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Both participants of Okean Elzy group and invited musicians, talented performers of jazz, classic and folk music, worked over the album "At Night": Olexiy Saranchin, who performed jazz piano parts, saxophonist Bogdan Gumenyuk, guitarist Olexiy Morozov, the first violin of the string quartet "Collegium" Kyrylo Sharapov and a lot of others. The National Symphonic Orchestra of Ukraine took part at recording of one of the compositions on the disc. In spite of that "At Night" compositions do not meet the pop-format, the album is aimed at mass audience. The name, voice and the specific, characteristic of only Svyatoslav Vakarchuk melodics of the compositions will help fans of Ukrainian music become acquainted with new music forms, to seize new music territories. (information from press-release) The release contains an 16-page booklet.
Publisher: Supersymmetry
Year: 2008
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- Svyatoslav Vakarchuk
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Fragments of the compositions marked with  mark are available for listening. How to listen?
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..Dakh Daughters have taken a step forward, being able to synthesize their previous experience – here the sharpness of the first album and the balance of the second one have come together, and as a result we have got a rich space of mystery and confession..
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..a studio album is a different story, it offers an opportunity to hear, not to see: music balancing on the brink of theater. Due to the art of intonation, which sometimes reaches its extreme and takes a step further – but also due to the art of silence, which only rarely acts as a pause, taking a breath, but mostly it keeps producing supplementary senses.
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An album that's a joke, a discovery, a surprise, a challenge – combining the folk music of the Carpathians with the North American folk. LBB have danced that subtly but stoutly: monologues about dialogues of cultures are not really needed when you have such illustrations at hand..
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This album was ready in the autumn of 2016 – but the musicians were in doubt, as a result they literally re-created it from scratch (the sound producer was Yuryi Hustochka). And it turned out – superb, literally. Fragile like the frosty crust on morning snow, thick and fragrant like masala – an album of hope, an album of surprise. Steppe blues..
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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...
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Music contents of this release do not differ from the premium edition (apart from a hidden surprise track). Differences relate only to the external design – besides, there is no booklet with the lyrics here. Hence the lower price of this edition compared to the premium one.
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This album is a phenomenon in the modern Ukrainian music. Here we have, first, interpretation of the European classics in the Latin American vein, which they definitely have not tried here so far. And, second – not only the music, but also the vocal manner has been reconsidered. Radically..
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The concert performance – it is different, and not only due to presence of a new song. The sound, nuances of arrangements, team of musicians – but, above all – the energy. And this is the case when, even while just listening to the recording, you experience a kind of happening – not least due to Jamala's affection for gospel.
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The new album by Boombox is another very significant reason to mention the year 2011 as one of the most yielding years for the non-ordinary Ukrainian popular music. No doubt – despite the title, "Middle Age", no crisis is in question here. On the contrary.
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Jamala – and the debut album illustrates this very nicely – creates light music in the best Western tradition. And not just coolly – at a high quality level. Her love for soul, funk, jazz, burlesque and even classical music – it's all here, in this music so many things are mixed that you cannot guess everything at once...
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...the content of the album in the style aspect is ambiguous – but, definitely, interesting. This time to their branded ethno-chaos they have added quite a bit of very diverse elements: here you have soul, and D'n'B, and hip-hop, and art-rock, and almost jazz decorations. It appears cool.
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Is the studio version different from the concert one? No doubt. Without disclosing all secrets, it is enough to say that it remains up to date to go beyond one language and one culture. In my opinion, the album represents the Ukrainian music, but the music which is done by the new generation. It is the product of the new world. The entire world.
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Fortunately, sometimes you run across the albums about which it is very difficult to say anything – because you just frankly like them. Because, in spite of external simplicity, they contain so many ideas, various subtleties – one's ears just go astray..) Because the music tells you stories without words, while the words tell you stories full to the brims with music..
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It would seem – just vocal and the piano. But this only verbally looks rather ascetic – in actual fact, a surprisingly powerful emotional current lives inside there. Actually, the way the voice and the piano sound – makes Hanna Brizhata, aka Anniebri, a truly unordinary phenomenon on our scene. Honestly speaking, I can hardly think about a single Ukrainian album resembling "Lo-Fi Feeling"...
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...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... Especially because in this particular case it is not only jazz, but also TNMKongo - this mixture turns out to be strikingly successful...
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As a rule the idea of heroic nature has never even crossed the minds of the heroic figures. Moreover they can even get frightened if one alludes to this. But still they continue doing their work. Just because it is their... It’s no use in objecting to the fact that real musicians, the same as the real music, begin with an ability to listen carefully. To listen and to hear.
