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Shopping Hour. Sunce Viter. (+bonus). /digi-pack/. (The Sun Wind) | | Track
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Note! Right now, a special offer is available from the website, where you can get this disc as a present: http://umka.com/eng/news (gift offer is unavailable during all discount sales)
Music contents of this release do not differ from the premium edition (apart from a hidden surprise track). Differences relate to the external design – besides, there is no booklet with the lyrics here. Sometimes it happens that you open something new, and almost immediately it becomes so inherent in you like it grown out of yourself. This is what I felt when I listened to The Shopping Hour, the first studio recorded experimental album by Tanya Sha. It was not envisaged to be performed in a concert, but a few years ago it went beyond the Kofein studio. The Shopping Hour became a music team which gives concerts, performing new backings and new songs. This resulted in a new album which has already well-shown itself during the performances. Is the studio version different from the concert one? No doubt. But it represents the expressions of the same integral thing, and it would have been a real pity to reject tambura and santur to ensure strictly live performance of the famous Romance done on the lyrics of Oleksandr Oles. Without disclosing all secrets, it is enough to say that it remains up to date to go beyond one language and one culture. In my opinion, the album represents the Ukrainian music, but the music which is done by the new generation. It is the product of the new world. The entire world. You can listen it in Europe, in Asia, in Africa, in both Americas, in Australia. In contains such a delicate force of harmony which washes away any barriers and speaks to each individual using its own language.
And a few affectionate words in the end. I think, that love saves the world not from itself, every day, every minute, but rather for itself. They say that the beauty is in the eyes of the one watching. Watching with the heart. This album has been done with love, and it is obvious. It is really outstandingly beautiful.. Anton Yozhyk Leyba (Hedgehog)
Publisher: not on label
Year: 2012
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- Shopping Hour
Domestic price: 250.60UAH
International price: $17.90USD
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 | Lastavica
lyrics: Serbian folk song
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| Tykhyy dzvin
lyrics: Eugenia Chupryna
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| 3. |
| Hasta Siempre Comandante
lyrics: Carlos Puebla
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| Bila kolyskova
lyrics: Svet, Hennadiy Sydorov
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| Sunce Viter
lyrics: Shopping Hour
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| Cesarica
lyrics: Zlatan Stipisic Gibonni
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| Pautynky
lyrics: Ksenija N, Tanja Sha
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| Piece ¹2 |
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| Povoli
lyrics: Bohdan-Ihor Antonych
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| Mavr-I-Tania
lyrics: Abou-t-Tayyib Ahmad ibn al-Husayn al-Mutanabbi
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| Sukhyy dub
lyrics: Ukrainian folk song
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| Sumna pisnya
lyrics: Hennadiy Sydorov
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| Smiyut‘sya plachut‘ solov’i
lyrics: Oleksandr Oles‘
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| 14. |
| Spy, kokhannya, spy
lyrics: Hennadiy Sydorov
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