Ethno-Jazz & Folk
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There happen moments in life when suddenly you understand that you are happy not some time after, not some time ago but right now, right here, just as you are happy... This album is full of exactly such happiness it exists right here and now, it quietly shines in each melody. Here, it is very cozy...
| Domestic price: 382.20UAH,
International price: $27.30USD
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They strikingly harmoniously combine clear sorrow, sadness with joy as clear. And that is why there is inside always a place left for light. Usually, children have this ability and it does not matter how old they are...
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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The recording is luxurious perhaps, one could hardy put it in other words. This is something that so far we have not had: a vocal and instrumental album of Ukrainian folk songs at the intersection of jazz, chamber and symphonic, variety art music (such as, for example, songs by Frank Sinatra or Astrud Gilberto)...
| Domestic price: 320.60UAH,
International price: $22.90USD
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Still everyone who is not indifferent to the Western musical tradition in its pro-Celtic variations. Having heard this album. I think. Will not be. Frustrated.
| Domestic price: 382.20UAH,
International price: $27.30USD
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...the content of the album in the style aspect is ambiguous but, definitely, interesting. This time to their branded ethno-chaos they have added quite a bit of very diverse elements: here you have soul, and D'n'B, and hip-hop, and art-rock, and almost jazz decorations. It appears cool.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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Victor Solomin is virtually the only jazz domra-player in Ukraine, therefore the both of his ethno-jazz projects "SolominBand" and "DomRa" have here no immediate analogues just by definition. Besides, "DomRa" can boast two key instruments at once: those are the domra and the vocal, and it is they that provide the "ethnic component" of the sounding here.
| Domestic price: 152.60UAH,
International price: $10.90USD
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"Sofia" is not something soft and sweet. Fresh improvisation music with the Slavonic flavor bright and rather poignant music, which in no way fits for serving as just a background. It requires attentive listening, and it is just pleasant to listen to it attentively, to track the line of each instrument...
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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...each of them separately does not really have almost anything too sophisticated, to say nothing about the superfluous but these transparent lines interlace so pointedly and charmingly, that an indescribably rich matter of light appears. In the case of Er.J.Orchestra, it is not only about concert improvisations the issue is discovery and creation of old-new worlds, no less.
| Domestic price: 348.60UAH,
International price: $24.90USD
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This is the third album in the official discography of Er.J.Orchestra. And I really hope that it will be not a stop, not completion of the trilogy, but one of the many pearls on the thread. Such music simply must be incarnated, sound, fill the space at least because honest beauty, dignity, authenticity live in it...
| Domestic price: 320.60UAH,
International price: $22.90USD
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"Kolomyikas" is a good album with bright pieces that are able to capture the audience as it is, even without associations with the material it derives from. In the end, there was no "weak link" in the team of the albums creators. That is, probably, the reason why, without regard to the intense structure, there is within the music fabric freedom, which makes it possible to breathe deeply.
| Domestic price: 306.60UAH,
International price: $21.90USD
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From ballads to dance, from folklore through art rock to meditation and jazz I would call this world fusion, as a lot of roots from the whole world have intertwined here. However, all the plays have their common root: the basis is creative re-consideration of music of Crimean Tatars and other Black Sea peoples.
| Domestic price: 754.60UAH,
International price: $53.90USD
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Very lively music, which almost imperceptibly but inexorably draws you into the circle of its fluctuations even if you have never paid much attention to the Brazilian music.. At the same time everything is so smooth and intelligent as it is possible when it comes to cool tunes, Latin American rhythms, and the energy of a warm holiday.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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Very transparent, juicy, quiet and confident and yet full of irrepressible life this is what this work appears like. Stylistically, it continues the trend including the albums "Black" and "Red" the pure jazz-rock line, with no direct immersions into the lounge or symphonicity. But in a much softer, tender version.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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..And there ever is love for the music no matter where musicians roam following the quest while working on new material. Yellow. Life-giving. Hot and humid. Warm. Dry and mirage-like. Joyful. Acute. Crumbling. Spicy. Soft. Diverse and alive... Listen.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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An album that's a joke, a discovery, a surprise, a challenge combining the folk music of the Carpathians with the North American folk. LBB have danced that subtly but stoutly: monologues about dialogues of cultures are not really needed when you have such illustrations at hand..
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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Marinita is, in fact, Maryna Zakharova, who was the heart of the very original project Anno Domini. So, Marinita is a certain development to the story, testing herself in a new, even more open format: with the opportunity to collaborate without any special linking to a certain composition. The debut album under the new name...
