Luk (band)

Luk
Luk performs in Lviv, 2009
Background information
Origin	Kharkiv, Ukraine
Genres	acid jazz, lounge, rock
Years active	1999–2011
Labels	Moon Records
Past members	Olha Gerasimova (vocal) Oleh Serdyuk (keyboards) Serhiy Belmas (bass) Velentyn Panyuta (guitar) Oleksandr Kratinov
Website	Luk

Luk (stylised as Lюk) was a Ukrainian music band from Kharkiv. The band's style joins acid jazz, lounge and rock. In their texts musicians used mostly Ukrainian, Russian and French.

Luk was formed in 1999. The name was given accidentally without special meaning (люк means manhole). After released four studio albums Luk declared its break up in 2011.

Luk collaborated with Kharkiv-based Ukrainian writer Serhiy Zhadan. Most of their Ukrainian-language songs were written in lyrics of Zhadan (in particular the first album Tourist zone is based on Zhadan's play "Merry Christmas, Jesus Christ"). Also Luk recorded a lot of songs with 5'Nizza member Andriy Zaporozhets (in particular the second album is a result of collaboration with Zaporozhets). Their third album contains two songs recorded with other 5'Nizza musician Serhiy Babkin.

Members

• Olha Gerasimova (vocal)
• Oleh Serdyuk (keyboards)
• Serhiy Belmas (bass)
• Velentyn Panyuta (guitar)
• Oleksandr Kratinov (drums)

Discography

Albums

• Tourist zone (2002)
• Lemon (2004)
• Sex (2005)
• Мамина юность (Mamina Yunost, 2009)

Compilation

• The Best of Luk (2008)

Links

• Official page (in Russian and English)