Sonic Youth posted their concert recorded in 1989 Kyiv. Money raised will be spent on Ukraine

An American rock-band Sonic Youth has released a new concert album, recorded during their performance in Kyiv on April 14, 1989. The album is available at Bandcamp for $10, all proceeds will benefit World Central Kitchen, a charity providing food for Ukrainian refugees.

The performance took place in Kyiv House of Culture. There are nine tracks on the record, mostly from the Daydream Nation (1988). This concert has influenced many local musicians who happened to visit it then. Vopli Vidopliassova band was opening for the Americans, it was a full house concert.

“We were already familiar with Nick Cave, Einstürzende Neubauten, Sex Pistols and Discharge, but Sonic Youth was a breath of fresh air we craved for. It was at this show that I was set on going to New York,” recalls Eugene Hütz, a Gogol Bordello band initiator, who got a free ticket to the concert.

Sonic Youth is an American band formed in 1981 in New York. Its four constant members were Thurston Moore (vocals, guitar), Lee Ranaldo (vocals, guitar), Kim Gordon (vocals, bass, guitar) and Steve Shelley (drums). They disbanded in 2011. In 2013 a photo of the Sonic Youth concert in Kyiv was published on the band’s Facebook page.