Skryabin & Yurkesh (UA)

Skryabin is one of the most famous Ukrainian rock bands in Ukraine. Its founder, the legendary Andriy Kuzmenko, is an outstanding personality, an idol of millions of Ukrainians. The whole country sings his songs today. Andriy Kuzmenko has written over 300 songs over the years of his career. Over 2000 concert performances have been given by the Skryabin band over the 28 years of its existence.

Today, the Skryabin band, to which Kuzma devoted most of his life, are the people with whom Andriy created music, shared the stage and the road over the past 15 years of the band's existence.

At the request of a large audience of admirers of Andriy Kuzmenko's work, at the request of Andriy's family, the band Skryabin continues its concert activities. Skryabin is his songs. Skryabin is his fans. Skryabin is his musicians. Skryabin is a family.

The band Skryabin is the only musical group that is the official representative of Andriy Kuzmenko's work and performs under a license agreement for the use of copyright.

The lineup of the band has not changed since 2015:
Guitarist and band manager - Oleksiy Zvolynsky
Bass guitarist - Konstantin Glitin
Drummer - Vadym Kolisnichenko
Keyboardist Konstantin Sukhonosov also collaborates with the musicians remotely - he creates his parts in new musical arrangements of songs that the band uses at their performances.

During the existence of the Skryabin band after the death of Andriy Kuzmenko, the musicians invited their stage colleagues to participate in their concerts. These were: Polozhynsky, Taras Topolya, Arsen Merzoyan, Zhenya Halych, and others.

These artists supported the band on the Warm Tour. Also, the finalists of the show "The Voice" - Anis Ettayeb and Zhenya Tolochny - took part in the concerts. Together with Anis, Oleksiy Zvolynskiy created a new project - the rock band Spain, and Zhenya Tolochny continued to work with the musicians after the Warm Tour.

In August 2018, the musicians of the band Skryabin held a big concert dedicated to the 50th anniversary of Andriy Kuzmenko's birth at the Lviv Stadium. The most famous artists of Ukraine sang Andriy's songs together with his musicians. At the same time, a well-known singer of the 90s,poet and musician Yurko Yurchenko performed with the Skryabin band.

The artists' collaboration proved to be successful, and the audience warmly received the performance. Since then, Yuriy-Yurkesh Yurchenko has joined the performances of the Skryabin band as a member of the Skryabin & Yurcash collaboration.

On 02.02.2020, on the fifth anniversary of the death of Andriy Kuzmenko, the band Skryabin published a song called "Kuzma" on their page. By publishing a new song in their own performance, the musicians honored the memory of Andriy Kuzmenko and simultaneously marked the beginning of a new stage in the band's life. The stage of creative collaboration with Yuriy Yurchenko. It was he who created the words and music for the memorable song.

05.02.2020 - Presentation of the song "Bitch of a War!"
Five years before this day, on January 24, 2015, Andriy Kuzmenko sent a letter to Iryna Tkach with a demo of this song. This song was the last thing he had time to say.

The band Skryabin continues its work
Hello, we are the band Skryabin!
We, the band's musicians, spent 15 years of our lives playing, performing, and creating together with the legendary man who founded the band, Andriy Kuzmenko.
After the tragic death of Andriy, his family and fans of the band supported us in keeping the band together and continuing to perform the songs of Andriy and the band Skryabin.

The band's vocalist
Since 2015, we have played more than two hundred concerts in all parts of Ukraine and abroad. At different times, different artists joined our performances, and since 2018, a collaboration with Yurko Yurchenko called Skryabin & Yurcash has been formed.

How the concerts take place
Most of our concerts take place at the invitation of fans to play in their city or village. At our performances, which rarely last less than two hours, people sing all the songs by Skryabin with us.
Among other things, traditionally, at each of the band's performances, the song "Mum" is performed by Andriy himself from a synchronized video sequence on the screen with live accompaniment by the musicians on stage.

The format of Scryabin's concerts varies - from an acoustic apartment to a full-scale performance for an audience of thousands. And every time it is always boundless love and gratitude of the audience, it is more than two hours of emotionally overwhelming unity of people who become one, because once they were united by Kuzma.

Charity
In these difficult times for our country, we propose to unite a large audience of fans of Andriy Kuzmenko and the Skryabin band for good deeds.
Currently, one of the areas of the band's charity is to help the residents of Andriivka village, Bucha district.

Organizer: Ukrainerejser and Ukraine Rocks in cooperation with Kolding Municipality and Godset