Poetic Rock
Mertvy Piven', Plach Yeremiji and others.
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The first studio album by 5 Vymir is like a rough mixture of the psychedelia of the 70s and the Brit pop of the 90s, inspired by our local dreamlike lifestyle, but flavored with a green, bouncy charge of sound (and it's not about sounding) insolence. It turns out to be very atmospheric..
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..this is a marker album and thoughtful preparation for the next step at least, it sounds like that. Indie rock in Ukrainian is still not the mainstream in Ukraine, but 5 Vymir is just one of those bands that are able to change this situation for the better there is enough musical and literary sense, charismatic manifestations, and they are not lacking ambitions. Let them just not stop..
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The author project by Serhiy Sakhno the drummer of the legendary VV. "Akapulko" presents a completely new musical style, "trip-twist", as well as an incredible mix of Ukrainian melodies, dynamic hard "rock'n'pop", and the bluesy psychedelia of the 60s combined with the highly fashionable today "new sound of Berlin"...
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...a mysterious story of Stanislaus Perfecki a poet, a traveler, and a performer who embarks upon a journey from Lviv to the West, and ultimately emerges in Venice, the City of Ghosts. There, he experiences a series of incredible adventures and falls in love with Ada Cytryna, his interpretress. Being forced to part with his beloved woman and unable to fulfil his special top secret mission, Perfecki vanishes..
| Domestic price: 348.60UAH,
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A powerful work as expected. In terms of the music colorful, with interesting arrangements, careful consideration of each track. No "pass-through" pieces one can hear that. Voluminous, "visual" music it feels like you can touch it with your fingertips, taste, and inhale its aroma...
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It's nice when a musician has something to say. The value of what is said is not determined by its amount, of course, but more than 70 minutes of high-quality music that's still good. And Babkin produces quality both in his music, in lyrics.
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...this is about us. The ordinary people in the changing times, when it is both scary, and funny, and one wants to go faster, while one needs to move carefully. Because nobody but us will live through these times for u... That's how it is put in the song "Play!": "Dad taught me my dad, the last Jedi play, play on your drymba, play the song of joy..."
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Strange as it may appear, but youll find a good deal of novelties on the disc the songs that have never been released before. And personally I consider them to be just wonderful songs. Anyway, the famous works also warm the heart. This is like it often happens with cronies whose close relationship doesnt depend on circumstances. All this makes not a compilation but an album of a full value with incredibly crystal, lyrical and high spirits.
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..this music it saturated with some pristine but conscious magic. Vivienne Mort do not force themselves to release long-plays but you would never say that their releases are unfinished, incomplete. On the contrary these are really holistic, non-accidental expressions. Concise, yes but is it a vice?
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Is there any way to measure experience? Even supposing that it is the sum of answers, all the knowledge you have gained. And what if experience is measured not with the number of answers, but with the quality of questions? Vivienne Mort seems to glide on the surface of a mirror on the other side of its bottomlessness and puts dark pearls straight to your lips..
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...these musicians have always preferred travels deep inside. This time as well if one wishes, he/she can discern in the fresh songs by the group political pamphlets and just a poignant evaluation of our historical nowadays. And if one does not it is quite possible to let it go, because their symbolism is obviously deeper than the waves of our routine..
| Domestic price: 298.20UAH,
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Various synthesis is, actually, a characteristic sign of music by Vognesmih as it has two powerful grounds. One is rock sounding, strong, deep, modern. The second is the ethnic component, which is based on the pleasantly extensive palette of authentic instruments.
| Domestic price: 256.20UAH,
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The new work by VV managed to cause a lot of agitation even before the official release and that was absolutely deserved. This refers both to the song, and the video for it Oleg Skrypka and his friends are not afraid of subjecting themselves to creative experiments, that is why the video "Chio Chio San" for many became a real surprise..
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Even though "Wonderful World" seems to continue the trend of combining rock aesthetics with ethnics now it sounds different. It sounds as if the band was able to rethink and synthesize all the previous groundwork thus, when Oleh Skrypka defines this new piece as "velvet symphonic punk", that is not that much of an exaggeration..
| Domestic price: 278.60UAH,
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In fact, this album is a folder containing two debut pieces at once. The main one from the WhaTsup project, while another third of the volume is their side project "Fekaladka". Well, Kharkiv musicians like doing it differently from the rest thus, the title of the album can be viewed as banter...
