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Growing up in the shadow of a post-Soviet nuclear plant, Canadian singer-songwriter BILYK was first exposed to the downtempo sounds of Morcheeba, Mazzy Star, MassiveAttack, Zero 7 and Portishead from pirated CD’s her mother sold from a small kiosk on Shevchenko Street in Netishyn, Western Ukraine. BILYK describes her family as deeply musical, her parents risking denunciation and arrest when they were young to play outlawed underground music in their own band.
Classically trained in piano, BILYK says of the influence of the downtempo sounds, “They helped me to connect with my inner self, to slow down, to dream. I felt free when I listened to this music. These artists transported me from the grey surreality of Soviet architecture and the barren mind scapes of survival to a kaleidoscopic world of richly textured moods, feelings and colours.”
“I came to Canada because the first young man I saw wearing red pants was Canadian.”
Classically trained in piano, BILYK says of the influence of the downtempo sounds, “They helped me to connect with my inner self, to slow down, to dream. I felt free when I listened to this music. These artists transported me from the grey surreality of Soviet architecture and the barren mind scapes of survival to a kaleidoscopic world of richly textured moods, feelings and colours.”
“I came to Canada because the first young man I saw wearing red pants was Canadian.”
Monthly listeners
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Followers
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