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Female Singers
Oxana Bilozir, Taisiya Povaliy, Nadia Shestak and others.
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Having glanced at the name of the new album by Zhanna Bodnaruk, quite naturally, you might think that the best songs from her creative store are recorded here. She has been at the large scene for already about twenty years – consequently, she for sure has something to boast. But – no. That it, she does have something to boast, certainly, but this album is devoted to quite different songs.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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The recording is luxurious – perhaps, one could hardy put it in other words. This is something that so far we have not had: a vocal and instrumental album of Ukrainian folk songs at the intersection of jazz, chamber and symphonic, variety art music (such as, for example, songs by Frank Sinatra or Astrud Gilberto)...
| Domestic price: 320.60UAH,
International price: $22.90USD
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..It feels like listening to two albums simultaneously, one of which contains a colorful, complex mixture of styles, from soul and disco to electro-pop, with a bright admixture of classical training and jazz thinking. And the second one – blues, in all of its beautiful simplicity...
| Domestic price: 348.60UAH,
International price: $24.90USD
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...here, she somehow combines elements of variety art, opera, folk and chamber singing. In various proportions, but on the whole – both interestingly and quite unexpectedly. At first sight, maybe, you will not say which there is more of – however, it only makes the process of acquaintance more thrilling.
| Domestic price: 180.60UAH,
International price: $12.90USD
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...her voice leaves too many people non indifferent. It has been like that, and it is like that now.
| Domestic price: 222.60UAH,
International price: $15.90USD
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..the entire album is recorded based on poems by Taras Shevchenko. It is unlikely that for many his poetry conjures purely lyrical images – but the music leaves you no chance. Even dramatic, heavy lines are revealed in a different light here, because the music permeates them with – peace.
| Domestic price: 250.60UAH,
International price: $17.90USD
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Honestly speaking, it is even strange how she succeeded in combining so quietly, without tension these different things – but she did succeed in that, no doubt. Moreover, all that together generates some new sensations – ambiguous but interesting. In any case, it seems that this disc is really able to make fans of Ukrainian variety art happy – because, evidently, nobody has yet introduced it in this form.
| Domestic price: 158.20UAH,
International price: $11.30USD
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What is a little girl singing about? What is a marriageable girl singing about? And what is a woman singing about? Loved, abandoned, a business woman, a housewife, unruly, tender, poor, rich - what is a woman singing about? Isn't she singing about love?
| Domestic price: 158.20UAH,
International price: $11.30USD
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She appears on TV and radio not so often as, for example, Povaliy or Bilozir. And it’s a pity, because at her early twenties Iryna Shynkaruk is inferior to none of her more experienced colleagues. She can represent Ukrainian variety revealing its bright sides better than many singers.
| Domestic price: 208.60UAH,
International price: $14.90USD
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"At Dawn" – by the way, Marta's first solo album – is a moderate option for the combination of folklore and variety art. Actually, folklore motifs are woven into the music here – and ethnic connotations often loom through the performance manner as well.
| Domestic price: 194.60UAH,
International price: $13.90USD
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