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The album is really queer, its style is "for ones soul". To the question "for whose one?" we answer: a hippies one, whatever this word may mean. It is a man's dialogue with the air, when the woman has already left, but her image is still melting in the mirror. And you are in the middle of all that what other explanations do you need? There is nothing. A hangover philosophical song.
| Domestic price: 320.60UAH,
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This is simultaneously the simplest and the most complicated format there is nothing but the guitar and voice, and you either sound or you'd better not even start... "Acoustics" is the last real album by Vasyl Gontarsky, the fifth one. No others will follow. If everyone left behind so fair traces the land would shine under our feet...
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It is obvious that something extraordinary was expected from DD so that it were different from the first album but not inferior to it. The girls have met the both expectations, this is a cool art-house piece, quite far from the ordinary..
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..Dakh Daughters have taken a step forward, being able to synthesize their previous experience here the sharpness of the first album and the balance of the second one have come together, and as a result we have got a rich space of mystery and confession..
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Johnny Bardo is a solo project, a sort of an alter ego of Louis Franck, the leader of Esthetic Education. A bright, interesting project no doubt. You should listen to one or two tracks only to make sure: everything is made in a talented, delicious, high-quality way. The project found its realization after Louis' return from a trip to India..
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..this is why the album has turned out very easily presented. With the unobtrusive simplicity that knows how to avoid primitivism. Due to this, the lyrics do not get lost in the arrangements which also matters, because a lot of truly cool, and sometimes already classical poems were set to music here.
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Electronic romances, dances full of sense, transcendental lyrics of clearances between worlds, enchanted and warm immersion in evening snow... Ivan Samshit strange knights of the transparent autumn of urban stones. Sometimes it seems that the very enigma of the night before the dawn speaks to us through the voice of Petro Dain...
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..There is space both for an atmospheric ballad, and for the proprietary hard "art-bombardment", and a recitative prophecy/spell that makes you freeze in other words, listen. A worthy succinct statement.
| Domestic price: 404.60UAH,
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This is stylish music, and not only due to the nice pastiches. Everything is just done simply in the good sense, when the output sounds so easy and smiling that you never think about the previous hard work.
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This discs represents the last episode in the work by Anatoly Alexanian. It happened so that during the last days (none could know that those were the last ones), he productively cooperated with young singer and poet Anya Luchihina. They worked together on recording of an album of ten song...
| Domestic price: 152.60UAH,
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Some of these songs could be heard at Foma's performances back in 2014. Time flies, sure now there are more of them. Because the theme remains unchanged the war, which came about then, lasts as of the eve of 2018, when the album is finally released. The country is painfully transforming itself. The price is loss of illusions, inoculated so long ago and so deeply...
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On the one hand, there is a bunch of components in the musical canvas, and participation of jazz musicians, a children's choir, or a full-fledged brass section emphasize that the arrangements turn out diverse. On the other there is still the feeling as if you listen to an album sung just with the guitar. However, it is rather an advantage...
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...the album again suggests the idea that the war for independence of Ukraine that started dozens of years ago lasts till now. And now even more than ever before it is opposition of identities because external, political and geographic independence is worth nothing unless it is founded on internal freedom. To quote the song "...to be oneself and to be proud".
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Mastering of this release was performed in the USA, in the studio of the legendary sound producer Bob Ludwig, whose experience during the almost half-a-century career includes work with over 1200 musicians. This mastering was born at the height of "Dolce Vita Tour" in 2010 and as brightly as possible it conveys the integral, bright sound of the live concert performance.
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"Land" is a very grand word. But if we put it simple, then this is space for grain where grain dies in order to generate new life. The basis. What everything stands on, where it returns in order to leave again...
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This is music with its own identity. And it's not only about interesting arrangements listen to the lyrics: this is not simulation of rural folklore, this is its urban rethinking, but not limited to the city. Somewhere there, a universal key to the roots reside...
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Yanka Kozyr Orchestra not simply create music they create their own mystery of sound, live and bright. And the music matter appears here so saturated, dense, enriched that it seems that it is visible, one can touch it, one can breathe it under water...
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Here, city nervousness, sharpness surprisingly intersect with rootedness in some most ancient cultural layers. Yanka seems to not even sing, but practice witchcraft and she does not copy known standards, but just takes her skills from some primary source. Not that she revives rather, gives birth anew to some mystic passageways between the world...
| Domestic price: 390.60UAH,
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..it is absence of didacticism in the lyrics and of any mention of magic, as opposed to the skill of noticing the details that make up the everyday life but noticing in a way that the listener slightly shifts the "assembly point". The reality's magic is routine, this is what one can hear and feel here at full force.
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Audio cassette/ ..Compilation of the best songs of legendary rock group from Lviv.
