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We are living in the old world, and it is clear. And there can be no new word from someone who is looking exactly for it. But someone looking for his or her own self can still say something interesting. Honestly, without bells and whistles, without pretence. That's why it seems to me that the new album from Irena Karpa and Qarpa Band is the music of the world which does not exist. It does not exist outside big cities, the Web, the utter interpenetration of cultures, and dilution of borders. This is the voice woven out of thousand voices – tough, indifferent, defenseless and warm, flexible, dark and transparent. Common. And, at the same time, lonely. Exactly to the point when you get frightened, if you do not look into your own eyes. Or cozy – as real synthesis, probably, happens if none of the components loses their selfness. As Brodskyi once put it, the God keeps all. The homogenous mass without lumps is not what's intended. The world is tasty only when it shines with its every molecule... And it is this respect and attention to every line in a rather complicated pattern which, in my view, is determining for "& I made a Man". I may be wrong. But it does not matter any more. Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)
Publisher: Lavina Music
Catalogue number: LM CD-589
Year: 2011
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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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Given the impression that it is able to produce – it is even a pity that out of the three albums by the group, only this – "Poisoned Dreams" – has been released on physical media. Powerful stuff – and not only due to the style. Although, sure, high-quality performance of heavy music – it is always interesting. But here it is also about the contrast...
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..there are increasingly more "problem-free" songs. Perhaps, it is just a way of self-defense – but "Postsense" protects itself otherwise. This group – attacks. Does not turn away, does not invent politically correct formula. They call unpleasant things their proper names – so, their album is not for those seeking for alienated comfort.
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Alternative music? – yes, this is it. Sympho-rock – yes, moreover, already now the group feels very confident in this sense, works at a large scale. Gothic? – yes, this is exactly the word that is the first to occur, if one speaks about the atmosphere as a whole, and about some texts in particular. Melodious heavy metal? – this, obviously, was the basis from which what we hear now grows.
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It is difficult to say where from in this fragile girl there is such an enormous amount of kinetic energy – we have nothing but to observe with sincere fascination how the dissected waves fall on the both sides of the selected course... And the course is such that in the last three albums – including this, new one – surprised ears of the audience hear more and more banter, quite hard and psychotropic electronic alternative.
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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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lately it is well-aimed – a distracting blow on mind, a sort of that it is a logical riddle – but actually all this is directed at the emotional body, and in order to understand and get penetrated with it – it is not necessary to understand. the other way round, you should not understand – and then everything becomes clear. in a nutshell – zen. somewhat technogenic entourage...
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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...
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Sometimes – and you never know the next step this group will make - it is a real alternative. You see, an alternative simply means an open possibility of choice, an unlimited amount of possibilities.
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70 tracks in mp3 format and 5 videos.
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I would call this music hard blues – but do not get surprised when you hear in it surprisingly transparent trip-hop mood. It would seem that these both styles could hardly be called optimistic. Conditional minus. But, as it happens from time to time, minus to minus has given us an unexpected, but so warm, intimate plu...
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, Кременчук, Украіна
02-05-2017 22:20 |
Сподобався альбом. Дещо незвичний, і цікавий. Рекомендую.
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, Wädenswil, Seenregion
25-11-2011 13:49 |
Qarpa's new CD is nice enough, but a not a huge development in style. The previous album was more unified, made more of an impact. But this one will probably grow after a few times listening, there are some nice enough hook lines for that.
By the way, I cannot understand, or link to the album, "Hedgehog's" description. It's rock'n'roll dude! Don't analyse it too hard.
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, Алчевськ, Україна
01-11-2011 16:09 |
Дуже суперовий альбом! Нарешті Ірена і друзі подарували нам нову порцію щастя) Альбом цікавий, різноплановий, тому кожен знайде на цій платівці щось собі до смаку! Рекомендую усім сучасно мислячим прогресивним натурам! За автограф окрема дяка Ірені та сайту Умка!
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21-10-2011 22:08 |
"The scandals-associated performer, writer Irena Karpa and her QARPA band return to the stage. And they not just offer a come back of the "old stuff about the main things" but present a new, long awaited, nothing to compare album "& I Made a Man". The band, famous for its radical experiments, this time have surpassed themselves. The style of the new disc is diverse. The 16 explosive compositions made at a high quality international level promise to become real hits. On the CD, one can be hear both the key post-trip-hop and rock, light jazz, pop, French chanson, rap, power ballads and more. And, despite such a variety of styles, the multi-language disc is – one whole.
The album "& I Made a Man" is the second one for QARPA and the seventh – for Irena Karpa. The first 5 albums were released by Irena in composition of the "Fucktychno Sami" group, where she also performed as a soloist." information from the official press release
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21-10-2011 15:40 |
"Скандально відома виконавиця, письменниця Ірена Карпа та її QARPA band повертаються на сцену. І не просто роблять кам-бек "старого про головне", а презентують новий, довгоочікуваний, ні на що не схожий альбом "And I Made a Man". Гурт, відомий своїми радикальними експериментами, цього разу перевершив сам себе. Стилістика нової платівки вийшла різноплановою. 16 вибухових композицій, зроблених на якісному світовому рівні, обіцяють стати справжніми хітами. На диску можна почути як ключовий пост-тріп-хоп, так і рок, лайт-джаз, поп, французький шансон, реп, павер-балад тощо. І, попри таку різнобарвність стилів, мультимовний диск є – одним цілим.
Альбом "And I Made а Man" став другим за рахунком для QARPA і вже сьомим – для самої Ірени Карпи. Перші 5 альбомів Ірена випустила в складі групи "Фактично самі", в якій також була солісткою." інформація з офіційного прес-релізу
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