In their third album the band Haydamaky stay faithful towards themselves and Ukraine – it’s not the first time when guys struck even most exquisite listeners. Unexpected, risky, explicit, patriotic and what is most important REAL. One can read each soul of each musician from A to Z while listening to this album. It’s dangerous for the musicians, but it’s the way they are – “true warriors of light”.

Year and a half passed since the release of the previous album "Boguslav". There were certain changes in band’s line-up. Ruslan Trochinsky (trombone) and dub-master Vlad Grymalsky left the band. But instead the new-comers are ex. ZDOB SI ZDUB trumpet player Evgeniy Didyk (really famous person in jazz circles) and percussionist Sergey Bravarnyuk.  

You can literally physically feel the music groove. You almost see like accordion player touches the keys in ballad “Pid oblachkom (Under the cloud)”, you can distinctively hear the machine guns of Ukrainian rebel army in march-like “Sumnyj Svyatyj Vecher (Sad Holy Night)”. It appears that philosophy speculations like "Nemae Khliba – spivay (Got no Bread - Sing)" go perfectly well along with energy ska beats. “Bozhestvena Trompita” seems almost perfect, when “heart sinks” and trumpet and “sopilka” talk to each other. By the way, this composition is the most unexpected on this album because in the middle of it the musicians managed to put the real jazz-rock part – something like early Carlos Santana records. Very smart and suitable trick. We can feel that line-up change has taken its toll.

Generally the album title “Perverziya” appeared not accidentally. It’s some kind of gratitude to the contemporary classic of Ukrainian literature Yuriy Andrukhovich. The virtual “romance” with this writer has been going for couple of years. Andrukhovich pleases himself with singing Haydamaky’s songs in Berlin, musicians absorbed with reading his books during numerous trips across Poland, Estonia, Slovakia, Germany, Czech and of course motherland. The core composition of the CD “Kokhannya (Love)” is the dedication to Ada Cetrina (one of the characters of Andrukhovich’s novel).

To define the Haydamaky style is quite a hard thing to do. They are compared with either Bregovic or Kusturica, or even ZDOB SI ZDUB. But they definitely have their OWN style, which were smartly defined by German promoters as “karpaten ska”. Now we can clearly see that band’s music dissolved in wave of various styles and that it is actually why it’s so hard to put any labels on this music and it’s probably better just to listen to this album. Folk, ska, hard rock and punk shades – it’s all there and being transformed and mixed together by Haydamaky, as the result – we have really distinctive and modern and high quality Ukrainian product. As musicians say in one of their songs:

"Our message is simple: live and don’t fucking show off, eat and don’t make stains, love your brothers and sisters like you love yourself, and more – love God.