Atmasfera

来自乌克兰基辅的融合民谣团Atmafera，成立于1993年。他们非常擅长创造气氛与听众的理解，这些似乎无所不能的音乐天才们，独自演奏五花八门的乐器，并用它们制作出优美而富有民族气息的音乐。在他们的音乐里，充满着欢乐的气息和明媚的阳光，温暖而忧伤，美丽而神秘。
Atmasfera is a Ukrainian band. The history of the band started not in Lviv, where most of the musicians come from, but in the southern town of Simeiz in 2003. In two years Atmasfera moved to Kiev, where Sasha Honcharuk and Andriy Cherkasov joined them and also a new drummer, Timur Gogitidze, plays with them for the last two years.
Name of band AtmaSfera or AtmaSphere is made of two parts: Atma and sphere. In sanskrit, Atma means soul (eternal spiritual atom). This world is taken from sanskrit not by accident, because band plays and sings many traditional songs of gaudiya-vaisnavism tradition, which use sanskrit as language to address Supreme God, Krishna (Caitanya). First songs were of group were mostly in ukrainian, but later became closer to tradition, though some song are also in English or in few languages. This is to be understood thus that Atmasfera wants that her songs to be understood to youth who are just on path of seeking themselves as eternal souls (atmas), and trying to identify themselves with their indoeuropean roots - both in language and spiritually. So atmasfera thus is a nice fusion, though its fans number are not some many, but they have their permanent number.
We can also remember here George Harrison of Beatles: he also played some specific songs like "My sweet Lord" with Hare Krishna and Alleluyah, and that was popular worldwide. We can expect that Atmasfera would also become a popular group because it is based on eternal values. George Harrison tried to mix, sometimes, both Christianity and Gaudiya-Vaisnavism, though, Atmasfera is known to be related with Siddhasvarupananda Paramahamsa, who is disciple of A.C.Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada inspired George Harrison for his future more or less spiritual career, do Atmasfera is inspired by Identity institute of Siddhasvarupananda. Though, just because specific feature of gaudiya-vaisnavism or vedic culture in general is to be in harmony with environment and other religions, we see that Atmasfera just like Harrison try to solve problems of Western world which is Christianity. Gaudiya-Vaisnavism do not reject Jesus Christ, and consider Him a shaktyavesha-avatara (here also goes Mohammad, and Buddha), however Krishna-Caitanya is a source of all avataras. So Atmasfera (just like George Harrison) slowly rises one from materialism to Chrisitanity and then to Krishna consciousness.