Dasha Veliko

Dasha Veliko is an alien beauty who has stolen amber beads and colorful dresses from her Soviet grandmother's wardrobe. She sings here and now about your forgotten dreams from there and then. All that remains in the memories from 20 years ago – the rustle of vinyl, sunny alleys, panoramas of happiness – resurfaces in today’s stuffy air. Her diamond voice slowly works on the subconscious, making memories come alive and resurrect images. She has a mielophone, made for her as a gift by the mad professor Vlad Kreimer. With him, Veliko is now working on recording a record, decorating songs with a rainbow magic. According to Kreimer himself, the founder of the project That Black and creator of the first singing robot girl Yulia, it results in an excellent cosmic soup. Veliko defines her music with the strange term diamond-listening, smiles, and pronounces the magic – we make the music of diamonds. The girl's love for frozen dewdrops and space is not accidental. Her distant ancestors are Yakuts, gatherers of gems and reindeer herders; her childhood was spent in the steppes of Kazakhstan, not far from Baikonur, where she could observe the launches of spacecraft. The singer's best friends are the Soviet analog synthesizers Polivoks and Alisa, and Veliko believes that several crystal chips are sealed in her heart. Her favorite musicians include Sofia Rotaru, Yuri Antonov, Cocteau Twins, and Pizzicato Five; her favorite pastime is long observation of the movements of glass pieces in kaleidoscopes. She has as many kaleidoscopes as vintage dresses from the Song-80 era.