Single

2step (feat. Antytila)

«Ed’s offer to work together is the expression of that real support to Ukraine being demonstrated by the people of Great Britain during this war. Millions of people show how it is to stand for your principles, democracy and freedom for real not only with words but with exact actions and give their shoulder to those who need it for sure. It would seem a simple collaboration, but it’s so symbolically.

It appeared to be quite difficult to compose and record the Ukrainian lyrics to Ed’s song in those circumstances we experienced then. Beyond that, the Bobina Records studio where we usually recorded our own songs was under occupation of russian freaks. But thanks to Maksym Syvolap, a friend of ours and an unchangeable co-author and arranger of many songs, we coped with our part», tells Taras Topolia.

All the funds received from monetization of the video on YouTube as well as royalties will be given for the charity project Music Saves UA, the project of All-Ukrainian Association of Music Events: https://musicsavesua.com/uk

ANTYTILA mention that they devote this video to the memory of a Ukrainian director Dmytro Manifest whose life was cut short too early.

The video was directed and produced by a friend of Dmytro Manifest Dmytro Shmurak. Together with his team, he managed to realize everything being supposed to in the shortest possible time, professionally and faultlessly, understanding that the ANTYTILA band wouldn’t be able to join the shooting fully.

«There are people eager to follow you through hell and high water. It was exactly my friendship with Manifest having helped me understand that doing anything with half efforts is senseless. Life is very rebellious, and that’s why when ANTYTILA had asked me to support them and actually be a producer and shoot the video on my own, I agreed immediately, though I understood it was a very complicated task. Together with my team we tried to do our best so that the work would be successful. If Dima were alive, he would have definitely been together with us at the filming location. There’s the only thing I’d like to address to the guys: come back alive!» shares his thoughts Dmytro Shmurak.

Chornobylʹ foreva (iz k/f “YA, “Pobyeda” i Berlin”)

Stanʹ

ANTYTILA and Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk have lived a lifetime in shot.
The song about the path of life and internal power to fulfil your dreams with a motivational name «Стань» (‘And You Start’).

The ANTYTILA band and one of the world’s strongest athletes – Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk – are in shot.

«The song was created more than a year ago, it was recorded at the studio quite long ago, but we needed some more time for video-realization of the idea underlying in this song. When writing the song we were inspired by the atmosphere of school prom nights when boys and girls confess their love to each other, swear to be friends for eternity, set goals, and believe in their dreams, when all this is sincere, with no falsehood. Later the idea of the video emerged. The running tracks were appearing in thoughts displaying the road of life, a large space where every single person is running along their track to their goals. In the course of getting ready, we understood that we needed a massive view where it would be possible to depict the flow of life and people in it with their own desires, dreams, and «crosses that some of them carry on their shoulders». We’re sure, everyone will be able to recognize themselves or somebody from their surrounding in particular frames. The video has also got quite an unexpected ending: actually, the story of the video begins in its end. And if you drown into the video even more, you understand that it has neither the beginning nor the ending. And, as usual, there are some hidden secrets, Easter eggs, from ANTYTILA», tells Taras Topolia.

«Стань» (‘And You Start’) is the third song from the upcoming album, the premiere of which ANTYTILA have planned for the beginning of the year 2022. After releasing the album, ANTYTILA are going to set off to stadium tour being about to present an absolutely new show and a new album. The first gig has been planned for May 2022 in Dnipro city. The musicians have also finished the Hello tour successfully that was started as far ago as the year 2020.

And You Start

ANTYTILA and Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk have lived a lifetime in shot.
The song about the path of life and internal power to fulfil your dreams with a motivational name «Стань» (‘And You Start’).

The ANTYTILA band and one of the world’s strongest athletes – Maryna Bekh-Romanchuk – are in shot.

«The song was created more than a year ago, it was recorded at the studio quite long ago, but we needed some more time for video-realization of the idea underlying in this song. When writing the song we were inspired by the atmosphere of school prom nights when boys and girls confess their love to each other, swear to be friends for eternity, set goals, and believe in their dreams, when all this is sincere, with no falsehood. Later the idea of the video emerged. The running tracks were appearing in thoughts displaying the road of life, a large space where every single person is running along their track to their goals. In the course of getting ready, we understood that we needed a massive view where it would be possible to depict the flow of life and people in it with their own desires, dreams, and «crosses that some of them carry on their shoulders». We’re sure, everyone will be able to recognize themselves or somebody from their surrounding in particular frames. The video has also got quite an unexpected ending: actually, the story of the video begins in its end. And if you drown into the video even more, you understand that it has neither the beginning nor the ending. And, as usual, there are some hidden secrets, Easter eggs, from ANTYTILA», tells Taras Topolia.

