Zapaska

Zapaska is Ukrainian indie-pop duo that plays a mixture of popular styles in its own naïve and minimalistic manner. But most importantly, the basis for each of their songs is live-looping with acoustic instruments. Zapaska is one of the first Ukrainian bands who ever tried this method of music creating. Zapaska shows the magic of acoustic Live-looping and that’s the reason why they become more popular in Ukraine and find many supporters abroad.

Zapaska was created in 2009 by Yana Shpachynska and Pavlo Nechytaylo. Both of them are professional musicians and have been playing in different bands for a long time, but mutual interest in musical experiments and search of new sounds led them to this collaboration. At some point, live-looping became a key-element for self-expression, because it’s hard to use many acoustic instruments, when there are only two members in a band!

In 2010 the first EP Lanka was recorded (it included five songs with poly-lingual lyrics) and was accompanied by two music videos. Their simple and cute songs attracted attention of music lovers all over Ukraine. That led to numerous gigs in their Motherland. Zapaska also played live shows in Poland, Slovakia and Czech Republic.

After implementation of the fx processors and drum machine, electronic element in Zapaska’s compositions increased. Today the shift from the initial acoustic sound to the solid electro-rock is underway. You can check out all of these changes on their second EP «Translitom»

New EP is released with the help of XXX Waves record label and includes 6 songs. Listeners can find a lot of new things in these songs! For example, Zapaska sings not only in Ukrainian, but also in Polish and English.

“We were delighted with the facilities of the recording studio. So, we actually didn’t know which sound we’ll have at the end! We just have fun exploring new instruments and features” - shares her impressions Yana Shpachynska.

EP «Translitom» will be available from 2nd of September, 2011 in all digital stores.
Author: Daria Tarkovska (http://tarkovska.livejournal.com)
Links:
http://www.myspace.com/3apaska
http://www.facebook.com/Zapaska/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3g4o1Kx4zo4 (Live acoustic video)
http://xxxwaves.org/ (XXX Waves)