Antytila () is a Ukrainian musical group. It includes Taras Topolia (vocals), Serhii Vusyk (keyboard, artistic director), Dmytro Zholud (guitar), and Dmytro Vodovozov (drums), Mykhailo Chyrko (bass).
History
In 2018,
Volodymyr Zelenskyy
Volodymyr Oleksandrovych Zelenskyy (born 25 January 1978) is a Ukrainian politician and former entertainer who has served as the sixth and current president of Ukraine since 2019. He took office five years after the start of the Russo-Ukraini ...
, the future president of Ukraine, participated in one of their videoclips, ''LEGO''.
Russo-Ukrainian War
Shortly before the
Russian invasion of Ukraine
On 24 February 2022, , starting the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, in a major escalation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, conflict between the two countries which began in 2014. The fighting has caused hundreds of thou ...
, the band joined the
Territorial Defense Forces, having previously served as volunteers since the
Russian occupation of Crimea
On 27 February 2014, Little green men (Russo-Ukrainian War), unmarked Russian soldiers were deployed to the Crimea, Crimean Peninsula in order to wrest control of it from Ukraine, starting the Russo-Ukrainian War.
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in 2014.
In March 2022, the band made an appeal to perform remotely in the
Concert for Ukraine, a
benefit concert
A benefit concert or charity concert is a type of musical benefit performance (e.g., concert, show, or gala) featuring musicians, comedians, or other performers that is held for a charitable purpose, often directed at a specific and immediate h ...
raising funds for those affected by the Russian invasion. Their appeal included a message to singer
Ed Sheeran
Edward Christopher Sheeran ( ; born 17 February 1991) is an English singer-songwriter. Born in Halifax, West Yorkshire, and raised in Framlingham, Suffolk, he began writing songs around the age of eleven. In early 2011, Sheeran independently r ...
via
TikTok
TikTok, known in mainland China and Hong Kong as Douyin (), is a social media and Short-form content, short-form online video platform owned by Chinese Internet company ByteDance. It hosts user-submitted videos, which may range in duration f ...
. The band were refused a place at the concert due to their association with the military. In response, Sheeran collaborated with the band on a remix of his song "
2step",
with profits from streams of the music video being donated to Music Saves UA, a fundraising project created to provide humanitarian aid in Ukraine.
On February 9, 2023, Antytila released the music video for their song "Fortetsia
Bakhmut
Bakhmut is a city in eastern Ukraine. It is officially the administrative center of Bakhmut urban hromada and Bakhmut Raion in Donetsk Oblast. The city is located on the Bakhmutka River, about north of Donetsk, the administrative center ...
" (’Bakhmut fortress’) which has gathered over 26 million views on Youtube.
On May 25, 2023, the band presented the track "My Falcon" in two languages (Ukrainian and English), and the song became the soundtrack to the German-Finnish computer game ''Death from Above''.
Гурт «Антитіла» випустив саундтрек до комп'ютерної гри, де можна керувати українськими операторами дронів (відео)
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Discography
* ''Buduwudu'' (2008)
* ''Vybyrai'' (2011)
* ''Nad pollusamy'' (2013)
* ''Vse krasyvo'' (2015)
* ''Sontse'' (2016)
* ''Hello'' (2019)
* ''MLNL'' (2022)
* ''Fortetsya Bakhmut'' (2023)
References
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Ukrainian musical quartets
Musical groups established in 2007
Musical groups from Kyiv
Ukrainian military personnel of the Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ukrainian pop rock music groups