This disc is released 8 years after the death of
Ihor Bilozir – but, as we can see, the whole album is founded exactly on the material created by him. In the end, it is hardly impossible to say that ensemble "Vatra" lives on now not in the least due to work by Bilozir – and there is nothing strange. On the one hand, he was a man with a firm civil position, a true Ukrainian patriot. On the other, he was an extraordinarily talented lyricist and composer. Maybe – a hotshot lyricist. As a result of combination of these qualities, songs were born able to easily remain young for a long time – because in them, actually, our beauty is encoded. Everything one needs to do is to provide the songs with due sounding. To what extent the today's "Vatra" managed that – this is left to the audience's discretion. But, at all events, the songs do live on – and for this alone we should be grateful to the musicians.
Katherine
, Youngstown, USA