THE HOUSE ON SHEVCHENKO BOULEVARD
When you look at a collection of someone’s books and CDs and works of art, it tells you a lot about them. This was Nicholas’s first visit to Andriy’s new place, and he was staying in their second-floor mansard (attic) guest room. The music collection was quite eclectic – from Coltrane and Thelonius Monk to contemporary punk and classic rock. There was Led Zeppelin, Bob Marley, Tom Waits, Sting, Nick Cave, Dave Mathews. It included traditional and contemporary Ukrainian music, but nothing you would call “popsa” here – the pop dance music for the masses that had a shelf life for a month until everyone got tired of it being overplayed over and over and over and then some in cafés and restaurants. There were hundreds of everything in two tall CD towers in the
