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Zapaska. Pomalu. /eco-pack/.

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Zapaska. Pomalu. /eco-pack/.
"Sparklers in the eyes" – that's a line from the title song, "Pomalu", and this is the feeling that one listens through the entire album with. A quiet celebration of fragile landscapes, muted colors, and clear verbal sketches – this seeming simplicity borders on the finest intimacy, while remaining impermeable enough. But sometimes the shell cracks, and then the breaks start – shining.. Lo-fi, post-rock, psychedelia, neo-folk – these scar patches slowly slide off the skin and dissolve somewhere, in the vague light of lanterns of the unconscious. The album.. imagine a solar eclipse – full. And that's the moment when you see the abyss of the dark circle, the solar corona, and here, around, the world acquires some bizarre lighting, and the sense of reality grows surprisingly uncertain – that is the moment that "Pomalu"'s sound is about. Powerful without anguish, self-sufficient, convincing in its enchanted slowness. Fair.

Anton Yozhyk Leyba (Hedgehog)

I should probably mention that according to the British newspaper Overblown, for example, the Pomalu album was named the best in 2016 across the entire post-Soviet space.

Publisher: Slnko records
Catalogue number: sz 0082 2 331
Year: 2016

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Zapaska

Domestic price: 390.60UAH
International price: $27.90USD
CD1
1. Mp3Pomalu
2.  Harno
3. Mp3Vikna vidchynyty
4. Mp3Lety
5.  Zapytajsia
6.  Shkolyarska
7. Mp3Aliona
8. Mp3Chuhajstra
9.  Svarka
10. Mp3Generosity
 Total playing time: 43:22

Fragments of the compositions marked with Mp3 mark are available for listening. How to listen?

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  Àíäðåé Ïîëÿíñêèé , Îäåññà, Óêðàèíà
24-02-2017 14:29

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