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ANTYTILA – ПТАХА / IN HONOR OF DANYLO DIDIK

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.

Music - ANTYTILA
Lyrics - Taras Topolia 
Mastering - Maksym Syvolap 
Cameraman / Light - Dmytro Kaminskyi
Editing - Serhii Vusyk 
Colour correction - Alina Borshchova 
"Bobina Records" Recording studio

PREMIERE! STAND UP / 2019 CONCLUSIONS

PREMIERE! The ANTYTILA band have presented the video on the song «Stand up». The work has become a symbolic conclusion of an extremely successful year for ANTYTILA.

For the band it appeared to be eventful, socially active and very creative. In 2019, a lot of significant events happened: ANTYTILA presented five official videos and the «Hello» album, having been heard live by almost eighty thousand fans during the stadium tour around Ukraine, two Palaces of Sports, four stadiums, and the first gigs in Europe. 
The lead singer of the band Taras Topolia received an honored title of youth ambassador of UNICEF Ukraine, and was awarded with the III class "Order of Merit" by the president of Ukraine. ANTYTILA faced patent troll, having made tones and tempos of the songs his property. They had to defend their right to create freely at the court, and fight for all Ukrainian artists.

The year started from the premiere of the work «Вірила» ('Viryla' / 'You to believe') having received numerous awards during the year, and it finished with the premiere «Stand up». The song was listed in the sixth CD Hello. It was presented by the band in April together with the video on the title song having given the name to the album. The work «Stand up» is a video document of a historical event for the ANTYTILA band - two Palaces of Sports in the capital city ahead totally full. Emotional screenshots of the video convey the real atmosphere prevailing at the band's gigs.

As for the family,  during this year the ANTYTILA band's family grew bigger. The band's musician and manager Serhii Vusyk became a father for the third time! The band's crew also expanded, and today the permanent stuff counts fifteen people, and TOV «ANTYTILA» was nominated for the title «The company of the year 2019» among the best concerns of Ukraine in the category «Theatre and Concert Activity».

«Everything having happened in the year 2019 is a logical result of a big like-minded team's work and another proof that ANTYTILA are on the right way. Our base is a big idea that an artist is for the people and for the good of the people. We sing about life, and we are sincere before our fans in everything we do. Our songs help many people, and give them hope, and theycome to our gigs to feel something more than just melodies, and to join the community of free, educated, and inspired people! All of them are our like-minded people and our biggest treasure!», shared his impressions Taras Topolia.

What about the upcoming year, it's also going to be rich for events. In January, ANTYTILA will continue the story about cancelling nonsensical patent for notes. The "Hello" tour in 2020 goes on and widens its geographical borders. It's going to cover different locations: from theatres to stadiums. The gigs are going to take place in more than fifty cities and towns of Ukraine. ANTYTILA are also going to perform at music venues of other countries: Poland, USA, Canada, Czech Republic, etc. The list of the countries is going to grow bigger. The tickets are already on sale.
We are preparing new song releases and videos.
ANTYTILA have got enough to surprise their fans in the next year.

Happy upcoming holidays!

SVITSKE ZHYTTIA – ANTYTILA

“Two powerful solo gigs of the ANTYTILA band have been over at one of the biggest venues of the state.

Taras Topolia, the lead singer of ANTYTILA has disclosed the secret of his band's success and told how he manages to gather stadiums and big concert venues.

The singer has shared which most incredible presents he got from fans. How Taras Topolia gets his children used to music – see in a TV spot".

Світське життя ('High Life' / 'Svitske zhyttia')

GOVERNMENT AWARD – III class «Order of Merit»

Today the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskyi has rewarded the leader of the band ANTYTILA, the UNICEF youth ambassador of Ukraine, a volunteer, a community leader and a friend of ours Taras Topolia with the III class «Order of Merit».

The respective decree №889/2019 of the President of Ukraine is hosted on a website of the head of the state.
For social valour, strong personal contribution into voluntary movement development, buildup of military and national security of Ukrainian state, active charity and humanistic activity.

We are greeting you and we are proud of you!

More: https://www.president.gov.ua/documents/8892019-30909?fbclid=IwAR0o8sR9mcg0Z9gkgkLGf41O1dpRRNSins1q4TRX6jXmk3pqhRTuUd3IAdM

UNICEF «DEFENSE OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN THE EAST OF UKRAINE» 

THE UNICEF YOUTH AMBASSADOR OF UKRAINE TARAS TOPOLIA TOOK PART IN THE OPENING OF THE UNICEF PHOTO EXHIBITION «DEFENSE OF CHILDREN’S RIGHTS IN THE EAST OF UKRAINE» AT VERKHOVNA RADA OF UKRAINE.

