Career
He began his artistic path at the Lviv Polytechnic with sound and the bass guitar experiments. Permanent searches led him to the popular Lviv jazz band Melodrome. The musician founded the art-rock Catharsis.
After playing with the guitarist Ludwig Konopko for one and a half-year the formation Tea Fan Club was born.
lieutenant existed from 1989 to 1993. After its end Oleg created the project Ulysses, began to play the bass guitar in a band called Glass Bead Game and joined the Dead Rooster (1992), where he stays until now.
In 1995–1996 he organized the literary and musical jazz formation Lights of Big Cities with the writer Yuri Pokalchuk and the musician Yurko Duda. In 2003 within its own project. but time, as the river.
Oleh drew attention to the team with a specific philosophy – Black September, found a common music language and affined music tastes, he began to work with lieutenant
The group received a second birth and a second name: Gorgisheli. 1995 – Project " Instruction Section". Trying to capture that period of the time in Lviv music (90"s) Oleg enlisted about 50 artists.
All music was written by John on the lyrics of the poets Bohdan Lepky, Bohdan-Ihor Antonych, Vasyl Pachovsky, Oleksandr Oles. In the audio album recording were involved the musicians and the bands who had been already well-known at that time: Plach Yeremiyi and Taras Chubay, Mertvyi Piven, Tea Fan Club, 999, the guys from The Hadyukiny Brothers.
Debutants Okean Elzy, Lesya Herasymchuk and Royal rabbits, Pikkardiyska Tertsiya, Monuments of Architecture, and Ruslana.
2003 –.. but the time as a river. The continuation of the " Instruction Section" project Authors who were involved: Yuri Pokalchuk, Ihor Rymaruk, Kostya Moskalets.
Some musical newcomers in 1995 (Okean Elzy, Pikkardiyska Tertsiya, Ruslana) are the real stars of the Ukrainian show-biz now.
Other involved newcomers (Godo, Black September, Yurko Lavrin, Svitlana Kyrylchuk) brought new life to the old compositions and performed new songs.