Artist Grisly Faye: poster of concerts
Grisly Faye
Grisly Faye by Margarita Kulichova (Kiev) and Voychekh Shupelyak (Warsaw) is a Ukrainian-Polish electronic group founded in the spring of 2014.
The first impression when listening to their songs is that the sound comes out of nowhere and goes in the same direction. This feeling is almost real, since most of the sounds come from the space that surrounds us: crackling fires, booming oil wells, occasional blows of the wind... and all this “musical concrete” processed by an insensitive sampler creates surprisingly urban, sometimes paranoid music.
Despite the fact that the band has already earned a reputation as a mysterious creature from the world of cold electronics - the records are in no way associated with eerie, detached soundscapes. Moreover, digital raw materials, changing their own state of aggregation, find themselves in the warm and caring hands of the artists, and at the exit, the most dramatic numbers appear not without a friendly, modest smile. Which, however, has nothing to do with humor or irony.
The creation of the group began with the acquaintance of Margarita and Wojtka in the winter of 2014 in Warsaw. Since then, he and Voytko have been traveling along the Warsaw-Krakow-Yaremche-Kiev route, where they create and record music. In November 2014, the band already presented the disc as part of a tour with Arms and Sleepers in Germany, Czech Republic and Poland.
Margarita was brought into music by her parents. From the age of four she sang in the choir. As a child, access to music was rather limited. In the choir I “consumed” the academic product, at home - the selections of “Russian Radio” and “Radio Chanson”. Grandmother taught Margarita and her sister folk songs. Well, friends talked about underground Ukrainian songs and gave them cassettes with garage recordings. But Margarita does not believe that childhood music influenced the modern sound of texts and melodies.
The origin of the band's name is also a very interesting topic. Margarita with Voychek are philologists. Some words evoke unexpected associations. This happened with the Ukrainian word "fairy", which Voytko really likes and reminded him of the Morgan le Fay. “If there are good fairies, then ours is not quite like that. She has absorbed nature and technology, combining the beautiful and ugly with pop music, glitch, trip hop... "
The electronic music project Grisly Faye already has a large number of copyright developments in the most publishing formats. In their piggy bank - the debut single "Fall for Me", released on August 21, 2014, the EP-release "Drown" (December 2014) and the single "Karla" (March 2016). In particular, the formation has a maxi-single, as well as a debut full-length album. But it is the new song called Khvylyam that is destined to become the first Ukrainian-language work in the discography of the capital's formation. For everyone who wants to get acquainted with the work of the group grisly faye, you can download their compositions on the official website of the musical group.