Ptakha — the Netherlands based Ukrainian electro folk artists.

Kateryna Sikoza earlier known as Kate Orange is singer, songwriter and producer of the Ptakha project.

Kate Orange began her work in Ukraine in 2006 as singer, MC and DJ and was a first commercial female DJ in Ukraine.
In 2009 Kateryna moves to the Netherlands where works as DJ for 3 more years.

In 2016 in Dutch citizens had the referendum about association of Ukraine with the treaty agreement with European Union. Kate Orange took a part of the promotional campaign which was aiming to form a good image of Ukraine.

Until that time still people in the Netherlands we’re telling something like: “Where are you from, from Ukraine, ahh this is part of Russia”.
It’s was an aim to change that opinion, to show that this is a separate country with its huge and rich history, creative people and true golden cultural heritage.

Kateryna did her own promo campaign, and recorded 5 songs one of it was a folk lullaby “Oi khodyt son”, and that you can count as first step on the way to Ptakha. Other songs such “VESNA”, “Sand” were translated also to Dutch so people in the Netherlands could understand what is this about.

In 2017 Kate released her single “Out” and a whole album of English speaking songs and experimented a lot with the sound trying to mix electronic and rock guitars.

With these music Kateryna have planned an European tour and… Cancelled as far as she found out that she is expecting a first very much awaiting child.

Today she is back on stage inspired to show up with all the ideas of showing Ukrainian music.

“I was always mesmerised by Ukrainian folk music, but many years was postponing to work with it saying to myself excuses such as: who needs this, who will listen to it in Europe. But this year I decided enough is enough and I started to release song by song everything what’s was written for many years”.

Release taken from official site:
www.ptakha.nl