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Svyatoslav Vakarchuk's third solo project is an expected change in tonlity, The Orangery builds up a space to approximate comfort. Approximate – because there are enough disturbing notes, but they do not set the key mood. Basically, it seems – it is about the desire to speak so quietly that one could get as close as possible..
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.. There is no pursuit for the sake of acknowledgement – and there is no temptation of observing style limitations, but there is the ability to make it maximally as exact as you consider necessary. Sheer rock music grows from this root, creativity not for the sake of freedom, but as its direct result.
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"Sofia" is not something soft and sweet. Fresh improvisation music with the Slavonic flavor – bright and rather poignant music, which in no way fits for serving as just a background. It requires attentive listening, and it is just pleasant to listen to it attentively, to track the line of each instrument...
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The main thing is that this music is not committed to a certain style, but rather to a certain brand, a quality of expression. So, if for the sake of this quality one needs to add some atypical colors – it happens in an easy and natural way. Such a cool simplicity. At the same time – it is a team play, in which no one pulls the blanket over himself.
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Mastering of this release was performed in the USA, in the studio of the legendary sound producer Bob Ludwig, whose experience during the almost half-a-century career includes work with over 1200 musicians. This mastering was born at the height of "Dolce Vita Tour" in 2010 and as brightly as possible it conveys the integral, bright sound of the live concert performance.
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May be, for the sake of that it was worth while changing the group members – with the exception of Guru, of course. Now it is interesting what will happen next. Because judging by ears – to be continued.
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As for me, this work of art is marked by lightness, at that this lightness is more pleasant than vain. You see, there are thoughts present here, and they are different, but they are not put on a pedestal, on the contrary, they fly simply and easily somewhere near your head.
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ollie
, Newcastle-Upon-Tyne, the UK
06-01-2009 13:11 |
Pochutala krytyku i stalo sumno. Mabut ne vsi gotovi do spryjnyattya novoi storony Slavy. Duje prykro za vas moi ukrainzi hto ne zrozumiv muzyky ta navajyvsya nazvaty texty prymityvnymy.
Albom zroblenyj profesijno ta z dusheyu. Ze she odyn krok pidtverdyty te, sho bulo davno vidome - Slava talant, a OE phenomen dlya Ukrainy.
DYAKUYU za smilyvist buty soboyu i tvoryty xx
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, Симферополь, Украина
06-01-2009 12:26 |
Сначала нужно абстрагироваться от личности Вакарчука, забыть о том что он делал до этого в Глории и Мире. Тогда альбом кажется самобытным и интересным.
А оглянувшись на последних два альбома ОЭ мы видим беспомощное кривляние с кучей инструментов и музыкантов, откровенно дешёвые тексты.
Если кому и удавалось красиво уйти от устоявшегося образа - так это Андрею Данилко с его инструментальным альбомом.
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, Луцьк, Україна
06-01-2009 12:07 |
альбом видався на славу.. мав можливість послухати його до виходу і був приємно вражений )) .. на жаль такого в українській музиці ще не було.. для нас це щось нове і давно було потрібне.. дякую Святославу за виконану роботу!
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Guerino
28-12-2008 15:33 |
Так, це дійсно "крок у заповненні [величезних] "білих плям" в українській сучасній культурі, де поміж іншого не існує джаз-шансону, за виключенням декількох маловідомих широкому загалу виконавців. Диск непогано спродюсований: збалансований запис, грамотні аранжування (хоча деякі вкраплення арабського мелосу абсолютно недоречні для співу Вакарчука, але це вже справа смаку). Попри всі позитиви, альбом не має родзинки, він не викликає захоплення: все якісно, рівно, чисто, "як має бути", але не більше. Джазові блоки в піснях починаються і закінчуються, подекуди неорганічно, від чого виникає враження: "а ось тут ми вставимо круту джазову фішку з музикантами XY". Основна тенденція альбому - Вакарчук вдосконалює музичний супровід навколо свого вже всім відомого співу. Це один з тих багатьох проектів "маленького голосу" в сучасній європейській музиці, до якого слухач ймовірно вже не повернеться після певної кількості прослуховувань, що само по собі не є нічим поганим. Кінець-кінцем не кожен альбом повинен ставати історією музики.
Попри критику диск є беззаперечною подією для українського музичного простору.
Пошановувачі Вакарчука та широка публіка отримуватимуть насолоду від цього диску, де емоційний спів, доступна і тендітна поетика тексту добре оформлені в рамки з шансону, поп-джазу з вкрапленнями ethno/world music.
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Тіма (ФлайzZzа)
, Луцьк
09-12-2008 20:58 |
Дуууже крутий альбом! Раджу однозначно придбати у домашню колекцію! Славіку та всім, хто долучився до запису і створення, земний уклін!..
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