Stepan was the accordionist with The Ukrainians, a band I particular admire for their take on various Smiths songs (see EP below). As you'll see and hear, he's a guitarist too.
Ridna Maty Moya is a glorious song though, and beautifully played. As Stepan says in his notes:
Imagine a lonely mother in a remote Ukrainian village listening to this song on a crackly old bit of vinyl on her old Soviet era gramophone player as the last child to leave home sings along to it in a far away land.
It's amazingly easy to do, even if (in this particular video clip) Stepan bears a slightly unnerving resemblance to the Godfather's Luca Brasi.