«Стань» (‘And You Start’) is the third song from the upcoming album, the premiere of which ANTYTILA have planned for the beginning of the year 2022. After releasing the album, ANTYTILA are going to set off to stadium tour being about to present an absolutely new show and a new album. The first gig has been planned for May 2022 in Dnipro city. The musicians have also finished the Hello tour successfully that was started as far ago as the year 2020.

Maskarad

ANTYTILA present a new large-scale video clip!
Possibly with a new Ukrainian record for the simultaneous number of actors in a music video. More than five hundred people dressed as zombies, hundreds of costumes, kilograms of makeup and professional dancing. In the lead roles: Taras Topolya, musicians of the Antytila band and People’s Artist of Ukraine Nazar Zadniprovsky.

The production of the shooting took only one week. However, during this time the actors and location were chosen, the costumes were created, and the shooting crew gathered together. Preparing the location itself took 24 hours. The shooting process took 23 hours, and a part of the crew and actors spent awake 2 days. On the location, mostly worked the same crew as with the video “Кіно”. Among the main zombie-characters a people’s artist of Ukraine Nazar Zadniprovskyi could also be seen; he’s also a sincere fan of the band. «After a small pause in the course of which we have almost finished studio work with our new album, we present a new song and a new video.

“Маскарад” (‘Masquerade’) is a farcical play and irony towards ourselves and what’s happening around us. Musicians have an opportunity to talk to people using metaphors and images and convey senses at the level of perception. This song is exactly such case, and as it always happens with ANTYTILA, it’s not without sense. I’m sure, the track will become the adornment of the summer season, Ukraine’s gonna sing and dance to it” – says Taras Topolia.

For taking part in extras, there were professional actors, fans coming from different parts of Ukraine, responding to the band’s call, and a people’s artist of Ukraine Nazar Zadniprovskyi had changed his shooting schedule on purpose to play the main part. «I’m patriotic to the ANTYTILA band. For them and for this song I wasn’t sorry to postpone the other shootings.
I had listened to the song carefully, I pondered upon the lyrics, and I sincerely wish the guys a good premiere and ratings, because the song is wise, it’s critical, and it’s topical more than ever now. Somebody’s going to perceive it just as a cool dancelike song, and somebody’s gonna have a deeper understanding», tells a people’s artist of Ukraine Nazar Zadniprovskyi.

The artists share with us that it had taken them very long to choose the track for release. After numerous discussions in the studio, chats, and on tour, the decision was made in favor of the song «Маскарад», because there is everything in it being important to be told and sung to people exactly today. The song “Маскарад” is going to sound live exclusively for the first time at the main stage of the Atlas Weekend festival July 9.

Ptakha

ANTYTILA have sung in honor of Dania Didik.

A special premiere.
Within the project «Так працює пам‘ять» (‘Tak pratsiuie pamiat’ / ‘This is how memory works’) the band have presented a remake of the song «Птаха» (‘Ptakha’ / ‘Birdie’) from their first album.

An artistic initiative has already lasted for more than 25 weeks, its aim is to eternize the honor of a small but very courageous Ukrainian Danylo Didik having died from terrorist attack through songs, pictures, prose, and poetry.

Let us remind you that February 22, 2015, on the second year of war, on the anniversary of the vicrory of the Revolution of Dignity in Kharkiv there was a walk devoted to the unity of Ukraine.

Danylo Didik was also taking part in it. The walk began by the Palace of Sports, the activists have gathered into a column, and went towards the Svobody square, but they managed to walk only 100 meters when the explosion was fired. The boy was walking in the head of the column, he was close to the explosion epicenter, and got a severe craniocerebral trauma. The trauma led to the coma. The next day, February 23, 2015, Danylo died without regaining consciousness. The child’s life has ended up at the age of fifteen. On that day, the explosion of the mine having been put by pro-Russian terrorists three more participants of the walk were killed:
Mykola Melnychuk (18 years old), Vadym Rybalchenko (37 years old), and Ihor Tolmachov (52 years old).