The photo exhibition was organized within The Week of Human Rights in Verkhovna Rada and is a part of the UNICEF events devoted to the 30th anniversary of Convention on the Rights of the Child. As half a million of children in the east of our state face abuse of their rights every day because of combat activity in Donbas.
The head of the UNICEF in Ukraine Lotta Sylwander, the head of the Committee on the issues of human rights, deoccupation and reintegration of temporarily occupied territories Dmytro Lubinets, and the UNICEF youth ambassador of Ukraine and the lead singer of ANTYTILA band Taras Topolia took part in press briefing.

"The children's dreams in the East must come true. Now it is hard to talk about dreams, when hundreds of thousands of children have no opportunity to meet even their basic requirements. Our aim is to draw attention of everybody whom the future of Ukrainian children depends on, to their rights, and to urge on working towards their integral provision no matter how difficult political and military situations in Ukraine are", noted Taras Topolia at the opening.
Within the opening the performance of the Choir of young males under the municipal academic male chapel named by L. Revutskyi in which Taras Topolia used to perform. They sang «Щедрик» a capella.

“ANTYTILA” HAVE GATHERED THE “PALACE OF SPORTS” IN KYIV FOR THE FIRST TIME – TWO SOLD-OUTS AT A RUN

On November 16 and 17, the ANTYTILA band have played two sold out gigs in the Kyiv Palace of Sports within the stadium tour HELLO. Taras Topolia and his team sang their most popular songs together with the audience of many thousands. Those were two days of a real Ukrainian music celebration. The main thing is that ANTYTILA have announced the resumption of their tour – beginning from February 14, 2020, the band is going to cover about 45 cities and towns: from theatres to stadiums, from regional towns to cities of millions of citizens. The gigs are planned notonly in Ukraine, but also in Poland and Czech Republic.

When a real man's word is the law!

Punctuality is an incredibly rare thing for Ukrainian show business as spectators of large concert venues are not often amused with the gig beginning on time, that's why everyone was agreeably surprised when exactly at 7 p.m. the lights went off, and celebrity guests stepped onto the stage with loud applause.

On November 16, Taras invited a Polish rock band CHEMIA to rock up the audience. The day before the gig in Kyiv they have released a song in Ukrainian “Будь собою” (‘Bud soboiu’ / ‘Be yourself’) which was to take the audience by storm.

On November 17, it was MELOVIN who rocked the hot young blood in the Palace of Sports.

Those were documentary home videos on the screens which helped plunge into chronology of the ANTYTILA band’s rise, and made everyone look back nostalgically at their 2008.

It was important for the members of the band to get their way to popularity full of happy and crisis moments across to their fans.

As you look around the hall, you have a subconscious thought: who are they dancing, jumping, and singing to every hit? Mostly, they’re young boys and girls burning with Ukrainian, and it’s important for them to «seize the moment».

Taras’s joy and pride for two full Palaces of Sports have cheered the hall up to maximum.

The invited Choir of young males under the municipal academic male chapel named by L. Revutskyi has become a surprise for everyone. The joint performance of TDME has moved a thousand’s audience to tears.

Every song from the album HELLO is about important things, each of them has a unique background and makes a listener plunge into philosophic thinking of life dancing meanwhile.

The main thing is to be yourself and and have steel inside you! A sincere talk on thick steel, pretty girls, bearing the new life, and how important it is to have trustworthy and loyal partnets by your side – it seems that Taras hasn’t ignored any topic bothering a real Ukrainian talking from the stage.

In the Palace of Sports, patriots from different parts of Ukraine were singing for the peaceful sky which all of us are longing so much having been united by the love to true «nightingale’s» music.

THE ANTYTILA BAND IS «GONNA HAVE A SON»! PREMIERE!

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.

«The song «Буде син» is autobiographical in a way. Our closest relatives and friends know that these were exactly the Carpathians, along with nature, where our relationships with Olena were being born, and, namely, we have almost completed the plan being sung about in the song. We’ve got two sons, and it’s just about the girl we’ll be happy to have, of course. Why is it a story with vineyards? Because we have a good tradition with my wife to sit together with a glass of good dry wine and talk about everything. When I saw these wonderful vineyards, this location, and found out the story of the family growing these grapes, I proposed the ANTYTILA crew to drive there and shoot a good, warm family video of how the whole family is working on their household to create something together. The story has succeeded. The video appeared to result the way we had planned it, and, of course, it didn’t go without true shots from our family archive which make a big deal in this video, too. We have decided to film our children and share family video, because, I’ll say it again, the song is greatly autobiographical. It was easy to work with my sons. They behaved well, supported us, and almost weren’t naughty» – shared his thoughts Taras Topolia.

We remind you that the ANTYTILA band have announced their additional gig in the Palace of Sports of the capital city. The song «Буде син» (‘Gonna Have a Son’ / ‘Bude syn’) along with the other songs from the new album «Hello» and the most powerful hits for 10 years the ANTYTILA band is going to perform two days running.

