Nazva

1. Year of foundation – 2019
2. Language – Ukrainian, English
3. Genre – alternative ethno-art chaos

Lineup:

1. Pavlo Gots (vocals, double bass, keyboard, flortom);
2. Yaroslav Yarovenko (viola, vocals).

NAZVA is a group of musicians Pavlo Gots and Yaroslav Yarovenko, who position themselves as a Galician-Donbass music group. Pavlo is from Lviv, Yaroslav is from the city of Horlivka, in the Donetsk region. The project began its history in 2019, when artist Andriy Sagan asked Pavlo Gots to create a musical accompaniment for paintings for an upcoming exhibition.

At that time, the group did not yet exist in full-fledged composition. However, Pavlo had already decided on its name, guided by his interest in physics. The musician believed that science is a kind of new magic and religion that explores what goes beyond the limits of human imagination and has no established definitions. That is why it occurred to him that the best name for the project would be the word NAZVA itself. And who will form what image in their imagination is a purely individual matter.

Yaroslav Yarovenko joined the project in 2019. Pavlo Gots invited the musician, because he knew him from his collaboration in the band Joryj Kloc. At that time, Pavlo also held the position of director of the Lviv private House of Culture Nazva.

Creative Path

In 2021, the duo presented their first single "Drimota" on streaming platforms. However, the band's debut on stage did not take place. After all, the composition was created specifically for the show of designer Maria Starchak. And during the band's live shows, the track does not sound. In the same year, the musicians performed at the "Vorgola" and "Yi" festivals. And in August, they took part in the Respublica Showcase-2021 young performers' competition, which was held as part of the Respublica festival. The owners of bright charisma and extraordinary talent took third place.

On December 1, 2022, the band continued to conquer the audience and win new fans by releasing their debut album NAZVA. The record consisted of nine songs. The song "Sigele-migele" was especially successful among the tracks of the release. The basis of the composition was the poem "Kolyad, kolyad, kolyadnytsa". And the rhythmic part of the double bass reproduced the interpreted motif from the track Candy Shop by rapper 50 Cent. Having become a hit, the work topped the Ukrainian Shazam chart in a month. The song collected over four million views on YouTube and brought the group wider popularity and recognition. A video clip was shot for the composition, directed by Oleksandr Khomenko. The video featured members of the Tember Blanche group, keyboardist from O.Torvald Mykola Raida, and others.

The band's style and development

Success in the music industry pushed NAZVA to organize solo concerts. In June 2023, the first major solo concert took place in Kyiv. And in July, the group's work visited Lviv. The musicians began to appear at local events in Ukrainian cities. In 2023, the band also released the mini-album "The Ivasyuk Phenomenon", in which they presented their own interpretations of three songs by the legendary composer. Fans of the brilliant Ukrainian artist heard unique arrangements of the songs “Beauty”, “Hat” and “Waterfall”. The compositions became part of the soundtrack to Vitaliy Hordienko’s documentary film “The Phenomenon of Ivasyuk”. The release was released on the POMITNI label.

In August 2023, NAZVA presented the song “NA DNO”, created in collaboration with singer Maryna Krut. More than 20 artists were involved in recording the next album called “GURMA”. Among the artists and groups that participated in the release were Gordiy Starukh, Andriy Barmaly, Tember Blanche, Yulia Yurina, Renie Cares, Artist Chuprynenko. In the same year, NAZVA reached the final of the National Selection for the Eurovision Song Contest. The duo took 11th place according to the voting results.

The band's studio albums:

1. TITLE;
2. «GURMA»;
3. «Parostok».

Awards and distinctions

NAZVA's creative path was distinguished by the following nominations:

1. MUZVAR AWARDS ("Best New Names in Alternative Music");
2. MEGOGO MUSIC AWARDS ("Ethnofolk Artist of the Year"; "Collab of the Year");
3. Zolota Zorya LIRUM ("Best Video" and "Best Band");
4. Jager Music Awards ("Collab of the Year", win; nomination in "Mastery: Modern Songs").

Interesting facts about the band:

1. the band members call their work musical art;
2. Nazva's unique sound is formed by double bass, viola, keyboards, violin, floor tom and recorder. The songs are built on a combination of poetry, quotes from classic works with musical traditions and rhythms of different peoples of the world. That is why the duo defines their own style as "alternative ethno-art chaos";
3. just a month after the publication of the video of the musicians performing the track "Sigele-migele" together with children, the song became a Christmas trend. More than 1 million users watched the work on YouTube. And about 50 thousand videos were shot on TikTok during the same period.