Esthetic Education is a

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band based in

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, Ukraine. Its present members are Louis Franck (vocals), Dmytro Shurov (keyboards), Yuriy Khustochka (bass), Illya Halushko (guitars), and Andriy Nadolsky (drums). It was formed in 2004 after Shurov and Khustochka left the successful Ukrainian band

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History

In December 2004, a young band released the debut album 'Face Reading', Ukrainian Records. Esthetic Education played at the Bars en Trans Festival in the La Scene club in

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. They also played at the Dublin Castle and the Spitz in

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. The Spitz chose the song “Horrible Disaster” for inclusion in their limited edition CD ''Spitz Live 2''. The band was extremely active in 2005–2006; they shot three video clips and released a

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on the Ukrainian record label Lavina Records. During 2005 and a half of 2006, Esthetic Education played in front of more than 170,000 people. They opened for Moby in the

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(the hall where the

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was held) and had bottles, lighters and other objects hurled at them while playing at the Mega House Festival in

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. They played an epic concert at

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in Yugoslavia, toured Ukraine's largest cities and played in Moscow's best clubs and festivals. They also did a series of intimate acoustic concerts in small exclusive Moscow and Ukrainian venues. In 2006 they released a live album ''Live at Ring'', which featured songs both from ''Face Reading'' and ''Werewolf'', which at the time, was their upcoming album. On Russia's biggest label,

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, the band is featured with “Stereolab”, “Be Your Own Pet”, “The Young Gods”, “I Am Kloot”, and “Natasha Atlas”. Their video clip “Leave us Alone” was featured on

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Russia and their song “Machine” was number one on the hit parade of Ukraine's leading music channel M1, and number 2 on Radio Maximum, Russia's most popular radio station. They have been voted Ukraine's best new band and discovery of the year by several magazines. Esthetic Education has been invited on numerous TV and radio shows. Highlights include live shooting for Russia's third national channel TVC in Studio 5 at

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studios, a New Year's TV show for Ukraine's national television channel

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(complete with fireworks, flames, and confetti), a live performance for

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(the equivalent of the United Kingdom's

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) during the morning news program, and Prosto Radio's “Golden Best” program, Radio Maximum. Photos of Esthetic Education have appeared in ''

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'', ''

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'', ''

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'', ''Ego'', ''Max'', ''Afisha'' (cover shot), ''Moloko'' (cover shot), ''Time Out'', ''Shtushka'', ''Pink'', ''TV Week'', and others. In 2007 the band released ''

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''. They have opened their own production company in Kyiv, Esthetic Music.

Discography

Studio albums

* ''Face Reading'' (2004) * ''Werewolf'' (2007)

Singles

* "Leave Us Alone / Machine" (2005) * "Happy New Year" (2005) * "Vasil Vasiltsiv" (2006)

Live albums

* ''Live at Ring'' (2006)

External links

Official Web-site

Official Esthetic Education Myspace
{{Authority control Ukrainian rock music groups Musical groups established in 2004