ANTYTILA – “HELLO” LIVE FULL CONCERT 2019

The first stadium gig of the band! Two hours and a half, around 20 000 people sang together with ANTYTILA at «Lviv Arena». World class technical and stage equipment and hits beloved by millions of people around the world, live sound and sincere words of the lead singer Taras Topolia from the stage. This is how the stadium tour “Hello” began as well as the new sheet in history of the ANTYTILA band.

On May 25, 2017, the band performed the final gig within the tour “Сонце” at the helipad in Kyiv, and starting from that moment the preparation for the tour of a new format and scale began. Almost two years' work of the crew with more than one hundred people, implementation of courageous ideas and direction, contemporary visualization. But there were obstacles, too! The weather forecasts promised us rains, and someone considered that sport and football match on the new pitch cover of the stadium were more important than music. We managed to fix everything, ANTYTILA completed the gig having though accepted the limits according the half of the stadium and minimizing the threats for the pitch cover and the upcoming match of the National team of Ukraine. 

We keep targeting for more! There are 2 days of final gigs in Kyiv ahead. And by then, to plunge into the atmosphere, see the backstage of the band's life, become a part of our team for a while and live it through together with us - we propose you to view full live video from “Lviv Arena”. Feel and watch the HELLO power live. See for yourself, that ANTYTILA are more than just music!

Thanks everyone who spent time with us at the stadiums! You can go through these emotions once again! We invite everyone who hasn't managed to attend us to the final of the first part of the HELLO tour in Kyiv. The turn has come for our native capital city! Exclusively, we are going to bring the stadium stage to the Palace of Sports! And we also prepare surprises.

We are grateful to the whole crew, to our friends, sponsors and partners:

ANTYTILA 

Lead singer, author of lyrics – Taras Topolia 

Bass – Mykhailo Chyrko

Guitar – Dmytro Zholud

Keyboards / arrangement – Serhii Vusyk 

Drums – Dmytro Vodovozov

Music / arrangement – Maksym Syvolap


Co-organizers of the stadium tour: Serhii Vusyk, Olena Dubovytska, Serhii Ivanenko, Sviatoslav Roman, Anna Dolynska

Gig directors: Anna Oboyanska and ANTYTILA

Sound producer - Dmytro Nuzhnyi

Light director - Andrii Popov 

Video Visual - Oleh Kindrativ, Serhii Vusyk, Oleksii Verenchyk

Technical provider - PR Music

Technical management - Vitalii Kovalevskyi

 
Mastering - Dmytro Khomulko «Bobina Records»
Shooting / video edit - PicOi Production

Public engagement - Denys Fediunin

ADDITIONAL GIG IN THE PALACE OF SPORTS

Two days — two massive shows in the Palace of Sports of the capital city. The first stadium tour of ANTYTILA «Hello» 2019 has reached its  turning point. Sixty thousand of fans in four cities of the state, where the tour gigs took place, have already felt what the live sound and energy from ANTYTILA feels like.

They were getting down to the song «Ми», singing «TDME», «Лови момент», «Вірила» and other band's hits by entire stadiums. Now the time has come for the band's native city - Kyiv - to take up the torch. There are two months left till the final gig in the capital city, and all the tickets were sold out for the date planned. In this regard, ANTYTILA announce the additional gig at the same place — in the Palace of Sports, on November 16. You can already buy the tickets in the box offices of the city.

«When we were choosing the date and place of the Kyiv gig within the tour «Hello», we wanted that everyone interested could attend this important event. That's why it's autumn, November, that's why it's the Palace of Sports. 

The only pleasant detail not taken into account — the number of the ones interested. 

Today we take note that yet before the start of wide advertising campaign in the capital city all the tickets to the Palace of Sports have been sold out. That's why we announce the additional gig and open the ticket sales. Now the «Hello» album is going to sound live two days: November, 16, and 17! See you!», Taras Topolia commented.

Two days running the ANTYTILA band are going to present the show lasting two hours and a half having already been appreciated by fans in Lviv, Kharkiv, Poltava, and Odesa. The band is also preparing surprisesfor the gig in Kyiv. What exactly it will be remains a secret by now. But it’s known exactly that there will be an exclusive stage in the shape of semicircle, and the weight of 68 tons, the one specially designed for the tour and used at the stadiums. Extremely modern light and sound remain unchanged.

We remind you, the «Hello» tour is taking place in support of the new album of the same name. The first gig within the tour took place at «Lviv Arena» in Lviv, May 25, also, three other successful gigs took place at the stadiums in Kharkiv, Poltava, and Odesa. Kyiv will be the final city of the tour this year.

BACKSTAGE 1 HELLO TOUR / LIVE САРАФАН

Now the words «сарафан», «океан» and «лаванда» can’t exist separately any more. Pure hedonism and summer mood in the new live-video from the HELLO tour by ANTYTILA band.

Radio airs, preparation, team, backstage... we'regoing to tell more soon. The new video - the same moment we gather 2000 likes! And those leaving the best comments will get our brand merch! Farewell to the summer? No! We say, See you on November 17, in Kyiv, in the Palace of Sports. There are less and less tickets left.