Tanok Na Maydani Kongo, Skhid-Side. Jazzy. Live.

As the saying goes, this is really a holiday! And the point is not that this concert takes place on occasion of a birthday. The point is that the songs, which are well-known to us, are performed in a jazz manner, and people say that Skhid-Side ("East-Side") is in fact one of the best jazz bands of Ukraine. As a matter of fact, alive jazz is practically always (sorry for banality) a holiday of pure emotions, feelings, thoughts without words, inspired action, in which all previous work is alloyed into something new and unexpected, into wonder, which takes place just now and will not never repeat in the same way. The only things, which remain with you, are memory, feeling and wave - for those, who were there. The only thing, which will remain with those who will listen to this recording, will be the feeling of wave. All the same, this is a real touch, during which musicians and listeners disappear, while music appears along with bare thoughts, when your heart beams and the light is born - every minute, with every phrase and every note. Even if you don't like jazz. Especially because in this particular case it is not only jazz, but also "TNMKongo" - this mixture turns out to be strikingly successful. A wave covers you very quietly: Well, I don't want to describe this - I want only to listen more and more, to have a good look at edges of a wonderful and changeable crystal and to dissolve in it, and to float to the surface in order to feel - it is only another sky, and it is so - deep up to the surface: Well, the rest listen by yourself.

Anton Jozhik Leyba (Hedgehog)