Dilate (2001), the final records for Matador, and then on On the Ellipse (2003) and Ticket Crystals (2006), which were released by the UK-based label All Tomorrow’s Parties. (I’m on a gazillion other Bardo releases – we recorded everything, haha! – but I’ve lost track). I left Bardo Pond after Ticket Crystals but rejoined for a few shows playing the Lapsed record in its entirety in 2010. In the meanwhile, I played drums on a track on the Photon Band album Back Down to Earth (2008; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwzHhymrp9c). Save for playing drums for the Friggs for some shows around 2010-12, that was the end of my playing time.

-Ed Farnsworth

Demo Tape / Blue Girl (double 7″)

01 – Blue Girl
02 – Losing
03 – Look What You Started Now
04 – Silent & Still
05 – Younger
06 – Our Tine is Now

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Difference Engine #23 (1995)

01 – Outward Bound
02 – Volcano
03 – You Want It When!!!
04 – Silent & Still
05 – Problems 1-5
06 – Ahoy!
07 – Nothing Better To Do
08 – Slumber
09 – My Life
10 – Rollover
11 – Twist In The Wind
12 – Younger
13 – Open-Ended
14 – Brod
15 – Out Of It (Part 1 & 2)

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Garden City 44 (1998)

01 – Autumn
02 – Devil In The Marketplace
03 – Drowning In Awe
04 – The Whistling Dog
05 – Lopsided
06 – Your Submarine Gown
07 – Devil Is The Marketplace
08 – Starday Material
09 – Slip And Fall
10 – Pure Hollywood
11 – Chemical Town
12 – Nevada

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Judith Schaechter – Demo

January 25, 2022 /

I included some of Judith’s songs with the split 7″ with Revologic, this is a demo tape release by Marc from Revologic’s Not one red cent tape series.
This was the Nov 1995 Cassingle of the Month. Tracks 1 & 3 were recorded at reveLodge by Marc (b guitars and b. vocals too.) on Tascam 8-track. Tracks 2 & 4 were recorded at home on boombox by Judith.
If you have not make sure you check out Judith’s Art site..

01 – Liz Anne
02 – Ive Trampled a Million Pretty Flowers
03 – Dead Cowboy
04 – For the Love of Biddle

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Jekyll & Hyde – Live Firenze Tavern 3-02-91

January 24, 2022 /

Jekyll & Hyde featured Garland Monroe from Carnival Of Shame on guitar and vocals. I don’t remember who the other members were. They didn’t release anything but might have recorded a demo. On this live show they are playing some Carnival Of Shame songs plus new stuff.

01 – River Deep Mountain High
01 – Swan Dive
03 – Good Turns Bad
03 – Title Unknown
04 – Title Unknown
05 – the Imposter
06 – Not Undone
07 – Sick of it All
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Cows – Live – Khyber shows

January 21, 2022 /

One of my all-time favorite bands to see live The Cows, were one of the best of the 90’s Amphetamine Reptile bands. I never taped any of their shows probably so I could just enjoy the show. Luckily Don Sheluga (THANKS) did tape them twice from the Khyber one from November 90 and another from October 92. Sorry I didn’t do that well with the song titles -I’ll try to fix them later.

Live Khyber 11-4-90

01 – Unknown
02 – Almost a God
03 – Big Mickey
04 – Unknown
05 – Hitting the Wall
06 – Unknown
07 – Unknown
08 – Unknown
09 – Yellowbelly
10 – Unknown
11 – Bum in the Alley
12 – Missing
13 – Low Rider
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Live Khyber 10-29-92

01 – Heave Ho
02 – Big Mickey
03 – Cartoon Corral
04 – Unknow
05 – Shithead
06 – Unknow
07 – Unknow
08 – Unknow
09 – Peacetica
10 – Sexy Pee Story
11 – Unknow
12 – Hitting the Wall
13 – Unknow
14 – Unknow
15 – Almost a God
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Here is some video from Pete Sounds of a different time they played the Khyber in May of 92.

Ashtray Live on WKDU

Ashtray – Live on WKDU & Demos

January 19, 2022 /

Half of a live from WKDU in studio on Jackie’s show  and two demo tapes from late 80’s early 90’s Philly band Ashtray. They were Joe Leifheit – (guitar, vocals), Sarah Howls – (bass, vocals), Steve Fujita – (guitar) & Bill Bussone – (drums). Ashtray also released a 7″ and cd that I will try to add at some  point later. Plus they have a song on the Rave Recods comp – Please! Don’t Lick the Walls.

Thanks for the tapes Jackie.

Live on WKDU

00 – Intro
01 – Unknown
02 – Yellow and Blue
03 – Up at the Sky
04 – I Want to Be Your Dog (middle cut out)
05 – Unknown
06 – Worst Enemy
07 – Not Ready
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Three Song Demo

01 – Sunday
02 – About a Girl
03 – Rowhome
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I am My own Worst Enemy Demo

01 – Looking Over the Houses
02 – I Am My Own Worst Enemy
03 – Up at the Sky
04 – Big Back Yard
05 – Dream
06 – Having Fun
07 – Dry Spell
08 – I Shell Be Released
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