Well, finally a new disc by the boyan Zhyvosyl – Vasyl Lyuty – has appeared. I think that anyone who had already heard his songs before could not help waiting for something new. There is such force in his texts, and in music – live indeed – that it is almost impossible to listen indifferently, not to get penetrated with it. This time the album is already not semi-acoustic one, singing is accompanied by a lot of melodious and rhythmic lines. And so many of them are intertwined that there is the feeling of a deep and free space – now the voice is not the main but the first among the equal instruments. The impression of power and saturation arises. However, the voice of Zhyvosyl is still a separate topic to take into account. It seems to me that its truthfulness would even be able to raise empty music at the level of normal one – to say nothing about music that obviously goes from the heart... By the way, here it is possible to hear a few songs already familiar from the previous disc – and thus, to evidently make sure of qualitative changes. As to me – changes that are appropriate and interesting. Even the fact that on the album there is no, so to say, dominant influence of live instruments – does not spoil the impressions. At the same time – I know that Zhyvosyl fruitfully cooperates with young rock groups (for example, with
Vognesmih). Therefore – I will keep my fingers crossed so that next time Vasyl Lyuty did gather around himself a dozen or two of like-minded people able to play with him both in the studio, and on stage. This music deserves wide scopes – undoubtedly.