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Sashko Polozhynsky, as a modest person, did not print his name on the cover of this album because he did not perform as a singer in this case (except for, it seems, only one song). But he is the author of the idea, the producer, the sole jury selecting the songs, etc.
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..In musical terms, this is clearly stemming from what Bob Dylan, Simon & Garfunkel, Donovan, and others were doing some long time ago. Stemming from but not copying, it is just that in Postman's songs there are the same ease and the content that make it possible to anticipate the extra depth, without any prejudice to the beauty.
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Postman reserves the right, being a participant of certain events, to step into the shadow behind the light boards and become an observer. A light man. The one who asks: why? at what price? what for? The one who answers: in the turmoil of trifle things, in random intersections, in uncertain movements of our hearts we remain ourselves..
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Here it is real, serious, exact. You know, about such dicks one is both eager and reluctant to speak they bend to one's soul with their curves so that words become almost superfluous. But it is also desirable to keep quiet about such things only eye-to-eye, in order to by all means share one's feeling, warmth, acceptance.
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I would not like to speak here in a lot of detail about the ability to combine the green with the hot, and the fretted with the tart these specific features have acquired even more expressive outlines from the times of the debut disc. Propala Hramota boldly creates modern folklore do not be too lazy to listen to the lyrics, this is a really important decoration of every song.
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It was planned that this disc would only be sold at concerts, but now "Freakish Power" can encounter us anywhere and anytime, and this is incredibly good. Another fragrant brick for Podillya foundation... I sincerely advise you to cast away umbrellas and the rest of protection means otherwise there is the risk of just failing to contain.
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In terms of the sound, one would call this album, quite unexpectedly, ... a collection of romantic songs. The manner of performance, the melody pattern are somewhat reminiscent of Ukrainian "vocal and instrumental ensembles" of the 1970s-80s: there was in that music a sort of sunshine, innocent, trusting openness to the world. Here the same.
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Speaking about live sounding it is impossible not to note perfectionism in the attitude of the group's musicians to their case. "Telnyuk: Sisters" play literally each of their concerts as though for the last time, as though they might have no other opportunity to change anything for the better. And what is that if not true, unfeigned respect to their audience?
| Domestic price: 320.60UAH,
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I will not thoroughly describe the recording for you because I consider it pure beauty. It will show you everything itself about tenderness, melancholy, and an insight, and the indescribable silence of words pronounced and it will condemn none. Let it be so.
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...a semi-acoustic recording that allows one to fully experience the inner poetics of the space. The guitar, percussion, bass, occasionally keyboards well, and, sure, singing (complemented with recitative). Actually, one does not need anything more at least, one does not perceive any shortage.
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This is something new, born due to deep immersion into the old perhaps, that is why the press release states: "Stoned Jesus play vintage rock in the best tradition of the '70s, inspired not only by heavy blues, early progressive and classical psychedelics, but even grunge, stoner and post-hardcore of the '90s"...
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This time "Fayno" once again offer their own lyrics and songs based on poems by such interesting and distinguished authors as Lazutkin, Lyubka, Honchar, Kiyanovska, Moskalets, etc. These interpretations are always interesting to listen to at least, because the accents sometimes sound very different...
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The first thing I noticed when I started playing the album was that I was intently listening to the lyrics. It's nice because it does not happen that often. This is important because not only the sound matters, because semantic vibrations also weigh, and emptiness is very different from pauses. Moreover, one immediately notices the quality..
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In this version of the release, all the lyrics in the book are presented translated into English. \ POETY is a strong and sound, but at the same time multi-layered project by Solomiya Chubay. It is dedicated to the 70th anniversary of her father and it is a testimony to poetry, which happened not only due to, but also despite of. And that knows how to be different. Alive.
| Domestic price: 376.60UAH,
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"Light and confession" this is aspiration for renewal of feedback between me and my Father, between present generation and the generation of 1970-s", Taras Chubaj exposes the sacral content of the album.
| Domestic price: 494.20UAH,
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..it sounds as if somewhere at a rather strange intersection of indie/alt-rock/dark cabaret, without going into any of these territories explicitly, fully. And this is how, one step away from the clear line, they are forming their own space: broken, stormy and muffled, painfully sharp and seemingly conscious of its mirages.
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The second album by YouCrane clearly shows that the band has found its own voice, and that this voice is easy distinguished from the crowd. A certain very nice mix of romance with a touch of the 1980s, latent lo-fi-aesthetics, healthy carelessness in intonations all of those create a new fairy tale atmosphere..
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