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Tol. Utopia.

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Tol. Utopia.
While we expected for release of solo projects by participants of the group, Tol suddenly released a new album. At that, they took for it songs composed and sung first as long ago as in 2003-2004. Thus, we can see an interesting combination – today's experience and mastery were merged with emotions, impressions of the past. As they say, new yeast on old ferment... As a result, the album has appeared to some extent, we could say, lyrical – well, as far as such definition can be in general applied to music by Tol. That is, this is not complaisant softness – it is just that one feels in the sounding some special, transparent, adult attitude to these songs. As though they already have their own, separate life – the only thing needed is to reveal it, to fixate in the recording exactly, without superfluous complications. It seems that they have managed that. At that, they have managed to reflect exactly this, a bit distanced attitude. Possibly, the structure of the album also plays its role here – short poems sound between songs, that is why there appear pauses in the stream. As a result – there is no hard hurricane of energy, every song looks and sounds more distinctly. Presumably, that is why the album and sounds are saturated. In the end, let us mark another important feature – on this album, for the exception of a couple of tracks, songs sound in Russian.

Publisher: Moon records
Catalogue number: MR 2189-2
Year: 2007

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1.  styh 1
2. Mp3NARODnaJa
3. Mp31-otchestvo
4.  styh 2
5. Mp3Utopyja
6.  styh 3
7.  Busynka
8.  styh 4
9.  Tidy
10. Mp3styh 5
11.  Osen'
12.  H2Obi (live)
13.  Odynochestvo (Orchestra mix by Knob)
14. Mp3In da Ko.Tu? (mix by Dakyla)
15.  Odynochestvo (Loneliness) (mix by Zh.K.)
16.  Osen' (akustyka) + Coda
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17.  Osen'
 Total playing time: 43:40

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Reviews (7)

  POLTAVA , Poltava, Ukraine
06-04-2008 19:38

HÖR MICH, BITTE…
ER hat kein Name,
der Vorname ist Los.
alltägliche Dramen
lassen ihn kraftlos
ER sucht nach Wahrheit –
bekommt nur Schmerz,
ER strebt frei sein –
. Unglück an ihn grenzt...
so viel Augen, so wenig Seelen,
seine Hände fühlen keine Sicherkeit,
darum soll ER den Verstand verlieren.
... in der Nacht werden endlich Gedanken
kalt.
ich meine, ER ist ganz allein,
überall in der Welt ist niemand,
wer ihn vollständig begreift.
wo für ihn so ruhig ist?niergends!
leider...in Wirklichkeit ist ER besonders
„versteht nur sich“ , sagt jemand,
„versteht ER alle“ , antworte ich vielmals
und “sagt darüber,was Mensch noch nie
gehört hat“
ER beherrscht über mich, über meine
Bewusstsein.
ich gebe ihm meine Vorgangenheit und
Träume gern,
verbinden wir sein Zukunft und natürlich
mein,
und schaffen das Gegenwart,unser 

für Prozorow W. von Poltawa mit groser Respektierung.

Ïðî÷èòàé ³ ïîñì³õíèñü ( áàæàíî ïåðåâåñòè  )


  Stefan , Amsterdam, Olanda (Netherlands)
07-08-2007 11:09

Allright, so I was in Ukraine this summer and I bought this cd just to have an idea of Ukrian rock bands. I was very positively surprised! Although some songs looked like Korn rip-offs the first time, I concluded in the end that this band has got his own, great, sophisticated style.

Too bad that I do not understand anything of the lyrics.


  , lviv, ukraine
28-07-2007 03:33

PRYTRUMYIUSIA DUMKU ''UA''
NASHO VAM BYLO TIEI rosiuskoi movu.navit' ne movu, a uazuuuka.
I PROMOVUV MYDRUI DID:
TSUM PUSHATUSIA NE SLID,
BO TAKA SAMA BIDA V MOEI KOROVU,
MAE, BIDNA, UAZUKA,
TA NE ZNAE MOVU!!!
VSTUD VAM!!!


  , Õàáàðîâñê, Ðîññèÿ
16-07-2007 02:45

Sound íîðìàëüíåíüêèé, íî åñëè çàìàðà÷èâàòüñÿ íàä òåêñòàìè ê êîíöó ïðîñëóøèâàíèÿ ìîæíî ïîéìàòü áåçóìíóþ äåïðåññóõó!!! Êîíå÷íî íà ëþáèòåëÿ, íî òàêîå îùóùåíèå, ÷òî âñå ýòè "òó÷è íàä ãîëîâîé" íàãíàíû èñêóññòâåííî.


 
22-06-2007 13:13

îôèãåííî!îäíè èç íåìíîãèõ êòî íå äåëàåò ïðîäóêò,à èçëó÷àåò ìíåíèå ÷åðåç òâîð÷åñòâî


  , Êè¿â, Óêðà¿íà
04-06-2007 13:20

Ðîç÷àðîâàíèé. ß õò³â ÓÊÐÀ¯ÍÑÜÊÈÉ ÒÎË!..


  , Îäåñà, Óêðà¿íà
13-05-2007 16:52

Ñóïåð!!! Îòðèìàâ òå, ùî õîò³â, íàâ³òü òðîõè á³ëüøå...