The initiator of the project Ruslan Horovyi comments:
«There aren’t, and there can’t ever be such words that would calm Dania’s parents’ pain. When a child is killed for the freedom and independence, it always means that some of us, adults, has not worked, anticipated or protected enough. Dania’s death is a reminding that we are responsible for our every step. And not only before ourselves».
ANTYTILA have completed their music release with Live-video, having been shot in the studio of Bobina Records.

«The song «Птаха» (‘Ptakha’ / ‘Birdie’) has received its new life because another life, the life of the child, was taken away by the undeclared war. We can’t understand the only thing: why the school where Dania used to study is still not named in his honor?» comments the lead singer of the band Taras Topolia.

Kino

ANTYTILA HAVE SHOT THE MOVIE!

A story being light at first sight has a deep meaning. The story it was set upon repeats from generation to generation, through thousands of years. The whole spectrum of people’s feelings: mercy and hatred, betrayal and self-sacrifice, good and evil, rapture and contempt — everything’s like in our lives. The video is full of metaphors, allegories and symbols being always inherent for ANTYTILA’s creativity.

ANTYTILA are the first artists in Ukraine having dared to massively implement the stylistics of the Steampunk genre in a music video. About one hundred costumes, perfected up; a multi-ton circus decoration in the desert built from the ground; Taras Topolia’s drastic transformation; real tricks from Magic Five – you’ll see all these in our new video.

«I lack words to give thanks to everyone having been shot in this video. It was a small feat of every participant. 71 out of 72 scenes had been shot just during 1 day. I’d like to mark the following supporting actors especially: Mikael Avoian, Serhii Trush, Oleksandr Yudin, Nataliia Andrieieva and the extras, among which there were a lot of friends of ours and true Ukrainian steampunkers, elderly people and children having arrived from all over the country. We spent 25 hours in the desert from 2 a.m. to 3 a.m. of the next day having had almost no sleep beforehand, under the burning sun. Nobody gave up, everyone completed the way from the first second to the final, there were many of those for whom the shooting experience was the first, but they did their best. During the lunch break the people were falling asleep right in the sun, and went on shooting in half an hour demonstrating no sign of fatigue. In such moments, you feel the people’s love and a greater responsibility for where you bring them. It was a pleasure for us to work with the Magic Five team. They were showing so realistic and cool tricks that detracted the whole group from the shooting process», Taras Topolia.

Bude syn

The team presented a new clip with an exclusive archival video of the family of Taras and Elena Topoli.

A month before the final gigs of the first part of the Hello tour which are going to take place in the Palace of Sports of the capital citythe ANTYTILA band have presented the new video. This time ANTYTILA have filmed the most romantic song – «Буде син» (‘Gonna Have a Son’ / ‘Bude syn’). It is the fifth track from the «Hello» album having received video support.

The song «Буде син» has become a record holder by the number of playbacks since the LP was released. On ANTYTILA’S YouTube channel it has got more than half a million of views. And the fans have named it «the main soundtrack to the first dance of the married, 2019». During six months ANTYTILA have received a great amount of videos where the married are dancing their first dance exactly to «Буде син». These home videos have inspired ANTYTILA for an idea to the official video being familiar to many people: birth of a new family, procreation, and, of course, cooperation in work and sincere cheerful emotions from the opportunity to be together.

The work «Буде син» is based on two real stories of the Topolia and Shneideris families. It’s the Shneideris family having given their family wine making property and vineyards to film the video. The shooting was taking place at Beikush vinery in Mykolaiv oblast. This was the place where father Yevhen has made up his hobby into the work of life, and made it familiar with his closest people – his beloved woman and his children. It was a small idea which realized into a big dream of a couple in love: a big happy family and a successful business. In the video, Taras Topolia together with his wife, a famous singer Alyosha and two sons, Roman and Mark, have played themselves, shown the story of their relationships, and lifted the veil of their private lives a bit. At the same time with the main plot, the documentary shots of Taras Topolia’s family appear which haven’t been demonstrated before: birth of the first child, the ANTYTILA lead singer’s wedding, narrative of how the sons were growing up, and the ways the married couple spends their free time. It’s worth mentioning that in the video «Буде син» Roman and Mark have had their debut as actors and done well. Before it was a rare thing to observe the whole Topolia celebrity family in media space.

