Today, on July 1, USA group Contra from Cleveland, Ohio has released debut album at the Ukrainian internet label Robustfellow Production. Music resource Neformat.com.ua has reported about it in the preview article about group’s first album.

It’s noted that it’s a first case in the modern Ukrainian music, when music band from USA is published by Ukrainians, as it usually happens on the contrary.

‘Not only a name of Contra is notable to our listener, feferring to a series of games on the eight-bit, a group from Cleveland, Ohio, is released in 2017 on the Ukrainian label Robustfellow. And you begin to think – what is the reason to proud of – for Americans to be issued at original, authentic and unusual for our latitudes label or for Ukrainians to issue American stoner?’, a native of Lugansk, music journalist Alexander Poison Nechay writes. He became one of the authors of an article about US musical debut in the Ukrainian space.

Contra plays stoner, which is very popular all around the world not only among youth, as well as people of different age.

Otherwise, it’s known that Ukrainian girl Lena Ushakova became the creator and author for clip on the band’s song ‘The Gorgon’. She made animation to video alike 8-bit game on the old console.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p0h7KyY9tvU

Also, the label’s owner Filipp Dobrov told that Contra’s album ‘Deny Everything’ was released on the physical media – CDs and cassettes. Ukrainian label added merch to every bought sample. It packed into the yellow game cartridges for 8-bit consoles.

Label is going to wide its geography in future all around the world to issue music collectives, Filipp Dobrov tells. It’s a regular great start for Ukraine in cultural way.