Ukrainian multi-instrumentalist musician, composer, arranger, sound producer. Soloist of the bands "Ulmo Tri" and "YouCrane".
As a session guitarist, he played with such artists as Lama, Machete, Braty Gadyukiny, Zlata Ognevich, Arsen Mirzoyan, Tabula Rasa, NeAngely. As a sound producer, he collaborated with the groups "Bez Obmezhen", "kvitkis", "Zvirobiy", Belarusian rapper Sirop, and Jewish alternative music performer Pinhas.
Childhood and youth
Born on September 6, 1986 in Kyiv. He created the first band with his classmates in the 2nd grade of high school, and in the 3rd grade he was accepted to the State Secondary School named after Stefan Turchak for guitar class.
The first group did not last long because of the passion for football, but later a second one was created.
In January 1999, in the 7th grade of the school, at the age of 12, together with classmates Oleksiy Berezhny (drums) and Roman Prokopenko (keyboards), they assembled a group, the name of which was found in the textbook - "Areal". Later, a fourth member, Vadym Poltorak (bass guitar), joined them. The first rehearsals took place in the "House of Children's Creativity" in Nivky. There, the boys met other young artists with whom they would cross paths in the future - Andrii Kohan, in the future the first vocalist of the band "Bila Vezha"; Halyna Kudrina - vocalist of the group "Saboteurs" and art director of the iconic Kyiv club "44"; and also with a composer and pianist named Paul Solonard.
The first performance took place at the New Year's party of employees of the Kyiv Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, where the drummer's mother worked at the time. 3 songs were performed: "Rock and roll is dead" and "Train on fire" by the group "Aquarium", and "Dances" by Vopli Vidopliasova.
First successes
The band "Areal" became a graduate of the festival "Chervona Ruta-2001" and a laureate of "Podykh-2003", where he met the band "Day of Protection of Children" and their guitarist Pyotr Chernyavskyi.
This acquaintance markedly influenced the future fate. Chernyavskyi's high musical level inspired the boys to play not only their own songs, but also to learn from the "covers" of such artists as The Doors, The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Depeche Mode.
Subsequently, with this program and under a different name ("Angie Nears"), the band gave many concerts in Kyiv clubs and pubs, as well as in many other cities of Ukraine, and even at a big concert in the Polish city of Radom on New Year's Eve in the central square.
Student years. Acquaintance with Vitaly Telezyny
In 2003, Kostyantyn Sheludko became a student of the "State Academy of Managers of Culture and Arts", majoring in "Sound Direction". He started experimenting with the recordings of his own band and musician friends.
In 2006, a demo recording of the song "Ungrateful" got to the program director of the "Jem FM" radio station Oleksandr Stasov, who recommended re-recording this track to Vitaly Telezin at "Studio 211".
Since the guys from the band "Areal" were fans of Okean Elsa, Druga Rika and Lama, they knew well about the Telezin studio, but they did not go there because they thought that it would be too expensive for them, students, to enroll there. However, Kostyantyn listened to Stasov's advice, found Vitaly Telezyn's phone number and email on the website lama.com.ua, wrote a letter with two songs attached, and later called.
Vitaly liked the songs and invited Kostya to a meeting at the House of Sound Recording. Telezin offered to somehow help the group with advice and business, and also introduced them to the closest associates - singer Natalya Zenkiv, her manager Andriy Podolyan and sound engineer Oleg Yashnik.
They started recording songs on "211" and also decided to change the name. This is how the "Areal" group became the "YouCrane" group.
YouCrane Group
The first performance of "YouCrane" took place in the summer of 2008 in the city of Bila Tserkva at the "Nest" festival.
Subsequently, the group will record two albums ("When we will get to know each other" in 2012 and "Again" in 2014), release several video clips, win the Grand Prix of the "Taras Bulba" festival (2013), play concerts in Ukraine and Poland.
The greatest achievement and hit of "YouCrane" is the song "When we will meet" and the iconic music video for it, directed by Andriy Podolyan and Serhiy Klepach.
Lama and Studio 211
In the fall of 2008, Konstantin was invited to become the guitarist of the Lama band, and also started working at Studio 211 as an arranger and session musician.
Cooperation with the Lama project lasted more than 10 years. Among the main events are the all-Ukrainian tour "Light and Shadow"; filming in the clips "Yellow Field", "Hold", "Hello-Hello"; tours in Poland, France, England and the USA; participation in the recording of the album "Forever" as an arranger and sound producer of several tracks (together with Vitaly Telezyny).
As a session musician and arranger at Studio 211, he collaborated with such artists as Lyapis Trubetskoi, TiK, Machete, Zlata Ognievich, Tina Karol, Dasha Suvorova, Loboda, Max Barskikh, Natalya Mogilevska, Oleksiy Savchenko, and the Russian band Pylar.
From 2013 to 2015, he was a concert session guitarist in the pop duo NeAngely.
From 2015 to 2017, he played guitar in Yaroslav Maly's projects "Tokio/Machete/Havakkuk".
YouCrane breakup and independent sailing
2015 Konstantin Stas a sound producer of three songs for the album "#DХХАЮТОБЯ" of the band "Bez Obmezhen", one of which - "Without her" - became a big hit in 2016, thanks to participation in the TV show "X-Factor".
At the end of 2016, the band "YouCrane" ceased to exist.
Drummer Oleksii Berezhny started playing with "Bez Obmezheny", and Kostyantyn Sheludko created a new project - "Ulmo Three".
Ulmo Three
From the beginning, the idea of "Ulmo Three" was to record an album playing all the instruments independently. But then "Ulmo" began to interact with other musicians and turned into a live rock band. The group plays a mixture of such styles as indie-pop, psychedelic rock, alternative, dream-pop. The date of the release of the debut album called Ulmo Tree is considered to be the birthday of the new project — March 22, 2017. And the first concert took place on April 22, 2018 — at the Kyiv Caribbean Club.
Since then, three mini-albums ("ULMOTREEEP", "Family in the rhythm", "Higher Heights"), another LP album "Songs for her", many singles, four video clips ("Everyone to the mountains! ", "A miracle will come", "My baby", "This is your summer"), two duet compositions - "Veahavta" with the Hasidic rapper Pinhas, and "Love begins" with Lama, as well as a cover of the song "Girl from Kolomyia" of the legendary band "Hadyukina Brothers".
Sound producer and session guitarist
Kostyantyn Sheludko is also a sound producer of albums and singles of the Kyiv punk group "Kvitkis"; many singles of the Belarusian-Israeli artist Pinhas; two singles by the Belarusian rapper "Sirop" - "Vse ve Mastyakh" and "Glyanets (feat. Trubetskoy)"; two singles of the young Lviv rock group "Zvirobiy".
In 2017-2022, as a session guitarist, he played concerts with artists: Zlata Ognievich, the Hadyukin Brothers, Tabula Rasa.
Discography
With the YouCrane band
When We Meet (2012)
Again (2014)
With the Lama band
Forever (2013)
From Ulmo Three
Ulmo Tree (2017) LP
ULMOTREEEP (2017) EP
Relatives in rhythm (2018) EP
Songs for Her (2019) LP
Above the Heights (2020) EP
Videography
With the YouCrane band
When We Meet (2010)
Among the Light (2010)
Others (2011)
She came quietly at ten o'clock (2011)
A Song for You (2014)
With the Lama band
Yellow Field (2009)
Hello Hello (2018)
From Ulmo Three
Everyone to the mountains! (2017)
A Miracle Will Come (2018)
My Baby (2019)
This Is Your Summer (2021)
