DakhaBrakha, Port Mone. Khmeleva project. (exclusive edition). /eco-pack/.

"DakhaBrakha" and "Port Mone" are among the brightest and most famous representatives of art-house music of Ukraine and Belarus, respectively. Each of these groups has already become a sort of a cultural brand not only at home – so, the fact of their joint experiment already seemed a positive thing. And it seems – not mistakenly. Similar to the previous "Light" by DakhaBrakha, the album "Khmeleva Project" cannot be subject to a particular stylistic definition – it is a strange mix, in which the ethnic plays a bright, but not the main part. In fact, it seems that the project has turned out very a interesting reconsideration of classical music – or rather, not even classical but medieval one, from which classical music later developed. Actually, this is like a fantasy on the theme of what classical and pop music could transform into if a few centuries ago Europeans followed some other path in terms of music performance. A parallel, alternative world, where the magic of sound is not bracketed off by the ratio. And, therefore, it is not about access to the dimension of abstract ideas as a goal in itself. In this case, music is as a method to transport the consciousness deep into the multidimensional environment, in which abstract ideas and empirical evidence are only components, and far not the only ones, of something much greater – for example, of Adam Kadmon. Music as direct, immediate magic, which soaks and links different arms-manifestations of the unique in its diversity of the time and space.
The publication contains an 6-page booklet with photos and texts in Ukrainian, Belarussian and English.