What’s this ?
Why it’s the new Ludy Dobri album Live at Lula recorded at the Lula Lounge during the Small World Music festival last September. The album which includes almost 84 minutes of music new and old will be released at this Year's Toronto Ukrainian Festival this September (Click here for more details).
Ludy Dobri is especially excited about the album art, created by budding artist Oksana Hawrylak. Take a good look at the illustrated streetscapes; if you're a Toronto native, you might recognize some of your favourite downtown spots. (Stay tuned for more of her work in September...)
In terms of the music, you could describe this album using some typical stock phrases (it’s fresh, innovative, contagious yadda yadda), but the fact of the matter is that Ludy Dobri is too unique for cliché. If you come out to Bloor West Ukie Fest this September, you’ll have the privilege of hearing them live and deciding for yourself.
As you may or may not know, collaboration between Ludy Dobri and Toronto-based gypsy-punk troupe Worldly Savages is the platform for the Organic Streetscape Projekt. OSP was envisioned as a travelling exhibit showcasing Ukrainian and International art alongside the super-group's musical performances. What has grown out of that idea is an organic movement of young, urban, rural Ukrainian and non-Ukrainian artists and dilettantes examining the role of culture and folklore in their own lives.
Through OSP we hope to challenge preconceptions about cultural identity and how it is practiced in the Ukrainian Diaspora in Canada. Check back in for more boho-folk soon!
To have a look and listen to some tracks from Live at Lula, check out the Ludy Dobri's myspace here.
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