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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It seems to me that none who has at least once heard performance by Motion Trio and the more so none who has seen it will ever forget, mix it up with anybody. And the thing is not only original composition although you will hardly find among performers of jazz, art rock, folk fusion another trio what would consist exceptionally of accordions.
| Domestic price: 382.20UAH,
International price: $27.30USD
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Masterly patterns painted in the air by gentle movements of fantasy and skill are extremely tender and tempestuous at the same time. They resemble the southern heat reproduced at the transparent windowpane by frost and rime.
| Domestic price: 306.60UAH,
International price: $21.90USD
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As the title promises, the album has turned out quite strange but in a good sense. This is the strangeness that can only be afforded by good, versatile musicians otherwise, originality may easily turn into farce, showing off. This did not happen here one virtually feels with one's skin in what a thin, delicate way all of that is compiled.
| Domestic price: 222.60UAH,
International price: $15.90USD
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..the fact that a Kyivite turns to Lemkian songs is unexpected and interesting. The musicians are very caution about the authentic material, they do not shutter the songs architecture. Instead, they delicately unwrap and decorate the main lines, having arrived in their arrangements at a certain common denominator for the generally diverse plays..
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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...the disc by a completely different jazz project by Serhiy Krasheninnikov Pelican Jazz Quartet. I hope you will enjoy this music spontaneous, slightly peppery, far from finished grinding, unpredictable, as is Life itself. Indeed, Jazz is free music of free people! Free both in life, and in their self-expression...
| Domestic price: 208.60UAH,
International price: $14.90USD
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To enrich them with modern colors without destroying the subtle paths of the light joy inherent in Christmas carols and shchedrivkas which is not an easy task. Since it requires great attention and tolerance. Finally, it just requires love for this music, for the roots and love that is creative. And it seems they have succeeded.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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That's right: it is a fusion of diverse, multi-style guitar music and spicy rhythmic patterns all of that together sounds very emotional and surprisingly rich. Another proof of that in order to create interesting, live music one does not necessarily need to gather a bunch of people.
| Domestic price: 208.60UAH,
International price: $14.90USD
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The content of the new album by Smack Band completely corresponds to its name it is really light and soft. That is what one needs on a sunny day to tune in unison with it (the day). That is what one needs in the event of a period of rain so that it were lighter on the heart..
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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..the album is not free improvisation for keyboards, but a space of co-creation in the ethno-jazz spirit. Space so deep, versatile there is enough magic of rhythms, and magic of silence, not to mention the fact that Oorzhak's throat singing inevitably adds very characteristic colors.
| Domestic price: 222.60UAH,
International price: $15.90USD
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This is a collection of Christmas songs and one tends to expect that this kind of albums are unwrapped in an unhurried way, have a kind of enlightened, relaxed moods, or even the "pink syrup". Here the musicians did it differently. From the first seconds, the percussion unequivocally hints: that will be music with a joyful drive, and so it proves later...
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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It is great pleasure to listen to music that has let in, changed, satiated and breathed out so many bright impressions, lives, root... When music is wide open everybody can drink from it, see one's face in it, find in its one's real.
| Domestic price: 306.60UAH,
International price: $21.90USD
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ShockolaD again combines Ukrainian folklore with improvisational music, and the ethnic component, as well as before, is strong and expressive but this time the group represents fusion that literally borders on world music. In other words, in our view, this is soft music understandable for a very wide public which, nevertheless, remains pleasantly intelligent, delicate.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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..the circle is closed for them to reach something new: from the initial composition, only Anastasia Litvinyuk and Ihor Hnydyn have stayed, the rest of the lines are within responsibility of our Polish brethren led by Ewa Novel. And somehow quite expectedly the band's music has regained its distinct ethno-jazz colors, stepping aside from the previous lounge rails.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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ShockolaD again combines Ukrainian folklore with improvisational music, and the ethnic component, as well as before, is strong and expressive but this time the group represents fusion that literally borders on world music. In other words, in our view, this is soft music understandable for a very wide public which, nevertheless, remains pleasantly intelligent, delicate.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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Is the studio version different from the concert one? No doubt. Without disclosing all secrets, it is enough to say that it remains up to date to go beyond one language and one culture. In my opinion, the album represents the Ukrainian music, but the music which is done by the new generation. It is the product of the new world. The entire world.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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Music contents of this release do not differ from the premium edition (apart from a hidden surprise track). Differences relate only to the external design besides, there is no booklet with the lyrics here. Hence the lower price of this edition compared to the premium one.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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