The members of the ANTYTILA band, Taras Topolia and Serhii Vusyk, have directed the video.

Viryla

«Вірила» is the fourth single from the new album. Its release is going to take place in late Fabruary, 2019. ANTYTILA always surprise everyone with their video works full with senses and symbols. The video «Вірила» is not an exception. The video is set upon the idea resonating in every person. In order to bring their ideas to life, ANTYTILA have covered the way of ten thousand kilometers. The shooting took place in Ukraine and Portugal, not far from Lisbon, and in the municipality Cabeceiras de Basto near Fafe. One of the locations of the scene drawing attention to it is a stone house Casa do Penedo, or «Flinstones’ House». It is one of the top-10 most extraordinary buildings of the world. Its uniqueness consists in the fact that the house looks like a rock on the top of a desolate hill. Enormous boulders serve a few walls of the house. In Ukraine, the scenes in the carpentry unit were filmed. The scene designer Viktor Buchkovskyi had made this location intentionally for shooting the video.

Another object deserving attention in the video work «Вірила» is a hangglider as a symbol of realizing the dreams. ANTYTILA had brought a real training hangglider «УТ» created as far as in 1978 to Portugal. It was decorated with wood for filming. It’s worth noting that such hanggliders had never flown in this area – over the Atlantic. ANTYTILA dared to do this. The main hero’s stand-in Dmytro Khaiit took the risk of completing a few flights without a parachute thanks to which the spectators will be able to enjoy a bird’s-eye view of lovely frames and scenes.

It’s worth noting that the syncs in the video «Вірила» are one of the key elements. As planned by the frontman of the band Taras Topolia, it was the first time when the band members weren’t playing the instruments but walking as a team and singing to the camera. As the song «Вірила» is a man’s dedication to a woman.

«The idea of the song emerged about one year ago when we had finished our work at the song «Лови момент» in the studio, entered the new fall music season and gathered yet again in the studio to create the upcoming album. We went back to the demo version of this song. I had got a few melodies in my head, and we’d recorded one of them, but there hadn’t been any lyrics yet. That was the period when we went on working at the Polish studio adapting our Ukrainian songs to Polish and English as part of our movement towards Poland. And so, in the train to Warsaw I had listened to an upcoming song probably one hundred times, there were plenty of ideas and metaphors. But the most powerful one was about a woman’s trust in her man: of a beloved woman in her beloved man, of a mum in her son. That’s why this topic had become crucial. It’s one of the most man’s songs in the repertoir of the ANTYTILA band. It’s an appeal from us as men musicians to our wives, it’s an appeal from us as sons to our mums, and it’s an appeal to all women of Ukraine with one simple message: we men can do incredible things, we can overcome obstacles, we can get off our knees and move forward, and move mountains if we know that there’s a woman walking by our side believing in us, and this message concerns not only the musicians of the ANTYTILA band, but, I’m sure, all the men of the country», shares his thoughts Taras Topolia.

Serhii Vusyk, Yurii Aleksieienko, and Taras Topolia were the directors of the video.

Symphony (Cover)

ANTYTILA have presented their work in collaboration with a famous British band Clean Bandit.

The video and song created in collaboration with the Grammy owner – the Clean Bandit band. The representatives of the British band contacted ANTYTILA and offered to join the International project within which they had to create their own version of a famous song in Ukrainian. ANTYTILA have accepted, and the two bands have united for a music experiment in Ukraine.

It should be noted that ANTYTILA’S fans were the first to observe the video and song «Symphony» (TBRG Open x Clean Bandit – Official Cover) on May 25, during a massive gig at Lviv Arena having started the stadium tour «Hello» across the cities of Ukraine. Almost 20 000 people having gathered at the stadium appreciated the work with tremendous applause.

The ANTYTILA band have brought national colours with their arrangement having added Ukrainian music instruments and Ukrainian lyrics to the song by Clean Bandit.

«It was an interesting experience of working with a world level artist for us. There were some kind of difficult details as we’re divided by a great distance, and sometimes it was hard to communicate quickly. The main thing is that we’ve always made all our creative decisions by ourselves, and this time we needed to coordinate everything with our creative partners. But in the end everything was okay. I’m sure that our version of the song will be liked by millions of fans,» – gave his comment the leader of the band Taras Topolia.