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Roman Habal. A moonlight night.

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Roman Habal. A moonlight night.
Here it is written in blue and yellow that he, Roman Habal, is a highly skilled musician-saxophonist, a composer by vocation (otherwise he would not be able to improvise properly on the well-known themes like these ones), a lecturer at Lviv State musical college named after S. Lyudkevych – the department of "Musical Art of Variety Art" - and, at last, the chief conductor of Lviv State Circus. Not bad, isn’t it? So, you do understand what is recorded at this disc. Actually, we would not call it definitely jazz – all in all, at this disc we are most likely having a variety show option – but still there is certain part of jazz here. Because, as I have already mentioned, these are instrumental (without vocal singing) improvisations on general themes, that is, on folk songs, as well as on the songs equated with folk songs. And it is understandable quite well that the main musical instrument recorded in this album is a saxophone. It sounds quite well. In addition, such experiments are not widespread in Ukrainian variety art yet.

Year: 2005

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CD1
1.  Oj, chyj to kin' stojit'?
2. Mp3Kari ochi, chorni brovy
3.  Syl'nyj viter
4. Mp3Oj, tam pid dubom
5.  Stojit' divcha
6.  Zahraj my, cyhane
7.  Odna hora vysokaja
8. Mp3Nich jaka misjachna
9.  Letiv ptashok
10.  Rozpustyly kucheri divchata
11. Mp3Hopak
12.  Jak by ja mala kryla orlyci
13.  Kusch kalyny
14.  Sumna ja bula
15.  Chom, ty ne pryjshov?
 Total playing time: 64:14

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Reviews (5)

  , Київ
17-11-2007 14:29

Приємно вражений!!! Гарна музика для душі.


  , Tokyo, Japan
03-11-2007 08:44

Романа Хабаля я знаю особисто. Він був моїм вчителем оркестру та диригування. Диригувати вчив мало, але зате я награвся всі 4 роки у Львівському музмучилищі. :)

Він — дуже хороший диригент й постановник джазових композицій. Як музикант — альбом показує його рівень на всі 100 відсотків. Особисто я хоч й вчився у джазменів, архаїчним джазом я не займаюсь, й мабуть ніколи не буду. Але часом згадати ті совєцькі роки у далекому Львові дуже приємно. :-)


  , Kyiv
27-07-2007 19:37

Згідний з відгуком пана Вишенського, музикант радше відпочиває, аніж старається вразити. Це гра пенсіонера, а не віртуоза. Поки почуєш власне соло на інструменті, нудить від елекронних тошнотиків.
Жива музика - це не комп"ютер + фанера...Дякую.


  , Вишенський, Україна
20-10-2006 17:34

Я замовив диск, спираючись на враження від прослуховування фрагментів. Але фрагменти дуже короткі, тому я дофантазовував продовження музичних композицій і мої очікування боли плодом цих фантазій.

На жаль, мої очікування не справдилися. Стиль виконання схожий скоріше на ресторанний ніж на високий стиль.

Тому пропоную вам в майбутньому прийняти за правило викладати для прослуховування ВСІ композиції альбому і кожна композиція має бути повністю.

Нехай це буде дуже низький бітрейт, щоб не було "шари", але хочеться не купувати "кота в мішку".

Поки ця пропозиція не набере сили я більше нічого замовляти не буду.


  , Mississauga,Ontario, Canada
31-01-2006 01:34

I'm learning at my age how to play saxophone so this CD is kind of special
to me.I hope that one day i can play at least one song as well as Roman can.
He is a great SAX player.GREAT CD.