Kyiv saxophone quartet. Just before...

Is it gentle? Yes, it is. It is gentle enough to look simple. Is it interesting? To be sure! From the very fist minute of listening two wonders meet in your head. The first one is: "Is this really a saxophone?". The second one is not so concrete. It is even not a wonder at all, but a close emotion - a joyous excitement, presentiment of something light and delicate, close and warm. With every minute this quiet joy grows, as presentiment appears to be true. I've got one more idea. I do not know about you, but personally I got used long ago to consider saxophone to be in the first place a jazz instrument. Certainly, now it is used in the compositions of practically all styles and trends, but initially sax was only a jazz instrument. It seemed to be like that till now. Today I am listening to this disc feeling that there is quite a different dimension here, quite different perception of a saxophone, quite a different perception of the world, and of the sound through such sax. Sax able to make a step aside - and to combine both Bach and old folk dances in its space. Moreover, not to make any hint at night-clubs of Chicago or New-York.

Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)