Eney
| Eney Еней | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
| Genres | Rock |
| Years active | 1960's – 1977 |
| Past members |
Kyrylo Stetsenko Taras Petrynenko Ihor Shablovsky |
Eney (Ukrainian: Еней) was the Ukrainian rock band that performed its own repertoire. It was named after the famous character, Aeneas, from one of the literal work of Ivan Kotlyarevsky.
History
It was formed in 1960's, but in the late 1972 was banned and recognized as bourgois-national. The group was formed out some student from the Kievan special music school named after Mykola Lysenko. It started with very unique transformation of the Ukrainian folk songs, then, after member got excited by the late works of The Beatles, they started to rearrange works of Bach and Khachaturian. In 1971 the band split as Petrynenko and Blinov left it to form the new group Dzvony. The band started to experiment in a new genres: blues and soul. In 1972 it was banned in the Soviet Union and recognized as bourgois-national. All its previous records were destroyed. After that the band went under ground until 1974. In 1974 it merged with Dzvony into the new vocal-instrumental ensamble Decorative Trails. After the group was accepted to the Ukr-kontsert it changed its name to Hrono. In 1977 it was renamed back into Eney, then split for sure. Later its members went apart into different other bands or established their own. Petrynenko later created his own group Hrono.