Oleksandr Bulich (born 21 March 1989), known by his stage name Sasha Boole, is a Ukrainian country and folk musician, singer and songwriter based in
Chernivtsi
Chernivtsi ( uk, Чернівці́}, ; ro, Cernăuți, ; see also #Names, other names) is a city in the historical region of Bukovina, which is now divided along the Romania–Ukraine border, borders of Romania and Ukraine, including this ...
, Ukraine.
Early years
Bulich was born in Zhytomyr but raised in Chernivtsi. While studying in
Chernivtsi University
Chernivtsi National University (full name Yuriy Fedkovych Chernivtsi National University, uk, Чернівецький національний університет імені Юрія Федьковича) is a public university in the City o ...
he learned to play guitar and started to write music and songs.
When thinking of his alias at one moment porn actress
Sasha Grey
Marina Ann Hantzis (born March 14, 1988), known professionally as Sasha Grey, is an American actress, model, writer, musician, and former pornographic actress. Grey began her acting career in the pornographic film industry, winning 15 awards for ...
came up to his mind and then English scientist
George Boole
George Boole (; 2 November 1815 – 8 December 1864) was a largely self-taught English mathematician, philosopher, and logician, most of whose short career was spent as the first professor of mathematics at Queen's College, Cork in ...
showed up. So he decided to call himself Sasha Boole as a compiled name of both persons.
He searched his style from new stuff to old one. Learning The White Stripes he dug deeper and found out The Rolling Stones, then deeper again and he saw The Beatles; he was digging unless he found the music from Mississippi.
Career
In 2013 he wrote several songs and recorded his first album ''Vol.1''. It contained 11 tracks, most of them in the Ukrainian language. At the moment when the album was released Sasha Boole didn't know what sound he needed. Although his uncertainty ''Vol.1'' was accepted really good, so it allowed him to make himself known at Ukrainian folk stage.
In support of this album he started touring Ukraine, Belarus and Moldova. At that time
Euromaidan
Euromaidan (; uk, Євромайдан, translit=Yevromaidan, lit=Euro Square, ), or the Maidan Uprising, was a wave of Political demonstration, demonstrations and civil unrest in Ukraine, which began on 21 November 2013 with large protes ...
happened and under its influence, Bulich wrote a new album ''Survival Folk'' — much more adult than the previous one.
While recording it he used just a guitar, harmonica and violin.
In 2016 he appeared as the soundtracks author for the movie
Dustards.
In April 2017 he took part in his own marathon performing at 24 gigs per 24 hours.
On May 23, 2017 his third album ''Golden Tooth'' was released.
In October 2021, Boole released a post-apocalyptic novel titled ''Ivy''. Boole cites American author
Cormac McCarthy
Cormac McCarthy (born Charles Joseph McCarthy Jr., July 20, 1933) is an American writer who has written twelve novels, two plays, five screenplays and three short stories, spanning the Western fiction, Western and Apocalyptic and post-apocalypt ...
as an influence.
Discography
Albums
* ''Vol. 1'' — 2013
* ''Survival Folk'' — 2014
* ''Golden Tooth —'' 2017
Singles
* Golden Tooth — 2017
Videos
* Would You Give Me A Hand (directed by Stas Puzdriak) — 2013
* Дорога (The Road, directed by Stat Hurenko) — 2014
References
External links
*
Sasha Boole на bandcampVKFacebook
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1989 births
Living people
Musicians from Zhytomyr
Ukrainian folk singers
Country singer-songwriters
21st-century Ukrainian male singers